The Julesburg grit-advocate., 1916-07-13
Western GUDlN m
The upDnUuGRY
II is Essentialy N Agricultural
Country.

Western Canada is the Mecca OF ,i,s
land-hungry man who wishes to earn
good living from the soil and saye mn
money TO take care Of him in his ,Ia
age without paying u fancy price for
the privilege.
Western Canada Is the great wb.s,
producing section Of the North Amer
lean continent. with an average. ,r,.
ductiOn Of more than - bushels To -hs
acre Us compared with an ayerap. Of
II bushels to the acre In the States
Wheat raising can hardly be made
profitable on land that costs from S5l
an acre up unless such land will pr,-
duce II much higher than IA II tu.h.l
average, or unless the price OF rh.
cereal reaches an excessive figure.
The initial investment of $40 an acre
Is more than the average man can ,f-
ford to make II he expects to raise
wheat and to make success of II,
good homestead OF lGO ucres can
still be secured free in Western Can.
ada and additional land admirably
suited to the raising Of wheat can be
secured ut 80 low cost per acre that
1t can be made extremely profitable.
No other part of the world offers
such tremendous opportunities ~ the
present time to the ambitious young
farmer as the three great provinces OF
Western Canada.
1t is worth the while of the land
hungry man to cease his depressing
search for local cheap land or for
land that Is not entirely worked out by
long cropping and to look outside his
own district. Western Canada is u
country that should receive the con-
sideration of all such men. The West
ern Provinces Of Manitoba, Suskatche-
wan and Alberta are essentially a.rl-
cultural territory.
Out Of AIS million acres there are
$50 million acres of first-class agricul-
turnl land actually available for de-
velOpment-a block three and a half
times as large as the total land area of
Minnesota, and equal to the combined
land areas of Minnesota, Iowa, Wis
consin, Illinois and Indiana.
But whereas the population of the
five states mentioned is fifteen million
people, the population of Western
Canada Is only about one and three
quarter millions.
1t has been said that the average
yield per acre Of wheat in the United
States last year was II bushels. This
average does not, of course, represent
the efficiency which may have been
reached by individual farmers or by
individual states. However, place
against this figure the fact that the
1915 Western Canadian average-the
average from nearly twelve million
aeres-was over 80 bushels. In the
case Of the Province Of Alberta, the
average reached 80 "a bushels per acre.
There are already large number Of
American farmers in Western Canada,
SO that the newcomer could never
overlooking the fact that the same
language Is spOken-feel himself In an
alien country. There seems, in fact,
tendency to establish little colonies
composed of those coming from the
same sections. The characteristics Of
the country, and the climate and
season, are very much the same as in
Minnesota or North Dakota. Social
conditions bear family resemblance.
Education is free, and is good Its cost
being betrayed partly by taxation.
partly by grants from the Canadian
Government, from the sales of school
lands, of which, when the country was
a..,A
township were allocatetk Taxation in
every rural district, in many towns and
cities, is based practically on lant
values alone, improvements of all kinds
being exempted.-Advertise