The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1916-06-08
FARMERS GREAT
OPPORTUNITY
Demand for Canadian Cattle
After the War.

The opportunities that Western ian.
ada offers to the farmer have time and
again been placed before the public
through these columns. The chean
price at which the very best lands can
be purchased, and the advantage that
is to be had in securing one of the free
homesteads of l60 acres has appealed
to a great many, and they have EN-
braced them. Many, in fact most of
those who have done so are today Civ
ing testimony to the good fortune and
the timely forethought that led them
to go to Western Canada, and embark
In an era of farming that has placed
them away beyond the pinch of want
and given them reason to look into the
future with a hopefulness that they
had not had the courage in the past to
forecast.
Not only have they been able to Sc
cure good lands at low prices and on
easy terms but il they desire they
have been able to add to this 100 acres
of land free, on conditions that are
easy. A resident in the LIoydminster
district in Saskatchewan who had
been farming in the States for some
time, took up a homestead in 1910, and
commenced breaking with 4 oxen.
Two years ago he bought an adjoin-
ing quarter section and now has over
100 acres under cultivation. He says,
A my circumstances improved, I sold
the oxen and now have six head of
horses, twelve head of cattle, and have
always a bunch Of hogs on hand.
On an average | have had yields of
25 bushels of wheat, 65 bushels CO cats,
and 40 bushels of barley to the acre,
and last season from a field of 2Sh
acres, I threshed 1,040 bushels of
wheat. / have made a success of
mixed farming and would have no hest
tation in advising all who contemplate
making a new home to come to this
district. ! sell cream to the Govern
ment Creamery here, and find at all
times a good market for live stock and
oth~" produce"
This is but a modest statement of
Canada, and could be repeated of hun
areas OF DINERS.
Scores of cases could be recited
where much more has been accom-
plisi,ed, and it is believed that with
moderate Investment at the present
tire. the cattle industry Of Western
Ca"a-'a viii pay large interest.
THE Minister of Agriculture of Sas-
atohewan. in q recent address, zen
inroa the prediction that the Sas-
~l;afahewan facIner who developed his
lana alona the limos of general stock
hTae'inr woasd make much more mon
81 go end far higger return for his
c~r-'~ IN ton years tine than the
,rst 80 Devoted his energies purely
and ~'"f%aa~i1v tn gain raising. This
War ts7a ccnfirg ro'dan ago of oppor-
~trf1it,. fort the staclsnaan and it was ND
to ito Saskatchewan man to get in
on tie ground floor and prepare him
se'f e. the corning demand.
THO close of the war would undoubt-
o. soc a great demand for live stock
in Europe and it was only reasonable
10 that this demand would
Fave to he filed almost wholly by
IibieG.C5I SgOCNiIS3l, EOLl III SuUdoa
and the United States. Europe was
slowly draining its rural districts not
only of its beef and dairy animals but
was also using the finer breeding ami
mails and the end Of the wal would
see a condition Of affairs which would
render necessary almost the repopula-
ton of the domestic animal kingdom
in that continent.
The opportunity of Western Cana
dian stockmen, therefore, lay in being
prepared for this demand when it
arose. In Wow of these facts which
must be patent to every student OF
economic conditions as related to the
stock industry, he hoped to see within
the next three years the stock raising
industry in Saskatchewan given an inn
mense impetus forward, which would
put it in the forefront Of the producing
provinces of the Observation-Disclosures
ment.
If a man has enough money to car
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