Evening Republican, Volume 59, Number 69, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 April 1917 — Page 3 Advertisements Column 3 [ADVERTISEMENT]

GREAT DEMAND FON-CANADIAN LAND Americans Are Buyers and Becoming Settlers—Anxious to Get Cheap and Productive Land. Reports are to hand that there will be a large influx of settlers from the United States into the Canadian West during the coming Spring. For a time there has been a falling off, on account of the fear of conscription, which, of course was not possible, and which the Canadian Government gave every assurance would not be put into operation. In any case It would not affect the American settler, and more than that the man who was working on the farm, helping to produce the grain that goes to feed those who are at war, would not Ire-affected. The excellent yields of’the Western Canada crops, and the high prices secured Is having Its Influence on those reports that have been sent out from time to time that this farmer and that farmer had paid for their entire farm holdings out of one crop has reached the ears of the man looking for a farm. When he hears that G. H. Beatty of Nanton, Alberta, had 679 bushels of wheat from 12 acres or an average of 56% bushels to the acre, he becomes Interested. When he learns that Sidney E. Phillips of Beddeford, Alberta, threshed ten hundred and fifty-three bushels of wheat, the average being 52% bushels per acre, his interest is further aroused. Thos. Long of Lethbridge had 120 bushels of oats to the acre” froST a field of 25 acres, W. Quinn of Milk River had fi,094 bushels of wheat from 100 acres, anaverage of 60 bushels per acre, and Robert Tackaberry of Nobleford makes affidavit that he had an average of seventysix bushels of wheat per acre from a field of IO.OS actes. Thos. Boulton of the same place makes affidavit that from fifty acres jie bad a yield of fifty-three bushels of wheat per acre. Newell. J. Noble’s affidavit of getting 54 bushels per acre from 1,000 acres stands out most strongly as evidence of what the wheat grower can do. This affidavit Is strengthened by a paragraph stating that he had 122 bushels and 30 lbs. per acre from 394.69 acres. Mrs. Nancy Coe makes affidavit that on her farm at Nobleford she threshed six thousand one hundred and ten bushels of wheat from, one hundred and fifteen acres, or fifty-three bushels and eight lbs. per acre, and from a flax field (stubble field) she got 20 bushels and 88 pounds per acre. It cannot be said that these were freak yields because so many had such great success. When these reports are read, the man looking for a'farm becomes These are only a few of the reasons that will cause a large influx of American farmers into the Canadian West during the coming Spring. The farmers now resident in Manitoba, Saskatchewan and Alberta are purchasing additional lands. Prices are low and Free homestead land can be had in many districts and the homesteader is welcome. —Advertisement.