Western liberal. (Lordsburg, N.M.) 1887-1919, 1916-12-29
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 necessarles of life is acute
today; tomorrow it will be still more
lnslstent, 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 hat upon his indus
try depends the great problem of
feeding n great world. The farmer of
Canada and the United States has 1t
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 n long time will be,
lnexhaustible, and the claims that will
he made upon the soil will with diff
Guilty be met. There are today 25,OOO,-
600 men in the fighting ranks in the
old world. The best of authority gives
20 per cent and over as having been
drawn from the farms. There is there
fore nearly 20 per cent of the land for
merly Tiled now being unworked.
Much of this land is today in n devas-
tated condition and II 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 a consumer,
making the strain upon those who have
been left to do the farming a very diff
fcult 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
high 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 \
can on two and three hundred-dollar'
an-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 eli
mate is all hat is required.
Those who are competent to judg'
claim that land prices will rise in value
from twenty to fifty per cent. This Il
looked for In Western Canada, wher,
lands are decidedly cheap today, an'
those who are fortunate enough to sc
cure now will realize wonderfully b,
means Of such an investment. TIL,
land that the Dominion Government 1
giving away as free homesteads in tn
| provinces of Manitoba, Saskatchewan
and Alberta are of a high class; the.
are abundant in every constituent TIA
goes to make the most productiv
soils. The yields of wheat, oats an
barley that have been grown on thes
lands gives the best evidence of thei
productiveness, and when backed u
by the experience of the thousands O
settlers from the United States VIII
have worked them and become wealth
upon them, little more should be r.
quired to convince those who are seel
ing Il home, even with limited mean
that nowhere can they ecu anythln
that will better equip them to becOm
one of the army of industry to assiS
| I'm taking care of the problem of feeC
ing the world. These lands are free
but to those who desire larger holding
g than 100 acres there are the railroa
companies and land corporations frOl
whom purchase can be made at rel
n sonable prices, and information can /
secured from the Canadian GOvernmeT
agent, whose advertisement appear
n elsewhere In this paper.-AdvertlsI
n ment.