Evening Republican, Volume 18, Number 151, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 June 1914 — Page 2 Advertisements Column 2 [ADVERTISEMENT]

Low Price of Lands Eleven to twenty dollars an acre will buy lands splendidly adapted to mixed farming and stock raising. Twenty to thirty dollars an acre obtains best grain lands. Lands at these prices equal in productiveness the best lands ANYWHERE which often cost five to ten times as much.

yourself. It makes security for you doubly sure. Which would you rather do, buy from a land company and be forced to pay up in three years, tying up most of your capital in the land itself, or buy from the Canadian Pacific and have most of your capital to Invest in crops which will make you a great deal of money? If you purchase good land at $20.00 an acre in Western Canada, your first payment would be only 6 per cent of the price; that is,, SI.OO an acre, or only $160.00 on 160 acres of $20.00 land, worth $3,200. The balance would then be divided into nineteen equal yearly installments and interest would then be charged on the unpaid balance at the rate of 6 per cent. These remarkable terms are made for the FARMER’S BENEFIT —not made to speculators. They are offered only to those who will improve the land and crop it. Let the other fellow tie up his capital by buying land on which he has to pay one-third to one-half right away in cash and has only one or two years to pay the balance. Decide now to purchase YOUR farm from the Canadian Pacific. Use YOUR capital for farming. - H Making the Farm Renter a Farm Owner What chance has the renter of an American farm? Land rents are constantly going up. The tenant’s lot gets harder day by day. If he works on shares, heglves half of all he raises to the landlord, and often has to pay for everything himself, including the upkeep and fertilizing of the farm. If he makes a bare living he does well. If he makes a little surplus, he must put it into equipment to keep his head above water. Moreover, land is not getting any better, especially the land the renter usually gets. Wasteful methods, continuous cropping, lack .of restoration of soil fertility have cut down its power to produce good yields. The tenant comes to an impoverished soil, over which he must labor twice as hard to get reasonable returns. And he has nothing better to offer his children. Land in the middle West is high in price—anywhere from SIOO to S2OO an acre. His grandfather, who came west in pioneer times, had a big holding. When his boys grew up, he divided it among them, giving them a fair-sized farm apiece. But the farm renter hasn’t any farm. He hasn’t any land to give his sons. He won’t have any in ten or twenty years from now — only a bundle of rent receipts. He has no future. Neither has he the amount of money with which to land in the high-priced corn-belt Many such men turn their eyes to Western Canada, where lands are cheap, and a farm will pay for itself. But even the opportunities of the Canadian West seemed closed to many tenant farmers, because they