The Ordway new era., 1916-07-14
WESTERN CANADA m
THE LAhD.AUIGl
It Is Essentially an AgricuItu,,,.
Country.

Western cnnadn is the Mecca Of n.
lnnd-hungry man who wishes 10 e.,.
II good living from the soil and s,ysas
money to take care of him In III. y,
nge without paying II fnncy price y.
the privilege.
Western Cnnadn is the great wh..,
producing section of the North Am.
lean continent, with an ayeraya ~.
duction of more than 30 bushels IN N.
acre as compared with IN ayerav. !.
II bushels to the acre in the Stat.
Wheat raising can hardly be mad.
profitable on lnnd that costs from ia
an acre up unless such land will n,a
duce n much higher than n II busha
average, or unless the price Of ,b4
cereal reaches an excessive figure
The Initial investment of $50 nm mr..
Is more thnn the average man can Al,
ford to make II he expects to ras.
wheat and to make Il success of II
a good homestead of 100 acres "a,
still be secured free in Western Csn.
ada and additional land admlraNv
suited to the raising of wheat can b.
secured at so low cost per acre that
Ii can be made extremely profitable
No other part of the world ofen
such tremendous opportunities at III,
present time to the ambitious youn,
fnrmer as the three great provinces, 0,
Western Cunudn.
II Is worth the while of The land
hungry man to cease his dcpressin,
search for local cheap land or f@
| land that Is not entirely worked out by
long cropping and to Look outside bis
own district. Western Canada is
country that should receive the coo.
siderntion of all such men. The Wes.
ern Provinces of Manitoba, Saskatehe
wan and Alberta are essentially asri.
cultural territory.
Out of ATS million ncres there are
$50 million acres Of iirSt-class agricul
tural land actually available for de-
velopment--u block three and hall
times as lurge us the total land area oi
Minnesota, and equal to the combined
land areas of Minnesota. Iowa, Wis
consin, 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 aud three,
quarter millions.
1t has been said that the averase
yield per acre of wheat In the United
States last year was II bushels. This
average does not, of course represel'
. the efficiency which may have been
: reached by individual farmers or By
I individual states. However plae'
J against this figure the fact that III
T. 1915 Western Canadian averase--sh'
I average from nearly twelve m''l's'
acres-was over 80 bushels. In tS
l. case of the Province Of Alberta. 'h
0 average reached 32.S4 bushels per aeis
6 There are already II large numpefo
I American farmers in Western eana1'
4 so that the newcomer could never
!. overlooking the fact that Inc sa'p
u language Is spoken-feel himself IN a
g alien country. There seems, IN iao
e a tendency to establish little coloai'
composed of those coming from "
e same sections. The characteristics
n the country, and the climate al
d season, are very much the same as
q Minnesota or North Dakota. sou
conditions bear fanily resei'lllals
II Education Is free. and is sooa 10 "
n being betrayed partly by .aAaay n,
a, partly by grants from the oai,As,, un,
n. Government. from the sales Oh s.,", y
I lands, of which. when the counu! '
first surveyed, two sections III s,' =.
h township were allocated. IaSal,O.
r. every rural district, In many toNnG y
cities, is based practically on ~. !.
=, values alone, Improvements Oh ~, 49,
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