Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1914-09-20

SUNDAY, SEPT 20, 1914.
very cheap, to see those conditions.
Another thing that there has been
much discussion on was the relative
prices of grain in Canada and the
United States, but this is hard to
Judge as the grades vary. So much,
all the Canadian farmers tell me that
on the American side their grain
would grade from n to two grades
higher than on the Canadian side.
This, perhaps, is partly the buyers
graft. but it is a fact just the sane.
AS for flax prices, l think they aver
age twenty cents per bushel under
American prices, so l fail to see any
advantage the American farmer will
receive by moving to Canada. The
farmer from the middle states seek
ing expansion for his sons will find
better conditions ino North Dakota
than in any part ofs'Canada. In the
first place he can grow corn and al
falfa, raise hogs, and in the majority
of districts get his mail delivered
every day. Perhaps he cannot grow
quite as large corn as he al In low
and Illinois but he can grow 1t and
it is getting better all the time, more
than that, land is very cheap as COM
pared with Iowa and Illinois and will
pay far better dividends for the
money invested, but distant fields look
green and many Americans 60 to 9th
er countries for scenery and pleasure
when they have better things at home.
In Alberta the Canadian Pacific rail-
way has spent immense sums on lrrl-
CATION and they have a good supply OF
water, but you eve know when frost
will catch you in the early fall and
ruin your crop.
North Dakota Farms.
You will find districts in Saskatche-
wan today that have been settled
since 1882, where people are living IN
the same little old shack that they
started with, and no barns to speak
Of; and their farms heavily mort
gagged. Across the line on the Amer
lean side southeast of the North Gate
is a strip of country between the Des
Laos Lake and the Great Northern
branch to North Gate. This piece OF
country was more or less stony, brok-
en- with coulees and by the Canadians
was considered worthless. Today at
ter fifteen years settlement" yot will
see a nearly solid grain field-of4fne
grain, good groves, houses and barns
with a general air of prosperity. There
must be something to account for
this and not to the advantage of Can
ada.
This article is not written in any
vindictive spirit as many of my folks
live in Canada and l have as much
interest in Canada as in the United
States, more so, Canada contains
some of the finest people I ever met,
but they have to put up with the
conditions I have described.
Urges Caution.
In conclusion I would beg the
American farmer who contemplates
moving to study conditions in Canada.
At the present time two-thirds Of the
west part have M crop and the peo-
pie will have to be supplied with
seed and in many cases food. South
of the Canadian Pacific railway and
west of the main 500 line is or the
whole a dry country. Some of it
very dry, especially Southern Alder
ia. If the American farmer wants
homesteads away from the centres OF
population he can get 800 acres in
Montana and some parts of North
Dakota that are quite as good as any
thing that is left in Canada. He will !,
get as good, if not better treatment
from the railroads, lower rates il
anything. Cheaper implements and If
he wants to run a motor car he IAN
buy it Is per cent cheaper, buy his
gasoline 40 per cent cheaper and his
tires 40 percent cheaper than he can
in Canada. So from every point Of
view he is better off at home.
First-hand knowledge.
In gathering the facts for the fore
going article l have been over the
country myself, have known it for
thirty years and know for certain
that l can furnish the proof for all
the facts / have quoted and I chal-
lenge the Canadian banks to deny
any statement l have made as to
their methods of doing business.
This article is not written by any
dissatisfied Canadian. l lived in
Canada for a few years in the early
eighties, but have Lived in North Da-
kota until the last few years. What
l have made l have mostly to thank
North Dakota for, but l "a lived
in any place where a man 91fseld not
make some money if he hit the
right way about it. OF course it is
easier to do this in some places than
others but a great deal depends on
ourselves and if this article helps any
farmer to see the good things in his
own country it will not have been
written in vain.
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