The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1919-02-20
LAND OF WEALTH
western Canada Has Unbounded
Possibilities.
d'or'cus Opportunities for the Stock
Kaiser, the Wheat Grower, and the
Mixed Farmer-its Fields to
Feed the World.

possible to feed them outside nil the
year round, the Indian hunters conld
always find the buffalo during the
winter months pasturing in the foot
nils. In the summer the herds wan
aered on the plains and fed on the
prairie grasses, The plains have since
become grain fields, but the foothin
district extending north from the In
te%rnattonal boundary for a thousand
miles will always be a natural feeding
ground for live stock. In the southern
part or Alberta the altitude is greater
man In the more northerly districts,
q while the herds In the south have
Wider tracts Of t~reeless pasturage, in
the north from Red Deer on into the
Peace river country there are more
trees, q richer vegetation and more
natural shelter.
q who have been advocating
STOCK raising and mixed farming for
a past few years point to the number
OF hogs marketed as an evidence OF the
increased production Of the Western
Provinces. They may also take credit
Tor the Increase in cattle and sheep,
which Is very great, but perhaps not
SO marked as what has been accom-
plished in hog raising. For the first
Six months alone last year about half
a million hogs were shipped from
Manitoba, Saskatchewan and Alberta.
a very conservative estimate value of
these animals to the farmer would be
$500 a head.
The Canadian West Is fast forging to
the front Of the wheat-producing coun-
tries of the world, and "No. 1 hard
Is without doubt the best wheat in the
market today. When it is considered
that the three hundred and forty-three
million four hundred and se~venty-three
thousand bushel crop of 1915 was from
only eleven million acres of her hun
dreds of millions Of acres, it gives an
Idea Of what her future will be.
IT is felt, however. that on account
of the great money there will un-
doubtedly be In growing wheat during
the next few years there is q possibil-
lty that farmers may be tempted to
drop the growing Of coarser grains.
which might result in less stock being
raised. Every effort is being made by
the Agricultural Departments of the
various Provinces to impress on the
farmers that forage crops and coarse
feed in abundance mean production of
flesh and milk, and that in the long
run the great future Of the Western
Provinces lies In mixed farming which
will found her prosperity on a more
enduring basis.
Mixed farming n always been the
nile in the Eastern Provinces where the
formation OF the land invites variety
Of crop. but it has not been as common
In the Western Provinces, though the
practice has grown in recel years.
Hitherto the MAJ mining wheat from
:he rich soil has purchased most of his
household food and necessities, his
energies being devoted to getting every
possible bushel Ut grain out Of every
loot Of his land. and he has paid prices
tor his supplies that have made q big
tent in his profits. 1t has now dawned
on him that he can raise vegetables
and poultry, and supply his own table;
that With very little effort he can raise
lot of garden produce and in q very
simple manner solve his " problem
of the cost Of living. Further, that
there is an increasing market for do
nestle necessities such as poultry,
eggs, butter, milk and cheese, which
command very high prices, and that
there are other roads to prosperity
besides that through the wheat field.
In 1915 Canada imported T,9S9,269
pounds of butter, most of 1t from as
far away as New Zealand. and for the
frst time In GO years failed to ship
butter to England, a condition due to
the home consumption, which is eSti-
mated TO be increasing at the rate Of
s3,OOO,O 900 worth n year. being great
" In excess of the increased supply.
This condition has brought about u
.bange In farming methods that is far
seaching, and will result in greatly in
creased production all round Of he
necessities demanded by the home
norket.
Natural Resources.
One of the most important consider
atoms to the farmer is fuel. In north
ern Manitoba, Saskatchewan and AL
berta, where portions of the country
are well wooded, the settler. has little
difficulty in getting all the wood he
requires, and thousands of men find
employment in the winter cutting
wood, which Is shipped all over the
prairie portions of the provinces.
There Is an abundance OF coal
throughout the country. 1t is estimat-
ed that the coal deposits in Alberta
cover over $1,000 square miles and
represent an available tonnage OF over
ten hundred thousand million tons,
while those in Saskatchewan owe an