Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1916-06-09
FARMERS GREAT
OPPORTUNITY
Demand for Canadian Cattle
After the War.

The opportunities that Western Can.
ada offers to the farmer have time and
again been placed before the public
through these columns. The cheap
price at which the very best lands can
be purchased, and the advantage that
is to be had in securing one of the free
homesteads of 100 acres has appealed
to great many, and they have en-
braced them. Many, in fact most of !
those who have done so are today Civ
ing testimony to the good fortune and
the timely forethought that led them
to go to Western Canada, and embark
in an era of farming that has placed
them away beyond the pinch of want
and given them reason to look into the
future with hopefulness that they
had not had the courage in the past to
| forecast.
Not only have they been able to Sc
cure good lands at low prices and on
easy terms but If they desire thew
have been able to add to this 100 acres
of land free, on conditions that are
easy. A resident in the Lloydminster
district in Saskatchewan who had
been farming in the States for some
! time, took uD a homestead in 1910. and
commenced breaking with oxen.
Two years ago he bought an adioin-
! ing quarter section I'd now has over
| 100 acres under cultivation. He SAYS,
AS my circumstances improved, ksold
the oxen and now have six head or
! horses, twelve head of cattle, fliu nave
always bunch of hogs on hahu.
"On an average have had yleluS Vi
% bushels of wheat, 65 bushes ol oat''
and 40 bushels of barley to the acre
and last season from a ffelu VI @"72
acres, ! threshed 1,040 pusheiS vi
wheat. I have made a success Vi
mixed farming and would have no hesi-
tation in advising all who fo'lelhpia.e
making new home IN come to this
district. | sell cream to the uoVe'n II,
ment Creamery here, anp hnu aC dil
times a good market for live stock and
other produce"
This Is but modestt sIatenleh' -
what modest man can Sdo in Western
Canada, and could be re- peateu VI hu"-
dreds of others. x
Scores of cases cou&u oe reciteu
where much more hasf Deeh d'ooni
plished, and it is belidfVed thae WIN
moderate investment al lne present
time tho cattle indrst,Ey of Western
Canada will nav largo i interest.
The Minister of AgriS Oh oas
katchewan, in a recenS auuFess' ven
tured the prediction 49, lne oas
katchewan farmer who deveraGGeu hi'
land along the lines of general S.f
breeding would make much more mON
ey and find far bigger return for his
efforts in ten years time than the
man who devoted his energies purely
and primarily to grain raising This
was the coming golden age of oppor-
tunitY for the stockman and it was up
to the Saskatchewan man to get in
on the ground floor and prepare him
self for the coming demand.
The close of the war would undoubt-
eddy see a great demand for live stock
in Europe and it was only reasonable
to suppose that this demand would
have to be filled almost wholly by
American stockmen, both in Canada
and the United States. Europe was
slowly draining its rural districts not
only of it's beef and dairy animals but
was also using the finer breeding ami
mails and the end Of the war would
see a condition of affairs which would
render necessary almost the repopula-
ton of the domestic animal kingdom
in that continent.
The opportunity of Western Cana
dian stockmen, therefore, lay in being
prepared for this demand when it
arose. in view of these facts which
must be patent to every student of
economic conditions as related to the
stock industry, h. hoped to see within
the next three years the stock raising
industry in Saskatchewan given an i'm
mense impetus forward, which would
put it in the forefront of the producing
provinces of the Observation-Disclosures
ment.