Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1915-06-19
EXCELLENT FARMING
CONDITIONS IN CANADA
Letters from Settlers Indicating
Growing Prosperity.

The present year will add another
proof that farming in Western Canada,
when carried on with the same energy
and system. devoted to other lines of
business. viii bring about results fully
as satisfactory.
Mixed farming as q tocsin has been
sounded for a number of years, and
today it is being adopted pretty gen
orally throughout the Provinces of
Manitoba, Saskatchewan and Alberta
There are those who have made no
greater success of it than they did
when they pursued grain growing
alone, but where one has failed to ac-
complish what he had hoped to do,
dozens have scored success.
From Sedgewick, Alberta, We hear of
E. L. Deputy, for past twelve years
manager for Frye & Sons, packers,
Seattle, who during 1914 were the
largest buyers of hogs on Alberta
markets. He is taking up active work
on his 1,200-acre farm near Sedge-
wick Although lie was one of the
highest paid salaried officials on the
Pacific Coast, his frequent visits and
personal knowledge OF farming condi-
tons in Western Canada convinced
him there are greater opportunities in
farming Alberta land than in comme-.
cial life, with greater assurance OF
ultimate independence and prospects
of home-making under the most de
sirable conditions.
Thomas Mckay, farmer near Har
disty, Alberta, has this to say about
the country:
Il came to Hardisty from Usage
City, Kansas, nine years ago and tool
up a homestead here. This is a goo6
district for the farmer who wishes tc
raise grain exclusively. and as a mixed
| farming country it cannot be bsater
anywhere in the world to my knowl
edge.
Il had ten cattle, which ranged out
| side all last winter, and this spring
| they were fat enough for the market
this without being fed but one nigh
during the entire winter; they were
| fine fat cattle and locked beautiful.
| raised some winter wheat here which
weighed sixty-seven and a half pounds
to the bushel, government weight, ant
which 1 shipped to Calgary. The mil
Ter who bought it said that it was tn
best wheat that had ever gone int,
Calgary. Wheat in this district yield
as high as forty bushels to the acre
oats average sixty bushels. Alfalf
does well here
All in all l think the farmers ar
very well satisfied with the country
and the farmer who farms bis lam
intelligently is sure to rake a sue
! cess. The climate here is the best
have ever lived in, the summers ar
delightful and the winters are milo
| There has never been q blizzard du1
ing the nine years l have lived her
nor any cyclones or wind storms
A settler in the neighborhood O
GIeichen, Alberta, spent $4,000 IN i'm
proving his quarter section. has II
acres ready for crop, keeps 20 head O
| stock believes in mixed farming
keeps two hired men, one all year. tn
other in summer only. He milks
| to Is COWS, and receives an averag
monthly cream cheQue of $110. Las
June he sold $1,000 worth of hogs an
in November two more carloads, be
sides supplying his own requirements
and is not only making money blu
building up a good home amid desfl
able surroundings. This is an exampl
of the possibilities open to the indus
| trious in the Gieichen district.
1t is stated in the last three month