Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1919-03-06
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

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In the early months of 1919 there
was a 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
or the farm product has Increased and
the vfrflity 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 ia
vorabIe than others, but on the whole
q good-more than good-gensraI az
erag6- Land elsewhere on the conH-
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-fve
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 1T gets one hundred ana
twenty-five dollars for his steer, thirty
five dollars for his hog, two dollars
and twenty cents for his wheat, and
eighty-five cents for his oats. And he
can grow corn, too, but Western Can
ada is saying more about 1t than
North Dakota did fifteen years ago,
when 1t was experiment there, and
see what North Dakota is doing to-
day. The prediction is that in less
than a decade corn will be grown sue
cessfully in all parts of Western Can
ada. 1t 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.
Mol It was just : factor in winning
| it, 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
| ize what food means, means to every
| body-and it 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 sell of Western Can
| ada are the chief attraction of the
| land seekers of today, and it will be
SO tomorrow, and of all days. until
these vacant inviting acres are brought
into fruition by the hand of man and
| the multiplied effort of steam and gas
o1ine power, to the influence and op-
Grafton of which these lands present
such a 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 16O to 1000 acres. A
Regina (Sask.) paper says, t1n farm
lands there is brisk a business be
ing done that 1T might be considered
boom.'' Another paper reports the
sale of a section Of raw prairie seven
miles east of Regina for $35 an acre
and 200 acres at $50 acre. One
real-estate firm handled in three
weeks time over $500 acres of farm
lands, the turnover being upward OF
100000. An improved farm near Re
gina changed hands at SAT an acre
For the first time in the history OF
the Moosejaw district farm land has
been sold for 500 an acre, when J. S
Cameron of Victoria, B. c., sold hall
q section, known the Lett farm tc
| John Logan. The farm was bought g
year ago for $S5 an acre and is locat
ed three miles from the city. It is
highly improved and has fine build
ings."
An extract from local paper says
1.-The movement of farm lands is open
/ ing up we'll this season and there Is
every indication that a large area OF
prairie property will be turned Over
during the months intervening before
seed. ime.
1.-THE price received for farm lands
In each instance is considered as good
particularly for unimproved raw prai
RE, and shows a considerable improve
ment prices for similar propertie.
sold during the years of the war;
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