Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1913-12-26
"WHY | EMIGRATED''
THE NOTES OF A PROMINEiSE.
JOURNALIST WHO MADE 4
TRIP THROUGH WESTERLY
CANADA


Canada, the virgin land, Affords. En
an American Sunday newspapers he
published after his return the interest
ing account which we, print as fol-
lows. He writes:
why did you emigrate irons tas
United States?" | asked a farmeg sn
Western Canada.
I believe that for poor man West
ern Canada is the most favorable
land" was the reply, land have now
found that it is the Paradise cf tit@
Poor"
The farmer a pioneer OF the ~eSt.
had five years earlier left Iowa sCr
Canada to secure a new homo there
After traversing the country for Some
| time he started his home on the open
| prairie and with steady industry de-
voted himself to the working of tiss
| virgin soil. Now he is the wcll-to-dS
owner of that endless sea oS waving
wheat ears that goes on for miles h&a-
| fore my eyes. His strong, sunbUFneS
| figure finds the best background in hrs
| farm itself, which is the outcome 0t
] his ceaseless activity-a pretty twt~
| stored dwelling house, large clean
! stable In the midst Of hamlet Of
| barns, sheds and outbuiidings, u cse-
full garden overlooking with products
horses, cattle, sheep and swine on fhe
rich pastures, and around to the hoFs-
zon wheat golden wheat.
In Iowa." the farmer continued. p
farmed on rented land, for at the pfiets
| Of 500 per acre did not possess
money enough to buy. ! might farm
might farm as I could more than tfsS
living for myself and family, cousfs
not attain. Sometimes the harvest
turned out good, sometimes bad, t}tFs
| the grand total was bitter combat eS
keep want from the door. 1t was ssEt~
possible to lay by for bad times SSss
| in spite of all trouble and work an $50
age free of care was not 80 D's
thought of. My death would base
brought bitter poverty to my wife aEFs
children.
| Il decided to breakup and so 70
| Canada, where at least could fgh,
out the struggle for existence on Hfr
own land. | started out with a Duse-
team, all my earthly possessions were
in the prairie-schoOner with my VIE
and children. Then / took UP homo
stead of 100 acres to which ! adde's
by purchase gradually; now as
whole count about 5000 acres as nay
own. The whole property is free or
debt do not owe cent 10 anyone.
I bought my land for $3.50 per acre
now would not give it up for $50.
DO you mean to say that you paid
for the whole land in the five years
I interrupted
an a much shorter time, repiie6
the farmer. THE land paid for ITSELF
some already by the first harvest ata
at longest in years each field haa
brought in it's purchase price. IL yo0
doubt that land in Western Canada
pays for itself within 3 years you esi'
easily convince yourself of the tFgSH
nf my assertion. Let us assume thas
farmer buys farm Of 100 A. at ~"
per A. for $4,000. Farm machines.
seed ploughs, moving and tbreshsSs
might bring up the outlay TO dno@t
$40 Der acre. IL the farmer sOws as9
100 A. for years in succession @tsh
wheat and harvests 20 bus. per acre.
then the product of an A. at the aVf'g"
age price of 75c per bu. is exactly Sf1
per acre IL you deduct the $40 ofs'
Law YOU will retain clear ret.rn az
$500. For 100 A. the annual excess
amounts to $500, consequently the
farm has after the third harvest
brought in the purchase price O.
$4,000.
"Sometimes-and not Tarely-the
land pays for itself by the FIRST harvest
of 35 bus of wheat bring in more shaS
the purchase price of SIS per acre
AS in some years ] harvested more
than 35 bus, you can reckon for your
self how quickly paid for my farm. .
Would you not prefer your own
farm in Iowa?" | asked.
NO. replied the farmer, never
will go back. In general very few
American settlers return 20 the old
home In Iowa a 100 A. farm costs
| IUU per "A, ?lO,DOV, III WSOtSfn F~HH~
ada SIS, only $4,000 For the same
money that you require to buy 1850
A. farm in Iowa, you can buy here in
Western Canada farm Of 1000 acres.
I have money enough to buy farm Fss
Iowa, if wished. But there my year
" income would be small one.
whereas here / work for great gain.
There | would only be a small farmer,
here am large landed proprietor.
In a corner of the farmyard ] bad
during our conversation noticed a
| mound of earth overgrOwn vita
grasses and wild flowers. To nay sa~
quiry as to what it was, received the
reply: THAT is the run Of the wooden
shack covered with sOds, which CALI
ed my home when ! settled here fee
years ago."
| gathered a wild aster from tie
ruin and flung it into the air. In par
plish-glittering line the wind drove tss@
flower towards the fine, modern-equil-
ped farmhouse. What a contrast be-
tween the lowly earthly hut Of yeSGar-