Rensselaer Journal, Volume 11, Number 32, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 January 1902 — FOUND AMERICANS BUYING LAND AT SASKATCHEWAN, WESTERN CANADA. [ARTICLE]

FOUND AMERICANS BUYING LAND AT SASKATCHEWAN, WESTERN CANADA.

A Michigan Farmer VUlts Saskatoon and Is Wall Pleased. Mr. S. K. Lent was a delegate sent from the farmers of Allegan County. Michigan, *to Western Canada, to report on the prospects for successful settlement. His report Is as follows: I went from Winnipeg to Edmonton, thence east one buudred miles by wagon. I found the country in that vicinity a rich, black loam, varying, from It Inches to 3 feet deep; the crops are simply something enormous; wheat and oats by actual measurement often standing five feet iii height, 1 have been a farmer for forty years, and consider myself a fair judge of the yield of grain, and I saw wheat that would yield 50 bushels per acre, and oats that would yield 100 bushels per acre; not one .alone, but a good many. As for root crops and garden truck, In no country have I ever seen their equal for all kinds except corn and tomatoes;the nights being too cool for ,these to ripen well! As a stock country It has no equal. Hast of Edmonton, on the head waters of the Vermillion River, 1 saw hay meadows containing from 10 to 100 acres, the. grass standing 4 feet high, and would often cut 3 to 4 tons to the acre. From Edmonton I passed through some fine locations, namely, Wetasklwin, Lacombe and other points. From McLeod I went to Regina, thence to Prince Albert, 247 mlleß north of the main line. For the first fifty miles is fine farming country, but the next hundred miles is more of a stock country. Then at Saskatoon, Rosthern and Duck Lake I found somo very fine farming country, so good that I found a party of Americans from Minnesota buying land for themselves—one party buying 12 sections, and the other 20 sections of land for themselves, which they proposed to Improve at once. I have traveled over twenty-three different States and Territories In our Union, and never In my life time have I ever seen such magnificent crops and especially as fine a stock country. In several Belgian towns dogs are being made use of by the police.