The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1916-07-13
WESTERN CANADA AND
THE LAND.HUNGR'
It Is Essentially an Agricultural
Country.

Western Canada is the Mecca Of the
iand-hungry man who wishes to earn
good living from lie soil and save up
money to take care of him in his old
age without paying fancy price for
the privilege.
Western Canada is the great wheat
producing section of the North Amer
lean continent, with an average pro-
duction Of more than 80 bushels to the
acre as compared with an average of
IL 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 much higher than Ii 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 lnan can aft
ford to make If he expects to raise
wheat and to make Il success of it.
good homestead of 16O acres can
Still be secured free in Western Cam
ada and additional land admirably
suited to the raising of wheat can be
secured at so low a cost per acre that
1t 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.
1t is worth the while of the land
hungry man to cease his depressing
se;rch for local cheap land or for
land that is not entirely worked out by
long cropping and to look outside his
own district. Western Canada is Il
country that should receive the con-
sideratiOn OF all such men. The West
ern Provinces of Manitoba. Saskatche-
wan and Alberta are essentially agri-
cultural territory.
Out of as million acres there are
$50 million acres of tirst-cluSS agricu-
tural land actually available for de-
velopment-a block three and Il 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
people. the population of Western
Canada is only about one and three
quarter millions.
1t has been said that the average
yield per acre of wheat in the United
States last year was II bushels. This
average does not of course, represent
the efficiency which may have been
individual states. However. place
against this figure the fact that the
1913 Western Canadian average-the
average from nearly twelve million
acrcs-waS over 80 bushels. In the
case of the Province of Alberta, the
average reached 32.S4 bushels per acre
There are already large number of
American farmers in Western Canada,
so that the newcomer could never
overlooking the fact that the same
language is SpOken-feel himself in an
alien country. There seems, in fact,
tendency to establish little colonies
composed of those coming from the
same sections. The characteristics of
the. country. and the climate and
season, are very much the same as iii
Minnesota or North Dakota. Social
conditions bear Il family resemblance
Education is free, and is good it's cos,
beng betrayed partly by taxation,
partly by grants from the Canadian
Government. from the sales of school
lands, of which, when the country was
first surveyed, two sections in every
township We're allocated. Taxation in
every rural district. in many towns and
cities, is based practically on land
values alone. improvements of all kind'
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