The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1915-06-12
EXCELLENT FARMING
CONDITIONS IN CANADA
Letters from Settlers Indicating
Growing Prosperity.

The present year viii 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 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 &C
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 Oh 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 and
personal knowledge of farming condi-
| 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, a farmer near Har-
disty, Alberta, has this to say about
the country:
Il came 20 Hardisty from Usage
City, Kansas, nine years ago and took
up a homestead here. This is a good
district for the farmer who wishes to
raise grain exclusively, and as 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 bushel, government weight, and
which I 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.
'AIl 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 q 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 I have lived here
nor any cyclones or wind storms"
A settler in the neighborhood OF
Gleichen, Alberta, spent $4,000 la i'm
proving his quarter section, has LIE
| acres ready for crop, keeps 20 head Of
stock, believes in mixed farming
keeps two hired men, one all year, the
other in summer only. He milks L:
to Is COWS, and receives an average
monthly cream cheque of $40. Last
June he sold $1,000 worth Of hogs ana
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
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of the possibilities open to the indus
> trious in the Gleichen district.
1t is stated in the last three months
5 $38, 600, 900 of American capital hal
3 been invested in Canada, showing
2 that United States financial men ar
? satisfied of the sclidity Of Canadian in
= stitutions. Western Canada has beer
: a heavy borrower and Western Can
5 ada's great resource is agriculture. .
i S. fnanciers must be convinced tina
agriculture in Western Canada is sur
? and profitable or they would not b
I ready to invest so many millions Il
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