Tombstone epitaph., 1916-07-23
WESTERN CANADA AND
 THE LAND.HUNGRY
It Is Essentially an Agricultural
 Country.

Western Canada is the Mecca of the land-hungry man who wishes to earn a good living from the soil and save up money to take care of him in his old age without paying a fancy price for the privilege.
 Western Canada is the great wheat producing section of the North Amer ican continent, with an average pro duction of more than 90 bushels 10 the acre as compared with an average of r. bushels to the acre in the States.
 Wheat raising can hardly he made profitable on land that costs from $50 an acre up unless such land will pro duce n much higher than 1I bushel average, or unless the price of the cereal reaches an excessive figure.
 The initial investment of $50 an acre is more than the average man can af- ford to make if he expects to raise wheat and to make success of it.
 A good homestead of l60 acres can still be secured free in Western Can uda ani additional. land admirably suited to the raising of wheat can be secured at So low cost per acre that It can be made extremely profitable. No other part of the world offers such tremendous opportunities at the present time to the ambitious young farmer as the three great provinces of Western Canada.
 It Is worth the while of the land hungry man to cease his depressing search for local cheap land or for l land that is not entirely worked out by | long cropping and 10 look outside his | own district. Western Canada Is a country that should receive the con | sideration of all such men. The Vest | ern Provinces of Manitoba, Saskatche- | wan and Alberta are essentially a.ri- | cultural territory.
 Out of iIS million acres there are | 1S0 million acres of first-class agricul- | tural land actually available for de velopment-a block three and 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.
 1 IL has been said that the average 1 yield per acre of wheat in the United States last year was r 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 Westera-Canadlan -average-the average from nearly twelve million aeres-was over 30 bushels. In the case of the Province of Alberta. the average reached 32.S4 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 10 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 ih Minnesota or North Dakota. Social conditions bear family resemblance. Education is free, and is good its cost being defrayed partly by taxation partly by grants from the Canadian Government. from the sales of school lands, of which, when the country was first surveyed, two sections in every township were allocated. Taxation in every rural district, in many towns and cities. is based practically on land values alone. improvements of all kinds being exempted.-Advertise