The circle banner. [volume] (Circle, Mont.) 1914-1939, 1916-07-21
WESTERN CANADA AND
1 THE LAND-HuNGRY
It Is Essentially an Agricultural
Country.

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Western Canada is the Mecca of the
Iand-hungry man who wishes to earn
q good living from the soil and save
up money to take care of him In his old
age without paying a fancy price for
the privilege. ~-~-s'
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
II 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 a-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 man can af-
ford to make If he expects to raise
wheat and to make a success of 1t.
A good homestead of 100 acres can
still be secured free in Western Can
ada and additional land admirably
suited to the raising of wheat can be
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. 81
1t is worth the while of the land
hungry man to cease his depressing
search 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
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 47S million acres there are
1S0 million acres of first-class agricul-
tural land actually available for de- |
velopment-a block three and a half |
times as large as the total land area of |
Minnesota, and equal to the combined |
land areas Of Minnesota, Iowa, WiScon-
sin, 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 sof wheat in the United
States last year was IL 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 average-the
average from nearly twelve million
over 30 bushels. In the
case of the Province Of Alberta, the
average reached 1924 bushels per acre.
There are already large number of
American farmers in Western Canada
70 that the newcomer could meyer
overlooking the fact that the same
language is spoken-feel himself in an
llien country. There seems, In fact
tendency to establish little colonies
Composed sof those coming from the
anne sections. The characteristics of
he country, and the climate and
eason, are very much the same as in
Minnesota. or North Dakota. Social
bear a family resemblance.
Iducation is free, and is good; its cost
icing betrayed partly by taxation,
,artlyl by grants from the Canadian
government, from the sales of school
ands, of which, when the country was
irst surveyed, two sections in every
ownship were allocated. Taxation In
very rural district, in many towns and
ities. is based practically on land
alues alone, Improvements Of all kinds
eing exempted.-Advertise