The Watertown weekly leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1912-1917, 1917-04-11
FARM LABOR IN DEMAND
IN WESTERN CANADA
Extraordinary inducements Being
Offered.

lltieS Oh LOCUS 10 leeu lHe "oIlu uui-
ing this stress of high consumption
and paucity of production. Instead of
the condition improving it is growing
worse, and unless drastic and immedi-
ate action is taken, prices will con-
tinue to climb higher. 1t is hoped by the
Canadian government that by Offering
extra inducements to secure a home
stead of 100 acres of excellent land in
the demonstrating areas of Western
Canada, with the combined effort of the
farmer in extraordinary preparation
of ttllage and bigger wages than ever,
that Western Canada, with the assist
ance of Divine Providence, may pro-
0uce q greater number of million acres
of wheat than ever in the past. The
farm laborer can now secure q home
stead on easier conditions than ever
before. All the time that he works
for q Western Canadian farmer dur
| ing 1917, after he makes his entry or
filing will count as residence on his
homestead for that year, leaving him
| but two additional years residence,
before getting title to piece of land
| that should then be easily worth
| $1,000. The response to this offer has
| been wonderful, and hundreds have al
ready taken advantage of it.
| The climate of Western Canada is
one that breeds energy. instils life and
| buOyancy, and with the soil that the
country possesses, no greater asset
could be desired. The country is past the
| pioneering stage; it's ability to grow
all the smaller grains better than any
! other portion of the continent has
| been proven so often that it seems a
waste of time TO speak of it. The high
| name that has been given the country
| In the splendid class of live stock that
| 1T raises, has placed it in the high col
| umn with the best states of the Union.
And then social conditions, something
| that every housewife asks about, are
! as nearly perfect as could be wished
| for. Thousands of miles of telephone
line connect the remotest hamlet with
the principal cities of the country and
continent, miles Of excellent graded
roads, as well as the perfect natural
roads of the prairie, make driving and
hauling easy. Gridironed as these
provinces are with railway lines
| bring the farm near to Atlantic or Pa
cific, or United States markets, rural
mail delivery brings the settler still
closer to the homes abroad. Rural
and consolidated schools everywhere
are easy adjuncts to the colleges and
universities, which are said to be
among the best on the continent.
Taxation is light, and only applied
on the farm land, cattle, Implements
etc, on the farm being exempt. Many
farmers, having realized sufficient
from one crop Of wheat TO pay for
their entire farm holdings, have in
stalled their own electric light and
Heating plants, have their automobiles
and many luXuries they would not
have possessed on their old home
! abroad. Life is comfortable and ex-
! istence enjoyable in Western Canada.
| In no country is there a greater per-
| centage of contented farmers, and in
no part OF the continent is farming
| easier or more profitable.
| Land there will produce so bushels
of wheat to the acre, while there are
many cases where the yield was
| higher, as high as 20 bushels. What
this means to the farm labOrer does
not fully appear on the surface. He
will get good wages, he can secure a
homestead worth at the end of three
years about $1,000, while working for
wages he can put in residence duties,
and can also look around, and find
good location.
Besides the demonstrating attraction
of Western Canada, there remains the
other fact that other lands can be
purchased at from SIS to $50, while
improved farms may be had at rea
sonable figures.
The desire to have q piece of land
of ones own is a natural instinct in
the heart of every properly developed !
man and woman. In earlier years, on
account of the great areas of land
available in the United States, no
great difficulty was experienced
by any ambitious settler of that |
country who wished to become his |
own landholder, but the rapid in |
crease in population, combined with |
the corresponding rise in the price of |
land, has completely changed this con-
dition. Land, which generation ago |
might be had for the demonstrating, |
now commands prices ranging to 500 |
an acre and over. At such prices it is
quite hopeless for the tenant farmer |
or the farmers son in moderate cir |
cumstances, or the city man with linn
tied capital, to attempt to buy farm !
of his own. To pay for it becomes a |
lifelong task, and the probability Is
that he will never do more than meet |
the interest charges. If he is serious |
in his desire to secure a farm home, |
he must look to countries where there |
is still abundant fertile land available !
at moderate cost and where these !
lands are to be purchased on terms |
which make it possible for the settler
with small capital to become a farm |
owner as the result of a few years Ia |