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BoUY an irrigated farm where you have insurauce against 

 drought and where you have just the moisture you need 

 when you need it. You know the value of controlling the 

 watering of your crops. In sunny Southern Alberta you are 

 master of the moisture. The Canadian Pacific's great Irri- 

 gation Works insure your yield whenever rainfall is insuffi- 

 cient. Irrigation is not always a necessity— but it is yours 

 at command. It means dependable crops, and wonderful 

 crops every year. The Eastern section of the Canadian 

 Pacific Irrigation Block East of Calgary is now open. Virgin soil of 

 famous fertility — alfalfa, timothy and other fodders — raises all the 

 grain and root crops, fine climate— great cattle country— good markets 

 — unexcelled transportation. 



We want tlie alert enterprising farmers who see this magnificent opportunity. So 

 we make the most liberal terms, 'lake 20 years to pay. CiU on us for Ions time 

 loan of 52000 for farm improvements if ynuwant it. Investigate now. This block will 

 soon be the most deusely populated and inteubely cultivated district in the west. 



You Can Have 20 Years to Pay 



We will sel vcu this rich irnirated, Canadian land for $35 to S75 an acre. You need pay only 

 one-twentieth down. Th iik of it-only one-twentieth down, and then the balance \\\ 19 equal annual 

 Loifi before voiir iinal payment conies due, your farm will have pu:d for itselt over and 

 Many jruod farmers in Western Canada have pai<i for their farms with one "- 



over"-^eam ^any"g-uod faTmersm'Western Canada have pai<i for their farms with one crop. Here 

 are some of the startling features of the most remarkable land offer you have ever read: 



We Lend You $2,000 for Farm Improvements i^s'^'fcffarm dJ^rop^^etSfniJ! 



with no other secnntv th:m the land itself, ;.nd shows our cnnrKlence m the fertihtv cf the soil and in 

 vour abihty to make U prcdiu-e p,o;.p.rity fur yuu and tiatlic for our lines. This loan will, help you 

 in DrovidinE buildings, fennncr. sinking well and bre.-.lsing. and you are given twenty years m which 

 to fully repay this loan. While enjoying tlie use of this money, you pay interest at only 67o. 

 .« ». Ctl—I -.— D»»:« The Company, in case of the approved 



Advance Live otock on Loan oasis land purcha or who is in a position 



and has the ability to take care of his stock, will advance caltle, sheep and hogs 

 un to the value of $1 000 on the basis of the seltltr's note with mterest at 

 eight per cent, to enable him to develop more rapidly, on the nght basis 

 of mixed farming. 



Farm Made Ready by Experts if Desired {,LraiTe"ad" 



estabii'^hed select jne which our Department of At;ricultural Experts h.is 

 developed ' On our improved farms, house and other buidings are m. well 

 is diiK farm fenced, nelds cultivated and m crop. All waiting for those who 

 want an immediate start and ouick results— all planned and comp eted by men 

 who know- our own agricuItur.-U experts. Take twenty yenrs to piy if you 

 want to We give/rcc service -expert seryice-the valuable assistance ot jrrjat 

 demnnstration farms, in charfre of aprriculturat specialists employed by th. 

 Canadian Pacific for its own farms. Tins service is ijoura- 



Water Rental Will Not Exceed $1.25 per Acre ^.L'^-^l 



ment will have the approval of the Dominion GovL-rnnunt \ ou are doubly protected 



T::e Canndian Pacilic offers you the finest 

 land on earth for grain growing, cattle, hop 



sheep and horse raisingj dairying, poultry, vcg- 

 etaliles and general mixed farming- irrigate ! 

 lands for intensive farming. Remember^ these 

 lavdsare located ov or ')iear established hnes of 

 rfi>!ivaij. vrar ei^tablished towns. You can start 

 o.i Linirrira cdfi.rm, improved or unimproved. 



Here is the Last Best West— where your op- 

 portunity Hcs. Don't delay. Mail the coupon here 

 at once. The be; t land will betaken first-sotime 

 is precious to yuu. Write today. 



W. T. THORNTON, Colnnization Agent 



Canadian Pacific Railway 



Colonization Depai-^ment 



112 West Adams St., Chicago, Illinois 



W. T.THORNTON, Colonization Agent, 

 C<jnadian Pacific Ra Lway Co onizatioTi 

 Ucpartment, 112 W. Adams St.. Chicago 



plr-ase send me your bonk of inf*^rmation on 

 Ir.i:^alion I'armmg in Sunny Aibtrta. 



) RHODKS DOUBLE CUT 

 PRUNING SHEAR 



RHODES MFG. CO., 

 »«0 S, DIVISION AVE , GRAND RAPID5, niCH. 



"THE only 

 pruner 

 made mat cuts 

 from both sides of 

 the limb and does not 

 bruise the bark. Made in 

 all styles and sizes. We 

 pay Ejtpress charges 

 on all orders. 



Write for 

 circular and 

 prices. 



FRUIT GROWERS, YOUR ATTENTION 



Royal Ann, Bing and Lambert cherry trees; Spitzenberg and 



Newtown apple trees; Bartlett, Anjou and Cornice pears, and 



other varieties of fruit trees. 



MONTE VISTA NURSERY 



A. HOLADAY 



SCAPPOOSE, OREGON 



earlier. It is not unconinion for us 

 to gather Josephine pears ripe from 

 the tree. 



I would like to take you through my 

 orchards of pears and apples just now, 

 before we gather for England. My 

 specialty is pears, of which I grow 

 some seventy varieties on 5,000 trees. 

 I could show you over 1,000 bushels on 

 the measured acre. The trees are 15 

 feet apart, or 193 to the acre. Last year 

 they turned off an average over three 

 acres of ten bushels a tree, and now 

 they are perhaps as good. The land is 

 light sand with heavy clay sub-soil, and 

 cost nie, uncleared, one pound (five dol- 

 lars) an acre. Cultivation is carried on 

 throu.gh a great part of the year and 

 manuring with farmyard and artificial 

 manures, given about every third year, 

 Pruning in winter is necessary to pro- 

 cure large fruit, each branch of the tree 

 being deprived of all its laterals so as 

 to make it like a cordon, and the tree 

 is kept down to about eight or ten feet 

 high. Winter spraying with lime and 

 sulphur and summer spraying for 

 moth and scab cannot be neglected, for 

 which we use power pumps. 



I see some of your speakers chal- 

 lenge the world for their Doyenne du 

 Comice pears, but I would like to break 

 a lance with them. Last year mine 

 sold for a shilling (25 cents) per fruit 

 in Covent Garden Market, and some of 

 my Comice trees turned off five or six 

 bushels. I, too, hold a medal from the 

 London Royal Horticultural Society for 

 mv pears, although they had to travel 

 12,000 miles before being placed on ex- 

 hibition. Anjous, which do so well 

 with you, are not a great success here, 

 but Cdou Morceau, the Covent Garden 

 favorite, does splendily and reaches 

 £2 ($10.00) a bu.shel in Covent Garden. 



In comparison with your prices 

 orchards are sold here very cheaply — 

 first-class orchards ten or twelve years 

 old are sold for £100 ($500) an acre, 

 and any amount of the finest fruit- 

 growing land, as bush, can be taken up 

 from the government at 10 shillings 

 ($2.50) an acre. Southern Tasmania is 

 very montainous and we like to put 

 our orchards in sheltered valleys, 

 where wind cannot blow down the 

 fruit and where we can irrigate if nec- 

 essary; but our rainfall is so constant 

 that as a rule irrigation is not neces- 

 sary. This season is very dry, still I 

 have a Bartlett pear before me as I 

 write which measures twelve inches in 

 circumference and weighs seventeen 

 ounces. This is an exceptionally large 

 Bartlett for us to grow, so much so that 

 those I showed it to thought it was a 

 Beurre Deil, which often grows larger 

 than this with us, whilst Comice grows 

 nearly as large. I think some of your 

 Hood River apples came here about 

 Christmas and were greatly admired 

 for their beauty, but the general ver- 

 dict on, say a Jonathan, was that ours 

 were superior in flavor. Australia and 

 Tasmania expect to send a million 

 bushel cases to Covent Garden this 

 season. Yours truly, H. Benjafield, 

 Moonah, Tasmania. 



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