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Show IRON HORSES TO STAGE WORLD'S GREATEST PLOWING MATCH I L .. '! y fc s, t I 1 s ' N.. 1 - - v ... . - All plowing contests since plows first were made wOl bo eclipsed by a contest next month among the twenty-six units of a 50,000 acre farm, each unit being 1,920 acres, where iron horses will plow, seed and Ynrmyw tn ten days' time or less, two-thtrtia two-thtrtia the entire acreage of each unit. Indrvidtrals rnd corporations, returned noldJers and retired farmers farm-ers are vicing with each other and the government in Canada's gigantic effort to grow a maximum ermtntity of wheat. Not only has the Dominion Domin-ion government ordered one thousand thou-sand tractors delivered this prrrrnc for distribution among the wheat growers, but the government of (Saskatchewan alone will put in crop Eimmenso government tract, if ft Hows the lead of the Chicago prtafists headed by Frederick S Oliver, who will operate 50.000 acres in the Snipe Lake district, Saskatchewan. Saskat-chewan. The igreat plowing contest will be on that Snipe Lake farm of Mr. Oliver, and a purchase of tractors amount ing to $75,000 has been made for it. Tho match will be nnder the supervision super-vision of the world's champion sod-turner, sod-turner, J. E. Hanskins of Eston, who boasts he is no "silk shirt farmer" brut a real one bred on the soil. So determined is Canada that its wonderfol wheat growing prairies shall not tie idle for lack of the population popu-lation to work them as the wheat errowtnc vallevT of the United States are worked, that not only on the great Snipe Lake farm, but throughout through-out the province, whole armies of workers with a fleet of trnrtnrs !Fke the battle tanks of Flanders will go into action as soon is the sprintr opna. Aeeordlne to the suggestion of the Hon. Geortre Lnngiev of the Saskatchewan government, gov-ernment, who proposes a covem-ment covem-ment enterprise on a Mtrtrer scale even than the Oliver farm. 3.300 tractors and 20,000 men enli"-ed enli"-ed as soldiers of the soil, eonld wed and harvest a million arres this year and ndd at least a rmnrter of a billion hoshelp of wheat to the storehouses of the allies. |