The Red Cloud chief., 1918-12-26
MAKE YOUR
FUTURE SECURE
Easy Farming Methods in West
ern Canada and Certain
Financial Benefits.

With your crop harvested and mar
keted, with the disposal of your cattle
and hogs completed, you are ready to
prepare your financial statement for
the year You will soon know what you
have gained, and IL the gain made In
your farming operations has been UP
to your expectations and Will meet
your requirements. Pohably you may
have been the loser. Your land may .
have been productive, hut 1t may have /
been too high priced The cost of pro- |
duction has been too great If you |
have had the remuneration you sought
and are satisfied thia article may not
interest you. If your veturus have not
been satisfactory, or AZ your ambition
leads you to the laudahle desire of bet
tering your condition, VI you have de-
pendents for whose future You have
anxiety, you will naturally look around
for some place. some opportunity that
offers greater advantages and brings
J satisfactory returns. 70 the north and
west, Of you lie hundreds of thousands
of unbroken acres ~ Western Canada
awaiting the husbandman, and ready
to give of its richness to place you
where you desire to he placed. For
thousands of farmers from nearly ev-
cry state In the Union the prairies OF
Western Canada have afforded wealth
beyond what they had been led to ex-
pect. The excellence of the soil OF
Western Canada, which comprises the
Provinces of Manitoba, Saskatchewan
and Alberta, can only partially be told
by the knowledge of some facts.
Every year for some years past tfe
worlds highest prizes for wheat. oats
and barley have been carried off by
grain grown on Western Canadian
Prairies. Beef fattened on the grasses
Of these same prairies recently brought
the highest prices ever paid on the
Chicago market. Throughout the en-.
grain, and Canadian beef and mutton,
Is recognized. To recite what indi'
vidual farmers have done, the riches
they have acquired would fill vOlumeH
The case of James Wisharr Of Portage
la Prairie is not an exceptional one
His wheat crop this past season yield
ed him forty-five bushels per acre. ant
the land upon which it was grown wal
broken forty-four years ago, and 1t hat
been continuously under crop eXcep
for an occasional summer fallow. A
Moose Jaw, Saskatchewan, samples o.
the wheat of 1918 weighed 6S pounds
to the bushel, others GO and some 65h
pounds. Wheat crops at COaldale
Alberta, went as high as 3S bushel
acre, while wheat crops near BarOns
Alberta. had yields of from 25 to 3
bushels.
Records such as these speak in glow
ing terms Of the excellence Of the sol
Of Western Canada.
The war is over, and we are a.
settling down to peace basis. Their
Is great world beyond the seas
feed and clothe, and thus is affOrde
the opportunity to lend hand in tn
great work. Aside from the philai
thropy In which you can play a par
there is the satisfaction of KNOWN
you are amply providing for yourse
and for the future of those who ma
be dependent upon you. Greater pro-
ress can be made in this and your ow
development by availing yourself I
the advantages that Western Canad
offers In its low-priced lands and hii
yielding values. There are goC
schools, desirable social conditions, 10
taxation (none on improvements
with an enjoyable climate, and II
satisfaction of possessing well till'
soil capable Of producing abunda
= crops for which good prices prevail,
easily accessible marketing places.
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