The Forrest City times., 1911-06-30
WESTERN CANADA'S GOOD CROP
 PROSPECTS
YIELDS OF WHEAT WIll,,D BE 25 TO 30 BUSHELS
 PER ACRE.

In an interview with Mir U White, who has charge of ina C,- S' dian government immigratien sAs- In the United States, and vho ba- gently made an extended trip tbrongb the provinces of Manitoba. SastateSsl wan and Alberta in Western Cs,ase He said that every point be ,.i.s.s. he was met with the one rerort ,,,s yersally good crops of wheat .- and barley. There will this vaar L@ much increased acreage ever lss. year. Many farmers. who had Fa. one hundred acres last year. have is creased their cultivated and ssoaea acreage as much as fifty Der con, With the prospects as thev ara ., present, this will mean fra# sfq ~ S15 additional wealth to each Ho saw many large fields running from 300 to 1000 acres in extent and 1T sn l peared to him that there Was no, an acre of this but would yield from on to 25 or 50 bushels Of wheat her acra while the oat prospects might safeIv be estimated at from 40 to 70 b3sbaIs per acre. In all parts of the west whether it be Manitoba. Saskatcbo. wan or Alberta, north and south. east and Cest, and i'll the districts wbera last year there was a partial failnra of crops, the condition of all grain ia universally good and claimed by most of the farmers to be from one to two weeks in advance of any year for tba past ten or twelve years. It does mt 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 he 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 prophecies should not come true. There is yet a possibility of hot winds reducing the quantity in some parts, but with the strongly rooted crops and the sufficiency of precipita- tion 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 from $l5 to $20 per acre, but with a harvested crop, such as is expected, there Is no reason why these same | lands should not be worth from $20 to S25 per acre, with an almost abso lute assurance that by next spring there will still be further advance in prices.
 MT. White says that these lands are as cheap at todays figures with the country's proven worth as they were a few years ago at half the price when the general public had but 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 1 from the different states in the south, where lands that produce no better are sold at from $150 to S20O 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- 1 tion to the park acres lying in the northerly part of the central dis- tricts It has been found that while | thaGn hat ditNpuit 10 l bring under the subjugation of the 1 blow, the soil is fully as productive as in the districts farther south. Ihey possess the advantage that the mofo open prairie areas do not possess l that there is on these lands an open acreage of from fifty to seventy per cent of the whole and the balance s made up of groves of poplar ol lan size. which offer shelter for cattie, while the grasses are of spiehuia strength and plentiful bringing aoous a more active stage of mixed lariiins than can be carried on In the lii0's open districts to the south
 The emigration for the past year has been the greatest in the histoi. of Canada and it is keeping up ia record shape The larger numpeI V. those, who will go this year Will uo those who will buy lands nearer 'ne line of railways, preferring 10 pay
 little higher price for good locaos. than to go back from the line ol i'" ways some 40 or 50 miles to hoD' stead MT. White has visited the dlneiens agencies throughout the United o'a'o "oe and he found that the correspohaeI.s at the various offices has larges M ,s creased the number of callers greater than ever. ..
 Any one desiring information n,g a garding western Canada should app, nt at once to the Canadian GoVerh."rh .hs Agent nearest him for a copy u
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