Evening Republican, Volume 18, Number 244, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 October 1914 — Sam English talks About Farming Conditions in Canada. [ARTICLE]

Sam English talks About Farming Conditions in Canada.

A great deal has been said about Canada in The Republican during tlw past few mouth#, Find by way of advertising lor Theodore W. George, agentMor Canadian Pacific lands, and later through correspondence and by way of refutation of some wholly unfair, prejudiced and intentionally false statements which appeared In The Jasper County Democrat. The Republican don't give a Rip Van Winkle whether any person ever leaves Jasper county and goes to Own ad a to locate. We believe there are few better places on earth than old Jasper and we wish every farm tenant owned a farm and was here to spend the balance of their days, but since men hi search of new homes are leaving here every year, we believe that Canada should receive honest criticism, The visit of Ham English, whose home 1* In Saskatchewan, has reopened a discussion that might otherwise have been closed, but so anxious 4s Editor Babcock to prove Canada a desert 'Waste from one end of the vast domain to the other that he has credited- Mr, English with an arraignment of the country when Editor BttJM-ock bad not even seen Mr. English to talk wlth him. The Democrat, which had published tho statement of Willey and Ed Duvlll about Canada, also took the statement of Wiley Duvall as to what Mr. English had said and Wiley was anxious to have his Grade against Canada proven and probably gave the anxious editor an ear full without mueh regard to anything except to destroy the proposition of Theodore George's Canadian land agency,

Mr. English called at Tire Republican office end rend for the find time the article which The Democrat hnd published and In which he was credited with saying tlrnt the statement# the Duvall* made about Oanada were correct In every *ulrstanttal detail. 'Mr. English' stated voluntarily that he had said to .Wiley ‘Duvall that he understood It wa* very dry In Alberta and that men who had farms over there had come down Into Has* katchewan tit I*-year to plow, as It was too dry to plow up there. , Mr, English lives 300 miles from the nearest border of Alberta, He lives within 10 miles of the Dana dlan Pacific railroad and within five inlllws of the Canadian Northern railroad, He owns a half section of land and the other half of the same section Is owned by Prank Donnelly and Will Murray, of Rensselaer, At* though they have owned It for nine year*, Mr. English has farmed It for only three years, He says the land Is equal 'or bettor than any land ly .Hamper county and he spoke of his father’s fine farm In Barkley township, which could not be bought for $l5O per acre, He said that hi* Canadian farm was of bet* ter land than that. Naskatx'hewan has been dry this year, Just as dry at Jasper county and the corn belt of this state and Illinois and the drouth extended up Into AQherta and as there were many now farmers there some of them got In bad and were without funds at the end of the year. But the Canadian government came promptly to the rescue and ordered that mortgages could not be . fore ©lowed nor Judgments taken enforclug payment before the crop of 11115 Is raised, Ham has not been able to get all his land Into crops yet and has so far not ‘raised any wheat. Flax and oats are raised until the land Is In condition for wheat. He plans to put out 100 acres of wheat In the spring. TheOanadlan government has just Issued a bulletin encouraging fanners to put out wheat, saying that all that can be raised will he needed and at a good price, The bulletin contains concise information about the preparation of tire soli, selection of seed, method of planting, cate of horses through the winter, etc, The Bartk of Bommeree of Canada has been Instructed to see to it that every farmer unable to purchase seed shall have It furnished, Wheat this year brought up to sl,lll par bushel and Ham reports that one neighbor of his rabed 9,000 bushels, Ham put out three acres on a little pate'll near his house and got 20 bushels per acre and It was an unusually dry summer. Lo*t year, when conditions were more favorable, one farmer not far from Ham's place, raised 00,000 bushels of grain. This wa* on land that had been farmed longer than his. That there are hardships In a new country there Is no doubt, but Ham says that ho does not believe Canadian pioneers have as many hardships to endure as did his father and others In the early days In Jasper county and he knows that grit and hard work wtlll make any man succeed In that country. The land he owns was purchased for sll pr acre nine years ago. It has only bean farmed three years but lie reirort* that he could now get $59 per acre for It, almost four times what be paid. Hie spent six years In Oklahoma after leaving jasper county and ways that Banada suits 'him so well that he Iras no Intention of leaving It. Ho If The Democrat and Its Canadian expert reporter ,wfll tell the truth about what Ham English says It 1s quite probable that some of the men wlvo are seeking new homes where the opportunity for development under fair condition© are held outwit) be locating within the next few years on the lands

wtttoh the Omadkin Puclflc l« ottering mud tt»t none of them will be Merit to I*ll tor trying to *klp out with mortgaged tm>i>erty,