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Show IRO HORSES TO STAGE WORLD'S GREATEST PLOWING MATCH aPEpSp cu$r fofoKrAT c i I . I ft ' '' " -:: v J AJ1 plov7hig eemtests first were made will be eclipsed by a contest next month amonp: the twenty-six units of a 50,000 acre farm, each urrft behKf 1320 acres, where iron horses will plow, seed and harrow in ten days' time or les, two-thirds two-thirds the entire acreage of each onit. Individuals r.nd corporations, returned soldiers and retired farmers farm-ers are viemjjr with each other and the government in Canada's crtjrantie effort to grow a maximum qrmrrtitT of wheat. Not only has the Dominion Domin-ion poveniuient ordered one thousand thou-sand tractors delivered this sprintr for distribution amone the wheat growers, but the trovernment of Saskatchewan wlone will put in crop an immense government tract, if it follows the lead of the Chicaiffo capitalists headed by Frederick S. Oltver. who will operate KO.000 acres m the Snipe Lake district, Saskat-;hwan. Saskat-;hwan. The Treat plowtntr content will be on that Snipe Lake farm of Mr. Oliver, nd a purchase of tractors amonnt- mjr to $7ot000 has been made for it The match will be under the supervision super-vision of the world's champion sod-turner, sod-turner, J. E. Hauskins of Rston, who boastB hp is no "silk shirt farmer" I but a rr.il one bred on the soil. So determined is Canada that its i wonderful wheat growing prairies ' shall not He irfl for lack of the population popu-lation to wnrk thorn as thp wheat growine valleys of the United States are worked, that not only on the great Snipe lake farm, hut th ret) chord; ch-ord; the province, whole armies of workers with a fleet of rrprtnrs like th battle tanks of Flanders will go into action as soon as the spring opens. Aooording to the suggestion of the Hon. George Tmglev of the Saskatchewan crov-ernment. crov-ernment. who proposes a government govern-ment enterprise en a Mgff scale e-ven than the OTttpt farm. 8 300 tractors and ?0.000 men enlit-ed enlit-ed as Koldiors of the coil. could seed and harvest a mTPion acres this vear and add at least a rruarter of a biTllon bushel of wheat to the storehouses of the allies. |