The circle banner. [volume] (Circle, Mont.) 1914-1939, 1917-10-12
MORE WHEAT PRIZES
Honors for Western Canada
Come Year After Year.

At the recent Soil Products EXPOSE
ton at Peoria, Ill.,, in a keen contest
for the coveted first prize for wheat,
Western Canada has again carried off
all the honors. Not only has she won
the first, but also the second and third
prizes. These were won by Mr.. S. Lar
combe, of Brittle, Manitoba. In past
years the Province of Saskatchewan
had the distinguished honor Of carry
ing off the initial prize.
Harvesting and threshing are now
completed In Western Canada, and
while 1T is early in the season to give
exact figures as to the average yield
per acre of wheat, oats, barley and
flax 1t is safe to assume that the for
mer will yield about 20 bushels per
acre. The price to the farmer will be
about $500 per bushel, giving him
$4,000 an acre of return. When it Is
considered that the land upon which
this wheat is grown averaged less than
$50 an acre, it takes very little figur-
ing to arrive at an estimate of the
profit there is to the grain grower of
Western Canada. The writer knows
where a farmer purchased 100 acres
of land in the spring of 1916, broke 1t
up the same year, put 1t in wheat in
1917. His crop was harvested a few
days ago. 1t yielded 1890 bushels and
he sold it at $2.05 per bushel, giving
him $3.50. The land cost him $4,000,
breaking, seeding, seed, cutting and
threshing, $1,920. His profit was
So, 120 after paying for his land and
his costs of improving. He has now
S3,120 to commence another season
with a paid for in full" improved
farm.
Never has farming offered such prof
liable returns for labor as at present
and nowhere is the large profit equal
to that of the low priced, high yielding
lands of Western Canada.
There has been a big rush during
the past few weeks of renters and
owners of high priced lands in many
parts of the United States to investi-
gate these 1000 profit reports. No
better season of the year could be
selected by anyone desiring to better
their condition and wishing to give
Western Canada the "once over"
is now completed and the
grain being marketed. The weather Is
fine and will be pleasant for couple
of months and a visit now to person
ally investigate the conditions will be
and profitable. While old
home ties and family associations are
one of the first considerations in the
mind of the reader, who feels that
the old five or ten per cent return is
sufficient, it behooves the modern and
farmer always to be on
the alert to grasp the opportunities of
the hour. Land in Western Canada
that is annually producing a gross re-
turn of from $4,000 TO $4,000 per acre
IS purchasable at from SIS to $50 per
acre. 1t can be seen at a glance that
such values cannot help but increase
is they have done il the older agricul-
-ural districts of tine United States.
The new settler will find himself SUR
'ounded by same cOntented and pros,
porous neighbors. The expense of max y
ng one visit to look into Western Cam
lda's opportunities is small&a special
'educed rate is available and you owe
holiday and a trip may do
you good. You owe your dependents
light to better your condition and
Western Canada offers that opportu-
ity.-Advertisement.