Farmers' champion. (Elgin, Okla.) 1912-1922, 1916-12-20
CANADA AGAIN
A PRIZE winner
Highest Premiums Awarded at
Many Exhibitions.

The Fan fair season is past ard
retrospect of them sb lwS that Western
Canada Is stronger than ever in the
matter of exhibits, and has taken more
than her usual share of the prize
money. From Western Canada to
Texas Is n long look from Alberta,
Saskatchewan and Manitoba to the
southwestern corner of Texas Is sew
eral days journey. but the enterprising
farmers from this new country TO the
northwest We're wide awake To the
possibilities that waited them at the
international Dry Farming Congress
held at El PasO, Texas. few weeks
ago, to bring to the attention of those
In that far-off corner what the land of
Western Canada could do in the pro-
duction of grains and roots from its
soil. And what did these farmers do?
The first thing was 10 carry off the
first prize and sweepstakes for wheat.
Tint was foregone conclusion, for II
has now become an established fact that
nowhere else In the world Is there
grown wheat of the high character and
market value of Western Canadian
wheat. The same may be said of oats,
of barley and of rye But when II came
to notice that Western Canada took
first prize for alfalfa, II was then that
more special attention was given to
the products from Western Canadn. II
showed that In that country there lies
the opportunity for supplcmenting the
wonderful native grasses, so full of nu-
triton that with the tanned varieties,
among them being alfalfa, the cattle
with no other food We're fattened and
fitted for the shambles. Western Can
adas worth was proved rs probably
the greatest mixed farming portion of
the continent. When the steers from
the Western Canadian prairles reach
the Chicago stockyards they bring
the tep price and outweigh those from
other places where grass fattening is
the process. But II was not only In
grains that Western Canada carried
off the highest honors at the III paSo
exhibition. Potatoes. parSnips, heets,
carrots and rutabagaS also took the
highest hunOrS. In root production
this country is becoming fayornbly
! known.
The question often arises rs 10 mar
kets. There is always the highest
] price awaiting the producer, and as
soon as the Hudson Bay Railway, now
about completed, reaches the Bay,
there viii he an additional outlet for
the product of the farm. The Pacific
! const route. via the Panama canal, will
give another outlet of which full nd
vantage may be taken With virgin land
selling at from Sl5 To $50 per mere, and
improved farms M reasonable prices
and on easy terms, there Is no better
opportunlty for the man with limited
means and n desire 10 secure Il home
nj the least cost in country where
he can soon become wealthy, ms thou
sands OF others have done, than In
Western Canada. To the man with less
means and who Is prepared to accept
farm of 100 acres free, the Domin-
ion Government offers him his choice
In districts that have land of the high
EST tyne. but at present being from ter
10 twenty miles from railway.
The Pence River Country, now being
opened for settlement and reached by
railway affords excellent opportunity
TO the homcsteader. To secure infor'
nation as to Western Canadian lana,
write the Canadian Government agent
whose name appears elsewhere In this
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