Show c I Ii i IN A PRAIRIE LAND Editorial Correspondence Moose Jaw Assiniboia Farmers Farmers' Review Chicago July 22 22 1903 Most of the prairies in the United States have ceased to exist Man has broken them up with orchards forests forests for for- ests and farm buildings But la in Western Canada the prairies still stretch grandly from horizon to horizon horizon horizon hori hori- zon as yet unmarred by the hand of man man save where the iron road has been laid To a city man there is I. something deliciously restful about the vast grassy solitudes Numerous clumps of trees mark the tho course of the Assiniboine river which keeps in sight of the railroad for some distance Grass Is one ono of the notable things about all the landscape of Western Canada It Is a remarkable fact that the entire length of the Canadian Pacific Pacific Pa Pa- chic railway from its eastern terminus term term- nus to the Rocky Mountains is over plains where grass grows The sage sago brush brugh appears at some points but never to the exclusion of grass There is thus not a mile mUe of this country that cannot be used for some agricultural purpose purpose either either for tilling or ranch ranch- ing Moose Jaw is a town of over 2000 inhabitants and one of the most Important important important im Im- places in Assiniboia being the center of a very good farming country country country coun coun- try and anda a great grain and stock shipping shipping shipping ship ship- ping point Near Moose Jaw agriculture and ani ranching go hand in hand for near the town was seen a herd of beet beef cattle several hundred in number On another side was seen a good sized herd of dairy cows the property of the cit citizens zens in the town In riding over the prairies we saw t many good fields of alfalfa The great need of the country is timber which grows readily where planted as was demonstrated by the shelter belts on some of the farms and the trees on the residence lots in the town Stories were told the writer of oi men who last year cleared from their wheat crop more than the land on which It was grown originally cost them This is easy to believe in view of the large crop and md high high price for wheat last year Henry Henry F. F Thurston By sending your address to any agent of the Canadian Government you will have mailed to you a copy of an atlas railway rates etc giving fun fullest est information regarding Western Canada I |