Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1916-07-21
WESTERN CANADA AND
THE LAND-HUNGRY
1t Is Essentially an Agricultural
Country.

Western Canada is the Mecca Of tbs
land-hungry man who wishes to earn
a good living from the soil and save up
money to take care of him in his old
age without paying a fancy price foE
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
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 much higher than a II bushel
average, or unless the price of tha
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 it.
A good homestead of 160 acres can
sttll be secured free Ia Western Cam
ada and additional land adm1r2Ay
suited to the raising of wheat can be
secured at so low cost per acre that
it can be made extremely profitable.
No other part of the world offeFu
such tremendous opportunities at the
present time to the ambitious young
farmer as the three great provinces of
Western Canada.
It 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 3
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 Ats million acres there are
180 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, Wiseon-
sin, 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.
It 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 ny
i individual states. However, place
against this figure the fact that ths
1915 Western Canadian average-tl1e
average from nearly rweTve mTTIToP
acres-was over so bIlsnets. In the
case of the Province of Alberta, the
4 average reached 32.S4 bushels per acre.
There are already a 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.
q tendency to establish little colonies
composed of those coming from the
same sections. Hhe characteristics Oh
the country, and the climate and
season, are very much the same as In
Minnesota or North Dakota. Social
conditions bear family resemblance
Education is free, and is good; its cost
being betrayed partly by taxation
; partly by grants from the Canadian
Government, from the sales of schoo
lands, of which, when the country was
first surveyed, two sections in every
township were allocated. Taxation II
every rural district, in many towns an6
: cities, is based practically on lane
: values alone, improvements of all kind
being Observation-Disclosures.