Evening Republican, Volume 59, Number 63, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 April 1917 — Page 3 Advertisements Column 2 [ADVERTISEMENT]

PAYS FOR 160 ACRES OF UNO From the Crop of Wheat on 53 Acres in Western Canada. This story of paying for your land out of one year’s crop,is fully authenticated by a great many farmers In Western Canada. And now, all that the farmer makes is velvet and you find him going more extensively into stock raising, for all authorities agree that In a short time there will be a demand for live stock, such as even will tax the vast resources of Western Canada. They will go Into stock raising because of the adaptability of the country to provide food and fodder without feeding grain if necessary. They will go into stock and improve their places. They will install steain and heating plants—in fact, many are now doing it. They will have automobiles, in fact in many districts there is not a farmer but has one. They will beautify their homes and erect fine barns until the whole country will be as attractive as many of the counties in the best states in the Union. But we started out to tell you of the farmer w’ho paid for 160 acres of land from the crop of wheat off of 53, acres. The Holden district on the line of the Grand Trunk Pacific does not appear to the ordinary observer to be any better than many other districts along that line, and probably isn’t. It was in this district that John Larcome, a settler, purchased In 1915 160 acres of raw prairie land. He broke and seeded 53 acres. His crop turned out-well, and he sold the greater portion of it for $2,970. His land cost ’him $16.50 per acre, or $2,640. So that the crop from the 53 acres paid for the land and left a balance of over S3OO, which with part of the crop left over would just pay for the cost of operation. This is not really an unusual case, hundreds of other farmers in Alberta and Saskatchewan having been able to do the same. Sales of land are being reported from many districts in Manitoba, Saskatchewan and Alberta at good prices. And values are yet low, but with the flow of any value that will take place after the war, no doubt they will be considerably increased. The homesteads in the Park sections which are; to be had actually free are having the attention of a good class of settlers, w’ho want to go into mixed farming.—Advertisement. -

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