Evening Republican, Volume 18, Number 41, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 February 1914 — HIS FIRST YEAR AT FARMINS IN SASKATCHEWAN [ARTICLE]

HIS FIRST YEAR AT FARMINS IN SASKATCHEWAN

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There are thousands of young men filling positions in stores and offices, and in professional occupations throughout the United States, who in their earlier life, worked on the farm. The allurements of city life were attractive, until they faced the stern reality. These people would have done better had they remained on the farm. Many of them, convinced of this, are now getting “back to the land,” and in the experience, no better place offers nor better opportunity afforded, than that existing in Western Canada. Many of them have taken advantage of it, and there are to be found today, hundreds of such, farming in the Provinces of Manitoba, Saskatchewan and Alberta. The conditions that surround farming operations today are so much superior to those in existence during their early farming days, that there is an, attraction about it Improved machinery, level and open plains, no rocks to -shun, no trees to cut down, but wide stretches with mlle-long furrows, elevators to handle the grain, railways to carry it to market and bring almost to their doors the things necessary to operate. Splendid grazing areas, excellent opportunities for raising cattle. These things are all so different from what they once were that there is reason to speak of the attractions. R. H. Crossman of Klndersley, Saskatchewan, the man who won such splendid prizes at the International Dry Farming Congress held at Tulsa, Oklahoma, last fall, grew the prize grains during his first year farming. Up to 1913 he was an engineer and the only knowledge he had of farming was that obtained when he was a boy. That was very useful; In fact it was valuable to him. He had not forgotten it. Thousands with as little experience as he had, can do well by taking up one of the 160-acre grants offered by the Canadian government. Advertisement.