Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1916-12-21
CANADA AGAIN
A PRIZE WINNER
Highest Premiums Awarded at
Many Exhibitions.

The Fall fair season is past and a
Canada is stronger than ever in the
matter of exhibits, and has taken more
than her usual share of the prize
money. From Western Canada to
Texas is a long look, from Alberta,
Saskatchewan and Manitoba to the
southwestern corner of Texas Is sew
eral days journey, but the enterprising
farmers from this new country to the
northwest were wide awake to the
possibilities that waited them at the
International Dry Farming Congress
held at Eel Paso, Texas, few weeks
ago, to bring to the attention of those
In that far-off corner what the land of
Western Canada could do In the pro-
duction of grains and roots from its
soil. And what did these farmers do?
The first thing was to carry off the
first prize and sweepstakes for wheat.
That was foregone conclusion, for it
has now become an established fact that
nowhere else in the world is there
grown wheat of the high character and
market value of Western Canadian
wheat. The same may be said of oats,
of barley and of rye. But when 1t came
to notice that Western Canada took
| first prize for alfalfa, 1t was then that
| more special attention was given to
the products from Western Canada. 1t
showed that in that country there lies
the opportunity for experimenting the
wonderful native grasses, so full of nu.
| triton that with the tanned varieties,
among them being alfalfa. the cattle
with no other food were fattened and
fitted for the shambles. Western Cam
ada's worth was proved as probably
the greatest mixed farming portion of
the continent. When the steers from
the Western Canadian prairies reach
the Chicago st0ckyards they bring
the top price and outweigh those from
other places where grass fattening is
the process. But 1t was not only in
grains that Western Canada carried
off the highest honors at the Ell Paso
exhibition. Potatoes, parsnips, beets,
carrots and rutabagas also took the
highest honors. In root production
this country is becoming favorably
known
The question often arises as to mar
kets. There is always the highest
price awaiting the producer. and as
soon as the Hudson Bay Railway, now
about completed, reaches the Bay,
there will be an additional outlet for
the product Of the farm. The Pacific
coast route, via the Panama canal, will
give another outlet of which full ad-
vantage may be taken. With virgin land
selling at from SIS to $50 per acre, and
improved farms at reasonable prices
and on easy terms, there Is no better
! opportunity for the man with limited
means and desire to secure home
me can soon become wealthy. as thou
sands of others have done, than in
Western Canada. To the man with less
means and who is prepared to accept
a farm Of 100 acres free, the Domin-
ion Government offers him his choice
In districts that have land Of the high
est type, but at present being from ten
to twenty miles from railway.
The Peace River Country. now being
opened for settlement and reached by
railway affords excellent opportunity
to the homesteader. To secure infor-
nation as to Western Canadian lands
write the Canadian Government agent.
whose name appears elsewhere in this
Observation-Disclosures.