Evening Republican, Volume 22, Number 28, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 February 1919 — SEE CANADA LANDS [ARTICLE]

SEE CANADA LANDS

Inspection of Choice Farm Acres Will Be Profitable. Cost Only a Trifl® Compared to si file Benefit to Be Derived—"Ye Happy Fields, Unknown to Noise and Strife, The Kind Rewarders of Industrial Life"—Johrf Gay. There are thousands today looking Cor farms to buy, and with the hundreds of thousands of acres offered for sale, there is no lack of opportunities. But there are all classes of lands, good, bad, and Indifferent, much of each. The government of the Dominion of Canada has no land for sale, but within the boundaries, of the Dominion there are unlimited acres of choice land owned by railway and land companies and private individuals. It holds no brief for any, nor are any of them clients. But It is to the interest of the Dominion to have the hundreds of thousands of acres placed under cultivation, for every acre thus cultivated adds to the revenue which helps pay the government of the country. It is with the purpose of setting forth the agricultural advantages that Canada, especially Western Canada, possesses, that attention is drawn to the fact. The purpose is to place before the reader truthful statements, and advise the prospective settler as to the necessity to investigate and inspect, leaving to his own deduction the matter of his selection. Once he de? ciaes, the goVerhment will render him any further information necessary as to location, prices and value of land, and assist him in every way possible to become settled. The cost of a trip to Western Canada, to any portion of the three provinces—Manitoba, Saskatchewan and Alberta —specially indicated in this work, is but a tgjfle compared with the benefits that a personal inspection may give. Therefore the advice is to do so. Low rates on railways w’lll be arranged and every opportunity afforded for giving the country a thorough and careful examination. It may be that you wish an improved farm, all ready for occupation and cultivation; you may want raw prairie, which only requires plowing and the other preparation necessary for a seed bed, leaving it to yourself to erect your buildings, sink your well, prepare your garden, and ascertain how close you are to school, church, town and market. You may wish to go into mixed farming, combining the raising of stock with the growing <yf grain. In this case you will look 'out for some shelter from sun, wind and storm, and want a farm a portion of which may be cultivated for grain, and pasture fields connected with it. You may make this out of the open level prairie, but you will do better to secure a partially wooded lot, where water and pasture are already at hand. You may wish to go into the raising of cattle, or sheep alone; then you will care less for the open prairie, but select something that may cost yoij less in the more northerly districts. No matter what you may want, unless it be land upon which to grpw cotton, bananas or other tropical or semi-trop-ical products, your inspection trip will reveal to you that Western Chnada possesses possibilities beyond which any literature you may read advises you.— Advert! sem en t. - \ ' ;