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Show WESTERN CANADA'S RESOURCE H? Farming Very Successful. fit By Western or Northwest Canada I, III usually meant tho great agrlculturM VltrL country west of Ontario, and north o W Minnesota, North Dakota, and Mon 1'B tana. Part of it Is agricultural prairie W troolosH In places, park like in othors' 'M part is gcnulno plains, well adapted to S cattlo ranches; part requires Irrica. B tlon for successful tillage, most of It H does not. Tho political divisions of H this region aro tho Province of Man! H toba and tho territorial district of As-' H slnlbola, Saskatchewan. Albert, n- Bl Athabaska. At prosont, however the H latter Is too romoto for Immediate H practical purposes, BJ Tho general character of the soil 0f I Vcwtcrn Canada Is a rich, black, clav I lonm with a clay subsoil. Such n soil I is particularly rich In food for the I wheat plant. Tho subsoil is a clay which rotnlns tho winter frost until It is thawed out by tho warm rays of H tho sun and drawn upward to stlmu- I late tho growth of tho young wheat, bo H that even ln dry soasons wheat Is a good crop. Tho clay boII also retains the hent of the sun later In tho sum- mcr and assists in the early ripening; H of tho grain. It Is claimed th .. tivation has tho effect of increasing I tho temperaturo of tho soil several degrees, as well as tho air above It. H Western Canada climate la good H cold In winter, hot In summer, but H with cool nights. Violent storms of H nny kind are raro. The rainfall ' not H heavy. It varies with places, but aver- Hi ages about 17 Inches. It falls usually H at tho tlmo tho growing crops need It Tho Department of tho Interior, Ot- H tawa, Canada, has agonts established nt dlfTorcnt points throughout the H United States who will bo pleased to forward an Atlas of Western Canada I nnd glvo such other Information ns to H railway rate, etc., ns may bo required I That agriculturo In Western Canada' I pnys Is shown by tho number of tcstl- H monlals given, by farmers, The fol- B lowing Is nn extract mado from a let. H ter from a farmer near Moose Jaw H "At tho present tlmo I own slxtoen I hundred acres of land, fifty horses and B a large pasturo fenced containing a B thousnnd acro3. Theso horses run out B nil winter and como ln ln the spring B quite fat, A man with money Judl- B clously oxpondod will mako a compo- B tence very shortly. I consider In the B last six years tho increase ln the B vnluo of my land has netted mo forty B thousand rinllnn " Bj |