The Olneyville times. (Olneyville [Providence, R.I.]) 1887-1917, 1915-05-07
an INDIANA MAN TELLS
OF WESTERN CANADA
He Is Perfectly Satisfied and
Tells Of His Neighbors Who
Have Done Well.

Walter Harris. formerly lived near
lie now lives at Hussar. Alberta In
writing to his home paper In Indiana.
he SAYS that the failure ia the man
who always blames the country. He
fails 10 see his own mistakes, has
missed his calling and Is not fitteS
for farming, The two seasons Juyt
past have been entirely different In
1913 plenty OF rain came in Juno and
a good crop followed. but tho fall was
dry and but little snow I'm the winter
followed by very dry summer. and .
short crop. Only those that had
farmed their land properly were able
20 meet expenses.
For example. last year the Crow
foot Farming Company. south OF
here. threshed from 1880 acres ss.-
600 bushels OF wheat One-half section
made 26 bushels, the poorest OF all.
This year on 1850 acres they threshed
nearly $4,000 bushels. Last years
crop sold at 75 cents from their own
elevator. What they have sold OF
this years crop brought 500 at
threshlns time Eight thousand bush
els unsold would bring now around
Sl.25. The manager and part owner
was raised in Ohio and farmed In
Washington several years. He and
his wife spent last winter In Ohio
She told mo few days ago that the
climate here was much better than
Ohio.
A man by the name OF George Clark
threshcd rs bushels of oats. as BUSH
els OF barley and 35 bushels OF wheat
to tho acre He had $1,000 bushels Of
old oats N we'll as wheat and barley
In his granarics that have almost
doubled In price. lie came from
Washington. where he sold q large
body OF land around 5000 that he
bought around $500 per aero. He then
refers TO a failure. A large company
sa the eastern states. owning q large
farm near Hussar pays It's manager
$4,000 . year. Tho farm has not
been q success. Probably the man.
ayers fault Mr.. Harris says condi.
tIons are not as good as could bs
wished for. but on the ending OF the
war good crops. with war prices. will
certainly change conditions. and it
seems to mo that the one who owns
land that will raise 100 bushels OF
oats. 75 bushels OF barley or 40 bush
els OF wheat IL the one who laughs
last"
Tho above yields may seem exag.
gerations TO many. and are far above
the average. but you should remember
that tho man who fails IN counted In
10 make tho average. and there are
instances on record here that would
far exceed tho above figures.
Nor In grain tho only profitable
thing that can be raised here. There
are many f,ne horse ranches. some OF
them stocked with cayuses and bred
20 thoroughbreds. and others import
ed from tho old countries. They run
on tho range nearly all tho year. Tho
! owners put UP wild hay to feed them
n the snow should get too deep for
them 10 get tho dead grass. There
are several hundred I'm sight OF hero
most OF the time. There are several
cattle ranches north OF here that have
from 600 TO 1000 head OF cattle. One
man ! know sold $4,000 worth OF fat
cattle this fall He winters his cat
tie on farms where they have lots Of
straw and water. paying rs cents .
month per head. or II thcre is enough
straw TO winter 400 or 600 head they
buy the straw and water and have .
man TO look after the catue.--Adver
tisement