Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 302, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 December 1918 — MAKE YOUR FUTURE SECURE [ARTICLE]

MAKE YOUR FUTURE SECURE

Easy Farming Methods in West** ern Canada and Certain Financial Benefits. With your crop harvested and marketed, with the disposal of your cattle and hogs completed, you are ready to prepare your financial statement for the year. You will soon know what yon have gained, apd If the gain made in your farming operatons has been up to your expectations and will meet your requirements. Probably you may have been the loser. , Your land' mar have been productive, but it may have been too high priced. The cost of production has been too great. If you have had thy remuneration you sought and are satisfied this article may not Interest you. If yopr returns have not been satisfactory, or if your ambition leads you to the laudable desire of bettering your condition, if you have dependents for whose future you have anxiety, you will naturally look around for some place, some opportunity that offers greater advantages and brings satisfactory returns. To the north and west of you He hundreds, of thousands of unbroken acres tn Western Canada awaiting the husbandman, and ready to give of its richness to place ydu where you desire to be placed. For thousands of farmers from' nearly every state in the Union the prairies of Western Canada have afforded wealth beyond what they had been led to expect The excellence of the soil of Western Canada, which comprises/'the Provinces of Manitoba, Saskatchewan and Alberta, can only partially be told by the knowledge of some facts. Every year for-some years past the world’s highest prizes for wheat, oats and barley have been carried off by grain grown’ on Western Canadian Prairies. Beef fattened on the grasses of these same prairies recently brought the highest prices dver paid on the Chicago market Throughout the entire world the quality- of- Canadian grain, and Canadian beef and mutton, is recognized. To recite what Individual farmers have done, the riches they have acquired would fill volumes. The case of James Wiahart of Portage la Prairie is not an exceptional one. His wheat crop this past season yielded him forty-five bushels per acre, and the land upon which it was grown was broken forty-four years ago, and it has been continuously under crop except for an occasional summer fallow. At Moose Jaw, Saskatchewan, samples of the wheaf of 1918 weighed 68 pounds to the bushel, others 66 and some 65% pounds. Wheat crops at Coaldale. Alberta, went as high as 88 touslwis acre, while wheat crops near Bitrons, Alberta, had yields of from 25 toXSO bushels. . ' ) Records such as these ing terms of the excellence of the soil of Western Canada. The war Is over, and we are all settling down to a peace basis. There is a great world beyond the seas to feed and clothe, and thus Is afforded the opportunity to lend a hand in the great work. Aside from the philanthropy in which you can play a part, there is the satisfaction of knowing you are amply providing for yourself and for the future of those who may be dependent dpon you. Greater progress can be made to this and your own development by availing yourself of the advantages that Western Canada offers in its low-priced lands and- high yielding values, There are good schools, desirable socialeondltions, low taxation (none on improvements) with an enjoyable climate, and the satisfaction of possessing a well tilled soil capable of producing abundant crops for,which good prices prevail, at easily accessible marketing places.— Advertisement.