The circle banner. [volume] (Circle, Mont.) 1914-1939, 1916-12-29
CANADA AGAIN
A PRIZE WINNER
Highest Premiums Awarded at
Many Exhibitions.


The Fall fair season Is past and .
retrospect Of them shows that Western
Canada is stronger than ever 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 enterprising
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, few weeks
ago, to bring to the attention Of those
in that far-of 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 dol
The first thing was to carry off the
first prize and sweepstakes for wheat.
That was foregone conclusion, for II
has now become 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 same 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. It
showed that in that country there lies
the opportunity for supplementing the
wonderful native grasses, so full Of nu-
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 |
of the highest tonors at the Ell Paso |
exhibition. Potatoes, parsnips, beets, |
carrots and rutabagas also took the
highest honors. In root production |
this country is becoming favorably
The question often arises as to mar
kets. There is always the highest
,rice awaiting the producer, and as
loon as the Hudson Rav Railway. now
10y,
~ VII. 49, let for
he product Of the farm. Line Pacific
.oast route, via the Panama canal, will
dive another outlet Of which full ad-
'antage may be taken. With virgin land
elling at from SIS to $50 per acre, and
farms at reasonable prices
nd on easy terms, there is no better
for the man with limited 1
1eans and desire to secure q home
t the least cost in a country where
q can soon become wealthy, as thou
ands Of others have done, than in
Western Canada. To the man with less
leans and who is prepared to accept
farm Of 100 acres free, the Domin-
in Government offers him his choice
! districts that have land Of the high
st type. but at present being from ten
, twenty miles from a railway.
The Peace River Country, now being
pened for settlement and reached by
lilway affords excellent opportunity
} the homesteader. To secure infor-
alton as to Western Canadian lands '
rite the Canadian Government agent, '
hose name appears elsewhere In this !
Observation-Disclosures. I
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