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Show , NEVER SAW SUCH LARGE YIELDS. J Tha Climate la Healthy The Wlntera Art Pleasant In Western Canada. Writing from Stirling. APierta, to one of tbe agent representing the Canadian (Jowrl lit tree homestead lands, Mr. M. I'kkrell. formerly of lleecbwood, Ky , aaya of Western Canada: Can-ada: "In the Brat place we will nay that lb Bummer sea.nn la Just lovely Indeed. In-deed. Aa to the wlnler, well, we never experienced finer weather than we are auw enjoying. We havu Jus: returned (mra Northern Alberta, and will auy that we tumid tbe weather lo he very mild, the air dry, fresh and li.vlgurnt-Ing. li.vlgurnt-Ing. Conslde.lng everything; wo can lay that the wlntera here aro most fileaaant, healthy anil enjoyable to hat they nto tu tbe Htates. Here It l"ta cold and cnnllniir a i nil sprint - there are no rii-oigreeulile winds. In f u!h Alherta It In aniue u.nuier two tu lour Indus of Mn.w inuy full and In a few hours a Chinook wind comes aioiit;. ciipiiiaMtiK tho entile anow leaving t.l i a liuna peif.-.tly dry; In fact, we did not believ e this pa: l until we can.o and snw for ourselves Ulul we now know l.ut wn b In write 10 bo Jup-l as we wrllo It. Theio has tot been a iluy this w Inter that 1 could jot work out doors. Farmers here are ralciiloilng on alartlng thu plow the Qrat of March. "Aa to furm wugea, we would not tdvlae a man to mmo hero with the expectation of living by hla dny'a work, but all who do want a home 1 advlao to have nerve enough lo get up and come; for thero never has been, ind may never be agnln, aurh a grand pportunlty for a man to get a burnt almost free. "Aa to the crops. I have been In the 'Ida before harvest, auw the grass pot up and tho grain harvested, and I Dtver aaw such large yields. I saw oata near F.dmonton over six foet tall mat yielded 80 bushels per aero, and I talked to a farmer rear St. Albort who lud a field your before last that aver-'i-"d 110 bushels per acre and wolghed 11 pounds to the bushel. All other tropa would run In proportion aa to otatoea and vegetables, the turnout vas enormous. I have anrh reporta a tha above from all sections that I lava visited, and that haa been every nmmunlty between tha Kdmrmton district dis-trict and Kayuioud, In the Letubrldge strict. "Aa to Block raising. I would ad-rise ad-rise a man to locate In thla place, or uy place. In South Alberta, but for alied farming I would aay go up lirther aorth, aay near I.acombo, We unklwln or Edmonton, where It ia not ivilte so dry and -vhertt there la aome timber to be had. I will aay that no-there no-there have I ever aecn a hotter onnor- (unity for a man, whether he haa aoney or lot. to obtain a borne. ISo-ahere ISo-ahere can be found a more productive loll, bolter watce and a better gov-rned gov-rned country than Western Canada KTordi. Inducements lo the home, areker are anexcefled. I met two mew rear Pnnnka on Ihe C. A I. R, H, trha borrowed the money to pay for tielr homestead, and In four yeara lioae two men aofd their farma one bt 12,(00, the other tor J.m0. met man near Welaaklvvln who landed here with Z5 rente all yeara ago. He at now worth JH.OOd. The advantagea lor ranching are excellent, la fact. I sYv not believe thla section ran be seat. Marketa are good; aa to living, I family can live aa cheap here aa tbey ran la the State. Tbe average yield of oata In thla neighborhood last year was 70 bushels per acre; wheat averaged 13. barley 40, and the licet crop waa good. In consequence of yjo successful cultivation of thn licet large beet sugar factory la being irected at Kayniond, aeven mllea from .ere. "In conclusion I will any that N. W. f. from Manitoba to a long distance forth of F.dmonton producer moat won-(erful won-(erful rnipa. iJikea and rlvera abound lth fish, and game la plentiful. And thnt thla la unqueHtlnnably the country coun-try for a man to come to If he dealrea to belter hla condition In-life. 1 would altvlse the prospective settlor to look aver the I.ethbrldge, I-arombo, Wctaa-klwln Wctaa-klwln and Edmonton districts befora locating. "I will locate in the Edmonton district dis-trict next fall and several families from the States will locate with me. Id the meantime I will receive my Ball here, and will he pleased to give the Interested a!l ihe Information do-tlred." do-tlred." For Information aa to railway rates, tie., apply to any agent of the Cana-ilnn Cana-ilnn CKivernment, whose name appear ikewhere In thla paper. |
