River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1916-07-13
WESTERN CANADA AND
THE LAND-HUNGRY
It Is Essentially an Agricultural
Country.

Western Canada is the Mecca Of the
9and-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
lean continent, with an average pro-
duction of more than 80 bushels to the
acre as compared with an average of
"a bushels to the acre in the States
Wheat raising can hardly be made
profitable on land that costs from $50
an acre up unless such land will pro-
duee a much higher than II bushel
average, or unless the price Of the
cereal reaches an excessive figure.
The initial investment of $50 an acre
IL more than the average man can af-
ford to make if he expects to raise
wheat and to make a success of 1t.
A good homestead of $50 acres can
Still be secured free in Western Can
ada and additional land admirably
gnited to the raising of wheat can be
secured at so low a 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.
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
hong cropping and to look outside his
own district. Western Canada is
country that should receive the con-
sideration of all such men. The West
ern Provinces Of Manitoba, Saskatche,
wan and Alberta are essentially agri-
cultural territory.
Out of 47S million acres there are
$50 million acres of frst-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
BAND areas of Minnesota, Iowa, Wis
eOnSin, Illinois and Indiana.
Out W1leIcttS Tic VI tAkO
Eve 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
ahe 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
mcres-was over 80 bushels. In the
case Of the Province of Alberta, the
average reached 1884 bushels per acre.
There are already a large number of
American farmers in Western Canada,
30 that the newcomer could never
overlooking the fact that the same
language is SpOken-feel himself in an
Rlien country. There seems, in fact,
n tendency to establish little colonies
composed of those coming from the
Ea9ne sections. The characteristics of
Che country, and the climate and
season, are very much the same as in
Minnesota or North Dakota. Social
conditions bear a family resemblance.
Education is free, and is good it's 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
FIRST surveyed, two sections in every
township were allocated. Taxation in
every rural district, in many towns and
cities, is based practically on land
vnlues alone, improvements of all kinds
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