Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1911-06-30
WESTERN CANADA'S
GOOD CROP
PROSPECTS
YIELDS OF WHEAT WILL LIKELY
BE rs TO 80 BUSHELS
PER ACRE. 4

Wnlte, VINO mas Charge or the Cana
dian government immigration offices
in the United States, and who has re-
Gently made an extended trip through
the provinces Of Manitoba, Saskatche-
wan and Alberta in Western Canada.
He said that every point he visited
he was met with the one report, uni
versally good crops of wheat, oats
and barley. There will this year be q
much increased acreage over last
year. Many farmers, who had but
one hundred acres last year, have in
creased their cultivated and seeded
acreage as much as fifty per cent.
With the prospects as they are at
present, this will mean from $12 to
SIS additional wealth to each. He
saw many large fields running from
900 to 1000 acres in extent and it ap-
| peared to him that there was not an
acre of this but would yield from 20
to % or 80 bushels of wheat per acre,
while the oat prospects might safely
be estimated at from 40 to 20 bushels
per acre. In all parts Of the west,
whether it be Manitoba, Saskatche-
wan or Alberta, north and south, east
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last year there was partial failure
of crops, the condition of all grain is
universally good and claimed by most
of the farmers to be from one to two
weeks in advance of any year for the
past ten or twelve years. 1t does not
seem that there was a single foot OF
the ground that was properly seeded
that would not produce.
There are those throughout western
Canada who predict that there will be
200,000,000 bushels Of wheat raised
there this year, and If the present
favorable conditions continue, there
does not seem any reason why these
prophesies should not come true.
There is yet possibility Of hot
winds reducing the quantity in some
parts, but with the strongly rooted
crops and the suff1ciency of precipita-
ton that the country has already
been favored with, this probability is
reduced to minimum.
The prices of farm lands at the
present time are holding steady and
lands can probably still be purchased
at the price set this spring, ranging
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harvested crop, such as Ia expected,
there is no reason why these same
, lands should not be worth from $40
to $25 per acre, with an almost abso-
lutte assurance that by next spring
there will still be a further advance
: in prices.
: Mr.. White says that these lands are
as cheap at today's figures with the
country's proven worth as they were
a few years ago at half the price
when the general public had but a
vague idea Of the producing quality
of western Canada lands.
The land agents at the different
towns along the line of railway are
very active. A large number of acres
are turned over weekly to buyers
from the different states in the south,
where lands that produce no better
are sold at from $3.50 to 5000 per
acre.
The homestead lands are becoming
scarcer day by day and those who are
unable to purchase, preferring to
homestead, are directing their atten
ton to the park acres lying in the
tricts. 1t has been found that while
these are somewhat more difficult tt
bring under the subjugation Of the
plow, the soil is fully as productive
as in the districts farther south. They
possess the advantage that the more
open prairie areas do not possess
that there is on these lands an opeI
acreage of from fifty to seventy pc
cent of the whole and the balance Il
made up Of groves of poplar OF fai
size, which offer shelter for cattle
D. while the grasses are of splendi
le strength and plentiful, bringing abou
s. a more active stage of mixed farmin
than can be carried on in the NOR
"a open districts to the south.
r. The emigration for the past yea
'i- has been the greatest in the histor
10 of Canada and 1t is keeping up l
record shape. The larger number Q
IS those, who will go this year will b
lg those who win buy lands nearer tn
10 line of railways, preferring to pay
little higher price for good locatio
nI than to go back from the line of raj
ar ways some 40 or 80 miles to hom
III stead.
II. Mr.. White has visited the differeI
lo agencies throughout the United State
ne and he found that the correspondent
Al at the various offices has largely L
IT. creased, the number of callers
10 greater than ever.
ss Any one desiring information r
na garding western Canada should app
>. at once to the Canadian Governmel
ne Agent nearest him for copy of IL
.n- Last Best West"