Williams news., 1916-07-27
WESTERN CANADA AND
 THE LAND-HUNGRY
It Is Essentially an Agricultural
 Country.

Western Canada is the Mecca of the 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 ican continent, with an average pro- duction of more than 30 bushels to the acre as compared with an average of r 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- duce a much higher than IF bushel 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 af- ford to make if he expects to raise wheat and to make success of it.
 A good homestead of 160 acres can still be secured free in Western Can ada and additional land admirably suited 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.
 It is worth the while of the land hungry man to cease his depressing search for local cheap land or for fhaf ;c,, anti yunrlxod nl1t hv long cropping and to look outside his own district. Western Canada is country that should receive the con- sideration of all such men. The Vest ern Provinces of Manitoba, Saskatche- wan and Alberta are essentially agri- cultural territory.
 Out of AIS million acres there are 1SO million acres of first-class agricul- tural land actually available for de yelopment-a block three and a 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.
 But whereas the population of the five states mentioned is fifteen million | luS pOpuldllOh OA w SSS~AA ~ Canada is only about one and three quarter millions.
 It has been said that the average yield per acre of wheat in the United States last year was IT bushels. This average does not, of course, represent the efficiency which may have beer reached by individual farmers or b! ,fofo against this figure the fact that thu 1915 Western Canadian average-th' average from nearly twelve million acres-was over 30 bushels. In tn case of the Province of Alberta, thu average reached 32.84 bushels per acre
 There are already large number O American farmers in Western Canada so that the newcomer could never
 overlooking the fact that the sam
 language is spoken-feel himself in al
 alien country. There seems, in fact
 tendency to establish little colonie composed of those coming from tn same sections. The characteristics 2 the country, and the climate an season, are very much the same as i Minnesota or North Dakota. Socis
 conditions bear a family resemblance
 Education is free, and is good; it's cos being defrayed partly by taxation partly by grants from the Canadia Government, from the sales of schot
 lands, of which, when the country WE
 first surveyed, two sections in ever
 township were allocated. Taxation
 every rural district, in many towns an
 cities, is based practically on Ian
 values alone, Improvements of all kint
 being exempted.-Advertisement.