Cut Bank pioneer press. [volume] (Cut Bank, Mont.) 1909-current, 1916-06-09
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 ear
be purchased, and the advantage that
is to be had in securing n of the free
homesteads of 100 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 h~opefulness that they
had not had the courage in the past to
forecast.
Not only have they been able to Sc
cur good lands at low prices and on
easy terms but if they desire they
have been able to add to this 100 acres
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
time, took up a homestead in 1910, 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,
"As my circumstances improved, l sold
the oxen and have six head of
horses, twelve head of cattle, and have
always a bunch of hogs on hand.
ION an average l have had yields of
rs bushels of wheat, IS bushels of oats,
and 40 bushels of barley to the acre,
and last season from a field of 2Sk
acres, l threshed 1,040 bushels of
wheat. I 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. l sell cream to the Govern.
ment Creamery here, and find at all
times a good market for live stock and
other produce"
This is but a modest statement OF
| what a modest man can do in Western
Canada, and could be repeated of hun
dreds of others.
Scores of cases could be recited
where much more has been accom-
plished, and it is believed that with
time, the cattle industry of Western
Canada will pay large interest.
The Minister of Agriculture of Sas
katchewan, in a recent address, ven
tured the prediction that the Sas
katchewan farmer who developed his
land along the lines of general STOCK
breeding would make much more mon
ey and find a far bigger return for his
efforts in ten years time than the
man who devoted his energies purely
and primarily to grain raising. This
was the coming golden age of oppor
tunity for the stockman and it was III
to the Saskatchewan man to get il
on the ground floor and prepare him
self for the coming demand.
The close of the wal would undoubt
eddy see a great demand for live stool
in Europe and it was only reasonable
to suppose that this demand would
have to be filed almost wholly b!
American stockmen, both in Canad'
and the United States. Europe wal
slowly draining its rural districts no
only of it's beef and dairy animals blu
was also using the finer breeding ami
mails and the end of the war woulC
see a condition of affairs which woul'
render necessary almost the repopula
ton of the domestic animal kingdom
in that continent.
The opportunity of Western Cana
dian stockmen, therefore. lay in beini
prepared for this demand when j
arose. In view of these facts whicl
must be patent to every student O
economic conditions as related to tn
stock industry, he hoped to see With,
the next three years the stock raisin
industry in Saskatchewan given an in
mems impetus forward, which woul
put it in the forefront of the producin
provinces of the Dominion.-Advertis
ment.
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