The Holbrook news., 1921-04-29
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 ot
 the Canadian government office in St.
 Paul, studying the grain, and picking
 up an odd piece or two of literature describing farming and its results in Western Canada, dapper, well-built, strapping six-footer 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 in 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. l had all the excitement they would bring -theaters, dinners, swell clothes and .taxis. I surely saw a lot of that life that in days gone by l 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. want money, and lots of it; l want to be my own boss, but 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, got quarter section some homesteaded and some bought on easy payments-and they are well of today. A number of the boys from my own state paid for their lands from single crop. l 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: q want to have my own home and raise my own cattle; want hogs and poultry. and milk and eggs to sell. Can get a market?"
 He was assured that he could, and that he could get a decent-siZed crop to thrash every fall.
 ''You know" he said, '1f the farm CTS on five-hundred-dollar land can make money, my reasoning leads A1C lO OCl1ChC lAldl Oll SAOW cO many dollars an acre from that cheaper land in Western Canada"
 This period of semi-unrest is caus- ing more thinking and planning for the future than probably at any time in the past. The desire for personal and financial independence is grow ing. To secure this, the first real source of wealth is the land itself. That is the solution. During the era of high prices, doubtless there was some imitation of land values. So the new man-the young man wishing to make a start on farm-was con fronted with the problem of the land he wanted having gone beyond his limited capital. He must seek else where. Two decades ago, and less, good farming land could be bought in Canada at four dollars an acre, but as the demand increased and its pro- was proven, prices advanced. There has been no undue imitation, though, and prices today are very req sonabIe. Some day, when the coun- try is settled, land will bring a much higher price in Western Canada. To- day land prices range for unimproved. SIS to $25 an acre; improved, at S30 up.
 The productive value Is almost be- yond estimate. The reports of those who have been farming these lands. making money and enjoying every personal freedom, are available and can be secured on application.
 It is apparent that this last big available farming area of Western Canada will tend, to no small extent, to dispel some of the unrest that is so prevalent today among the young er men, who have had a taste of bet ter things and who intend to have them in the future.-Advertisem