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Show AGLOWIN(JlETO AN INDIANA MAN COMPARES WESTERN CANADA WITH THE UNITED STATES. What Mr. Frank Usher, a Prominent DunkarJ, Mas to Say After a Trip Through Canada. The Department of the Interior at Ottawa has Just re.elved from Mr. E. I. Holmes, the agent ot the government govern-ment stationed at Indianapolis, hid., the following letier, vhih requires no comu-enL It is only i.c -e.-ary to t''e j that Mr. F. Ki.-h-r. the writer of the j letter is one of the tnot prominent of the Dunkards and a m.in upon whose word the uf.noet reliance can be placed. His home Is lit Mexico, Ind., and ho will be pleased to en) annate erbally or in any other way all that be says in his letter Auyone desiring information apply to nearest Canadian aetit. whose addresses ad-dresses are here given: M V. M. Innes I Avenue Theater block. Detroit. Ml.lusan James Grieve, tjault Ste. Marie. Mkhl- j" B Crawford. 1U W Ninth street. Kansas t tty. Mo. Kenjamln Ihiv.es. East Third street. 81 I'aul. Minn. TO fume Kooro 1! H. Oallahsn block. M Orand avenue. Milwaukee W IS. C J llrousMcn. ir-l MonaJnock bulld- "'. S. C"::- York Ut. build- and there, thereby covering a hundred and sixty acres. I have no doubt but thai this conn-try conn-try excels a., a grazing or ranrhmg country. b' .use tu-y h-vc .u, L rka gra.ss, tiatiiig an aiiuudanie of ram to keep it fr.-.-h. They al..o have plenty of ater tti earns, and as a rule water may be n a. bed at a depth of from 2J to 40 feet. From U.is you tan sew there can be plenty of hay niun fur winter feeding. Hiid I have had reliable re-liable farmers to tell me that their stix k will feed on hay aloii . and be ready for market in the spring. I'pon Inquiring about the expense of raising a steer, a farmer replied that he did not consider It would cost any mart than l or ii to develop a three-year-old steer. 1 truly think Canada offers a Bns opening for a young man or a man who is renting land In Indiana. One hundred and sixty acres of good black land will cost you ou.y 110 at the time you enter It, and by plowing and cultivating cul-tivating five acres each year for threw big Omaha. Neb. . I W. H. Kcgers. Water.own. South I)a- N" Harrholomew. J Flflb street. Des j'Tl" M "parker. K t'hamber of Com- "n'Kll Big Four bul.d-seph'roing..1,''... bul.d-seph'roing..1,''... .'reel. Colum- j '"'oMy' Many Friends I am pleased , to make a report to you of the pleasant j visit my wife and I had In Western ( Onada. Wa visited the terntortles of Al- : bcrta Assiniboia. and Saskatchewan. I and found them lar surpassing our Imagination, Im-agination, but little did 1 expect to Snd such rich, loamy soil, so much of It, and so uniform la lu level prairie prai-rie lay. I do think the soil of Canada as a rule equals If not excels the tin- j t prairie farm lands of Indiana. , These lands are Immense In their . . ..a .ha- nr..-. the Sod Is TOt- years, gives juu acres of good land for 1 10. This land can be bought from the railroad companies, com-panies, private corirationg or the government gov-ernment for 3 to 14 per acre. Front a financial standpoint, I believe be-lieve that for a series of years (five) a yuung man can make 110 In Canada, whereas he would only make II here, and I feel sure that I p-nt more money to get my ilghty acre farm In White county. Indiana, cultivated than i it would tost me to cultivate eight hundred acr-s In Canada. This may 1 seem a atrong view to take of the matter, but when you take Into consideration con-sideration the clearing, ditching, fencing fenc-ing and the expensive breaking In ot the stumps, and then compare ths expense ex-pense to that of land needing only ths breaking, you will conclude that It is not such a wild or exaggerated statement state-ment as you might at first think. I I enjoyed the balmy, breexy atmoa- ficonesa. - te4 and pulveriied. It is as pliable and as easily cultivated as Indiana sandy Western Canada, from my point of ew offers as fine opportunities for mixed farming as any place In my knowledge The long, sunshiny days, together with the rich soil, produce very fine wheat, oats, barley, flag and . other cereal product.. There is scarce- ly any attempt to rslse corn, except j ssvrly varieties for table use. Ths sea- ( son Is too short to depend upon ma- , turlng fi'ld corn. From th. st.nd-point st.nd-point of getting hii land ready for th. plow. I must say that 1 never saw uch a vast extent, practically all ready so all that one has to do Is to kltcta OP the plow snd go to work. This Is not the case with all the Canadian land, however; some of quite a bit of timber, much of It may be called brush land, and some of U baa lovely forest grove., doited here phere. which was bracing and retresn-ing. retresn-ing. and the cool nights which made it so pleasant for sleep. On making inquiries regarding tbe winters In this country. I learned that the people never suffer from the cold, as the weather ! dry and Invigorating, Invigorat-ing, and In a great many places farmers farm-ers and herders sllow their Hock to run outside the year round One great advantage to the setlien in Western Canada Is the free creameries cream-eries established by the government land run exclusively In the Interest ! of the farmer. i I visited Thomas Daley, a farmer near KJmonton. Alberta, who showed ' ce oats he had raised, some of which I took the first prlie at the Paris Ki-J Ki-J position last year. The same yielded 110 bushel! to the sere In lsJJ Yours truly. FRANK FISHER. Mnlco. Ind. |