Evening Republican, Volume 23, Number 50, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 February 1920 — FIND WEALTH IN WINTER [ARTICLE]

FIND WEALTH IN WINTER

Canadian Farmers Turn Winter Months to Good Account Large crops and good prices for the wheat, oats, barley and flax from Canadian farms have made the winter resorts in California at times resemble a meeting of a Canadian farmers' institute, but the practice among successful farmers of spending their winters holidaying seems to be on the wane. After all, nothing can be more tiresome than having nothing to do, and the farmers of .Western Canada are now finding winter employment right on their farms which rivals the attractions of the sunny South. Live stock is the explanation, according to a six-foot Westerner who dropped into the Canadian Government Information Bureau at 311 Jackson street, St. Paul. He was on his way back to Western Canada with a carload of selected breeding stock which had carried off blue ribbons at several state fairs in 1919. “We have found,” said he, “that there is just as mucb pleasure and a great deal more profit in developing a herd of prize stock as In listening to the murmur of the sad sea waves. Where we used to grow grain exclusively now we are raising stock as well. The fact that steers raised in Western Canada took the grand championship at the International Live Stock Show at Chicago two years in succession shows how well we are getting along. And instead of depleting our bank rolls we add a tidy sum to them.”

“But don’t you find the life monotonous?” “Not in the least. You see, we have a rural club which meets in our school house, where we thrash out all kinds of problems. Here we exchange .deas and also have occasional talks from government experts, and the man who goes abroad for the winter only realizes how much he has missed when at a summer picnic he hears an address by a neighbor that would do credit to a college graduate. “It was at one of these meetings that we decided to Import a prizewinning stallion, and today our district is raising some of the best draft horses in Canada. The carload of breeding stock which I am now shipping to my farm is indirectly the result of our club meetings. We are going to make that little corner of Saskatchewan one of the big stock centers of America. Why shouldn’t we? Everything Is in our favor—climate, fertility, cheap land, free grazing land adjoining lots of» farms, creameries, government supervision. You know how energetic the northern climate makes a man? Welt, it’s just like that with stock. They get to be great, husky fellows, hardy and bigframed—and that counts on market day. 1 “Come up and see me some time,” were his parting words as he left to catch his train. ‘Til show you some of the finest land and live stock out of doors, and treat you to a real farm meal—everything but the coffee and sugar grown right on my farm.* That counts some in these days of high prices.”—Advertisement.