Fair play., 1920-11-20
IS FAVORED LAND
Western Canada Country Of
Great Possibilities.
Coll, Climate. and Weather Conditions
All Factors In the Production Of
Onrivaled Fruit, Vegetables
and Flowers as Well
as Grain,

Of year when one naturally looks for
the frost upon the punkin." and Is
Inclined to wander through the woods
In search Of the ripened nuts. and nd
mire the beautiful coIoiings that the
autumn atmosphere has bestowed upon
the ieaves: when one goes to his closet
or maybe his pawnbrOker, to find his
heavy clothing-it was that 7 found
myself the guest Of Western Canada
housewife In her beautiful home on
the outskirts Of the pretty little town
OF Moosomin, Saskatchewan. The din
ner That's what Mrs. Wilde called
II. ] should have termed II a. banquet.
There were mallard duck, cooked to a
turn. baked potatoes--and such big,
mealy fellows they were, too-cauli-
hower-and say, did you ever taste
one Of those Western Canada cauli.
f1ower?-then dessert. What was the
dessert? can see It now. Straw.
berries strawberries that had been
picked that morning. Help yourself
to the cream-and II was cream that
Is cream Put what 7 wanted to write
about was the Strawberries picked on
the 18Th Of October. AS I ate. and
turned M hack while q second help.
Ing WIS r'aced In front Of me, could
not hrt think how this goes to refute
the once accented idea that the eli
mate Of Western Canada Is such that
the r'pen'ng Of Strawberries at any
season IL one Of the things that nigh,
hp tn,tt. a,,, .hx-. e. fr.l-,
Fortunately II Is rapidly giving place
to one which acknowledges that our
sister nation TO the north possesses a
climate TINT makes II quite possible to
devcnr and ripen Strawberries even
In October
Prt 'hrre Is more to add On Oc.
tohcr II inst few days previous, Mr.
A Smith. near the same town
n'u"'.' snlendid mess of green corr,
fronr his Garden. Near RocauviIIe
SHstntch"r"nn. wild raspberries were
picked during the same week. The
f-ct of ripcning fruit at this date MAY
seem "f rttle moment but when you
mr. told thnt corn did not suffer from
any vn"ar'es Of weather more atten.
t'on mnv he naid to It. The question
of Western Canada's climate Is no
lon"w the hngaboo It once was, and
not 60 vorv long ago, either when II
caused 'h'n',inC people to think, and
unoucstiornhlv prevented many from
going 20 Canada who under other con.
ditinne would have gone.
'n various parts of this country. nj
h'r"r"nt state and county fairs, the
government Of the Dominion Of Can.
ada during the past few weeks, in.
StHn"d evh'hi's Of the grains and
rrasGcs rrn"'n in Western Canada and
~ tho same time showed fruits and
vrGetaN'"s that werc grown there
Non" of these was placed In cOmpet.
rion "'ith the homegrown article But
to iud~cs and others there came the
fui' understanding Of what II would
mean tn the local exhibitor If they
were The Western Canadian-and
mnnv c- he exhibits were grown by
former Americans-dOes not lay claim
To Hnv Snecial dispensation OF intelli.
gence in the matter of the culture Of
tho orttcles placed on exhibition, hut
WILLINGLY gives credit TO the soil, the
climate and such ether indigenous
conditions as the country as whole
possesses ms being factors that bring
Rhout the largest Yields OF the hest Of
wheat oats. barley, fax and rye, as
well ms vegetables. As Is pointed ou'
hy the gentlemen In charge of these
exhibits. and quite evident to all, the
p0ssihiIit'"s of growing vegetables and
grain such as are shown can only exist
where conditions such as have been
mentioned exist.
In speaking OF eating fresh straw
berries and green corn in the middle
of October | should not fail to refer
to the beautiful bouquets that adorned
the table, the sidebOard, the window
silIs and almost every other available
vacant place in the room. Flowers =
there were asters phloX, gladioli, peo-
MES, poppies and | can't remember
the names of them all, but they were
there. Taken right from the garden,
having fragrance that gave the room
tropical cOlOrs, and filed It with mar
yelduSly delightful perfumes. II was
very pretty sight. Then | went out
into the garden, and took photo Of IT,
II was simply wonderful. ! asked the
good lady how she managed It. She
gaid she had always hCen fond of flow
FRS. In her old hone, In one of the
central states, she carried on garden
horticulture, and had been acknOwl-
edged successful. "But my!" she said
81 never got such bloom. and such n
variety as ! do here" She admitted
II was a LOT of work, the watering, the
wedding, the hoeing, but such work
was a pleasure.
Well. such Is some Of the Hfe In
Western Canada. and as | left the
farm home | concluded that much of
our surroundings are as we ourselves
make em.-Advertlsement.
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