Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 7, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 January 1917 — CANADA AGAIN A PRIZE WINNER [ARTICLE]

CANADA AGAIN A PRIZE WINNER

Highest Premiums Awarded at Many Exhibitions. '-The Fall fair season Is past and a retrospect of them shows that Western Canada is stronger than ever In the matter of exhibits, an«r has taken more than her usual share of the prize, money. From Western Canada to Texas is a long look, from Alberta, Saskatchewan and Manitoba to the southwestern corner of Texae is several days’ journey, but the enterprising farmers from tills new country to the northwest were Wide awake to the possibilities that waited them at the International Dry • Farming Congress held at El Paso, Texas, rs few weeks ago, to bring to the attention of those' In that far-off corner what the land of Western Ghnada could do in the production of ■ grains and roots from Its soiL And what did these farmers do? The first thing was to carry off the first prize and sweepstakes for wheat. That was a foregone conclusion, for It has now become an established fact that nowhere else in the world is there grown wheat of the high character and market value of Western Canadian wheat. The same may be said of oats, of barley and of rye. But when it came to notice that Western Canada took first prize for alfalfa, it was then that more special attention was given to the products from Western Canada. It showed that in that country there lies the opportunity for supplementing the wonderful native grasses, so full of nutrition that with the tamed varieties, among them being alfalfa, the cattle with no other food were fattened and fitted for the shambles. Western Canada’s worth was proved as probably the greatest mixed farming portion of the continent. When the steers from the Western Canadian prairies reach tfi’e Chicago stockyards they bring the top price and Outweigh those from other places where grass fattening is the process. But it was not only In grains that Western Canada carried off the highest honors at the El Paso exhibition. Potatoes, parsnips, beets, carrots and rutabagas also took the highest honors. In root production this country is becoming favorably known. The question often arises as to markets. There Is always the highest price awaiting the producer, and as soon as the Hudson Bay Railway, now about completed, reaches the Bay, there will be an additional outlet for the product of the farm. The Pacific coast route, via the Panama canal, will give another outlet of which full advantage may be taken.“Wlth virgin land selling at from sls to S2O per acre, and improved farms at reasonable prices and on easy terms, there is no better opportunity for the man with limited means and a desire to secure a home at the least cost in a country where he can soon become wealthy, as thousands of others have done, than In Western Canada. To the map with less means and who is prepared to accept a farm of 160 acres free, the Dominion Government offers him his choice In districts that have land of the high- ' est type, but at present being from tea to twenty miles from a railway. '**•" The Peace River Country, now being opened for settlement and reached by railway affords excellent opportunity to the homesteader. To secure information as to Western Canadian lands write the Canadian Government agent, whose name appears elsewhere in this paper.—Advertisement. JV .,