Middletown transcript., 1916-12-30
MORE WHEAT,
MORE CATTLE,
MORE HOGS
Land Values Sure to Advance
Because of Increasing De-
mand for Farm Products.

The cry from countries abroad for
more of the necessaries of life is acute
today; tomorrow it will be still more
insistent, and there will be no letup
after the war. This is the day for
the farmer, the day that he is COM
ing into his own. He is gradually
becoming the dictator as it becomes
more apparent that upon his indus
try depends the great problem of
feeding a great world. The farmer OF
Canada and the United States has it
within himself to hold the position that
stress of circumstances has lifted him
into today. The conditions abroad are
such that the utmost dependence will
rest upon the farmers of this continent
for some time after the war, and for
this reason there is no hesitation in
making the statement that wars de-
mands are, and for a long time win be,
inexhaustible, and the claims that will
be made upon the soil will with diff
Guilty be met. There are today 25.O0O,-
coo men in the fighting ranks in the
old world. The best of authority gives
IS per cent and over as having been
drawn from the farms. There is there
fore nearly rs per cent Of the land for
merly titled now being unwOrked.
Much of this land is today in devas-
tated condition. and if the war should
end tomorrow it will take years to
bring it back to its former producing
capacity.
Instead of the farmer producer pro-
ducing, he has become consumer,
making the strain upon those who have
been left to do the farming very diff
icult one. There may be agitation as
to the high cost of living, and doubtless
there is reason for it in many cases.
The middleman may boost the prices,
combines may organize to elevate the
cost, but one cannot get away from the
fact that the demand regulates the
supply, and the supply regulates the
price. The price of wheat-in fact, all
grains-as well as cattle, will remain
aigh for some time, and the low prices
that have prevailed will not come
again for some time.
After the war the demand for cattle,
not alone for beef, but for stock pur-
poses, to replenish the exhausted herds
of Europe, will be keen. Farm educa-
tors and advisers are telling you to
prepare for this emergency. How much
better it can be done on the low-priced
lands of today. on lands that cost from
ten to twenty dollars per acre, than it
can on two and three hundred-dollar-
Rn-acre land. The lands of Western
Canada meet all the requirements.
They are productive in every sense of
the word. The best Of grasses can be
grown with abundant yields and the
grain can be produced from these soils
that beats the world, and the same may
be said of cattle and horses. The cli-
mate Is all that is required.
Those who are competent to judge
claim that land prices will rise in value
from twenty 10 fifty per cent. This is
looked for in Western Canada, where
lands are decidedly cheap today, and
those who are fortunate enough to Sc
cure now will realize wonderfully by
means of such an investment. The
land that the Dominion Government is
giving away as free homesteads in the
provinces of Manitoba, Saskatchewan
and Alberta are of high class; they
are abundant in every constituent that
goes to make. the most productive
soils. The yields Of wheat, oats and
barley that have been grown on these
lands gives the best evidence of their
productiveness, and when backed up
by the experience Of the thousands Of
settlers from the United States who
have worked them and become wealthy
upon them, little more should be re-
duired to convince those who are seek
ing a home, even with limited means,
that nowhere can they secure anything
that win better equip them to become
one of the army of industry to assist
in taking care of the problem Of feed
ing the world. These lands are free /;
but to those who desire larger holdings
than 100 acres there are the railroad
companies and land corporations from
whom purchase can be made at rea-
sonable prices, and information can be
secured from the Canadian government
agent, whose advertisement appears
elsewhere in this paper.-Adyertise-
ment.