Ogden Standard-Examiner | 1922-01-08 | Page 21 | War Veterans Put on Farms

WAR VETERANS PUT ON FARMS I Canada Provides Lands and I Capital for 27,000 Men I CHICAGO. Jan 7 Twenty-seven b. thousand Canadian soldiers have been settled on farma by the Canadian gov- f ernment and $8,000.000 have been t lonned to those men by their govern- F nunt, according to a letter sent to the Horse association of America here by I John Harnett, chnlrrrutn of the sol- I dlers settlement board of Canada. f ' Aggregated roughly this means that we have placed a population of I 125.000 people on these lands' he I "Our settlers have been settled part- ly on free crown lands, and partly on I lands purchased by this board and re- I sold to him. In no case has a settler . I been required to possess more than I $300. Y have, therefore, advanced I practically the full purchase price of I the lands we have bought, and In ad- I dltion have advanced up to $8,000 for I permanent improvements, such as f buildings, fencing, etc , and stock and ,F equipment. I XO IXDSSES SUFFERED. "The rlBk Is necessarily great, but 1 has hron taken largely as a re-estab- llshmi-nt venture. h ' We have been In operation over f thr. " y.-ars, and the national results f are already very great. Some 600,000 acres that were previously raw and entirely uncultivated, have been brought under cultivation Last year t soldier settlers produced field crops worth easily $15,000,000. to which must bo added the value of the in- f crease In stock and the value of poul- jr." try and dairy products. i "Out Of the $85,000,000 nlrrndv n-r- I pended $10,000,000 has been returned to the public treasury. Of due pay- , ments, more than 90 per cent was l paid. f "Thus far, the number of men who V have abandoned their efforts repre- t sents seven per cent of our aggregate settlement. In the cases ot abandon- J. mcnt, and despite the collapse in mar- - fcets, we ha o FaKaged and foreclosed f more than GOO cases representing an E- investment of more than $2,000,000, f without any financial loss." u HORSE PR1CFERRED. t Mr Barrett in his letter mentions I that the power furnished these farm- it, era has, in a great majority of tho f cases been horses, preferably mares. H He says: T "With the shortage of personal cap- K jital, each settler had to be furnished f with such power equipment as would V enable replacement with practically no It, cash outlnv. This meant supplying as t largely aa possible to our settlers I. mares, in hope that the increase would p In time provide not merely the neces- t sary replacements, but also afford s c source of revenue. ' Feed can be obtained from the I farm itself, nnd no monetary' outlay is Involved. Poifer machinery', we F felt, would Involve nr upkeep and R fuel supply a cash outlay that few settlers could be reasonably expected i to meet. "We felt, also, that the use of horso I power, rather than motor power. I would enable our Bottlers to utilize I more of the by-products of tho farm." f oo K-