Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1920-10-01
"LAND OF PLENTY"
Western Canada a Country of
Marvellous Fertility.
Literally Hundreds OF Miles Of Wen.
cerfui Grain Fields Delight the Eye
Yields viii Run Well over a
Billion Dollars.


A trip through The wheat fields ot
Western Canada may lack the mspira-
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 colnr
and Aepth of shades that they cast,
wonderful Ia their magnitude. their
grandeur. resffHi, even although the
Streams thai flow from fheir sides
come town with swish and swaSh
creating a noise that makes mes carr
drums heat their last beat Then as
we rest beside the lakes IN the clonns
AMI see the calm ami peace Which
they enjoy IN the midst nf nesting
hills We wonder II there's another
world Care has vanished; all we
wanf is 10 dweEl nppn HE scene. But
II was not the Intention To speak of
mountain scenery roaring torrents,
placid lakes, and reStfnl hauats
Rather we we're aheni 50 speak of tie
other kind Of Inspiration thai is
aroused rs one traverses WeStern
Canuda's immense plains. gridiraned
win railroads ant splendid highways.
along whose borders ana away back
are ~ be seen the most Wonderful
grain fields, The croI,s Of wheat oats.
barley, flax ana -oru-yeS e,nil-have
luSt heen harvested the threshng ma.
chimes are busy the elevators are
rradv--rhe thirty and forty thousand
hnSuel elevators. with three four, and
i've and more ~ nearly every sta'nn
along The Thousand miles of railway
thai serve this Immense new area OF
agricultural land There is not a more
Inspiring siem thap these grain fields.
They lead one Ia pause and reflect.
gel one iutu mental arithmetic
strain, md the mind wanders as II
gathers tie great leHgth of figures hat
represents The Western Canada grain
crop of 1870 a pencil and paper
are neyaled. far the value viii run into
AMI aVer i,illion dollars AT least.
thai Is what those who profess 10 keep
themselves posted as to values
believe
Tie wheat crop alone will run over
2au.ttsltHm hushelS. mt II yuu hI,tre
this al $2.Su per busle Tie price Il Is
settling ~ a. Ne write there yOu have
s700@n00o atone Then here - Tie
osl crop with weld of ON. le>iiattss
10 say The quantities Ia bushels for
fhe ,hreSllerS are repairing yields of
10 and 100 bushels per acre where
bur 80 aud 81 i,nSi,els were expected,
hui rteI value. aparr from llrit Of
barley and rye aud faN. VIII carry
w. over HE bitit0u talmr mark
Oi course aIl THIS neans-bnt we
bad ainiosi forgotten 10 speak ot lie
cattle ain hurSpS he sheen and the
pigs the DAIRY amt many other farm
Ero,huts the increase aud production
Of which tins year viii bring IN many
nnre million doilars--all this means
that There viii be y rush Of buyers 10
Western Canada this fall during The
winter, aud next srrisg.
4 certain amount OF satisfaction ls
derived by those hack home here"
whose frieudS are writing them IN
dorsing The statements that are Az.
pearng ~ The press Of wheat ylelds "
thirty, forty. aud fifty bushels ~ the
ucre OF oats yieitlihg anywhere from
sixty to i2o b1si4eIe per acre lis.
fricts hive NOT been Specially favored
Travel anywhere eight hHndred mites
east and west, four hundred miles
north and south. aud Ii is the same
STORY splendid Yields good acreage
exceiieht prices. easy marketing. hui
labor lillle scarce. advertisement