Metropolis weekly gazette. (Metropolis, Ill.) 1???-19??, 1916-07-28
WESTERN CANADA AND
THE AND-HUNCRY
It Is Essentially an Agricultural
Country.

Western Canada is the Mecca of the
iand-hungry man who wishes to earn
a good living from the soil and save
ap money to take care of him In his old
age 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
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 much higher than II 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 af.
ford 10 make II he expects to raise
wheat and TO make n success Of IL.
A good homestead OF 160 acres can
stiil be secured free In Western Can
ada and additional land admirably
suited 10 the raising OF wheat can be
secured at so low a cost per acre that
II can be made extremely profitable.
No other part OF the world offers
such tremendous opportunities at the
present time TO the ambitious young
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
slderation of all such men. The West
ern Provinces OF Manitoba. Saskatche
wan and Alberta are essentially ngri.
cultural territory.
out OF AIS million acres there are
tural land actually available for de
velopment--a block three aud a half
times rs large as the total land area OF
Minnesota. and equal 10 the combined
land areas Of Minnesota. Iowa, wiscon-
sin. Illinois and Indiana.
But whereas the population OF the
five states mentioned Is fifteen million
people. the population OF Western
Canada IL only about one and three
quarter millions.
II has been said that the average
yield per acre OF wheat In the United
States last year was II bushels. This
average does not. OF course. represent
the efficiency which may have been
reached by individual farmers or by
individual states. However. place
against this figure the fact that the
1918 Western Canadian average-ths
average from nearly twelve million
aeres-saas over 30 bushels. In the
case OF thu Province OF Alberta. tho
average reached 32.s4 bushels per acre.
There are already large number OF
American farmers In Western Canada,
80 that the newcomer could never
overlooking the fact that the same
language Is spoken--fecl himself In IN
alien country. There seems. In fact.
"a feseency 10 establish little colonies
composed OF those coming from the
same sections. The characteristics Of
the country. and the climate and
season. are very much the same as In
Minnesota or North Dakota. Social
conditions bear a family resemblance
Education Is free. and Is good Its cost
being betrayed partly by. taxation.
partly by grants from the Canadian
Government from the sales OF school
lands. of which, when the country was
first surveyed. two sections In every
township were allocated. Taxation 10
ovary rural district. n many towns and
cities. Is based practically on land
values alone. improyefnenfsof all kinds
beihg i.--Adyertiseinent.