The Tucumcari news and Tucumcari times. [volume] (Tucumcari, N.M.) 1907-1921, 1917-01-04
CANADA AGAIN
A PRIZE WINNER
Highest Premiums Awarded at
Many Exhibitions.

The Fall fair season Is past and a
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 II long look, from Alberta.
Saskatchewan and Manitoba TO the
southwestern corner of Texas Is sew
ernl days journey, but the enterprising
farmers from this new country to the
northwest were wide awake to the
possibilities that waited them ut the
International Dry Farming Congress
held nj FL Puso, Texas. n few weeks
ago. to bring to the attention OF those
In that far-oN 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 dot
The first thing was to carry of the
first prize II sweepstakes for wheat.
That was n forcgone conclusion. for Il
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 he said OF oats,
of barley and Of rye. But when II came
To notice that Western Canada took
first prize for alfalfa. II was then that
more special attention was given to
the products from Western Canada. II
showed that In that country there lies
the opportunity for experimenting the
wonderful native grasses. so full of nu-
triton that with the tanned varieties,
among them being alfalfa. the cattle
with M other food were fattened and
fitted for the shambles. Western Can.
ada's worth was proved as probably
the greatest mixed farming portion OF
b continent. When the steers from
the Western Canadian prniries reach
the Chicago stockyards they bring
the top price and outweigh those from
other places where grass fattening is
the process. But II was not only In
grains that Western Canada carried
Off the highest honors ut the FL Paso
exhibition. Potatoes, parSnips, bcets,
carrots and rutabagas also took the
highest honors. In root production
this country Is becoming fayorably
known.
The question often arises as Ia mar
kets. There Is always the highest
price awaiting the producer, and m
soon rs the Hudson Bay Railway, now
about completed, reaches the Fay.
there will he an additional outlet for
the product Of the farm. The Pacific
coast route, via the Panama canal. will
give another outlet of which full nd
vantage may be taken. With virgin lnnd
selling ut from SI5 to $40 per acre. aud
improved farms nt reasonable prices
and on easy terms, there IL no better
opportunity Cor the man with limited
means and n desire to secure n home
ut the least cost In n country where
he can soon become wealthy, ms thou.
sands OF others have done, than In
Western Canada. To the man with less
means and who Is prepared TO accept
n farm Of 100 acres free, the Domin-
ion Government offers him his choice
In districts that have land Of the high.
est type, but ut present being from ten
To twenty miles from n railway.
The Pence River 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
nunar --Alyartisaunan