The Beaver herald. [volume] (Beaver, O.T. [Okla.]) 1895-1923, 1916-07-06
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 10 be had In securing one of the free
homesteads of 160 acres has appealed
to q great many, and they have EN-
braced them. Many, in fact most OF
those who have done so are today CIV
ing testimony to the good fortune and
the timely forethought that led them
to 20 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 a 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
OF land free, on conditions that are
easy. A resident in the Lloydminster
district In Saskatchewan who had
been farming in the States for some
! time, took up a homestead in 1910, and
commenced breaking with 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, sold
the oxen and now have six head OF
he ses, twelve head Of cattle, and have
always bunch of hogs on hand.
"On an average have had yields OF
| 25 bushels of wheat, 65 bushels OF oats,
and 40 bushels Of barley to the acre.
and last season from field OF 2S1e
acres, l threshed 1.040 bushels OF
wheat. I have made a success OF
mixed farming and would have no hesi-
tation in advising all who contemplate
making a new home to come to this
district. ! 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 a modest statement oi
what a modest man can do in Western
Canada, and could be repeated OF hun
dreds OF others.
Scores of cases could be recited
where much more has been accom-
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
katchewan, in a recent address, ven
tured the prediction that the Sas
katchewan farmer who developed hi
breeding would make much more mon
ey and find far bigger return for hi
efforts In ten years time than thu
man who devoted his energies purel,
and primarily to grain raising. Thil
was the coming golden age of oppor
tunity for the stockman and II was VI
to the Saskatchewan man to get II
on the ground floor and prepare him
self for the coming demand.
The close OF the war-would undoubt
! edly see a great demand for live stool
in Europe and It was only reasonable
to suppose that this demand woul'
have to be filled almost wholly b,
American stockmen, both in Canad
, and the United States. Europe wa
slowly draining its rural districts no
only of its beef and dairy animals bu
was also using the finer breeding an
mails and the end of the war woul
see a condition Of affairs which woul,
, render necessary almost the repopuls
tion of the domestic animal kingdom
in that continent.
The opportunity of Western Cana
dian stockmen, therefore, lay in bein
prepared for this demand when
, arose. In view of these facts whicl
, must be patent to every student o
|, economic conditions as related TO tn
, stock industry, he hoped to see withi
|, the next three years the stock raisin
, industry in Saskatchewan given an in
mense impetus forward, which woul
PIT II in the forefront of the producin
provinces of the Dominion Advertise
ment.