The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1911-06-30
WESTERN CANADA'S
GOOD CROP
PROSPECTS
YIELDS OF WHEAT WILL LIKELY
BE 25 TO 80 BUSHELS
PER ACRE.

White, who has charge OF the Can,
dian government Immigration on.
In the United States. and who has y.
Gently made an extended trip thro..r
the provinces OF Manitoba. Saskaf,..
wan and Alberta in Western Carssa
lie said that every point he visited
he was met with the one report Ind
versally good crops Of wheat ,s,s
and barley. There will this year b. =
much increased acreage over AZ
/ year. Many farmers, who had bg,
one hundred acres last year. have ,r
creased their cultivated and s,lssl
acreage as much as fifty per c.r,
With the prospects as they arr 4,
| present, this will mean from 81. p,
SIS additional wealth TO each la
saw many large fields running from
800 TO 1000 acres in extent and X an.
peared 10 him that there was Mt I,
acre OF this but would yield from "a
10 20 or 80 bushels of wheat per acre
while the oat prospects might SAFELY
be estimated at from 40 TO ~ bushels
per acre. In all parts Of the ue.,
No.
wan or Alberta, north and south. Jas,
and west, and in the districts ulefe
last year there was q partial failure
OF crops, the condition Of ali gran is
universally good and claimed by NOS,
OF the farmers to be from one 10 tto
weeks in advance of any year iCr Tie
past ten or twelve years. IL does ro,
seem that there was a single loot of
the ground that was properly -el
that would not produce
There are those throughout western
Canada who predict that there wll. De-
200.000,O00 bushels Of wheat raised
there this year, and If the present
favorable conditions continue. there
does not seem any reason Why these
prophesies should lot come true
There is yet a possibility of l0t
winds reducing the quantity ia some
parts, but with the strongly rooted
crops and the suficiency Of prcc.r,a.
ton that the country has already
been favored with, this proballuty s
reduced to a minimum.
The prices OF farm lands az tia
present time are holding steady all
lands can probably still be- purchased
at the price set this spring. ranging
from SIS to $50 per acre. but VITA
harvested crop, such as Us expected
there is no reason why these same
lands should not be worth from So
10 SIS per acre. with az almost ALSO
lutte assurance that by neat spring
there will sun be a further advance
IN prices.
Mr.. White says that these lands are
as cheap at todays figures vitl tie
countrys proven worth as tLty we're
few years ago at half TIE fr-9
when the general public had 81.
vague idea OF the producing quality
Of western Canada lands.
The land agents at the different
towns along the line OF railway rs
very active. A large number "a acres
are turned over weekly 10 buyers
from the different states in the SOUTH.
where lands that produce no better
are sold at from $3.50 10 $500 Ier
acre.
The homestead lands are becoming
scarcer day by day and those WHO IRE
unable 10 purchase. preferrins
homestead. are directing their at'e1
ton 10 the park acres lying ia lie
northerly part of the central dis
tricts. IL has been found that Nlle
these are someW hat more difficult 70
bring under the subjIgation oi US
plow, the soil is fully as productive
as in the districts farther south. l-ey
possess the advantage that the more
open prairie areas do not pos
that there is on these lands an ofel
acreage of from fifty TO seventy rer
cent Of the whole and the balance
made up of groves OF poplar @. Tag
size. which offer shelter for cattle
while the grasses are OF sp.enla
strength and plentiful. bringing aao-'
a more active stage Of mixed farming
than can be carried on in tie m-is
open districts TO the south.
The emigration for the past year
has been the greatest in the history
OF Canada and IL is keeping ap Y
record shape The larger number q.
those. who will go this year VII q
those who will buy lands nearer ne
line Of railways. preferring TO pay
little higher price for good LOCATION
than to go back from the line OF faN
ways some 40 or so miles 70 hele
stead.
Mr. White has visited the diltfa''
agencies throughout the United si''ss
and he found that the correspond .'
at the various Offices has larger
creased. the number of callers
greater than ever
Any one desiring information
garding western Canada should all
at once to the Canadian GcyerrH,-
Agent nearest him for a copy % ~
last Best West"