Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 36, Number 73, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 May 1904 — ONE DOLLAR WHEAT. [ARTICLE]

ONE DOLLAR WHEAT.

Western Canada's Wheat Fields Pro* • ducc It—Magnificent Yields —Free Grants of Land to Settlers. The returns of the Interior Department show that the movement of American farmers northward to Canada is each month affecting larger areas of the United States. Time was, says the Winnipeg Free Press, when the Dakotas, Minnesota and lowa furnished the Dominion with the main bulk of its American contingent. Last year, however, forty-four States and districts were represented in the official statement as to the former residence of Americans who had homesteaded ii) Canada. The Dakotas still head the list, with 4,006 entries, Minnesota being a close with 3,887, but with the exception of Alabama and Mississippi and Delaware every State in the Union supplied settlers who. In oi>dor to secure farms in the fertile prairie country of Canada, became citizens of, and took the oath of allegiance to, the Dominion. Last year no less than 11,841 Americans entered for homestead lands in Canada. From the Gulf to the Boundary, and from ocean to ocean, the trek to the Dominion g;oes on. Not only the wheat growers of the central Mississippi valley, but the ranchers of Texas and New Mexico, and the cultivators of the comparatively virgin soil of Oklahoma, are pouring towards the productive vacant lands of the Canadian Northwest. It Is no tentative, half-hearted departure for an alien country that Is manifested in this exodus; it has become almost a rush to secure possession of land which it is feared, by those imperfectly acquainted with the vast area of Canada’s vacant lands, may all be acquired before they arrive. There is no element of speculation or experiment in the migration. The settlers have full information respecting the soil, wealth, the farming methods, the laws, taxation and system of government of the country to which they are moving, and they realize that the opportunities offered in Canada are In every respect better and greater than those they have enjoyed in the land they are leaving. Canada can well afford to welcome cordially every American farmer coming to the Dominion. There is no question but that these Immigrants make the most desirable settlers obtainable for the development of the prairie portion of the Dominion. Full information can be had from any authorized Canadian Government Agent, whose ' address will be found elsewhere.