The acme magazine . errun. What is there left butCanada ? And Canada is good enoughfor most, good enough and big in the world except in the Domin-ion can you find millions of acres of un-occupied land to which farmers can goand make good ? You endeavor to interrupt, to checkthe flow. You have a barren country, unde-veloped, almost unexplored, you havethe hardihood to tell him. If your coun-try were not barren of opportunities itwould not have begun the twentieth cen-tury with fewer people than the UnitedStates sheltered at the beginning of thenineteenth century. He comes back at v
The acme magazine . errun. What is there left butCanada ? And Canada is good enoughfor most, good enough and big in the world except in the Domin-ion can you find millions of acres of un-occupied land to which farmers can goand make good ? You endeavor to interrupt, to checkthe flow. You have a barren country, unde-veloped, almost unexplored, you havethe hardihood to tell him. If your coun-try were not barren of opportunities itwould not have begun the twentieth cen-tury with fewer people than the UnitedStates sheltered at the beginning of thenineteenth century. He comes back at vou hard. Our opportunities are beginning to beknown, he declares. There you havethe answer. Take Calgary, for in-stance. Yes, take all of Southern Al-berta. Out there at the edge of the wheatbelt they never dreamed what the futureheld for them. Yet they grew fat andprospered with less than half of the rea-son for prospering that they now Alberta was known as a stockcountry. So persistently was the fact. Indian tom-tom drummers at a tea dance. that this part of the world was the great-est ranching country on the continentdrummed into the head of the incomingsettler, that neither old resident nor new-come immigrant thought of other chan-nels of development. But the time ofawakening came. The history of thedevelopment of winter wheat-growing inSouthern and Central Alberta reads likea fairy tale. For two decades smallareas here and there had season afterseason successfully produced winterwheat. Alert Americans, transplanted in-to Canada, were the first to read thesigns of the times. In their own countrymost of them had had some previousexperience with winter wheat, but weredoubtful of the possibility of growingit north of the forty-ninth parallel. Thencame thrifty Mormons taking up settle-ments south of Lethbridge, and theywere the first to make their faith Mormons got enormous yields ofwinter wheat. And then the old-timerswoke up. The story is of recent d
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