Tombstone epitaph., 1917-05-06
BIG RUSH NOW ON
For Western Canada and the
 160-Acre Homesteads.

| III war Ike this, they also serve
 and serve effectively who till the fields
 and gardens
 Tt cannot be repeated too often tha,
 the world needs every ounce of food
 It can produce this year, and that the
 growers of that food are sure of good | prices. When men now of middle age
 were casting their first ballot, dollar wheat was the farmers ideal of pros | perity. Today, we have two-dollar | wheat, with other grains and meats
 and vegetables in proportion; and indi- cations that any shift from these | prices Is as likely to be up as down. Every acre must work. The farmer | who Increases his crops is performing
 national service, as well as assuring | prosperity for himself. There cannot | be too much. and unless a united and | consistent effort is made. there will not be enough. h.'-Chicago Journal. Now that the United States has | joined with the Allies. the sentiment
 of the past has merged into the per
 sonal interest of the present. The duty of the loyal and patriotic citizen is to bend every effort to bring the great Worlds War to satisfactory conclu. sion, to assist in all ways the forces that have been fighting at tremendous
 odds the giant power of autocracy.
 Victory Is now assured: the union oi
 the great fighting force of the United
 States navy, its military, its financial cooperation, its full and complete sym
 pathy, will eventually bring about a
 peace that will be solid and lasting
 Canada. just across the border line.
 that has no mark of fOrtification no
 signs of defense. welcomes the assist
 anCe that the United States is render
 Ing. welcomes this new partner into the
 arena that is battling for disruption
 of the forces that breed and beget tyr
 amy and oppression, and fighting for
 democratic and free world. What a
 sight II will be to see the American
 and the Canadian. with the Stars and
 Stripes and the Maple Leaf of Canada
 enbidzoned in one fold and entwined
 tn their effort to rid the world of an
 Incubus that has diSregarded all laws
 human and divine.
 There is necessity for the greatest
 effort ever was made, not only on the
 battle fields of Europe, not only on the
 mined and submarined seas, but in carrying out on the peaceful fields or agriculture, the plans so urgently requested by those at the head of the departments of resources. The recent reports by the Government show great falling off in the amount of grain that may be expected from the crop as of recent date, being only little over 60 per cent. 1G per cent less than the average. Every patriotic American will bend all his effort towards increasing this He may not shoulder a musket, but he can handle q hoe, he can drive a team and msn- nge blow. He will be doing yeoman service in this way. and assist in a wonderful manner the man who Is fighting In the trenches. If he does not now own a piece of land. by all means get one-rent it, buy it-get 1t. There Is lot of vacant land that will give ample return for his labor.
 The desire to possess a home, to in- prove il and to prosper. is natural to every American, and today unprece- dented offers are being made to secure the residence of the home hunter. The war condition Is draining the continent of its foOdstuffs and economists are to meet the rapid deple- ton of the nations stores of grain and other farm products. Western Canada has proven her claim to being the natu- ral producer of economically grown foOdstuffs and is endeavoring to over come worlds shortage in necessities by offering her lands, practically free, iO anyone who will take them and pro- iuce. Labor is scarce in Canada, and Is now being bonused. Good wages are offered and the time farm hand Is drawing pay in 1917. is considered by the Canadian Government. the same es duties on one of the free 16O- lcre farms. that this Government Is giving away, in order to settle the fer ile prairies and bring about within , few years a half billion annual crop ,f wheat.
 The most conclusive evidence is lvailable to any inquirer, that Western Canada farm lands will produce more wheat of better quality and at over cost of production per acre than las heretofore been known in grain rowing countries. It is no idle state nent to say that yields of fifty bushels O the acre of wheat are grown in Can da the statement Is made in all seri- 'usness and is backed up by the let CTS and affidavits of reliable farmers n Western Canada. These farmers re enjoying the same home comforts hat their neighbors to the south par icipate; they have the same good ouses. the same good horses and attle, the same good roads and com 1unication. as well as the same good ocial conditions, and, best of all, they wn their land and what they earn hey own for themselves. being a foun-