Carrizozo outlook. [volume] (Carrizozo, N.M.) 1910-1945, 1916-06-16
FARMERS GREAT
OPPORTUNITY
Demand for Canadian Cattle
After the War.

1N.c opportunities that Western Can.
nda 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
Ii to be had In securing n Of the free
homesteads of 100 acres has appealed
to a great many, and they have eur
braced them. Many. IN fact most Of
those who have done 80 are today Civ.
Ing testimony to the good fortune and
the timely %forethought that led them
to go to Western Canada. and embark
In nm era of farming that has placed
them away beyond the pinch of want
and given them reason to look into the
future with a hopcfulness that they
had not had the courage In the past TO
forecast.
Not only have they been able 10 sc.
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 I oxen
Two years ago he bought AN adjoin-
Ing quarter section aud now has over
100 acres under cultivation. He says.
"As my circumstances improved. I sold
the oxen and now have six head Of
hnpQna ipnlyn InnI nj gaIftp aud hu On
always a bunch Of hogs IN hand.
ION nm average have had yields Of
% bushels OF wheat. 60 bushels OF oats.
and 40 bushels of barley to the acre,
and last season from u field OF 2SM
acres threshed 1.040 bushels Of
wheat. I have made a success OF
mixed farming and would have no hest.
talion In advising all who contemplate
making n new home to come to this
district. sell cream to the Govern.
ment Creamery here, and find at all
times n good market for live stock and
other produce"
This Is but n modest statement Of
what a modest man can do In Western
Canada, and could be repeated OF hun.
dreds of others.
Scores of cases could be reclted
where much more has been accom-.
plished, and II II 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.
Eatchewnn, IN n recent address, ven.
turcd the prediction that the Sas.
kaichewan farmer who developed his
land along the lines OF general stock
breeding would make much more mon.
ey and find a far bigger return for his
efforts In ten years time than tho
man who devoted his energies purely
aud primarily to grain raising. This
was the coming golden age OF oppor
tunity for the stockman and II was up
10 the Saskatchewan man TO get In
on the ground floor and prepare him
self for the coming demand.
The close Of tho war would undoubt.
eddy see a great demand for live stock
In Europe aud II was only reasonable
to suppose that this demand would
have to be filled almost wholly By
American stockmen, both In Canada
and the United States. Europe was
slowly draining IT'S rural districts not
only of It's beef and dairy animals but
was also using the finer breeding ami
mails and the end Of the wal would
see a condition of Affairs which would
render necessary almost the %repopula-
t..t, 80 A., l......l ..4...t iii. 49,
IN that continent.
The opportunity of Western Cana
dian stockmen. therefore. lay In being