Farmers' champion. (Elgin, Okla.) 1912-1922, 1916-07-12
WESTERN CANADA AND
THE LAND.HUNCRY
1t Is Essentially an Agricultural
Country.

Western Canada Is the Mcccn of the
| innd-hungry man who wishes To earn
u good living from the soil and save up
money to take care of him In his old
uge without paying fancy price for
the privilege.
Western Canada Is the great wheat
producing section of the North Amer
lean continent. with an average pro-
ductiou of more than 30 bushels to the
acre aS compared with nm average OF
II bushels to the acre III the States.
Wheat raising can hardly Ice made
profitable on land that costs from $50
an acre up unless such land will pro-
llucc u much higher than u II bu~hcl
average. cor unless the price of the
cereal reaches an excessive figure.
The iuitiul Investment of $50 an acre
is more than the average man can af-
ford To make II he expects to raise
wheat and to make n success of II.
A good homestead of 100 acres can
Still be secured free in Western Can
ada and additional land admirably
suited To thc raising of wheat can be
secured at so low Ia cost per acre that
IA can be made extremely profitable.
No other part of the world offers
such tremendous opportunities at the
present time to the ambitious young
.nrmer as the three great provinces of
Western Canada.
II Is worth the while of the land
I hungry man to cease his depressing
. search for local cheap land or for
nud that is not entirely worked out by
lng cropping and To look outside his
lwn district. Western Canada Is II
ountry that should receive the con
liberation OF all such men. The West
rn Provinces of Manitoba. Snskatche-
van and Alberta are essentially agri-
ulturul territory
tut of AS million acres there are
20 million acres of irst-claSs ngricul-
urul land actually available for de
clopmcnt-a block thice and half
ines ms large as IN" total baud area of
,linncsoia. and equal to the combined
and areas of Minnesota, Iowa, Wis
unSn, Illinois and Indiana.
Eut whereas the population Of the
i've states mentioned Is fifteen million
,roplr the population of Western
'anudn is only about one and three
uartcr millions.
II has been said that the average
ipld per acre OF wheat In the United
;tntpS last year wns II bushels. Thi,
verugc does not. Of course. represent
he efficiency which may have beet
enchcd 10y Individual farmers or b,
Individual states. However plac,
gainSt this figure the fact that III,
90 Western Canadian uvcragc-th,
,verage from nearly twelve mlIor
.cres-wuS over 30 bushels. In Ia,
asc of the Province of Alberta, tn,
,vrrnge reached 32.Sl bushels per acre
There are already n large number o
Nmcrican farmers in Western Canada
20 thGt the newcomer could never
overlooking the fact that the sam
nnguage Is spoken-feel himself In al
y llien country. There seems, In fact
! a tendency to establish little colouie
{ Composed of those coming from tn
j same sections. The characteristics o
, he country. and the climate an
u season. are very much the same MS 4
! Minnesota or North Dakota. Sociu
! conditions bear n family resemblnnc,
Education is free. and Is good its cos
4 being betrayed partly by taxation
X partly by grants from the Canada
l. Government, from the sales of scho,
! lands. of which. when the country wa
e first surveyed, two sections in ever
e township were ailocated. Taxation
every rural district, in many towns IN
o cities. is based practically on Ian
b values alone. improvements Of all kind
n being advertisement.