Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1919-02-28
LAND IN DEMAND
Opportunities of Western Canada
Becoming Known.
Fertile Soil on Which Can Be Pro.
duced Record Crops offered to Set
tiers at Prices Attractive to
Farm Seekers.


was demand for farm lands in West
ern Canada, the greatest that has ever
been in the history of the country.
This despite the fact that farm lands
have increased in price, as the value
of the farm product has increased and
the virility and productive value of
Western Canada farm lands have come
more and more into evidence. Farm
ing there is no longer an experiment.
Good crops can be grown in all lOcali-
ties, some probably little more fa-
vorable than others, but on the whole
q goOd-mOre than gOod-general av-
erage. Land elsewhere on the conti-
nent is used for the developing of one
hundred and twenty dollar steers.
thirty-five dollar hogs, two dollar and
twenty cent wheat and eighty-five
cent oats, and its price is anywhere
from one hundred and fifty to three
hundred dollars an acre. Western
Canada land sells at from twenty to
forty dollars an acre, and the farmer
cultivating it gets one hundred and
twenty-five dollars for his steer, thirty
five dollars for his hog, two dollars
md twenty cents for his wheat. and
eighty-five cents for his oats. And ne
'an grown corn, too, but Western Can
ida is saying no more about 1t than
North Dakota did fifteen years ago,
When it was an experiment there, and
lay. The prediction is that in less
han a decade corn will be grown sue
cessfully in all parts of Western Can
nda. It is. therefore, easy to account
for the increased demand for West
ern Canada lands. The war is ended,
and the food that the American and
Canadian farmer sent across to the
soldier. holding up his strength and
maintaining his vitality, won the war.
No! 1t vas Just q factor in winning
| 1t, as was the soldier of Italy. of
France, of Belgium, of Great Britain,
of Canada and of the United States.
| An important factor. nevertheless.
People generally have begun to real
lze what food means, means to every
| body-and 1t is grown on the farm.
So people today want farm lands. and
| they want those that are good. The
great, wide, open stretches of wonder
| fully productive soil of Western Can
ada are the chief attraction of the
land seekers of today, and 1t shall be
so tomorrow. and of all days, until
these vacant inviting acres are brought
Into fruitlon by the hand of man and
the multiplied effort of steam and gas
oline power, to the influence and op-
GRAFTON of which these lands present
such splendid opportunity.
The pulse of today's desire to secure
farm lands may be seen to beat in the
columns of the local newspaper, re-
cording sales Of many tracts Of lands
ranging from 160 to 1900 acres. A
Regina (Sask.) paper says. "In farm
lands there is so brisk business be
ing done that it might be considered
BOOM" Another paper reports the
sale of section of raw prairie sever
miles enst of Regina for $35 an acre
and 200 acres at. $50 an acre. One
real-estate firm handled in three
weeks time over $500 acres of farm
lands. the turnover being upward o.
100000. An improved farm near Re
gina changed hands at SAT an acre
"For the first time in the history o
the Moosejaw district farm land ha'
been sold for 500 an acre. when j. S
Cameron of Victoria, B. c., sold hal
a section, known as the Lett farm. t.
John Logan. The farm was bought {
year ago for $S5 an acre and is locat
ed three miles from the city. 1t i
highly improved and has fine build
Ings."
An extract from local paper says
The movement Of farm lands is open
ing up well this season and there |
every indication that q large area 0
prairie property will be turned owe
during the months intervening befor
seedtime.
"The price received for farm land
IN each instance is considered as gooC
particularly for unimproved raw pra
rie. and shows q considerable improve
; ment on prices for similar propertie
sold during the years of the war;
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