Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 141, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 June 1917 — GULTIVATE! CULTIVATE! [ARTICLE]

GULTIVATE! CULTIVATE!

Produce More Food, But at the Lowest Cost. A trip through, most of the grain growing districts of Western Canada, and information received from authentic sources, reveals that the spring Seeding of wheat barley and oats Is finished and the grain Is having rs most rapid growth. Men of farming experience hbre say that the conditions are similar to those years when there was an abundant harvest reaped.—During the past year a number of new settlers came into the country, and they will undoubtedly have- a good crop this year. This added to the normal acreage, made considerably less by the lack of labor owing to the number who have gone to the front, will give a fair general yield! It Is surprising the growth that this country is capable of producing.

Wheat has this spring germinated and shown three or four Inches growth in five or six days, and with anything like favorable weather, harvesting should commence about the 15th of August, or a little over one hundred days from first seeding. Hundreds of farmers throughout this vast country paid for their entire holdings out of one year’s crop and it would not be surprising if the same experience met a great many more this year. The best authorities on the -wheat situation give it as their opinion that for many years to come, wheat prices will be high. They base their opinion on a scientific calculation and their reasoning seems to be sound. Anyway, it is quite evident that for some years to come, the producer of wheat will be amply rewarded for any effort he may make to develop this branch of agricultural industry. Money may be made on the high-priced lands of the wheat-growing districts of the United States, but it is a question if these high-priced lands would not be more profitably employed In other branched of farming than in growing the smallet grains, leaving it to lands just as productive for wheat, less expensive to operate, and with a much smaller initial price, to provide the world with this necessity of life. Here is where Western Canada, with its vast rich fertile plains, its low railway rates, its exceptionally good shipping privileges, its excellent climate, and its perfect social conditions, has a combination of advantages not possessed by any other portion of the continent. Furthermore, these lands, of unexcelled quality, are extraordinarily cheap, while for the man who does not care to undertake farming on so extensive a scale there is the free homestead which offers him all the opportunity for which he is looking.

-The prospective purchaser will have no difficulty at all in making a selection of a fine piece of land, well located and convenient to transportation, which ’may be had for from sls to $25 an acre, and the railway companies or other holders of large tracts are always glad to sell on easy terms. Or If he desires a farm that Is already under cultivation and Improved, many such are to be had from farmers who already have made comfortable fortunes and are ready to retire.

It’is not to the grain grower only that Western Canada offers great opportunities. If one wishes to go in for cattle raising, there are great stretches of range land both free and for lease; and in many sections of the country there are the finest of grazing lands that may be purchased at very low prices. , The appeal which has been sent out both by ,the United States and Canadian governments, for an unstinted, unlimited production of food stuffs to prevent what might otherwise be a famine throughout this great continent — and then consequently, throughout the world —should In arouse all the ambition and desire In the heart and soul of the man who is not fighting at the front, to produce all he can. In addition, there is the potent fact that no chances are being taken in answering 'the appeal, 'take it from either standpoint you answer the country’s chll, although not fighting, and you are also Insured against any loss by the high prices that are bound to exist for some time. Whether it be in the United States on its excellent grain lands or in Canada on its splendid grain lands, all should do their bit. —Advertisement.