The Kadoka press and Kadoka reporter. [volume] (Kadoka, S.D.) 1910-1923, 1918-05-31
INCREASE IN WESTERN
CANADA LAND VALUES
But Forty and Fifty Bushels OF
Wheat to the Acre.

During the past year there has been
a greater demand for farm lands in
Western Canada than for number OF
years past. The demand is for good
farm lands improved or unimproved.
And at an increase OF from ten Ia tif-
teen dollars an acre more than the
same lands could be had for IA couple
ui years ago.
The rise in the price OF every kind
of produce grown on these Western
lands in some eases To double and In
others 10 treble the price prevailing be-
Tore 1914. have attracted and are at
tracing in ever-increaSing proportions
the men who are anxious to invest
their money, and apply their energies
IN the production of wheat for which
the allied nations are calling with
voices which grow louder and more
anxious as the months roll on, and the
end Of the war still seems distant.
Beef, and more especially bacon, are
required I'm ever greater quantities.
ana the price of all these things has
scared, until it is not question Of
What shall We produce, but how much
can we produce. Even should this
world calamity he brought to close
IN six months from now, it will he
years before normal pre-war prices
prevail, and meantime self-intcreSt If
not patriotism is turning the minds of
thousands back to the land. The in
eNitablr consequence has been the rise
in values of land, especially wheat
land
Til" Calgary Herald, commenting on
thcS" conditions says:
From inquiries made from leading
dealers I'm farming and ranChing prop
critics and from the information gath
cred in other ways, it is known that
the value of all lnnd-whcat land,
mixed farming properties, and even
good grazing land-hnS risen in the
last two years 10 per cent. Wheat
lands in some districts have practical
~ doubled in price. One dealer in
farm lands recently sold three sections
for $40 an acre, one extra good quar-
ter went as high as 500, and another
brought 500. These are, of course
large prices, but that they will be
cQunled or even surpassed in the near
future is beyond question. There Is II
feature about this rush to the land
from which the most solid hope can
be drawn for the success of the move
ment. The proper tillage of land, to
produce large crops In II climate like
ours is now understood and practiced
aS Il never was in the early days of
the province. 1t would seem too that
with the increase Of land under Culti-
yatiOn, the seasons are changing and
the rainfall becoming greater and more
regular.
Crops are being harvested, especial
Is in Southern Alberta, which would
have seemed impossible to the old-time
farmer. with his old-faShiOned ideas
of breaking and seeding. And ut the
price now set by the government for
wheat and which possibly may be in
creased during the coming season, the
return to the practical skilled agricul-
turiSt must necessarily be very large.
'What matters $40 or even $50 an
acre extra on wheat land when re-
turn as high as 30 bushels and even
more may be taken from every acre
soWn? With hogs bringing $50 hun
drcd pounds beef on the hoof at SD,
and mutton SIG. while wool under the
new government arranged system Of
handling and sale brings 90 cents a