Iron County news. [volume] (Hurley, Wis.) 1913-1950, 1922-03-25
farm CHEAP LAND.
Ehy Western Canada AgriCuItu-
riStS Are Smiling.
low Overhead Expense and 8ountiful
Crops Have Enabled Them to
Overcome Agricultural
Depression.

"a The recent agricultural depression
Brought to the eyes OF the world the
fact that one OF its basic industries
ENas likely to suffer a severe blow I'M
les steps were taken to secure rem
edy. Physician after physician APP
rIed remedies, but even pariiamenta-
hans and newspapers waIe unable
L. place their finger on the pulse that
&ould respond. As il appears today,
ii was a spasmodic wave due to the
ebh and flow of the tide Of readjuSt-
1nent that was bound to follow "a dis
saurbance such as the Great War
kauSed.
d PsychoIogically it was bound TO
thange; there was certain to be a re-
ssleX movement that would bring agrj-
kultural conditions back to tie place
where they normally and rightly be-
Jon.
& Efficiency and sound business judg-
s5nent are needed more ia agriculture
Today than ever before and are as i'm
3fortant to the farmer as TO a railroad
Acompany, or to a great steel corpora
stion.
& The farmer must endeavvr to secure
ssn equal footing in the competition
sfor a lower cost of production. In
SNVestern Canada the farmer has come
Through the dark era with that forti-
Ntude and determination SO peculiar to
"a new country, and is meeting the
zemne In Western Canada the farmer
8ss not hampered by an annual over
Bead expense Of heavy interest on
Nldgh-priced land. He is able to pro-
*duce at a minimum because his land
Maine seldom exceeds 500 an acre.
q Owing to the fact that he is farming
Band the price of which is from $25
g. $50 an acre, producing crops Of
wheat running from 20 to 40 bushels
.per acre, and other grains in proper
Stion, he is able to produce at a low
Cost In addition to this, q fact which
should not be lost sight Of, is the large
area that he can farm at low cost, Civ
sing him an added advantage in reduc-
sing the cost of production.
The corn that the farmer fully ex.
4pected to bring him over a dollar
bushel, he saw carried away to the
market, and bring back 30 or 40 cent
CHECK. Wheat for the whole of Can.
<ada averaged Sc cents a brshel in 1924
Gas compared with $1G2 in 1920; oats
81 cents as against 30 cents barley
.s47 cents as against SO cents. Other
GRAIN prices similarly fell. While
bother parts of the continent, where
zgrain-growing is carried on, have suf-
afered in like manner by dehation in
5Yrices, they have had to face mach
higher cost in production, suct us high
rentS, high-priced farms, and high
taxes. Farmers had calculated ON re-
ceiying war or nearly war figures for
#fheir grain and therefore We're amply
5ustifed in submitting to the tax that
soaring land prices set upon them.
sEWestern Canada fortunately did not
suffer from inflated land prices. There
fore, when grain prices fell the losses
Sustained were not so great; they did
snot cut out the margin of profit. ex~
Cepting in some cases where some cli-
fmatic conditions caused it.
Why not take advantage of the
s1Iomeseekers' rate to any point ia
#NVestern Canada, of return rate single
s5are plus $500. and get information
sfrom the nearest Canadian Govern