FE IN CANADA

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLIII, Issue 2222, 4 January 1921, Page 4

FE IN CANADA

• NO PLACE POP FARMERS. CAN’T FIGHT THE CLIMATE. ■Canada is no place i'or llie farmer, according lo Mr T. D. Bathgate, who has just returned to Dunedin after spending 7J years trying to wring a living out of that stern land. His experiences there have filled him with a;desire to warn any mad New Zealander who thinks of going to Canada of the fate that lies in store for him, and he is more than ever convinced, that ‘■'there’s' no place like home.”

Mr Bathgate ' was attracted to Canada by the prospect of cheap land, at £5 per acre, and so found himself farming, in South Saskatchewan, his nearest town being Goodwaler, some miles north of North Dakota. He claims to have been over Saskatchewan, Manitoba, and Alberta, however, and says that his remarks apply to most of the three provinces, which he describes as very patchy country. ■> “In seven.years,” he said, “1 had only one crop that paid expenses. Two woke hailed out, and this year the grasshoppers ate me out. You may be frozen out, hailed out, blown out,’or ruined for want of water. Canada is no place for the farmer.”