Evening Republican, Volume 20, Number 139, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 June 1916 — FARMER'S GREAT OPPORTUNITY [ARTICLE]

FARMER'S GREAT OPPORTUNITY

Demand for Canadian Cattle After the War.

The opportunities that Western Can-, ada offers to the farmer have time and again been placed before the public through these columns. The cheap price at which the very best lands can be purchased, and the advantage that 1b to be had In securing one of the free homesteads of 160 acres has appealed to a great many, and they have embraced them. Many, In fact most of those who have done so are today giving testimony to the good fortune and the timely forethought that led them to go to Western Canada, and embark In an era of farming that has placed them away beyond the plncn of want and given them reason to look Into the future with a hopefulness that they had not had the courage In the past to forecast. Not only have they beep able to secure good lands at low prices Bnd on easy terms but If they desire they have been able to add to this 160 acres of land free, on conditions that are easy. A resident In the Lloydminster district In Saskatchewan who had been farming In the States for some time, took up a homestead in 1910, and commenced breaking with 4 oxen. Two years ago he bought an adjoining quarter section and now has over 100 acres under cultivation. He says, “As my circumstances improved, I sold the oxen and now have six head of horses, twelve head of cattle, and have always a bunch of hogs on hand. “On an average 1 have had yields of 26 bushels of wheat, 65 bushels of oats, and 40 bushels of barley .to the acre, and last season from a field of 28% acres. I threshed 1,040 bushels of wheat. I have made a success of mixed farming and would have no hesitation In advising all who contemplate making a new home to come to this district. I sell cream to the Government Creamery here, and find at all times a good market for live stock and other produce.” This is but a modest statement of what a modest man can do in Western Canada, and could be repeated of hundreds of others. Scores of peases could be recited where much more has been accomplished, and it is believed that with moderate investment at the present time, the cattle industry of Western Canada will pay large Interest The Minister of Agriculture of Saskatchewan, in a recent address, ventured the prediction that the Saskatchewan farmer who developed his land along the lines of general stock breeding would make much more money and find a far bigger return for bis efforts In ten years’ time than the man who devoted his energies purely and primarily to grain raising. This was the coming golden age of opportunity for the stockman and it was up to the Saskatchewan man to get in on the ground floor and prepare himself for the coming demand. The close of the war would undoubt edly see a great demand for live stock In JEurope and it was only reasonable

to suppose that this demand would have to be filled almost wholly by American stockmen, both In Canada and the United States. Europe was slowly draining Its rural districts not only of its beef and dairy animals but was also using the finer breeding animals and the end of the war would see a condition of affairs which would render necessary almost the repopulation of the domestic animal kingdom in that continent. The opportunity of Western Canadian stockmen, therefore, lay In being prepared for this demand when it arose. In view of these facts which must be patent to every student of economic conditions as related to the stock Industry, he hoped to see within the next three years the stock raising industry in Saskatchewan given an im mense impetus forward, which would put it in the forefront of the producing provinces of the Dominion. —Advertisement.