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VOL. LIV. INDIANAPOLIS, IND., NOV. 11. 1899. NO. 45 _xpexizutz JiXzpixxlmzuX. What is tha Best Farm Fence You Saw at the Fair, aad Cost? Mra You Using Rest Cedar Posts? What Do The; Cost and Where Do You Oat Them? No copy haa been received upon thl* topic for tome reaeon, and lt 1* something of a die- appointment, for it wa* supposed that the fence queetion wae one of the moet Interesting that could be named, to a majority of our reader*. Mr. Collins give* a good long review of the subject, all the eame. Later.—[The following came to hand atthe laet moment and after the Review had been written:] 1st Premium.—Thie, no doubt, suggests var- lou* opinion*. To my mind the Creeent Mtv tallc Stay fence suggests possibilities of being made ae good as any, for the reaeon that you can use barbed wire ln ite composition, and from my experience no wire fence will satisfactorily turn all kind* of etock and take care of Itself without barbed wire ln its make up. My plan for a good fence ie to uee 12 wire*, 4 ot them barbed and alternated with the imooth. ae suggested for ite beet protection and then use No. 9 emooth or cable for the balance, all galvlnized. I use red cedar posts, Une poste 8 feet long, bury them 3 feet. Two large end poete at each end, 9x9 at top, 10 feet long and bury 5 feet. Have them securely anchored and braced. I bore holee In end of poete, the proper space* for the wire, eo ae to put the strain in tbe center of poets, they not being so apt to twist and creel, and then put a brace on each side of wire 2}£x5; then eet your line posts, wire side in line with center of end poste, and in stapling your wire have your ttaplee large enough to give every wire eome play, and then use one of Fields' patent epring rachets on each wire, to each 40 or 60 rods. Then I use the Cresent Metal lc stay .putting them on about 4 feet apart, they will be ln three lengths, upper and lower over each other, and the middle alternating spaces, they are fastened on with a nail made for the purpose, and the machine to put them. on with cotts 75 cents. The end poete oost about 52 cents each; line poet* 28 or 30 cents, and you can set them 24, 28 or 32 feet apart, just at you like. Thirty-two feet apart make* a good fence. Stay* coet from 20 to 25 cents per rod, and wire, since "prosperity" ha* «truck u* eo hard, will cost near 40 cents. The objection to diagonal woven wire is you cannot take up the sag. J. J* Oarmel. 2d Premium.—The beet farm fence ln thl* eectlon of the country is the barbed wire, this being the only fence at all feasible where wood la scarce and lumber very high. The question of availability must be considered ln every locality. We have seen stump fences (not at the fair) rail fences, board fences, but for real durability and practical use the barb wire eeems about the only thing In this section. Large areas are fenced ln for pastures; we have two pastures aggregating at leaet one hundred and sixty acres, and theee are both fenced with barb wire; the first cost la from 12 to 15 cent* a rod, with two wire* and poet* (cedar) two rod* apart. The fence muat be Put up tight and atrong, or lt will bs worth less, but with the posts at the distance mentioned add two good wires it will hold horses and cattle perfectly. Oedar posts are very high here, costing for small ones fifteen cent* and for larger onea twenty cents each, the corner* muat be well braced and propped, with strong post*, but with a good tool made on purpoee for setting posts, and another de vice for stretching the wire, a good fence can be put up speedily. Here, post holes are not dug, the posts are driven into the ground; this saves much time and labor. In estimating the coet as above I did not allow anything for coet of labor, which of couree would add eomethlng to actual coat of fence. It 1* true that atock do get cut in barb wire fences, but the emooth wire ls soon broken down by the stock rubbing against it If rags are tied to the fence they will attract the attention ofthe stock and prevent their running Into the barb wire. When etock are accustomed to tho fence there is little danger. R S. M. S. Dakota. Kivrxw. The evolution of fence building has been of unusual interest. I remember so well when farmers taught that it was a moral obligation to save timber, lest we should soon run out of fence material. . They did not realize that at the rate timber was used by pioneers to build fences lt would require over half the land to grow timber to perpetually fence lt. There ls not now any rail timber on most farms around hero. In early days other material was not to be had and they had to build of the most available material. It also helped to get lt out of the way. But one of the most puzzzllng and annoying things about farming la the decay and replacement of thlnga. This expensive condition ln continually recurring, and most everything from the buildings to the stock on the farm. Our teams and cowa grow old and finally worthless. Oar machinery wears out. Our buildinge and fences need constant repair. We say, well, this year I will build a new barn, and next year buy a team, and next build lots of fence, and then I will have a rest, and hoard up a little for a rainy day. But by that time a binder is needed, the next year a mower, then some fencing, and so it goes. It is this constant drain In repairs that keeps many a man down all his life. Nowadays we have offered more durable material. Instead of building a bouse or barn on corner stones, to rot down directly^ we use etone walls for foundation. Our houses are easily kept painted, and with ga). vanized tin, or slate rcofs we can make a building almost perpetual without much ex. pense. We can without great expenee build good tool houses, and vastly lengthen tbe life of tools. We can use young horses to seven years old and sell them for more than they cost. We can turn cattle into money in their prime. We can substitute tile ditches for the expensive wooden ones, and at lesa actual cott, and the drainage I* far better than before and la perpetual. But ln fences we are away behind the times. We are really ln the wooden age aa when we put wood Into dltchea. Thla le not for lack of durable material but becauee we don't wake up. I saw a new fence the other day built of wood, with oak posts every seven feet and three planks at the bottom. Thts took about as much lumber a* a wooden ditch, and will rot down almost as quickly. Let us see how impractical it is to fence the old way now. To fence a quarter section o f land with oak rails would require about 2,000 rails. Allowing 10 feet to the rail would make 200,000 feet of oak worth about $2,500. Add a cent a piece for making and a half cent for hauling and laying, and we have $300 more. Our rail fence will soon need repairing, and always needs some attention. In changing from rati fences, by dire necessity of circumstances, we have passed through all stages of evolution. The Jack fence of rails and rail posts. It eoon racked and went bad. The Kentucky fence alio used up old rails, but soon rotted at joint* and racked over. Other patent* to use rails naturally became popular and acted as a make shift till something else eould be developed. Then came wire and picket fence which did fairly well for a time, when lt disappeared. Then the half picket and tho Iron pickets. All this time barbed wire was gaining recognition. Wo have partly passed barbed wire, and new fences are now moetly of smooth galvanized wire, often with a few barbed wires, eay one at top and one at bottom. As to posts, however, we find the same evolution. The oak poet, top down, then top up, the framed posts of numerous kinds, the cement post which broke iff, the cement and Iron poet that rutted off, the cast base that lifted with froet, or twisted ln the ground out of ehape, the gaa pipe poet that rusted off or bent, the telegraph, tamarac poet that lasted no longer than the oak, and the northern soft pino that you planted today and replaced next spring. And so we went merrily along, each one learning the same lesson for himself that his neighbor bad dearly learned, till now we are gradually coming to our senses and buying Red O^dar from the south. We are surprised that they can be bought so cheaply. We are surprised that they are so durable. Poets are rotted by amlcrobetbateats tbem up when ln the presence of warmth and moisture. The red cedar does not suit the palate of this little turk and he runs away to happier hunting grounds. Tbe red cedar Is found ln a belt of timber a hundred miles wide, and reachlog from East Tennessco to the western prairies. The timber can be bought cheaply ln many parts of the South. Nearly the entire cost of post* He* ln the cutting, preparing for market, and shipping. I handled some nice straight red cedar pottH to-day that would make a man's mouth water. They were eight feet long with a straight sawed face on the four sldee.and were five Inches through at the top. Thie looks fine and will make a five foot fence that will not break or rot off, has size enough to hold its place in the ground, and will be there when I am dead of old age. It costs at retail here 27 cents. The end poet* were eight Inches square and cost more. All told lt took 42 for an 80 rod fence, less than $14 The smooth wires on this fence were not waved or colled bb the fad now goes, but were straight, and were kept taut by a strong etrlng placed in each wire ln the second space from the end. Thla spring hae a ratchet in it. It le claimed that thla devlcs is not ao hard on tbe posts. There Is another smooth, wire fence in this place that Is a very good one. It has No. 8 colled wire and a very stiff wire stay which ls held to the horizontal wires by a clamp and an iron wedge pressed ln with 13-00 pounds pressure. It Is tho etiffeet fence I have seen Oae can climb lt like a rail fenco. The cyclone Is also a very desirable one, only the stays are a littlo too weak. At the fair I liked the Kltselman and the Kokomo fences well. They seem light, however, but are very popular. Every one know* of the woven fences that you buy at tho factory, but they are harder to get on a hilly line without getting out of shape. One neighbor stretched taut No. 9 smooth galvanized wires with ratchets, and then placed an upright of poplar, one by two, on opposite sides and clinched a nail through the two. I must not fail to mention seeing at the fair a little Instrument about the elzj of a saucer that le used to wrap stay wires up and down any wire fence already up. I wish some wide-awake Yankee would go South and ship up red cedar poets all over Indiana. He would have a good business. There ls lots of inquiry, but the southern people won't advertise ln our papers. Tbe result is that many of our farmers do not know about theee posts, and others can't find them. I prophecy a rushing business to any one who will go down there and push lt. I call attention to the following valuable letter, just received from an agent of a binder company, who has traveled with the ripening wheat crop from Texas to Amlnlbola. He kindly writes on how and where a young man may secure a bome, and finally recommend* with much good tense that he go to Asslnl- bola, Oanada Jas L. Kingsbury says of that country, in his recent trip up there, that the soil ls formed ln a peculiar wav. That when the glacier began to melt away there was bo much ice north that lt dammed up the water and made a lake eay one hundred feet deep. In this lake were deposits of mud and rich soil. Since the glacier has disappeared tbe drainage la north but the soil 1* a hundred feet deep. So a* our writer and Mr. Kingsbury say this soil ts very rich. The one objection Is ever present, that is that It ts so far north that you can tie your clothes line to the North Pole. Yet ln looking at the map you will see that tbe E-O.h parallel runs through the eouthern part of lt and tbat this latitude also runs nearly south of Germany and through the south part of Russia. St. Petersburg 1* on the GOth parallel. Here ls the letter: It has been my privilege to visit over twenty otthe different states In the Union, most of them western states ".where opportunities for agriculture are the beet. During the season just passed I have had the opportunity to observe the grain and other farm products at the stago of maturity through the whole length of tho North American continent. During the first part of May I started ln the harvest fields ln the southern part of Texas and drove from ten to ssventy mile* ln the country each day, until the latter part of September, traveling ln the meantime about 8,000 mile* by rail. During that time I visited various section* of Texas, Indian Territory, Oklahoma, Kansas, Missouri,Illinois,Iowa, Minnesota, North Da- kola, Manitoba and the Northwest territories. I had the very best opportunity to observe the conditions among the farmers, and feel that I can throw some light on the subject "How and whero can a young married man who s'arts from the stump acquire a farm home." The time has passed when good farm land can be taken up as homestead within the boundaries of tho United State*. In the western part* ot Teia«, Kansas, Nebraska. North and South Dakota, land may be bought for $8 and upward per aero, on easy payment*. The quality of the land however ls poor and crop conditions are very uncntaln. In the province of Manitoba the most desirable land has already been taken, though ln *ome sections there ls still good land to ba had on easy terms. However ln the province of As- stnlbota there are still thousands of acre* of government land to be taken up ae homestead, at a cost of $20 for 160 acres, to which complete title may be obtained after the homestead requirements have been complied with. This land ls however quite a distance from the railroads, as the valuable land near the railroads has been taken long ago. The Canadian Government gave to the Canadian Pacific Railroad Company a land grant of every other section of land, through which their road passes, and from them «ome of the b3*t farm land on the North American continent can be obtained at $3 per acre, with ten years time to pay for lt, that is one-tenth of the purchasing price ls to be paid at tha time of purchase; the next payment at the end of two years and the balance one tenth each year until paid, with interest on unpaid money at six per cent. The land may be had anywhere from one to fifty milea from the Canadian Pacific Railroad station* and town* and in communities where every other section of land ls either cultivated or held by owners for speculation. The land le mostly black loam with clay bottom, and in some sections is entirely free from stones and timber, and In other portions ls covered partly with young trees and somewhat stone-bound. The soil Continued on page 10.
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Title | Indiana farmer, 1899, v. 54, no. 45 (Nov. 11) |
Purdue Identification Number | INFA5445 |
Date of Original | 1899 |
Subjects (LCSH) |
Agriculture Farm management Horticulture Agricultural machinery |
Subjects (NALT) |
agriculture farm management horticulture agricultural machinery and equipment |
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Call Number of Original | 630.5 In2 |
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Language | eng |
Collection Title | Indiana Farmer |
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Title | Page 1 |
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Agriculture Farm management Horticulture Agricultural machinery |
Subjects (NALT) |
agriculture farm management horticulture agricultural machinery and equipment |
Genre | Periodical |
Call Number of Original | 630.5 In2 |
Location of Original | Hicks Repository |
Coverage | Indiana |
Type | text |
Format | JP2 |
Language | eng |
Collection Title | Indiana Farmer |
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Transcript | VOL. LIV. INDIANAPOLIS, IND., NOV. 11. 1899. NO. 45 _xpexizutz JiXzpixxlmzuX. What is tha Best Farm Fence You Saw at the Fair, aad Cost? Mra You Using Rest Cedar Posts? What Do The; Cost and Where Do You Oat Them? No copy haa been received upon thl* topic for tome reaeon, and lt 1* something of a die- appointment, for it wa* supposed that the fence queetion wae one of the moet Interesting that could be named, to a majority of our reader*. Mr. Collins give* a good long review of the subject, all the eame. Later.—[The following came to hand atthe laet moment and after the Review had been written:] 1st Premium.—Thie, no doubt, suggests var- lou* opinion*. To my mind the Creeent Mtv tallc Stay fence suggests possibilities of being made ae good as any, for the reaeon that you can use barbed wire ln ite composition, and from my experience no wire fence will satisfactorily turn all kind* of etock and take care of Itself without barbed wire ln its make up. My plan for a good fence ie to uee 12 wire*, 4 ot them barbed and alternated with the imooth. ae suggested for ite beet protection and then use No. 9 emooth or cable for the balance, all galvlnized. I use red cedar posts, Une poste 8 feet long, bury them 3 feet. Two large end poete at each end, 9x9 at top, 10 feet long and bury 5 feet. Have them securely anchored and braced. I bore holee In end of poete, the proper space* for the wire, eo ae to put the strain in tbe center of poets, they not being so apt to twist and creel, and then put a brace on each side of wire 2}£x5; then eet your line posts, wire side in line with center of end poste, and in stapling your wire have your ttaplee large enough to give every wire eome play, and then use one of Fields' patent epring rachets on each wire, to each 40 or 60 rods. Then I use the Cresent Metal lc stay .putting them on about 4 feet apart, they will be ln three lengths, upper and lower over each other, and the middle alternating spaces, they are fastened on with a nail made for the purpose, and the machine to put them. on with cotts 75 cents. The end poete oost about 52 cents each; line poet* 28 or 30 cents, and you can set them 24, 28 or 32 feet apart, just at you like. Thirty-two feet apart make* a good fence. Stay* coet from 20 to 25 cents per rod, and wire, since "prosperity" ha* «truck u* eo hard, will cost near 40 cents. The objection to diagonal woven wire is you cannot take up the sag. J. J* Oarmel. 2d Premium.—The beet farm fence ln thl* eectlon of the country is the barbed wire, this being the only fence at all feasible where wood la scarce and lumber very high. The question of availability must be considered ln every locality. We have seen stump fences (not at the fair) rail fences, board fences, but for real durability and practical use the barb wire eeems about the only thing In this section. Large areas are fenced ln for pastures; we have two pastures aggregating at leaet one hundred and sixty acres, and theee are both fenced with barb wire; the first cost la from 12 to 15 cent* a rod, with two wire* and poet* (cedar) two rod* apart. The fence muat be Put up tight and atrong, or lt will bs worth less, but with the posts at the distance mentioned add two good wires it will hold horses and cattle perfectly. Oedar posts are very high here, costing for small ones fifteen cent* and for larger onea twenty cents each, the corner* muat be well braced and propped, with strong post*, but with a good tool made on purpoee for setting posts, and another de vice for stretching the wire, a good fence can be put up speedily. Here, post holes are not dug, the posts are driven into the ground; this saves much time and labor. In estimating the coet as above I did not allow anything for coet of labor, which of couree would add eomethlng to actual coat of fence. It 1* true that atock do get cut in barb wire fences, but the emooth wire ls soon broken down by the stock rubbing against it If rags are tied to the fence they will attract the attention ofthe stock and prevent their running Into the barb wire. When etock are accustomed to tho fence there is little danger. R S. M. S. Dakota. Kivrxw. The evolution of fence building has been of unusual interest. I remember so well when farmers taught that it was a moral obligation to save timber, lest we should soon run out of fence material. . They did not realize that at the rate timber was used by pioneers to build fences lt would require over half the land to grow timber to perpetually fence lt. There ls not now any rail timber on most farms around hero. In early days other material was not to be had and they had to build of the most available material. It also helped to get lt out of the way. But one of the most puzzzllng and annoying things about farming la the decay and replacement of thlnga. This expensive condition ln continually recurring, and most everything from the buildings to the stock on the farm. Our teams and cowa grow old and finally worthless. Oar machinery wears out. Our buildinge and fences need constant repair. We say, well, this year I will build a new barn, and next year buy a team, and next build lots of fence, and then I will have a rest, and hoard up a little for a rainy day. But by that time a binder is needed, the next year a mower, then some fencing, and so it goes. It is this constant drain In repairs that keeps many a man down all his life. Nowadays we have offered more durable material. Instead of building a bouse or barn on corner stones, to rot down directly^ we use etone walls for foundation. Our houses are easily kept painted, and with ga). vanized tin, or slate rcofs we can make a building almost perpetual without much ex. pense. We can without great expenee build good tool houses, and vastly lengthen tbe life of tools. We can use young horses to seven years old and sell them for more than they cost. We can turn cattle into money in their prime. We can substitute tile ditches for the expensive wooden ones, and at lesa actual cott, and the drainage I* far better than before and la perpetual. But ln fences we are away behind the times. We are really ln the wooden age aa when we put wood Into dltchea. Thla le not for lack of durable material but becauee we don't wake up. I saw a new fence the other day built of wood, with oak posts every seven feet and three planks at the bottom. Thts took about as much lumber a* a wooden ditch, and will rot down almost as quickly. Let us see how impractical it is to fence the old way now. To fence a quarter section o f land with oak rails would require about 2,000 rails. Allowing 10 feet to the rail would make 200,000 feet of oak worth about $2,500. Add a cent a piece for making and a half cent for hauling and laying, and we have $300 more. Our rail fence will soon need repairing, and always needs some attention. In changing from rati fences, by dire necessity of circumstances, we have passed through all stages of evolution. The Jack fence of rails and rail posts. It eoon racked and went bad. The Kentucky fence alio used up old rails, but soon rotted at joint* and racked over. Other patent* to use rails naturally became popular and acted as a make shift till something else eould be developed. Then came wire and picket fence which did fairly well for a time, when lt disappeared. Then the half picket and tho Iron pickets. All this time barbed wire was gaining recognition. Wo have partly passed barbed wire, and new fences are now moetly of smooth galvanized wire, often with a few barbed wires, eay one at top and one at bottom. As to posts, however, we find the same evolution. The oak poet, top down, then top up, the framed posts of numerous kinds, the cement post which broke iff, the cement and Iron poet that rutted off, the cast base that lifted with froet, or twisted ln the ground out of ehape, the gaa pipe poet that rusted off or bent, the telegraph, tamarac poet that lasted no longer than the oak, and the northern soft pino that you planted today and replaced next spring. And so we went merrily along, each one learning the same lesson for himself that his neighbor bad dearly learned, till now we are gradually coming to our senses and buying Red O^dar from the south. We are surprised that they can be bought so cheaply. We are surprised that they are so durable. Poets are rotted by amlcrobetbateats tbem up when ln the presence of warmth and moisture. The red cedar does not suit the palate of this little turk and he runs away to happier hunting grounds. Tbe red cedar Is found ln a belt of timber a hundred miles wide, and reachlog from East Tennessco to the western prairies. The timber can be bought cheaply ln many parts of the South. Nearly the entire cost of post* He* ln the cutting, preparing for market, and shipping. I handled some nice straight red cedar pottH to-day that would make a man's mouth water. They were eight feet long with a straight sawed face on the four sldee.and were five Inches through at the top. Thie looks fine and will make a five foot fence that will not break or rot off, has size enough to hold its place in the ground, and will be there when I am dead of old age. It costs at retail here 27 cents. The end poet* were eight Inches square and cost more. All told lt took 42 for an 80 rod fence, less than $14 The smooth wires on this fence were not waved or colled bb the fad now goes, but were straight, and were kept taut by a strong etrlng placed in each wire ln the second space from the end. Thla spring hae a ratchet in it. It le claimed that thla devlcs is not ao hard on tbe posts. There Is another smooth, wire fence in this place that Is a very good one. It has No. 8 colled wire and a very stiff wire stay which ls held to the horizontal wires by a clamp and an iron wedge pressed ln with 13-00 pounds pressure. It Is tho etiffeet fence I have seen Oae can climb lt like a rail fenco. The cyclone Is also a very desirable one, only the stays are a littlo too weak. At the fair I liked the Kltselman and the Kokomo fences well. They seem light, however, but are very popular. Every one know* of the woven fences that you buy at tho factory, but they are harder to get on a hilly line without getting out of shape. One neighbor stretched taut No. 9 smooth galvanized wires with ratchets, and then placed an upright of poplar, one by two, on opposite sides and clinched a nail through the two. I must not fail to mention seeing at the fair a little Instrument about the elzj of a saucer that le used to wrap stay wires up and down any wire fence already up. I wish some wide-awake Yankee would go South and ship up red cedar poets all over Indiana. He would have a good business. There ls lots of inquiry, but the southern people won't advertise ln our papers. Tbe result is that many of our farmers do not know about theee posts, and others can't find them. I prophecy a rushing business to any one who will go down there and push lt. I call attention to the following valuable letter, just received from an agent of a binder company, who has traveled with the ripening wheat crop from Texas to Amlnlbola. He kindly writes on how and where a young man may secure a bome, and finally recommend* with much good tense that he go to Asslnl- bola, Oanada Jas L. Kingsbury says of that country, in his recent trip up there, that the soil ls formed ln a peculiar wav. That when the glacier began to melt away there was bo much ice north that lt dammed up the water and made a lake eay one hundred feet deep. In this lake were deposits of mud and rich soil. Since the glacier has disappeared tbe drainage la north but the soil 1* a hundred feet deep. So a* our writer and Mr. Kingsbury say this soil ts very rich. The one objection Is ever present, that is that It ts so far north that you can tie your clothes line to the North Pole. Yet ln looking at the map you will see that tbe E-O.h parallel runs through the eouthern part of lt and tbat this latitude also runs nearly south of Germany and through the south part of Russia. St. Petersburg 1* on the GOth parallel. Here ls the letter: It has been my privilege to visit over twenty otthe different states In the Union, most of them western states ".where opportunities for agriculture are the beet. During the season just passed I have had the opportunity to observe the grain and other farm products at the stago of maturity through the whole length of tho North American continent. During the first part of May I started ln the harvest fields ln the southern part of Texas and drove from ten to ssventy mile* ln the country each day, until the latter part of September, traveling ln the meantime about 8,000 mile* by rail. During that time I visited various section* of Texas, Indian Territory, Oklahoma, Kansas, Missouri,Illinois,Iowa, Minnesota, North Da- kola, Manitoba and the Northwest territories. I had the very best opportunity to observe the conditions among the farmers, and feel that I can throw some light on the subject "How and whero can a young married man who s'arts from the stump acquire a farm home." The time has passed when good farm land can be taken up as homestead within the boundaries of tho United State*. In the western part* ot Teia«, Kansas, Nebraska. North and South Dakota, land may be bought for $8 and upward per aero, on easy payment*. The quality of the land however ls poor and crop conditions are very uncntaln. In the province of Manitoba the most desirable land has already been taken, though ln *ome sections there ls still good land to ba had on easy terms. However ln the province of As- stnlbota there are still thousands of acre* of government land to be taken up ae homestead, at a cost of $20 for 160 acres, to which complete title may be obtained after the homestead requirements have been complied with. This land ls however quite a distance from the railroads, as the valuable land near the railroads has been taken long ago. The Canadian Government gave to the Canadian Pacific Railroad Company a land grant of every other section of land, through which their road passes, and from them «ome of the b3*t farm land on the North American continent can be obtained at $3 per acre, with ten years time to pay for lt, that is one-tenth of the purchasing price ls to be paid at tha time of purchase; the next payment at the end of two years and the balance one tenth each year until paid, with interest on unpaid money at six per cent. The land may be had anywhere from one to fifty milea from the Canadian Pacific Railroad station* and town* and in communities where every other section of land ls either cultivated or held by owners for speculation. The land le mostly black loam with clay bottom, and in some sections is entirely free from stones and timber, and In other portions ls covered partly with young trees and somewhat stone-bound. The soil Continued on page 10. |
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