Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1916-12-21
CANADA AGAIN
A PRIZE WINNER
Highest Premiums Awarded at
Many Exhibitions.

The Fall fair season is past and n
retrospect of them shows that Western
Canada is stronger than eYer 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 e%nterprising
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 Ell Paso, Texas, a 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 q foregone conclusion, for it
has nowbecome 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 ame may be said of oats,
of barley and of rye. But when it came
to notice that Western Canada took
first prize for alfalfa, it 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 supplementing the
wonderful native grasses, so full of mi.
triton that with the tanned varieties,
among them being alfalfa, the cattle
with no other food were fattened and
fitted for the shambles. Western Can
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 stockyards they bring
the top price and outweigh those from
other places where grass fattening is
the process. But it was not only in
grains that Western Canada carried
Ol liz lllSlCSI IOl1OIS dJ Tie I'll L uSl
exhibition. Potatoes, parsnips, beets
carrots and rutabagas also took the
highest honors. In root production
this country is becoming favorablJ
known.
The question often arises as to mar
kets. There is always the highes
price awaiting the producer, and al
soon as the Hudson Bay Railway, nov
about completed, reaches the Bay
there will be an additional outlet foI
the product of the farm. The Pacifi,
coast route, via the Panama canal, will
give another outlet of which full ad
vantage may be taken. With virgin lane
selling at from SIS to 500 per acre, ant
improved farms at reasonable price
and on easy terms, there is no bette
opportunity for the man with limitet
means and a desire to secure q HON,
at the least cost in a country wher,
he can soon become wealthy, as thou
sands of others have done, than il
Western Canada. To the nan with les
means and who is prepared to accep
a farm of 100 acres free, the Domin
ion Government offers him his choic
in districts that have land of the high
est type, but at present being from tel
to twenty miles from a railway.
The Peace River Country, now beini
opened for settlement and reached b,
railway affords excellent o%pportunit,
to the homesteader. To secure infor
nation as to Western Canadian land
write the Canadian Government agent
whose name appears elsewhere in thil
Observation-Disclosures.