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Show IOWA PEOPLE CO TO CANADA Han Buy, a Farm with Proceed, from Two-Thirds of One Crop. W. R. Milburn, . John Holmes, M. R. Dagger, E. L. Stetson, of Buena Vista county, Iowa, report as follows of the Canadian North-West as to Its suitability suit-ability for farming, and the advantages advan-tages It offers to the agricultural Immigrant Im-migrant from the United States: "We came here solely to look up improved im-proved farms and, if suitable, to select se-lect such ai pleased us best. We have not visited the homestead districts at all, though we believe them to be very inviting. Our inquiries have been confined solely to the district around Hartney, Deloraine and towards the Rourls River in Manitoba. Our impressions im-pressions of all that region are in every way satisfactory, and we have decided to go back to Iowa at once, and, having disposed of our several Interests there, to return to Manitoba in the month of March next, and, effecting ef-fecting our purchase of improved farms, which we find we can do at reasonable rates, Immediately begin farming. We are greatly pleased with all that we have seen in that part of Western Canada. The soil we find to be more than equal to that of our own country for wheat-growing, and the other conditions of climate, schools, markets, etc., are all that we could xish for. "To show what an energetic man can do we may mention that we found one such at Hartney who had rented a farm on shares, receiving two-thirds of the returns as his share of the crop. When he came to sell his own produce he found that his two-thirds, when converted Into cash, was enough to buy the farm he rented out and out, which he accordingly did, and la now its owner. It is our intention to induce as many of our friends as possible, pos-sible, who are practical farmers, to remove re-move from Iowa to this country, where we believe there is a better future for the Industrious man than Is now to be found anywhere on this continent. We are well known in our part, of the state of Iowa, and we invite in-vite correspondence from its residents In all parts with regard to this region re-gion of Western Canada which we have visited, and to which we intend to return." |