Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 37, Number 25, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 31 March 1905 — A 480-ACRE FARM YIELDS 25 PER CENT PROFIT IN A YEAR. [ARTICLE]

A 480-ACRE FARM YIELDS 25 PER CENT PROFIT IN A YEAR.

What a Mercer County (Ohio) Farmer Received from One Year’s Crop. Extracts from an interesting letter from P. H. Rynhard, of Starbuck, Manitoba, Canada, gives an excellent Idea of the prosperity of those who have gone from the United States to Canada. He says: “I bought, August, 1903, 480 acres of land, paying $12,000 for it. We threshed 2,973 bushels of wheat and between 1,200 and 1,300 bushels of oats and barley from 200 acres. But part of the wheat went down before filling and was not harvested except for hay. The crop was worth at threshing time $3,000. Besides 120 acres laying Idle except a timothy meadow which is not included in this estimate. Counting the value of the product and the increase of value of land will pay me more than 25 per cent on the investment. Two brothers in the same neighborhood bought 160 acres each six years ago. They have not done a single thing to this land except to fence it and break ami cultivate about onehalf of it. Harvested last year 28 bushels wheat per acre. This year 27 bushels per acre. They can get any day $25 per acre. These are only a few of many hundreds of such chances. It looks like boasting, but truth is justifiable and the world ought to know it, especially the home-seeker. I know of quite a few farmers that have made fortunes in from 10 ttr*2b years, retired with from $20,000* to SIOO,OOO. Writing concerning another district in the Canadian West, S. L. Short says: “Dear Sir—l have to inform you that I have just returned from the Oarrot river country in Saskatchewan, where I located land of the very finest black vegetable loam, which I am proud of, and will move in the spring. Farmers are still plowing there. A mild climate and beautiful country to behold. Cattle are fat and running 1 outside. Wood and water good. Saw oats weighing 42 pounds to bushel. Potatoes large and well ripened; also wheat that brought there 82 cents. Ths country exceeded my expectations. Saw oats In stook, thicker on the ground than appears in many of the illustrations sent out in descriptive pamphlets. I have been in many Western States, but the soil excels any I ever saw.” The Canadian Government Agents at different points report that the inquiries for literature and railroad rates, etc., to Western Canada are tbe greatest in the history of their work.