Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1916-12-22
CANADA AGAIN
A PRIZE WINNER
Highest Premiums Awarded at
Many Exhibitions.

The Fall fair season is past and
retrospect of them shows that Western
Canada is stronger than ever in the
matter of exhibits, and has taken more
than her usual share of the prize
money. From Western Canada to
Texas is q long look, from Alberta,
Saskatchewan and Manitoba to the
southwestern corner of Texas is sew
eral days journey, but the enterprising
farmers from this new country to the
northwest were wide awake to the
possibilities that waited them at the
International Dry Farming Congress
held at Ell Paso, Texas, a few weeks
ago, to bring to the attention Of those
in that far-off corner what the land of
Western Canada could do in the pro-
duction of grains and roots from its
soil. And what did these farmers do?
The first thing was to carry off the
first prize and sweepstakes for wheat.
That was a fOregOne conclusion, for it
has now become an established fact that
nowhere else in the world is there
grown wheat of the high character and
market value of Western Canadian
wheat. The same may be said of oats,
of barley and of rye. But when it came
to notice that Western Canada took
first prize for alfalfa, it was then that
more special attention was given to
the products from Western Canada. It
showed that in that country there lies
the opportunity for supplementing the
wonderful native grasses, so full of nu-
triton that with the tanned varieties,
among them being alfalfa, the cattle
with no other food were fattened and
fitted for the shambles. Western Cam
ada's worth was proved as probably
the greatest mixed farming portion Of
the continent. When the steers from
the Western Canadian prairies reach
the Chicago stockyards they bring
the top price and outweigh those from
other places where grass fattening is
the process. But it was not only in
grains that Western Canada carried
off the highest honors at the Ell Paso
exhibition. Potatoes, parsnips, beets,
carrots and rutabagas also took the
highest honors. In root production
this country is becoming favorably
known.
The question often arises as to mar
kets. There is always the highest
price awaiting the producer, and as
soon as the Hudson Bay Railway, now
about completed, reaches the Bay,
there will be an additional outlet for
the product of the farm. The Pacific
coast route, via the Panama canal, will
give another outlet of which full adj
vantage may be taken. With virgin land
selling at from $15 to $40 per acre, and
improved farms at reasonable prices
and on easy terms, there is no better
opportunity for the man with limited
means and a desire to secure a home
at the least cost in a country where
he can soon become wealthy, as thou
sands Of others have done, than in
Western Canada. To the man with less
means and who is prepared to accept
a farm Of 100 acres free, the Domin-
ion Government offers him his choice
in districts that nave land of the high
est type, but at present being from ten
to twenty miles from railway.
The Peace 12iver Country, now being
opened for settlement and reached by
railway affords excellent opportunity
to the homesteader. To secure infor-
nation as to Western Canadian lands
write the Canadian Government agent,
whose name appears elsewhere in this
paper. Advertisement
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