Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1917-06-22
CULTIVATE! CULTIVATE
Produce More Food, But at the
Lowest Cost.


A trip through most of the grain
growing districts of Western Canada,
and information received from authen-
tic sources, reveals that the spring
seeding of wheat, barley and oats is
finished and the grain is having most
rapid growth. Men of farming expe-
rience here say that the conditions are
similar to those years when there was
an abundant harvest reaped. During
the past year number of new settlers
came into the country, and they will
undoubtedly have a good crop this
year. This added to the normal acre
age, made considerably less by the
lack of labor owing to the number who
have gone to the front, will give a
fair general yield. 1t is surprising the
growth that this country is capable of
producing.
Wheat has this spring terminated
and shown three or four inches growth
in five or six days, and with anything
like favorable weather, harvesting
should commence about the 18th of
August, or a little over one hundred
days from first seeding. Hundreds Of
| farmers throughout this vast country
| paid for their entire holdings out OF
one years crop and it would not be
surprising if the same experience met
a great many more this year.
The best authorities on the wheat
situation give it as their opinion that
for many years to come, wheat prices
will be high. They base their opinion
on a scientific calculation and their
reasoning seems to be sound. Anyway,
it is quite evident that for some years
to come, the producer of wheat will
be amply rewarded for any effort he
may make to develop this branch Of
agricultural industry. Money may be
made on the high-priced lands of the
wheat-growing districts Of the United
States, but it is question if these
high-priced lands would not be more
proftably employed in other branches
of farming than in growing the smaller
grains, leaving it to lands just as pro-
ductiye for wheat, less expensive to op-
crate, and with a much smaller
initial price, to provide the world
with this necessity Of life. Here is
where Western Canada, with its vast
rich fertile plains, its low railway
rates, it's exceptionally good shipping
privileges, it's excellent climate, and its
perfect social conditions, has COM
bination of advantages not possessed
by any other portion of the continent.
Furthermore, these lands, of unex-
celled quality, are extraordinarily
cheap, while for the man who does no'
care to undertake farming on so exten
sive a scale there is the free home
stead which offers him all the opportu
nifty for which he is looking.
The prospective purchaser will have
no difficulty at all in making selec
ton of a fine piece of land, well 10
Gated and convenient to transportation
which may be had for from $15 to $2s
an acre, and the railway companies ol
other holders of large tracts are al
ways glad to sell on easy terms. o.
If he desires farm that is alread!
, under cultivation and improved, man!
such are to be had from farmers wht
already have made comfortable for
tunes and are ready to retire.
: It is not to the grain grower onl.
that Western Canada offers great op
portunities. If one wishes to go in fo
cattle raising, there are great stretche
l of range land both free and for lease
! and in many sections of the countr,
: there are the finest of grazing land
! that may be purchased at very loy
: prices.
The appeal which has been sent on
! both by the United States and Cana
: dian governments, for an unstinted, ur
limited production of food stuffs to pre-
9 vent what might otherwise be fam
s inc throughout this great continent
s and then consequently, throughout tn
r world-should in itself arouse all tn
s ambition and desire in the heart an
i soul of the man who is not fighting q
the front, to produce all he can. 1
d addition, there is the potent fact that n
t chances are being taken in answerin
t the appeal. Take it from either stand
a point you answer the country's call, a
g though not fighting, and you are ais
:, insured against any loss by the hig
d prices that are bound to exist for som
j. time. Whether it be in the Unite
:. States on its excellent grain lands G
in Canada on its splendid grain land
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