CANADA: Bonanza Farms

Skeptics shrugged when Director E. S. Archibald of the Dominion Experimental Farm ebullated at Montreal: “I can say without any hesitation, that Canada is now the best country for farming in the world! All our fisheries plus our mines and forests yielded less, last year, than the $1,167,000,000 produce of Canadian farms.”

Skeptics gaped at reports that in the fructiferous Milk River Valley of Alberta several persons bought farms, last autumn, which they have now paid for out of the proceeds of one summer’s crops. Farmer S. I. Harris, shrewd, bought a Milk River quarter section for $15 per acre, raised 10,000 bushels of wheat, and with the proceeds more than paid for his land. Farmers Loft & Pederson slightly bettered even this phenomenal procedure, but other Milk Riverites were perceptibly less fortunate.