The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1916-07-13
WESTERN CANADA AND
THE LAND-HUNGRY
Il Is Essentially an Agricultural
Country.

Western Canada Is the Mecca of the
ond.hungry man who wishes to earn
o good living from the soil and save
nm money to take care of him In his old
age without paying fancy price fol
the privilege.
Western Canada Is the great wheat
producing section OF the North Amer
Ican continent with an average pro
ductlon of more than 30 bushels TO the
ecre ns compared with nn average OF
II bushels to the acre in the States
Wheat rulslng can hardly be made
proGtable on land that costs from sou
an acre up unless ouch land will pro
duce n much higher than II bushel
average, or unless the price Of the
cereal reaches nn excessive figure.
The initial investment Of $50 un acre
IS more than the average man can af.
ford to mike If he expects to raise
wheat and to make success Of ii.
A good homestead of 100 acres can
still be secured free in Western Can.
ada and additional land admirably
suited TO the raising of wheat can be
secured at so low u 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.
II is worth the while of the land
hungry man to cease his depressing
search for local cheap land or for
laud that IL not entirely worked out by
long cropping and to look outside his
country that should receive the con
sGcr1ltion Of nll such men. The West
ern Provinces of Manitoba. Saskutche-
wan and Alberta are essentially agri-
cultural territory.
out of AIS million acres there are
1SO ElllOn acres of tirst-clnss ugrlcnl.
turnl land actually available for de-
velOpmenl-u block three and half
times ns large us the total land area OF
Minnesota. and equal to the combined
lund 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 Is 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
reacheh,hy Individual farmers or by
Individual stutes. However. place
against this figure the fact that the
1919 Western Canadian nverage-the
average from nearly twelve million
aeres-was over 30 bushels. In the
case Of the Province of Alberta. the
average reached 32.S4 bushels per acre
There are already IL large number OF
American farilers in Western Canadu
so that the newcomer could never
overlooking the fact that the SAINT
language Is spoken-feel himself in ar
alien country. There seems. In fact
tendency to establish little colonies
composed Of those coming from tht
same sections. The characteristics 0i
the country. and the climate ant
season. are very much the same as II
Minnesota or North Dakota. Socia
conditions hear family resemblance
Education Is free, and Is good; its cos
being betrayed partly by taxation
partly by grants from the Canadian
Government. from the sales of schoo
lands, OF which. when the country wal
first surveyed. two sections In ever!
township were allocated. Taxation II
every rural district, In many towns ant
cities is based practically on liant
values alone, improvements of all kind
being exempted.--Advertisement.