The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1919-02-21
LAND OF WEALTH
Western Canada Has Unbounded
Possibilities
ciericus Opportunities fer the Stock
Raiser, the Wheat Grower. and the
Mixed Fsrner-lts Fields to
Feed the World.


Alberta. or In was known that il was
T possible 90 feed them outside all the
wear round. the Indian hunters could
Z Away. find thu buffalo during the
winter Month, pastLring in the foot
hills Tn the summer The herds wan
dered ga the plains and fed on the
pruirie grasses. The plains have since
become grain teld~. bur the foothlll
dLstricr extending north from the In
tsruarional boundary for a thousand
niles viii always be a natural feeding
ground for live stocS. In the southern
part u Alberta the altitude is greater
fhan in the more nOrtherly districts,
bat while the herbs 10 the south have
wider tracts 81 freeiess pasturage. In
rhe north from Red Deer on into the
Peace river country there are more
Tees. richer r---tation and more
natural shelter
Those who have been advocating
stock raising ard mixed farming for
he past few years point 70 the number
~ hogs marketed a. an evidence of the
4 Increased production Of the Western
Provinces. They may also take credit
for the Increase In cattle and sheep
which is very great. bur perhaps not
so marked a. What has been accom-
plished In hog raising For the first
six mOnrh- alone last year about hair
a million hogs were shipped from
Manitoba Saskatchewan and Alberta.
A very conservative estimate value 81
those animals 20 the farmer would be-
s. 90 n head
The Canadian West Is fast forging 20
rhe front % the wheat-pro,lucing coun-
rries ~ The world. and No. hard
X without doubt the best wheat IN the
market today. When lt l. considered
that the three hundred and f0rry-three
million four hundred and ~eventy-three
rhou~and buShel crop Of 1915 was from
o1iy eleven million acres IF her hun
dreds ~ millions of acres. il gives an
idea u what her future viii be-.
r. j. felr. however. char 90 account
n The great money there will un-
doubbredly b. To growing wheat during
the next few years there is poSSibii-
lry that farmers may be tempted 10
drop The growing OF coarser grains,
which might result in less stock being
raised Every EFFORT il being made by
the Agricultural Departments OF the
various Provinces 10 impress on the
farmers that forage crops and coarse
feed In abundance mean production OF
fe~h and milk. and thar In the long
run the great future Of the Western
I Provinces lies in mixed farming which
wiz found her prosperity on a more
enduring basis
VI xed farming has always been tho
rule In the Eastern Provinces where the
4 forma tiou Of the land invites variety
T * crop. but IL has not been a common
+ 10 the Western Provinces. though tho
I practice has grown Ia recent years.
Hitherto the man mining wheat from
rhe rich soil has purchased most Of hi~
I hnu~eh0ld food and necessities. his
energies being devoted 70 getting every
possible hu-hel of grain out ~ every
foot ~ his land. and he has paid prices
fo- hls supplies that have made big
fen- iu his profits i has now dawned
GA him that he can raise vegetables /;
ra. poultry. and supply bis own table /.
that with very little effort d. can raise
Inr ~ nr,len produce and n a very
SIMPLE manner solve his own problem
81 rh, eosr Of living Further that
there is an increasing market for d0-
re-rc necessities such a. poultry.
a-rs. butter. milk an5 cheese. which
Command very hi@h prices. and that
rhe-e are other roads To prosperity
besides that through the wheat field
In 1916 Canada imported 7.gS92GJ
rounds os butter. most Of il from as
FIR away as New Zealand. and for the
first time Ga GO years failed 20 ship
butter t0 Eu-and. a condition due 20
~. home consumption. which is e~ti-
nar-f 20 BE- increasing at the rate of
StUtt.0UU worth a year. being great
N r excess 81 the Increased supply
Tl- condition has brought about d
elar-e In farming methods that j. far
-earhing. anI win result ID greatly iu-
.r.a-ed Drodurti0u al round of the
necessities demanded hy the home
marAer
Natural Resources.
ONE VI the most important consider
-aenS to the farmer g. fuel In north
.rn Manitoba. saskatchewan and Al
herra. where portions of the country
lre wen wooded. the settler has little
HHeuIty IN getting an the wood he
requires. and thousands Of men find
srrI0ymenr IN the winter cutting
wood. which Is shipped an over the
nrairie portions Of the provinces.
There T. an abundance 81 coal
throughout the country. II Is estimat-
81 that the coal deposits in Alberta
cover over $1,000 square miles and
represent an available tonnage ~ over
ten hundred thousand million tons.
while those In Saskatchewan cover an
area ~ 1900 miles. containing over
5nrso.oo0 tons. In Manitoba the coal
reserve T. not a large. but even there
i60enOOOO tons H. considered a conser-
vnffvp estimate Ar the present time