Show A GLOWING REPORT AN INDIANA MAN COMPARES WESTERN CANADA WITH THE UNITED STATES what mr frank fisher a prominent dunkard has to say after a trip through canada the department of the Inter lorat ottawa has just received from mr E holmes the agent ot the govern anent stationed at indianapolis ind the following letter which requires no comment it Is only necessary to state that mr F fisher the writer of the letter Is one of the most prominent of the drunkards Dunk ards and a man upon whose word the utmost reliance can be placed his home Is at mexico ind and he will be pleased to substantiate verbally Ter bally or in any other way all that he bays in his letter anyone desiring information apply to nearest canadian agent whose ad dresses are here given M V mcinnes 2 avenue theater block detroit michigan james grieve sault ste marle tan J S crawford W ninth estreet kansas city mo benjamin danlea east third treet st paul minn currle room 12 callahan s block grand avenue milwaukee ala C J broughton build to chicago W V bennett new york lite build ing omaha neb W H rogers watertown south da kota N bartholomew ditth street acs moines iowa J H M parker chamber ot corn tierce duluth minn E holmes room 6 big four build ang indianapolis ind joseph young 61 state street 1 bus ohio to my many friends I 1 am pleased to make a lenort to you of the pleasant rasit my wife and I 1 bad in western canada we visited the of al berta and saskatchewan and found atheni far surpassing our am agitation agi nation but little did I 1 expect to find such rich loamy boll so much of it and so in its level pral rie lay I 1 do think the soil of canada u a rule equals it not excels the fin est prairie baim taim lands of indiana these lands are immense in their richness and when once the sod Is rot ted and pulver led it Is as pliable and as easily cultivated as indiana sandy eoll western canada from my point of view offers as fine opportunities tor mixed farming as any place in my knowledge the long sunshiny days together with the rich soil produce fine wheat oats barley flax and other cereal products there Is scarce ly any attempt to raise corn except early varieties for table use the sea ton Is too short to depend upon ma turing field corn aiom the stand point of getting this land ready for the plow I 1 must say that I 1 never saw euch a vast extent practically all ready all that one has to do Is to hitch up the plow and go to work this Is not the case with all the canadian land however some of it has quite a bit ot timber much of it anay be called brush land and some of it hae lovely forest groves dotted here ib f i S raj aric Where thereby covering a hundred acres iua no doubt but that this coun try excels as a grazing or ranching country because they have such rich grass having an abundance ot rain to keep it fresh they also have plenty of water streams and aa a rule water may be reached at a depth of from 20 to 40 feet froin this you can see there can be plenty of hay mown tor winter feeding and I 1 have had re liable farmers to tell me that their stock will feed on hay aloni and be ready for market in the spring upon inquiring about the expense of raising a steer a farmer replied that he did not consider it would cost any more than 1 or 6 to develop a three year old steer I 1 truly think canada offers a fine opening tor a young man or a man who Is renting labidi in indiana one hundred and sixty acres ol 01 good black land will cost you on 10 at the time you enter it and by plowing and cul tiva ting five acres each year for three years gives you one hundred and sixty acres of good land tor 10 this land can be bought from the railroad corn danlea private corporations or the gov for 3 to 4 per acre from a financial standpoint I 1 believe that tor d series of years five a young man can make 10 in canada whereas he would only make 1 heie and I 1 feel sure that I 1 sp nt more money to get my eighty acre farm in white county indiana cultivated than it would cost me to cultivate eight hundred acres in canada this may seem a strong view to take ot the matter but when you take into con sider atlon the clearing ditching tone ing and the expensive creaking ire aking in of the stumps and then compare the ex pense to that of land needing only the breaking you will conclude that it Is not such a wild or exaggerated state ment as you might at first think I 1 enjoyed the balmy breezy atmos phere which was biacina and refresh ing and the cool nights which made it so pleasant for sleep on making inquiries regarding the winters in this country I 1 learned that the people never suffer from the cold as the weather Is dry and ing and in a great many places farm ers and herders allow their stock to run outside the year round one great advantage to the settlers in western canada Is the tree cream eries established by the government and run exclusively in the interest of the farmer I 1 visited thomas daley a farmer near edmonton alberta who showed re r e oats he had raised some of which took the first prize at the paris ex position last year the same yielded bushels to the acre in 1899 yours truly mexico ind |