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Show i0 -SAyyaia'iasel asaWaiwiM m Mini'UaiiMji a ga"'ea "" , WESTERN CANADA'S RESOURCES. Farming Very Successful. I By Western or Northwest Canada Is I Usually meant the groat agricultural V country west of Ontario, and north of ( Minnesota, North Dakota, and Moo- E tana. Part of It la agricultural prsliia. I treeless In placea, park Ilka la o triers, f part Is genuine plains, well adapted to i cattle ranches; part requires lrrlga I Hon for auccessful tillage, meet ef N I doee not. The political d'vlslnns of I this regloa ara tha Province of Manitoba Mani-toba and tha territorial district ot Aa-alnlbnla, Aa-alnlbnla, Raakatchewan, Alberta aad Athabaaka. At present, however, tha latter la too remote for Immediate practical purposea. The general character of the soil ot Weetern Canada In a rich, blsck. clay loam with a clay subsoil. Puck a soil la particularly rich In food for tha wheat plant. Tha aubaoll Is a day, which retains the winter frost antll It la thawed out by lha warns rays of the sun and drawn upward to at I ma-late ma-late tha growth of tha young wheat, ao that aven In dry aeaanna wheat Is a good crop. The clay soil aim retain the beat of tha sun later la tbe Bummer Bum-mer and aaslsts In tbe early rlpealng of the grain. It Is claimed that cultivation cul-tivation haa the effect of Increeelnc tha temperature of the aoll several degrees, aa well as the air above IL Western Canada climate la good-cold good-cold In wlntor. hot In aummer, but with cool nlghta. Violent storm of any kind are rare. The rainfall ' not heavy. It varlea with places, but aver-agea aver-agea about 17 Inchos. It falla asnallf at tha time the growing crops need IL Tha Department of the Interior, Ottawa, Ot-tawa, Canada, haa agnnta established at different polnta throughout tba United States who will he pleaaed to forward an Atlaa of Western Canada and glva such other Information aa to railway rale, etc.. as may be reqnlred. That agriculture In Western C.teada pays Is shown by the number of lesll-monlnls lesll-monlnls given by farmers. The following fol-lowing Is an extract made from a latter lat-ter from a farmer noar Moime Jaw "At the present time I own alxteea hundred acres of land, fifty hnreei and a large pasture fenced containing a thousand acros. These herna . a'l winter and coma In In the spring quite fat, A man with money judiciously judi-ciously expended will make a eoniiia-tenee eoniiia-tenee very shortly. I consider In tha lout alx years the Increase In tha value of my land has netted ma forty thousand dntl-ei ' |