The Celina Democrat. (Celina, O. [Ohio]) 1895-1921, 1916-07-21
WESTERN CANADA AND
THE LAND-HUNGRY
II Is Essentially an Agricultural
Country.

Western Canada Is the Mecca OF the
land-hungry man who wlsaes 10 eurn
a good living from the soil and save up
money 10 take care Of him In his old
age without paying fancy price ror
the privilege.
Western Canada Is the great wheat
producing section Of the North Amer
lean continent, with an average pro-
iuction Fl more than 30 bushels 20 the
! acre as compared with an average OF
II bushels 10 the acre In the States.
Wheat raising can hardly De made
profitable on land that costs from $50
an acre up unless such land will pro-
/ e'ce much higher than a II bJshel
1 average, or unless the price Of the
cereal reaches an excessive figure.
The initial investment Of $50 an acre
is more than the average nan can af-
ford to make II he expects 10 raise
wheat and to make success Of IL.
a good homestead of 40 acres can
stu 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
1t can be made extremely profitable.
No other part OF the world offers
such tremendous opportunities at the
present time tC the ambitious Young
farmer as the three great provinces OF
Western Canada.
It 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 hls
own district. Western Canada Is
country thar should receive the con-
slderution of all such men. The West
ern Provinces of Manitoba, Saskatche-
wan and Alberta are essentially agri-
cultural territor-
out Of 41S million acres Unere arc
$50 million acres Of lrst-claSs agricul-
tural land actually available for de-
velopment-a block three and half
times aS large as the total land area OF
and equal 70 the combined
land areas of Minnesota, Iowa. WlscOn-
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 ana Unrev-
quarter millions.
II has been said that the average
yield per acre of wheat in the United
States last year was II bushels. This
lveruge does not, Of course, represent
he efficiency which may nave Daea
cached by Individual FARMERS or BY
Individual states. However. place
against this figure the fact that ths
9lj Western Canadian average-the
lVerage from nearly twelve million
Icres-was over 30 bushels. In the
ase Of the Province of Alberta, the
yerage reached 32.S4 bushels per acre.
There are already a large number OF
American farmers in Western Canada,
o that the newcomer could never
verI0oking the fact that the same
lnguage is spoken-feel himself in an
lien country. There seems, in fact,
tendency to establish little colonies
omposed of those coming from the
lme sections. The characteristics of
ne country, and the climate and
'ason, are very much the same as in
Minnesota or North Dakota. Social
1nditions bear a family resemblance,
ducation is free, and is good its cost
aing betrayed partly by taxation
lrtly by grants from the Canadian
overnment, from the sales of school
nds, of which, when the country was
st surveyed, two sections in every
wnship We're allOcated. Taxation in
cry rural district, in many towns and
ties is based practically on land
-lucs alone, improvements of all kinds
ing Advertisement.