The circle banner. [volume] (Circle, Mont.) 1914-1939, 1916-06-16
FARMERS GREAT
OPPORTUNITY
Demand for Canadian Cattle
After the War.

The opportunities that Western Can
ada offers to the farmer have time and
again been placed before the public
through these columns. The cheap
price at which the very best lands can
be purchased, and the advantage that
is to be had in securing one Of the free
homesteads of 100 acres has appealed
to a great many, and they have en-
braced them. Many, In fact most of
those who have done 30 are today CIV
ing testimony to the good fortune and
the timely forethought that led them
to go to Western Canada, and embark
in an era OF farming that has placed
them away beyond the pinch OF want
and given them reason to look into the
future with hopefulness that they
had not had the courage in the past to
forecast.
Not only have they been able to So
cure good lands at low prices and on
easy terms but II they desire they
have been able to add to this 100 acres
easy. A resident in the Lloydminster
district in Saskatchewan who had
been farming in the States for some
time, took up homestead in 1910, and
commenced breaking with 4 oxen.
Two years ago he bought an adjoin-
ing quarter section and now has over
100 acres under cultivation. He says,
"As my circumstances improved, l sold
the oxen and now have six head of
horses, twelve head of cattle, and have
always a bunch of hogs on hand
ION an average have had yields of
rs bushels of wheat, IS bushels of oats,
and 40 bushels of barley to the acre,
and last season from a field of 281S
acres, / threshed 1,040 bushels OF
wheat. l have made success of
tation In advising all who contemplate
making a new home to come to this |
district. l sell cream to the Govern |
ment Creamery here, and find at all
times a good market for live stock and
other produce"
This is but q. modest statement of
what modest man can do in Western
Canada, and could be repeated of hun
1reds of others.
Scores of cases could be recited
plished, and it is believed that with
moderate investment at the present
time, the cattle industry of Western
Canada will pay large interest.
The Minister of Agriculture of Sas-
In 6. recent address, ven
ured the prediction that the Sas-
yatchewan farmer who developed his
and along the lines of general stock
'reeding would make much more mon
" and find far bigger return for his
fforts in ten years time than the
nan who devoted his energies purely
nd primarily to grain raising. This
vas the coming golden age Of oppor-
unity for the stockman and 1t was up
0 the Saskatchewan man to get In
n the ground floor and prepare him
elf for the coming demand.
The close of the war would undoubt-
dly see a great demand for live stock
/ Europe and 1t was only reasonable
, suppose that this demand would
ave to be filled almost wholly by
merican stocknnen, both in Canada
nd the United States. Europe was
owly draining Its rural districts not
My of its beef and dairy animals but {
as also using the finer breeding anil
als and the end of the war would
se condition Of affairs which would E
,nder necessary almost the repopula- I
on of the domestic animal kingdom '
that continent.
The opportunity of Western Cana I
an stockmen, therefore, lay in being
repaired for this demand when 1t
.ose. In view of these facts which
ust be patent to every student of
,onomic conditions as related to the
ock industry, he hoped to see within
70 next three years the stock raising
dustry In Saskatchewan given an i'm
ense impetus forward, which would
n a. IN tho forafront of the producing