The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1918-06-21

But Forty and Fifty Bushels OF
Wheat to the Acre.

During the past year there has been
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 TO fif-
teen dollars an acre more than the
same lands could be had for a couple
Of years ago.
The rise in the price of every kind
OF produce grown on these Western
lands, in some cases TO double and In
others TO treble the price prevailing be-
fore 1914, have attracted and are at
tracing in ever-increaslng 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 in ever greater quantities,
and the price OF all these things has
scared, until it is not a question Of
what shall we produce, but how much
can we produce. Even should this
world calamity be brought to close
in six months from now, it will be
years before normal pre-war prices
prevail, and meantime self-interest II
not patriotism is turning the minds OF
thousands back to the land. The in
| oyitoh 1a ooncOuoDno hoe haau tho ri CO
in values of land, especially wheat
land.
The Calgary Herald, commenting on
these conditions says:
From inquiries made from leading
dealers in farming and ranching prop
critics, and from the information gath
cred in other ways, it is known that
the value of all land-wheat land
mixed farming properties, and ever
good grazing land-haS risen in the
last two years 40 per cent. Wheat
lands in some districts have practical
ly doubled in price. One dealer II
farm lands recently sold three section:
for $40 On acre, one extra good quar-
ter went as high as 500, and another
brought $780, These are, of course
large prices, but that they will b'
eQualed or even surpassed in the neal
future Is beyond question. There is {
feature about this rush to the lane
from which the most solid hope cal
be drawn for the success of the move
ment. The proper tillage of land, t
produce large crops In q climate like
ours is now understood and practiceC
as II never was in the early days o
the province. 1t would seem too tina
with the increase of land under cult
walton, the seasons are changing an,
the rainfall becoming greater and NOR
regular.
Crops are being harvested, especial
ly in Southern Alberta, which woul'
have seemed impossible TO the old-tim
farmer, with his old-fashioned idea
of breaking and seeding. And at tn
price now set by the government 70
wheat and which possibly may be in
creased during the coming season, tn
return to the practical skilled agricul
turist must necessarily be very large
What matters SO or even $50 a
acre extra on wheat land when a re
turn as high as 80 bushels and eve
more may be taken from every acr
sown? With hogs bringing $40 hur
dred pounds; beef on the hoof at 81.
and mutton SIG, while wool under tn
new government arranged system c
handling and sale brings 60 cents
pound (and these values cannot ia
to any great extent for some years
the demand for land will continue an
values increase in a corresponding d.
gree.
There has never been in the histor
Of Canada q time so favorable for I'll
farmer as the present; self-interes
the inspiration OF patriotic feeling, tt
aid freely extended by the govern
ment. who are permitting the impo
OF certain agricultural implement
| free, all these tend 70 still furth'
7 raise the price of Alberta land.
! vertisement.