The Elbert County tribune., 1916-07-14
WESTERN CANADA AND
THE LAMD-HUAGRY
1t Is Essentially an Agricultural
Country.

Western Canada is the Mecca OF The
iand-hungry man who wishes to eurn
u good living from the 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 30 bushels to the
acre as compared with an average of
IL bushels to the acre in the States
Wheat raising can hardly be nude
profitable on land that costs from $50
an ucre up unless such land will pro-
duce much higher than IL bushel
average. or unless the price of the
cereal reaches nn excessive figure.
The initial Investment of $50 an acre
Is more thnn the average man can af-
wheat and to make u success of II.
good homestead of 100 ucres can
still be secured free In Western Cam
ada and additional land admirably
suited to the raising of wheat cuu be
secured at so low II cost per acre that
it can be made extremely profitable.
No other part of the world offers
such tremendous opportunities ut the
present time to the ambitious young
TURNER us the three great provinces of
Western Canada.
1t Is worth the while of the land
hungry man to cease his depressing
search for local cheap land or for
land thnt Is not entirely worked out by
long cropping and to look outside his
own district. Western Canada is u
country that should receive the con-
sideration of all such men. The West
ern Provinces of Manitoba, Suskatche-
wan and Alberta are essentially ngri-
cultural territory.
Out of ATS million acres there are
$50 million acres of first-clnss agricul-
turnl land actually available for de-
veiopment--a block three and huff
times rs 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
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
reached by individual farmers or by
Individual states. However. place
against this figure the fact that the
1915 Western Canadian avernge-the
average from nearly twelve million
acrcs-was over 30 bushels. In the
case of the Province of Alberta. the
average reached 1884 bushels per mere.
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-feeI himself In an
alien country. There seems. In fact.
a tendency to establish little colonies
composed of those coming from the
sarne sections. The characteristics If
the country, and the climate and
season. are very much the snme as in
Minnesota or North Dakota. Social
conditions bear family resemblance
Education Is free. and is good its cost
beng defrayed partly by taxntlon
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 were allOcated. Taxation In
every rural district. in many towns and
cities. is based practically on land
values alone. improvements of all kinds
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