Evening Republican, Volume 19, Number 116, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 May 1915 — AN INDIANA MAN TELLS OF WESTERN CANADA [ARTICLE]

AN INDIANA MAN TELLS OF WESTERN CANADA

He Is Perfectly Satisfied, and Tells of His Neighbors Who Have Done Welk Walter Harris, formerly lived near Julietta in Warren township, Indiana. He now lives at Hussnr, Alberta. In writing to his home paper in Indiana, he says that the failure is the man who always blames thA country. He fails to see his own mistakes, has missed his calling and is not fitted for farming. The two seasons just past have been entirely different In 1913 plenty of rain came in June and a good crop followed, but the fall was dry and but little snow in thr winter followed by a very dry summer, and a short crop. Only those that had farmed their land properly were able to meet expenses. For example, last year the Crowfoot Farming Company, south of here, threshed from 1,250 acres 38,000 bushels of wheat. One-half f ection made 26 bushels, the poorest of alt This year on 1,350 acres they thfeshed nearly 26,000 bushels. Last year’s crop sold at 75 cents from thetr own elevator. What they have sbld of this year’s crop brought SIOO at threshing time. Eight thousand bushels unsold ‘ would bring now around $1.25. The manager and part owner was raised in Ohio and farmed In Washington several years. He and his wife spent last winter in Ohio. She told me a few days ago that the climate here was much better than Ohio. A man by the jiame of George Clark threshed 75 bushels of oats, 45 bushels of barley and 35 bushels of wheat to the acre He had 15,000 bushels of old oats as well as wheat and barley In his granaries that have almost doubled in price. He came from Washington, where he sold a large body of land around S2OO that he bought around $3.00 per acre. He then refers to a failure. A large company In the eastern states, owning a large farm near Hussar pays Its manager $3,000 a year. The farm has not been a success. Probably the manager’s fault. Mr. Harris says conditions are not as good as cduld be wished for, but on the ending of the war good crops, with wsr prices, will certainly change conditions, and it seems to me that the one who owns land that will raise 100 bushels of oats, 75 bushels of barley or 40 bushels of wheat Js the one who "laughs last” The above yields may seem exaggerations to many, and are far above the average, but you should remember that the man who fails is counted in to make the average, and there are instances on record here that would far exceed the above figures. Nor is grain the only profitable thing that can be raised here. There are many fine horse ranches, some of them stocked with cayuses and bred to thoroughbreds, and others imported from the old countries. They run on the range nearly all the year. The owners put up wild hay to feed them if the’snow should get too deep for them to get the de&d grass. There are several hundred in sight of here most of the time. There are several cattle ranches north of here that have from 500 to 7,000 head of cattle. One man I know sold $45,000 worth of fat cattle this fall. He winters his cattle on farms where they have lots of straw and water, paying 75 cents a month per head, or iF there is enough, straw to winter 400 or 500 head they buy the straw and water and have a man to look after the cattle. —Advertisement

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