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...

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