The Arvada enterprise., 1916-07-13
WESTERN CANADA AND
THE LAND.HUNGRY
1t Is Essentially an Agricultural
Country.

Western Canada is the Mecca of the
land-hunsry man who wishes TO earn
Il good living from the soil and save up
money TO take care of him in his old
age without paying It fancy price for
the privilege.
Western Canada is the great whca,
producing section of the North Amer.
lean continent, with an average pro.
duction of more than 30 bushels to the
acre rs compared with an average OF
Il bushels /" the acre in the States.
Wheat raising can hardly be made
profitable on land that costs from 500
an acre up unless such land will pro-
duce II much higher than n Il huShcl
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 uf-
ford to make if he expects to raise
wheat and to make Il success of il.
\ good homestead Of 100 acres can
still be secured free in Western Can.
ada and additional land admirably
suited to the raising of wheat can be
secured ut :" low Il cost per acre that
ii can be made extremely profitable.
No other part Of the world offers
such tremendous opportunities at the
present time to the ambitious young
farmer rs 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 IL
country that should receive the con
sidcration of all such men. TIL" West
crn Provinces of Manitoba, Suskulchc-
wan and Alberta are essentially a.rI.
cultural territory.
Out of AS million acres there are
$50 million acres of iir>t-claSS agriCul-
turnl land actually available for de.
vclOpnent-a block three and II half
times rs large rs the total land area Of
Minnesota. and equal tn the combined
land areas of MiuncS"la, 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 Il bushels. This
average does not. of course represent
the efficiency which may have been
reached by individual farmers or 10y
individual states. However. place
against this figure III" fact that Ia"
1913 Western Canadian aycragc-the
average from nearly twelve million
acres-waS over 80 bushels. In the
case Of the Province of Alberta. the
average reached 32.Si bushels per acre.
There are already II large number of
American farmers in Western Cnnudn.
50 that the newcomer could never
overlooking ia" fact that the same
language Is Spok"n-fccl himself in an
alien country. There seems. In fact.
tendency 10 establish little colonies
composed of those coming from III"
same sections. The characteristics IF
the country, and the climate and
season. are very much the same rs Ia
Minnesota or North Dakota Social
conditions bear II family resemblance.
Education Is free. and Is good It's cost
being betrayed partly by taxation.
partly by grants from the Canadian
Coy crnmcnt. from the sales Of school
lands, Of which, when the country was
first surveyed, two sections In every
township wcr" allncatoh. Taxation In
every rural district. In many towns and
cities, Is based practically On lana
values alone, improvements OF nll Linds
being advertisement.