Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1920-10-01
"LAND OF PLENTY"
Western Canada a Country of
Marvellous Fertility.
Literally Hundreds cf Miles of Won
derfuI Grain Fields Delight the Eye
Yields Will Run Well Over a
Billion Dollars.

A trip through the wheat fields of |
Western Canada may lack the inspira-
ton, such as one may find working in-
sidiously 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 a swash
creating a 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
it was not the intention to speak of
mountain scenery, roaring torrents,
placid lakes, and restful 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 be 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 a more
inspiring sight than these grain fields.
They lead one to pause and reflect,
get one into a mental arithmetic
strain, and the mind wanders as it
gathers the great length of figures that
represents the Western Canada grain
crop of 1920. A pencil and paper
are needed, for the value will run into
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
S7O0,000000 alone. Then there is the
oat crop, with a yield of one hesitates
to say the quantities in bushels, fol
the threshers are reporting yields o1
110 and 120 bushels per acre, where
but so and 80 bushels were expected
but their value, apart from that o.
barley and rye and fax, will carr!
us over the billion dollar mark.
Of course all this means-but Wa
had almost forgotten to speak of tht
cattle and horses, the sheep and th'
pigs, the dairy and many other farm
products, the increase and production
of which this year will bring in man.
more million dollars-all this mean
that there will be a rush of buyers +
Western Canada this fall, during th'
winter, and next spring.
A certain amount of satisfaction i
derived by those back home here,
whose friends are writing them in
dorsing the statements that are az
pearing in the press of wheat yields Q
thirty, forty, and fifty bushels to tn
acre; of oats yielding anywhere fro1
sixty to 120 bushels per acre. Di:
tricts have not been specially favored
Travel anywhere, eight hundred mile
east and west, four hundred mile
north and south, and it is the sam
: story, splendid yields, good acreage
: excellent prices, easy marketing, BIT
labor little scarce.-Advertisemen
He Knew Mother.
t William Wallace is generally calle
Bill by his mother and father.