Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1916-07-22
WESTERN CANADA And
THE lAND-HUNGRY
1t Is Essentially an Agricultural
Country.

Western Canada is the Mecca of the
1and-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 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 made
profitable on land that costs from $50
an acre up unless such land will pro-
duce a much higher than IL 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 at
ford to make if he expects to raise
wheat and to make success of it
A good homestead of 160 acres can
still be secured free in Western Can
ada and additional land admirably
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 offers
such tremendous opportunities at the
farmer as 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 that is not entirely worked out by
long cropping and to look outside his
own district Western Canada is a
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
$50 million acres of first-class agricuI
tural land actually available for de
velopment-a block three and a hall
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 thu
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 averag
yield per acre of wheat in the Unite.
States last year was II bushels. Thi
average does not, of course, represen
the efficiency which may have bee
reached by individual farmers or b
individual states However, plac
against this figure the fact that tn
1915 Western Canadian avrrageth
average from nearly twelve miIIio
acres-was over so bushels. In tn
case of the Province of Alberta, tn
average reached 81. "a bushels per acr
There are already large number {
American farmers in Western Canad
SO that the newcomer could never
overlooking the fact that the san
language is spoken-feel himself in 8
alien country. There seems, in fac
a tendency to establish little coloni
composed of those coming from Il
same sections. The characteristics
the country, and the climate al
season, are very much the same as
Minnesota or North Dakota Soci
conditions bear family resemblanC
Education is free, and is good; its CO
being betrayed partly by taxatio
partly by grants from the Canadi;
Government. from the sales of Scho
lands, of Which, when the country W
first surveyed, two sections in eve
township were allocated- Taxation
every rural district, in many towns a
cities, is based practically on Ia
values alone, improvements of all kin
being ted.-Advertisement.
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