Show WESTERN CANADAS RESOURCES farming very successful by western or Nort northwest hAest canada Is usually meant the great agricultural e country west Nest of ontario an and d north oc ot minnesota north dakota and montana part of it Is agil agricultural cultural prairie treeless tre oless in places park like in others part is genuine plains well niell adapted to cattle ranches part requires irrigation for ducet successful tillage c most of it does not the political politic at divisions of this region are the province of mant manitoba and the territorial district of As sini bola saskatchewan alberta and athabasca Atha baska at present ho however Never tho the latter is too remote for immediate t practical purposes the general character of the soli soil of western canada is a lich ilch black clay loam with a clay subsoil sub soll such a soil is particularly rich in food for the wheat plant the subsoil is a clay which retains the winter frost until it is thawed out by the warm rays of the tile sun ami drawn upward to stimulate the growth gronn th of the tile 3 oung wheat so that even in dry seasons wheat is a good crop the soil also retains the heat of the sun later lr in the tho summer and assists in the early ripening of the grain it 1 ii claimed that cultivation ti has tho the effect of increasing the temperature of the tile soil several degrees as well uell as the air above it western canada climate is good cold in winter hot in summer but with cool nights violent storm any kind hind are i are the rainfall e a not heavy it varies with N ith places but averages about 17 inches filches it falls usually at the time the growing groNI nr crops need it IL the department of the interior ottawa canada has c agents en established at different alf ferent points throughout the united states state who will be pleased to forward an atlas of western canada and give such other information as to railway rate etc as may bo be required that a agriculture in western canada pas is shown by the number of testimonials given by farmers tho follow boning ing 6 d an extract made from a let ter from a farmer near moose jaw jan at the present time tinie I 1 own sixteen hundred acres of land fifty horses and a largo pasture fenced containing a thousand acres these horses run oat out all till n winter inter and come como in in the spring quite fat rat A man marj with money judiciously clouse expended will make a competence very shortly I 1 consider in jr tho tile last st six C years the increase in iho tho value of my land h IP netted me forty thousand dollars |