Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1915-06-03
EXCELLENT FARMING
CONDITIONS IN CANADA
Letters from Settlers Indicating
Growing Prosperity.

proof that farming in Western Canada,
when carried on with the same energy
and system devoted to other lines Of
business, will bring about results fully
as satisfactory.
Mixed farming as a tocsin has been
sounded for 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 &C
complish what he had hoped to do,
dozens have scored success.
From Sedgewtck, Alberta, We hear OF
E. L. Deputy, for past twelve years
manager for Frye & Sons, packers,
Seattle, who during 1914 we're the
largest buyers of hogs on Alberta
markets. He is taking up active work
on his 1,200-acre farm near Sedge-
wick. Although he was one Of the
highest paid salaried officials on the
Pacific Coast, his frequent visits ana
personal knowledge OF farming condi-
tions in Western Canada convinced
him there are greater opportunities in
farming Alberta land than in CONNER
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:
I came 20 Hardisty from Usage
1S'ity, Kansas, nine years ago and took
up homestead here. This is good
district for the farmer who wishes to
raise grain exclusively, and as a mixed
farming country it cannot be beaten
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 night
during the entire winter; they were
fine fat cattle and looked beautiful. /
raised some winter wheat here which
weighed sixty-seven and half pounds
to the busneI, government weight, and
which l shipped to Calgary. The mil
Ter who bought it said that it was the
best wheat that had ever gone into
Calgary. Wheat in this district yields
as high as forty bushels to the acre,
oats average sixty bushels. Alfalfa
does well here.
All in all I think the farmers are
very well satisfied with the country,
and the farmer who farms his land
intelligently is sure to make a sue
cess. The climate here is the best
have ever lived in, the summers are
delightful and the winters are mild.
There has never been a blizzard dur
ing the nine years l have lived here
nor any cyclones or wind storms
A settler in the neighborhood of
Gleichen, Alberta, spent $4,000 in i'm
proving his quarter section, has 125
acres ready for crop, keeps 70 head Of
stock, believes in mixed farming,
keeps two hired men, one all year, the
other in summer only. He milks II
monthly cream cneque of $110. Last
June he sold $1,000 worth of hogs and
in November two more carloads, be-
sides supplying his own requirements,
and is not only making money but
building up a good home amid desir-
able surroundings. This is an example
of the possibilities open to the indus
trious in the Gleichen district,
1t is stated in the last three months
100000 OF American capital has
been invested in Canada, showing
that United States financial men are
satisfied of the sohdity of Canadian in
situations. Western Canada has been
a heavy borrower and Western Can
ada's great resource is agriculture, U.
S. financiers must be convinced that
agriculture in Western Canada is sure
and profitable or they would not be
ready to invest so many millions in
the country.-Adyertise