Evening Republican, Volume 16, Number 268, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 November 1912 — SUCCESS FOLLOWS JUDICIOUS FARMING [ARTICLE]

SUCCESS FOLLOWS JUDICIOUS FARMING

IN WEBTERN CANADA IT 18 CERTAIN. The story of the Big,Farmer In Western Canada, and the immense profits he has made in the growing of grain, has been told and retold. He has been found In all parts of the prpvinces of Manitoba, Saskatchewan and Alberta. His splendid farm buildings have been pictured, his fraction outfits described and his princely surroundings, resultant of his success in growing grain, have been portrayed by letter, press and camera. It certainly is not to his discredit that by successfully applying common sense and up-to-date methods to the conditions that climate, a good soil, and splendid market have placed at hand, that he has made the best use of them. He is not too proud to admit-that he came to the country a very few years ago handicapped as to money, leaving behind him unpaid mortgages in his old home land (which are now wiped out), and he is still the same goodhearted fellow he waß in the days that he had to work for a neighbor, while the neighbor broke the land on his homestead, which went to make up the settlement duties. Then, there, too, Is the farmer and the farmer’s son, already wealthy, who has bought large holdings in Western Canada, in either Manitoba, Saskatchewan or Alberta, who has made forty to one hundred per cent, on his Investment, whose big grain crops and whose immense cattle herds are helping to improve the country. Health and strength, energy and push, and bull dog grit are as essential in Western Canada as in Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, lowa, or any of the states from which so many of these people come, and then, when you have added to that a fair amount of means, with which to make a start, the land which is only waiting for the skill of the husbandman will quickly respond. But there Is the smaller farmer, the man who has not made sufficient in four or five years, that he might comfortably retire if he felt like it. There are many of them in all the three Provinces. It is not the less to his credit that he has earned his homestead by the three years residence, that he is free from debt, and hasa reasonable > bank account. He, too, came to the country handicapped by debts, and with very little means. He is contented, has a good home, land free of encumbrance, some stock, and with good prospects. One of these writes: “I formerly lived near Dayton, Ohio, on a rented farm, had as a chance as the average renter, but After ten years of hard work, satisfied myself that If I ever expected to Becure a home, I would have to undertake something else. Hearing of Western Canada, I investigated, and seven years ago last Spring settled in a homestead and purchased (on time) an adjoining half section, arriving with a carload of household effects and farm Implements, including four horses and three and SI,BOO ,in money—my ten years’ work in Ohio. “The first year our crops gave us feed, the second year 100 acres of wheat gave us $1,800; no failure of crop since starting here. I have now’ 22 head of horses, 15 head of cattle, and 35 hogs. We own 1,120 acres of land, and have same all under cultivation. $ Was offered at one time $35.00 per Acre for a half section where we live, and all the other land could be sold today on present market at $30.00 per acre. Should we care to dispose of our holdings, could pay all debts and have over $30,000 to the good, but the question Is where could we go to invest our money and get.as good returns as here? “We have equally as good, If not better prospects for crops this year, as we had three years ago, when our wheat reached from 30 to 48 bushels per acre. I never believed such crops could be raised until I saw them myself. I had 15 acres that year that made 50 bushels to the acre. Our harvest will be ready by the 12th. We have this season in crop 400 acres of wheat, 125 of oats, 90 of flax, and run three binders, with four men to do the stooking. “We certainly like this country, and the winters, although the winters are cold at times, but we do not suffer as one would think. What we have accomplished here can be duplicated in almost any of the new districts. If anyone doubts anything I, have said in this letter, tall them totaome here, and I can prove every word I have written.” The name of the writer can be had from the Superintendent of Immigration, Ottawa, Canada, who can give the names of hundreds of others equally successful. Adv.