The Tomahawk. [volume] (White Earth, Becker County, Minn.) 1903-192?, 1916-07-20

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Western Canada is the Mecca OF the
,ond-huncry man who wishes to earn
a good living from the soil and save up
money to take care Of him IN his olu
age without paying fancy price 1or
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 or
II bushels to the acre in the States.
Wheat raising can hardly be mace
profitable on land that costs from Soo
an acre up unless such land Will pro-
duce a much higher than II bushet
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 at
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 Cam
ada and additional land admirably
suited to the raising of wheat can ne
secured at so low cost per acre that
1t 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 loca! cheal land or for
land that is not entirely worked out by
long cropping and 70 look outside his
own district Western Canada is a
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 478 million acres there are
1870 million acres of first-class agrlcul-
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: ~-'
BIT WHEREAS tie population of the
five states mentioned is fifteen million
people, the population of Western
Canada is only about one and three
quarter Millions
It has been said that the average
Weld 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
acres-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 or
American farmers in Western Canada,
so that the newcomer could never
overlooking the fact that the same
language is spok en-feel himself in an
alien country. There seems, in tact.
tendency to establish little colonies
composed of those coming from the
same sections. The characteristics OF
the country, and the climate ana
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
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
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