Carrizozo outlook. [volume] (Carrizozo, N.M.) 1910-1945, 1916-07-14
WESTERN CANADA AND
THE wLAND-HUNGRY
Il Is Essentially an Agricultural
Country.

N'NA'lH NNllWNN ~ iit NliifN W the
%lnnd-hungry man who Wishes to rnrn
n good living from the soil and save up
money to take care of him In his old
Hge without paying u fancy price for
the privilege.
Western Canada Is the great wheat
producing section 1f the North Amer.
lean continent, with nm average pro-
luctl0n OF more than 10 bushels to the
mere as compared with M average Of
IL bushels 10 the acre IN the Suites.
Wheat raising cnn hardly be made
prrftable on lnnd TINT costs from $50
mn mere up unless such lind Will pro-
duce u much higher thnn n II bushel
average, or unless the price Of the
cereal rcnches nm excessive figure.
The Initial investment OF $50 nm mere
Is more thun the average man can Ut
ford to mike II he expects To raise
wheat und to make II success OF II.
\ good homestead of 100 acres cnn
SIN be secured free IN Western Cnu-
nda and additional lund admirably
suited to the raising of wheat can be-
secured ut 81 low II cost per acre that
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No other pnrt of the world offers
such tremendous opportunities ut the
present time to the ambitious young
Turner Ms the three greut provinces of
Western Cinnda.
II is worth the while of the lnnd.
hungry man to cease his depressing
scurcll for local cheap lund ~ for
iuuI TINT IL maj nuttruIt t..Nb, al ,n,t lao
long cropping and to look outside his
W district. Western Canada Is II
country that should receive the con
slderutlUn Of all such men. The West
ern Provinces Of Munltoba, Snskntcllr-
wan uud Alberta are essentially ngrl-
cultural territory.
out of AIS million acres there are
$50 million acres of lirst-clnss agrlcul-
tural land actually available for de-
~yelOpmcnt-a block three nIid II half
times ny large ns the total land nrcn uf
Minnesota, and equal tn the combined
land areas of Minnesota, Iowa, Wis.
cOnsln, Illinois and Indiana.
But whereas the population OF the
i've states mentioned Is fifteen million
people, the population Of Westcrn
Canada Is only about one and three.
quarter millions.
II has beer said that the nveruge
Yield per acre of wicnt I'm 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
1913 Western Canadian aVrrage-the
average from nearly twelve million
aeres-was over 30 bushels. In the
cast of the Province Of Alberta. the
average reached 1884 bushels per mere.
There are already n large number Of
American farmers In Western Cnnndn,
so that the newcomer could never
overlooking the fact that the same
language Is spoken-feei himself In nm
allen country. There seems, In fnct,
Il tendency TO establish little colonies
composed of those coming from the
same sections. The characteristics Of
the country, aud the climate nnd
senson, are very much the sumo as IN
Minnesota or North Dakota. Social
conditions bear n family resemblance.
Education Is free, ana Is good It's cost
being betrayed partly by taxation,
pnrtly 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 nllocnted. Taxation IN
every rurul district, In many towns nnd
cities, Is based practically on hind
values nlone, Improvements Of an klnhs
being eXempted.- Advertisement