Williams news., 1921-04-22
WANTS OWN FARM
Why One Youth Seeks the Land
 of Opportunity.
Reckoning Hands of Independence and Wealth Stretch Out From Western Canada to Those Who Have
 Faith and Courage.

StrOlling around the exhibit room O1 the Canadian government office in St Paul, studying the grain, and picking up an odd piece or two of literature
 describing farming and it's results III
 Western Canada, a dapper, WelI-bullt
 Strapping SiXfooter said to the man
 ager, I've been having a grand whirl
 of living for the past few years. l
 used to work on my uncle'S farm 1n
 Iowa. I heard of the big fat pay en-
 velopes that the city chaps were get
 ting every week. I went to the city,
 and I began getting them, too. I had
 all the excitement they would bring -theaterS, dinners, swell clothes and
 taNis. I surely saw a lot of that life
 that in days gone by I had anxiously
 gazed upon and secretly wanted to
 try.
 But I'm driven to earth now. I'm still working, but the pay envelope is thinner. Not working steadily, you know, and I sort of miss those silk shirt times. I went to Western Can ada once. and I think I'll make an- other trip.
 "I was up there five years ago. I want money, and lots of it; I want to be my own boss, but I haven't much coin to start with. I want to get into that class that don't have to worry about a buck or so. I know fellows out there in Canada who went there. a few years ago, get quarter section some homeSteaded and some bought on easy payments-and they are we'll of today. X number of the boys from my own state paid for their lands from a single crop. I may not be as successful as they were, but l want to try.''
 He wanted to talk, and the manager was a good listener. He continued: T want to have my own home and raise my own cattle; I want hogs and poultry, and milk and eggs to sell. Can I get a market?"
 He was assured that he could, and q hat he could get a decent-sized crop O thrash every fall.
 "You know,'' he said, eff the farm ITS on Misunderstanding land .an make money, my reasoning leads ne to believe that can grow as many lollars an acre from that cheaper land | Il Western Canada"
 This period of semi-unrest is caus- | ng more thinking and planning for | he future than probably at any time n the past. The desire for personal | nd financial independence is grow ng. To secure this, the first real ource of wealth is the land itself. hat is the solution. During the era f high prices, doubtless there was ome imitation of land values. So the ew, man-the young man wishing to lake q start on a farm-was con- ronted with the problem of the land e wanted having gone beyond his mited capital. He must seek else here. Two decades ago, and less. ood farming land could be bought Canada at four dollars an acre, but $ the demand increased and it's pro- 1ctivity was proven, prices advanced. here has been no undue inflation,, tough, and prices today are very req unable. Some day, when the coun- V is settled, land will bring a much gher price in Western Canada. To- " land prices range for unimproved. l s to $25 an acre; improved, at $50 The productive value is almost be- md estimate. The reports of those ho have been farming these lands, aking money and enjoying every , .rsona1 freedom, are available and ( n be secured on application. It is apparent that this last big ailable farming area of Western lnada will tend, to no small extent,
 dispel some of the unrest that is
 prevalent today among the young
 mep, who have had a taste of bet r things and who intend to have e1n in the future.-Advertisem