FOUND AMERICANS BUYING LAND AT saskatchewan WESTERN CANADA A michigan farmer digits saskatoon and Is well 1 leased mr S lent was a delegate sent from the farmers of allegan county michigan to western canada to re port on the prospects for successful settlement his report Is as follows I 1 went from winnipeg to edmonton thence east one hundred miles by wagon I 1 found the country in that vicinity a rich black loam varying from 12 inches to 3 feet deep the crops are simply something enormous wheat and oats by actual measure ment often standing five feet in height I 1 have been a farmer for forty years and consider myself a fair judge of the yield of grain and I 1 saw wheat that would yield bushels per acre and oats that would yield bushels per acre not one alone but a good many As tor root crops and garden truck in no country have I 1 ever seen their equal tor all kinds except corn and tomatoes the nights being too cool for these to ripen well As a stock country it has no equal east of ed monton on the head waters of the vermillion Vermil llon river I 1 saw hay meadows containing 10 to acres the grass standing 4 feet high and would often cut 3 to 4 tons to the acre from edmonton I 1 passed through some fine locations namely ata lacombe and other points from mcleod I 1 went to regana thence to prince albert miles north of the main line for the first fifty miles is fine country but the next hundred miles is more of a stock country then at saskatoon rosthern Ros thern and duck lake I 1 found some very fine farming country so good that I 1 found a party of americana from minnesota buying land tor them selves one party buying 12 sections and the other 20 sections of land tol themselves which they proposed to improve at once I 1 have traveled over twenty three different states and territories in oui union and never in my life time have I 1 ever seen such magnificent crops and especially as fine S stock country