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

The recent agricultural depression
krou.at 70 the eyes Of the world the
fact that one OF its basic Industries
gas likely to suffer a severe blow I'M
1ess steps were taken TO secure rem
Pdv. Physician after physician APP
flied remedies. but even pariiamenta-
inns ana newspapers were unable
"a place their finger ON the pulse that
Mould respond. As ii appears today,
n was spasmodic wave due to the
Rbb and flow Of the ude OF readjust-
snent that was bound to follow a dis
turbance such as the Great War
raused
Psychologically it was bound to
thauee; there was certain to be a re-
5iex movement that would bring agri-
cultural conditions back to tie place
sNhere they normally and rightly be-
Dong.
Efficiency and sound business judg-
.inent are needed more in agriculture
aoday than ever before and are as i'm
portant to the farmer as TO a railroad
company, or to a great steel corpora
stion.
The farmer must endea7vr TO secure
ban equal footing in the competition
dor a lower cost of production. In
Western Canada the farmer has come
Through THE dark era with that forti-
Nude ard determination so peculiar to
"a new country, and is meeting the
schanged situation with energy and a
smile. In Western Canada the farmer
Us not hampered 10y an annual over
bead expense of heavy interest on
s1igh-priced land He is able to pro-
8duce at a minimum. because his land
gvalue seldom exceeds $50 an acre.
Owing to the fact that he is farming
Band the price Of which is from S25
g. $50 an acre, producing crops Of
wheat running from 20 to 40 bushels
3 Der acre. and other grains in proper
zion, he is able to produce AZ a low
cost In addition to this, a fact which
Should not be lost sight of, is the large
earea that he can farm at low cost Civ
s1ng him an added advantage in reduc-
sing the cost of production,
j The corn that the farmer fully ex~
8pected to bring him over a dollar a
Nbushel, he saw carried away to the
&market, and bring back 80 or 40 cent
Scheck. Wheat for the whole of Cam
4ada averaged Sc cents a bushel in 1872;
sas compared with $1G2 in 1920; oats
81 cents as against 90 cents; barley
ss47 cents as against SO cents. Other
grain prices similarly fell While
Aother parts of the continent, where
2grain-growing is carried on, have suf-
sfered in like manner by deflation in
4prices they have had to face much
8higher cost in production. sucb ms high
rents, high-priced FARMS and high
taxes. Farmers had calculated ON re-
Sceiving war or nearly war figures for
their grain and therefore We're amply
Justified in submitting to the tax that
soaring land prices set upon them.
Western Canada fortunately did not
suffer from inflated land prices. There
fore, when grain prices fell, the losses
Sustained We're not so great; they did
not cut out the margin Of profit, ex-
cepting in some cases where some eli
s.matic conditions caused it.
Why not take advantage of the
81 Iomeseekers' rate to any point ia
Western Canada, of return rate single
Fare plus $500. and get information
from the nearest Canadian Govern
nent ADVERTISEMENT.