Carney Enterprise. (Carney, Okla.), Vol. 10, No. 28, Ed. 1 Friday, February 3, 1911 Page: 4 of 12
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TEN MILLION PEOPLE
IN THE CANADIAN
WEST BY 1920
"Toronto Star," Dec. 16th, 1910.
The prediction is made that before
1920 Manitoba, Saskatchewan, Al-
berta and British Columbia will have
ten million people. It is made not by
a sanguine Western journal but by
that very sober business newspaper,
the New York Commercial. It ig
based upon actual observation, upon
the wheat-growing capacity of the Ca-
nadian West, and upon the prospects
of development following the build-
ing of railways. The writer shows
how the position of leading wheat
market of the world passed from
Milwaukee to Minneapolis and thence
to Winnipeg. Canada's wheat-grow-
ing belt is four times greater than
that of the United States, and only
five per cent of Canada's western agri-
cultural area is under cultivation.
There are 170,000,000 acres of wheat
lands which will make these Western
Provinces richer, more populous, more
dependable for food supplies than the
Western States can ever become. The
center of food supremacy will change
to Canada, and 25 years more will
give this country 40,000,000 popula-
tion west of Ontario.
All these estimates of population
are in the nature of guesses, and must
not be read too literally. But the
enormous area of wheat-growing land,
the rapid construction of railways,
and the large volume of immigration
are facts which must be recognized.
They point to the production of an
ever-increasing surplus of wheat and
nther cereals. However rapidly the
urban, the industrial and commercial
population of Canada may increase,
the Increase of home consumption Is
hardly likely to keep pace with that
of the production of wheat; for a sin-
gle acre of wheat will provide-for th®
average annual consumption of four
people.
While production in Canada is thus
running ahead of consumption at a
prodigious rate, consumption in the
United States is overtaking produc-
tion, and the surplus for export la
growing smaller year by year. It Is
true that the limit of actual power to
produce wheat is as yet far away.
By methods of Intensive cultivation,
such as prevail in France, the produc-
tion could be greatly increased. But
with the overflowing granary of Can-
ada so close at hand, it seems likely
that our neighbors will begin to im-
port from us, turning their own en-
ergies more largely to other_forms of
agriculture.
It must be remembered that while
the Northern States resemble Canada
in climate and products, the resem-
blance diminishes as you go south-
ward. The wheat belt gives place to
a corn belt, and this again to semi-
tropical regions producing cotton, to-
bacco, cane-sugar, oranges and other
tropical fruits.
The man who secures a "farm in
Western Canada at the present time
secures an investment better than the
best of bond of any government or
bank. It is no unusual thing for a
farmer in Western Canada to realize
a profit of from $5 to $10 per acre.
There are thousands of free home-
steads of 160 acres each still to be
had, and particulars can be obtained
by writing your nearest Canadian gov-
"rnment agent.
Habit Grows.
"I hate to see a little country buy-
ing Its first battleship."
"Why?"
"Reminds me of a boy taking bis
first smoke."
riT.itfs fl RMD IX O TO 14 DAYS
ronrlinguist will refund money If I'AZO OINY-
MB NT fulls to cuiy any case « f Itching, liltuil
Blooding or Protruding i'llob In GtoUduyt. 60a
Modern life pushes u man luto the
mud and then chides him for ma-
♦•rialism.
cARtNTS COME IN HANDY
Worthlessness and (VIiscell&ri?ous D«-
Beneracy Is Greatly Exaggerated-
Still a Factor in Life.
Parents are a considerable con-
venience, especially nowadays, when
so many of them have learned their
place, and especially in this town of
New York, where it costs all you can
earn to provide a winter habitation,
and where the young wives of earn-
est workers like me are apt to be a
good deal out of a job In summer.
Much more systematic provision is
made to carry my kind of man
through the summer than for Cor-
delia's kind of woman—the clubs, for
example. For man and wife at our
stage of life parents, duly qualified
and equipped, are a very suitable and
timely provision. Indeed, I feel some-
times that the worthlessness and mis-
cellaneous degeneracy of parents in
these times is exaggerated. I don't
say this by way of casting an anchor
to the windward, nor out of mere
magnanimity, but because I honestly
think so. People say that parental au-
thority is all gone. Some think it
good riddance; others lament. Since
democracy came to be the fashion,
everybody wants his own way more
than formerly, and gets it rather
more, children included. But parental
direction is still a factor in life, and
parental Influence is enormous, and
influence gets to the springs of ac-
tion and character even more effectu-
ally than dogmatic authority. Parents
doubtless realize the limitations of
their calling better than they did, and
a good deal more is done in these
days than formerly to piece out their
deficiencies and help them with their
duties.—E. S. Martin, in Harper's
Magazine.
Some Tail Feathers.
After a century of effort, and with
rare patience, the Japanese have
evolved from the common barnyard
fowl a rooster with tail feather three
yards long. Indeed, they often meas-
ure five and six yards in length The
birds are confined in long, narrow
cages, darkened to prevent attempts
on the part of the bird to look down-
ward. After the tail faa'iers have
grown to reach the bottom of the
cage, a bamboo perch is set back iu
the cage, bent so as to for an
arch—this perch permitting the
feathers to hang free. The rooster
stands all day on a narrow bar, with
head up and body straight, and after
close confinement from 24 to '8 hours
the keeper takes the fowl cut and
permits it to walk for half an hour,
the man holding up the tail feathers
to prevent them from becoming
soiled. Occasionally the bird is care-
fully washed with warm water, and
exposed to the sun and air to dry.
When the bird travels it is put into a
long, narrow box, similar to the boxes
which the Japanese use in carrying
rolls of paintings, while the tail fs
rolled up carefully, and shut into a
compartment just fitted to its dimen-
sions. The birds are robust, despite
their close confinement, resisting the
heat and cold remarkably well, and
frequently living to be nine years old.
They are also tame and affectionate
In disposltfon. The hens of this im j
proved race are pretty, though not
comparable with their mates, and j
they lay about thirty eggs a year.
Very Valuabe Pipe.
One pipe that will not figure in any
collection is the pipe that used to be
smoked by the shah of Persia who lost
his throne recently. It descended tu
Its present owner from his father, who
received it from his brother. This or-
namental object is set with diamonds
and rubies valued at approximately
$600,000. When the shah was not using
it the pipe was guarded by one of
the court officials, whose task it was
to watch It night and day, since a
grand vizier was caught, when he was,
as he supposed, alone, making at-
tempts to pick out some of the jewela
the fine point of his poniard.
An Optical Illusion.
"I specks Mistah 'Rastus Pinkley
Ig In trouble," said Miss Miami Brown.
"Las' evenln' I saw de teardrops
•treamln' down his face."
"Dem warn't teardrops," replied
Miss Cleopatra Jackson. "He des got
hisse'l a little splattered up flllin' his
Christmas glf fountain pen."
Since the Price of Eggs Rose.
Hewitt—How did he make his for-
tune?
Jewitt—He kept a hen.—Woman's
Home Companion.
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Some turn their backs on ordinary
pr'nciples to gaze at heavenly pros-
pects.
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other humors, cures all their
effects, makes the blood rich
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the vital organs. Take it.
Get it today In usual liquid form or
chocolated tablets called Sarsatabs.
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Herbert, H. S. Carney Enterprise. (Carney, Okla.), Vol. 10, No. 28, Ed. 1 Friday, February 3, 1911, newspaper, February 3, 1911; Carney, Oklahoma. (https://gateway.okhistory.org/ark:/67531/metadc87770/m1/4/: accessed April 25, 2024), The Gateway to Oklahoma History, https://gateway.okhistory.org; crediting Oklahoma Historical Society.