Taiban Valley news., 1920-10-01
"LAND OF PLENTY"
Western Canada a Country of
Marvellous Fertility.
Literally Hundreds of Miles Of Won
derfuI Grain Fields Delight the Ego
Yields Will Run Well Over a
Billion Dollars.

A trip through the wheat fields of
Western Canada may lack the inspira-
tion, such as one may find working in
sidiousIy through his being as he
traverses the mountain areas of
Canada, rich in the variety of color
and depth of shades that they cast,
wonderful In their magnitude, their
grandeur restful, even although the
streams that flow from their sides
come down with a swish and swash
creating noise that makes ones ear
drums beat their last beat. Then as
we rest beside the lakes in the clouds
and see the calm and peace which
they enjoy in the midst of nesting
hills, We wonder If there's another
world. Care has vanished; all we
want is to dwell upon the scene. But
1t was not the intention to speak of
mountain scenery, roaring torrents,
placid lakes, and restfuI haunts.
Rather, we were about to speak of the
other kind of inspiration that is
aroused as one traverses Western
Canada's immense plains, gridironed
with railroads and splendid highways,
along whose borders and away back
are to he seen the most wonderful
grain fields. The crops of wheat, oats,
barley, flax, and corn-yes, corn-have
Just been harvested, the threshing ma
chimes are busy, the elevators are
ready-the thirty and forty thousand
bushel elevators, with three, four. and
five and more at nearly every station
along the thousand miles of railway
that serve this immense new area of
agricultural land There is not more
inspiring sight than these grain fields.
They lead one to pause and reflect,
get one into mental arithmetic
strain, and the mind wanderS as 1t
gathers the great length of figures that
represents the Western Canada grain
crop of 1920. A pencil and paper
and over billion dollars. At least,
that is what those who profess to keep
themselves posted as to values
believe.
The wheat crop alone will run over
250,000,000 bushels, and if you figure
this at $3.50 per bushel the price it Is
selling at as we write, there you have |
S700,000,000 alone. Then there is the |
oat crop, with yield of one hesitates
to say the quantities in bushels, for |
the thresherS are reporting yields of |
ITO and 120 bushels per acre, where |
but so and 80 bushels were expected, |!
but their value, apart from that of |
barley and rye and fax, will carry
rs over the billion dollar mark.
OF course all this means-but we
had almost forgotten to speak of the
cattle and horses, the sheep and the
pigs, the dairy and many other farm
products, the increase and production
If which this year will bring in many
more million dOllars-all this means
that there will be rush Of buyers to
Western Canada this fall, during the
winter, and next spring.
A certain amount of satisfaction is
derived by those "back home here"
whose friends are writing them in
lOrsing the statements that are ap-
'earing in the press of wheat yields of
hirty, forty, and fifty bushels to the
Icre; Of oats yielding anywhere from
ixty to 120 bushels per acre. Dis
ricts have not been specially favored
'ravel anywhere, eight hundred miles
asst and west, four hundred miles
orth and south, and it is the same
tory, splendid yields, good acreage,
xcellent prices, easy marketing, but
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