Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 38, Number 36, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 January 1906 — THE CALL OF THE CANADIAN WEST. [ARTICLE]

THE CALL OF THE CANADIAN WEST.

Thm Greatest Wheat Crop of thoContlnemt. The year that has jilst closed has done a great deal towards showing! the possibilities of Western Canada from an agricultural" standpoint Tbe wheat crop has run very near to the 100,000,000 : bushel U' '* that was looked upon as too sanguine an estimate only a short time ago, and the area that has been hrdken to fall wheat for the coming harvest will go a long way towards enabling the farnders of the West to overlap on the 100,000,000bushel estimate next year. And while the spring and winter vfrheat have been doing so well during tire past few years the other cereals have been keeping up with the procession. Rye and barley have made immense strides, and peas and flax have beenmoving steadily along. Dairying also has been successfully carried on in the new provinces, and in every stage the farme'r has been “striking It rlfeh.” To such a* extent has the success of the West taken hold of outsiders that the rush of Americans to Saskatchewan and Alberta, which was looked upon as marvelous last year, bids fair to be largely exceeded in 1000, and as there are still millions of acres of free homesteads available, which the building of the new railways will render accessible to the markets, new wheat lands will be opened up ere long. Amongst "fSe“flrst to avail himself of the opportunity presented will be the American settler. In a large number of American cities Dominion government agents are located, who are able and willing to give the latest and best information in regard to the new dis-. tricts which the railways will open up, fcnd there will be no abatement of the rush to the Canadian prairies during the coming season. Rome time since~a peet in. the.eolumns_of the “Toronto Star” had the following stirring lines, which throb of the Western spirit: There's a stirtirtlre’air,"there's a tbriit through the land, there’s a movement toward the Great West; —- And the eyes of all men for the moment are turned to the country that we love the best; For *tis Canada’s day ip the world's calendar, and to this merry toast let us sup: “Here’s to the land, the young giant of the North, Where the prairies are opening up!” They come from the East and they come from the South—they come o’er the deep rolling sea— They come for they know they will dwell ’neath a flag that makes all men equal and free. Then, once more the toast, and let every man rise, and cheer ’ere he sips from the cup: “Here’s to the land, the young giant of the North, Where the prairies are opening up!”