The Tabor independent. [volume] (Tabor, S.D.) 1913-19??, 1916-06-08
FARMERS GREAT
OPPORTUNITY
Demand for Canadian Cattle
After the War.

The opportunities that Western Can.
ada offers to the farmer have time and
again been placed before the public
through these columns. The cheap
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 100 acres has appealed
10 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
10 20 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
A forecast.
Not only have they been able to Sc
cure good lands at low prices and on
n easy terms but IL they desire they
lave been able to add to this 100 acres
n of land free, on conditions that are
/. easy. A resident In the Lloydminster
district In Saskatchewan who had
been farming in the States for some
N time, took up homestead in 1910, and
n 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,
las my circumstances improved, sold
The oxen and now have six head OF
|'horses, twelve head of cattle, and have
always bunch OF hogs on hand.
"on an average have had yields Of
rs bushels Of wheat, S. bushels of oats,
n and 40 bushels OF barley to the acre,
and last season from field of 28h
heres, threshed 1,040 bushels Of
wheat. l have made a success Of
mixed farming and would have no hesi-
\ tation in advising all who contemplate
making new home to come to this
" 'histrict. I sell cream to the Govern.
nent Creamery here, and find at all
imes good market for live stock and
=. bthr produce" r.. ...
This Is but a modest statement OF
that q modest man can do in Western
canada, and could be repealed of hun,
lreds Of others.
Scores of cases could be recited
khere much more has been accom-.
tlished, and it is believed that with
poderate investment at the present
X tme. the cattle industry of Western
canada will pay large interest.
w The Minister of Agriculture of Sas'
iatchewan, in a recent address, ven,
lred the prediction that the Sas'
Il 'htchewan farmer who developed his
e ind along the lines of general stock
eeding would make much more mon.
and find far bigger return for his
forts in ten years time than the
a AN who devoted his energies purely
pd primarily to grain raising. Thsa
hs the coming golden age of oppor
nifty for the stockman and 1t was ny
the Saskatchewan man to get in
the ground floor and prepare him.
f for the coming demand.
The close of the war would undoubt-
by see a great demand for live stock
Europe and IL was only reasonable
suppose that this demand would
I've to be filled almost wholly by
herican stockmen, both in Canada
d the United States. Europe was
Pwly draining It's rural districts not
ly Of its beef and dairy animals but
Is also using the finer breeding ami
Rls and the end of the war would
condition of affairs which would
hder necessary almost the repopula.
Hn Of the domestic animal kingdom
that continent .""
lie opportunity of Western Cana
IN stockmen. therefore, lay in being
4 pared for this demand when 1t
z Sc. In view of these facts which
st be patent to every student Of
4 nomic conditions as related to the
\ FIX industry, he hoped to see within
a next three years the stock raising
!, lstry in Saskatchewan given an i'm
pse impetus forward, which would
" 1t in the forefront of the producing
Vinces Of the Dominion.--Advertise-
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