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Show lri1 laafc i mU, li j .a s -Tia 1 nil 1 iisai aH WESTERN CANADA'S RESOURCES. H Farming Very Successful. H By Western or Northwest Cnnnda Is H usually meant tho great agricultural H country west of Ontario, and north ot H Minnesota, North Dakota, and Mon- tana. Part of it is agricultural pralrio, B trcolcss In places, park llko in others, I part is gonulno plains, well adaptod to cattlo ranches; part requires irrlga- tion for successful tillage, most of It does not. Tho political divisions of H this region aro tho Province of Mnnl- M toba and tho territorial district of As- " sinlbola, Saskatchewan, Alberta and I Athabaska. At present, howover, tho I latter Is too romoto for Immediate practical purposes. I Tho general character of tho soil of Western Canada Is a rich, black, clay n loam with a clay subsoil. Such n soil Is particularly rich in food for tho wheat plant. Tho subsoil is a clay, which rotalns tho winter frost until It Is thawed out by tho warm rays of tho b tin and drawn upward to stimulate stimu-late tho growth of tho young wheat, so that ovon in dry seasons wheat Is a good crop. Tho clay soil also retains tho heat of the sun later in tho Bummer Bum-mer and assists In the early ripening-of ripening-of tho grain. It Is claimed that cultivation cul-tivation has tho effect of Increasing the temperature of tho soil sovornl degrees, as well as the air above It. Westorn Canada cllmato Is good-cold good-cold In winter, hot In summer, but with cool nights. Violent storms of any kind aro raro. Tho rainfall ' not heavy. It varies with places, but averages aver-ages about 17 inches. It falls usually at tho tlmo tho growing crops need it. Tho Department of tho Interior, Ottawa, Ot-tawa, Canada, has agents established at different points throughout tho United States who will bo pleased to forward an Atlas of Westorn Canada and glvo such other Information as to railway rate, otc, as may bo required. That agrlculturo In Western Canada pays Is shown by tho number of testimonials testi-monials glvon by farmers. The following fol-lowing is an extract mado from a lot tor from a farmer near Moose Jaw "At tho present tlmo I own slxtoen "" hundred acres of land, fifty horses and a largo pasturo fenced containing a thousand acres. These horses run out nil winter and como in in the spring qulto fat A man with money Judiciously Judi-ciously oxpendod will make a compo-tenco compo-tenco very shortly. I consider In tho last six years tho Increase In tho valuo of my land baa netted mo forty thousand dollars." |