Evening Republican, Volume 23, Number 258, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 October 1920 — Page 3 Advertisements Column 2 [ADVERTISEMENT]

“LAND OF PLENTY"

Western Canada a Country of Marvelous Fertility. • V *. ■ •'* J Literally Hundreds of Mlle A-of Won derful Grain Fields Delight the Eye —Yields Will Run Well Over a Billion Dollars. fa - A trip through the wheat fields bi Western Canada may lack the inspiration, such as one may find working "Insidiously through his being as he traverses the mountain areas of Canada, rich in the variety of color and depth of shades that they cast, wonderful in their magnitude, their grandeur, restful, even although the streams that flow from their sides come down with a swish and a swash creating a noise that makes one’s eardrums beat their last beat. Then as we rest beside the lakes in the clouds and see the calm and peace which they enjoy in the midst of nestling hills, we .wonder if there’s another world. Care has vanished; all we want Is to dwell upon the scene. But ft was not the Intention to speak of mountain scenery, roaring torrents, placid lakes, and restful haunts. Rather, we were about to speak of the other kind of inspiration that is aroused as one traverses Western Canada’s immense plains, gridlroned with railroads and splendid highways, along whose borders and away back are to be seen the most wonderful grain fields. The crops of wheat, oats, barley, flax, and corn—yes, corn —have just been harvested, the threshing machines are busy, the elevators are ready—the thirty and forty thousandbushel elevators, with three, four, jmd five and more at nearly every station along the thousand miles of railway that serve this Immense new area of agricultural land. There is not a more inspiring?, sight than these grain fields. They lead one to pause ’ and reflect, get one into a mental arithmetic strain, and the mind wanders as it gathers the great length of figures that represents the Western Canada grain crop of 1920. A pencil and paper are needed, for the value will run into and over a billion dollars. At least, that is what those who profess to keep themselves posted as to values believe.

The wheat crop alone will run over 250,000.000 bushels, and if you figure this at $2.80 per bushel, the price it is selling at as we write, there you have $700,000,000 alone. Then there is the oat crop, with a yield of one hesitates to say the quantities in bushels, for the threshers' are reporting yields of 110 and 120 bushels per acre, where but 80 and 90 bushels were expected, but their value, apart from that of barley and rye and flax, will carry us over the billion dollar mark. Of course all this means —but we had almost forgotten to speak of the cattle and horses, the sheep and the pigs, the dairy and many other farm products, the increase and production of which thia year will bring in many more million dollars—all this means that there will be a rush of buyers to Western Canada this fall, during the winter, and next spring. A certain amount of satisfaction Is derived by those “back home here,” whose friends are writing them indorsing the statements that are appearing In the press of wheat yields of thirty, forty, and fifty bushels to the acre; of oats yielding anywhere from sixty to 120 bushels per acre. Dia tricts have not been specially favored. Travel anywhere, eight hundred miles east and west, four hundred miles nprth and south, and It is the same story, splendid yields, good acreage, excellent prices, easy marketing, but labor a little* scarce.—Advertisement!

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