Salt Lake Telegram | 1921-09-06 | Page 19 | Farmer Leader Once City Boy

FARMER LEADER I ONCE CITY BOY 1 Alberta Premier Reared in England Alta AHa Sept C G United Press Herbert Greenfield elected to head the political party of or the tho United Farmers of or Alberta Albertn when It defeated the existing provincial pro government go and nDel who will become premier of or Al Alberh Alberta Al- Al berta berto when tho the next parliament sits Us I Is a cIt city boy who has haA ma made le good oo 1 on the farm Ills lUs career Is a romance of or tho so soil 11 Greenfield was born In Winchester England two fifty years vears ago When 23 3 ho he came camo to Canada C. Though he had neither capital nor rural experience experience expo expo- he determined to become a n farmer Ho lIe hired out as IS a farmhand farmhand farmhand farm farm- hand In Ontario When ho he ha had l accumulated accumulated ac accumulated ac- ac cumulated a n. little money and experience ho he bought a farm Stories of or bonanza farming on the prairies came cameto to him and selling belling out ho to Alberta In 1006 1906 and homesteaded a n farm lIe He lived 11 in a dugout Ho lIe had little more than health a n plow and a team of or horses lIe He worked from dawn n to dark darl In a no few Cew years eatS a mansion had supplanted the sod sad hut A village e of or barns granaries and outhouses grew up about his home His Ills pastures were filled with cattle shor sheep an and ho hogs Ho Ito cultivated lands extended to the horizon The poor settler had become a a. rich and nd Influential farmer Carmer Now that ho he has been chosen C for r practically the tho highest honor the tho province pro has to bestow friends de deI declare declare de- de clare tho the qualities that made him a I successful farmer will make makh him a successful statesman