Show NEVER SAW SUCH LARGE YIELDS the climate Is healthy the winters are pleas pleasant ant in western canada writing from stirling alberta to one of the agents representing the canadian government free homestead lands mr al pickrell formerly of beechwood ky says 0 of VI estern can ada ads in the first place we will say that the summer season Is just lovely love ly in deed As to the winter well we niver experienced finer weather than we are now enjoying we have jus returned from northern alberta and will say that we found the weather to be very mild the air dry fresh and ing consloe ing everything we can say that the winters here are most pleasant healthy and enjoyable to what they are in the states here it gets cold and continues so till spring there are no disagreeable winds in south alberta t is some warmer two to four inches of snow may tall fall and in a few hours a chinook wind comes along evaporating the entire snow leaving terra firma perfectly dry in tact fact we did not believe this part until we came and saw tor for ourselves and ve ive now know what we herein write to be just as we write it there has not been a day this winter that I 1 could not work out doors farmers here are calculating on starting the plow the first of march As to farm wages we would not advise a man to come here with the expectation of living by his day a s work but all who do want a home I 1 advise to have nerve enough to get up and come tor for there never has been and may never be again such a grand opportunity for a man to get a home almost tree free As to the crops I 1 have been in the fields before harvest saw the grass put up and the grain harvested and I 1 never saw such large yields I 1 saw oats near edmonton over six feet tall that yielded 80 bushels per acre and I 1 talked to a farmer rear st albert who bad had a field year before last that aver aged bushels per acre and weighed 43 pounds to the bushel all other crops would fun run in proportion as to potatoes and vegetables the turnout was enormous I 1 have such reports as the above from all sections that I 1 have visited and that has been every community between the edmonton district and raymond in the lethbridge district As to stock raising I 1 would ad vise a man to locate in this place or any place in south alberta but for mixed farming I 1 would say go up farther north say near lacombe we tash task lwin iwin or edmonton where ll 11 Is not quite so dry and chere there Is some timber to be had I 1 will say that nowhere have I 1 ever seen a better eunity for a man whether be he has money or not to obtain a home nowhere can be found a more productive toll soil better water and a better gov orned country than western canada giffords inducements to the are unexcelled I 1 met two men near ponoka monoka on the C E R R who borrowed the money to pay tor for their homestead and in four years those two men sold their farms one lor or 2 2500 the other for 3 1 I met a man near wetaskiwin who landed here with 25 cents six years ago he Is 1 now worth 8 the advantages for ranching are excellent in fact I 1 do not believe this section can be beat markets are good as to living a family can live as cheap here as they can in the states the average yield of oats in this neighborhood last year was 70 bushels per acre wheat averaged 35 barley 40 and the beet crop was good in consequence of he successful cultivation of the beet I 1 large beet sugar factory is being reeled at raymond seven miles from here in conclusion I 1 will say that N W r from manitoba fo to a long distance borth of edmonton produces most won erful crops lakes and rivers abound frith with fish and game is plentiful and that this is unquestionably the coun fry for a man to come to it if he desires to better his condition in life I 1 would advise the prospective ettler to look over the lethbridge lacombe betas kibin and edmonton districts before locating I 1 will locate in the edmonton dis brict next fall and several families from the states will locate with me in the meantime I 1 will receive my mail here and will be pleased to give the interested all the information desired for information as to railway rates etc apply to any agent of the cana dian than government whose name appear appears elsewhere in this paper |