Evening Republican, Volume 15, Number 196, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 August 1911 — 50,000 NEEDED TO HARVEST WESTERN CANADA’S CROP [ARTICLE]

50,000 NEEDED TO HARVEST WESTERN CANADA’S CROP

Win Take 160,000 Altogether to Take Care of Yield of Prairie Provinces. One hundred and sixty-two thousand farm hands will' be required this year to harvest the grain crops of Manitoba, Saskatchewan and Alberta. Of this number the local help will provide about 112,000, which will leave about 50,000 extra farm bands. There Is, therefore, a great demand for this Class of laborers In all parts of Western Canada. In order to meet the requirements it has been arranged to grant very low railway rates from all boundary points reached by Canadian railways. Ip order to secure these rates It will be necessary for you to call on one of the following authorized agents of the Canadian government: M. V. Mclnnes, 176 Jefferson Avenue, Detroit, Michigan; C. A. Laurier, Marquette, Michigan; J. S. Crawford, Syracuse, N. Y.; Thos. Hetherington, Room 202, 73 Tremont Street, Boston, Mass.; H. M. Williams, 412 Gardner Bldg., Toledo, Ohio; Geo. Aird, 216 Traction-Terminal Bldg., Indianapolis, Indiana; C. J. Broughton, Room 412 Merchants’ Loan & Trust Bldg., Chicago, I1L; Ge 6. A. Hall, 2nd Floor, 125 Second Street,. Milwaukee, Wis.; E. T. Holmes, 315 Jackson Street, St Paul, Minn.; Chas. Pilling, Clifford Block, Grand Forks, N. D.; J. M. MacLachlan, Box 197, Watertown, S. D.; W. V. Bennett, Room 4, Bee Bldg., Omaha, Neb.; W. H. Rogers, 125 West 9th Street Kansas City, Mo.; Benj. Davies, Room 6, Dunn Block, Great Falls, Montana; J. B. Carbonneau, Jr., 217 Main Street, Biddeford, Me.; J. N. Grieve, Auditorium Building, Spokane, Wash.

This will give to Intending harvest laborers a splendid opportunity to look over the magnificent wheat fields -of Western Canada and will give them the best evidence that can be secured of the splendid character of that country from the farmer’s standpoint. There will be at least 200,000,000 bushels of wheat harvested within the area of the three provinces above named this year and it Is expected that the yield will run from 15 to 25 bushels per acre. Many farmers, this year, will net, as a result of their labors, as much as $8 to $lO per acre and many of them Will deposit as profits as much as SB,OOO to SIO,OOO. The wide publicity that has been given to the excellent crop that is being raised in central Alberta and southern Alberta, central Saskatchewan and southern Saskatchewan, and also In Manitoba, will Increase the price of lands in these three provinces from $3 to $5 per acre and the man who was fortunate enough to secure lands at from sl2 to S2O per acre will have reason for gratification that he exercised sufficient forethought to invest, while the man who was fortunate enough to secure a homestead of 160 acres free will also have a greater reason to feel pleased. Notwithstanding the great addition to the acreage this year over last and the large crop that will be ready for harvest there is no reason to become alarmed that the harvest will not be reaped successfully* There will be a great demand for these low rates during the next couple of months; be sure to make your application to any of the agents above mentioned that may be in your territory at as early a date as possible. Harvesting will commence about the 25th of July and continue for five or six weeks, when threshing will begin and there will be plenty of work until November.