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harrow in ten days' time or less, two-thirds the entire acreage of each 

 unit. Individuals and corporations, returned soldiers and retired farm- 

 ers are vieing with each other and the government in Canada's gigantic 

 effort to grow a maximum quantity of wheat. Not only has the Domin- 

 ion government ordered one thousand tractors delivered this spring 

 for distribution among the wheat growers, but the government of Sas- 

 katchewan alone will put in crop an immense government tract, if it 

 follows the lead of the Chicago capitalists headed by Frederick S. Oliver, 

 who will operate 50,000 acres in the Snipe Lake district, Saskatchewan. 

 The great plowing contest will be on that Snipe Lake farm of Mr. Oliver, 

 and a purchase of tractors amounting to $75,000 has been made for it. 

 The match will be under the supervision of the world's champion sod- 

 turner, J. E. Hauskins, of Eston, who boasts he is no 'silk shirt farmer,' 

 but a real one bred on the soil. So determined is Canada that its won- 

 derful wheat-growing prairies shall not lie idle for lack of the population 

 to work them as the wheat-growing valleys of the United States are 

 worked, that not only on the great Snipe Lake farm, but throughout 

 the Province, whole armies of workers with a fleet of tractors like the 

 battle tanks of Flanders will go into action as soon as the spring opens. 

 According to the suggestion of the Hon. George Langley of the Sas- 

 katchewan government, who proposes a government enterprise on a 

 bigger scale even than the Oliver farm, 3,300 tractors and 20,000 men 

 enlisted as soldiers of the soil, could seed and harvest a million acres 

 this year and add at least a quarter of a billion bushels of wheat to the 

 storehouses of the Allies." 



"GREAT FALLS, MONT., Jan. 9, 1919. Wheat will be harvested next 

 fall from one of the world's largest farms, comprising about 200,000 

 acres of Indian lands in Montana and Wyoming. Of this big tract, 

 about 33,000 acres of irrigated land has been plowed and seeded, and the 

 remainder, it is 'announced, will be cultivated during the coming sum- 

 mer. The land is located on the Crow, Blackfeet and Fork Peck reser- 

 vations in Montana and the Wing River reservation in Wyoming. To 

 make this land productive a corporation with $2,000,000 capital was or- 

 ganized last spring when Thomas D. Campbell, a North Dakota farmer, 

 conceived the idea of cultivating the thousands of acres of the Indian 

 lands in Montana and Wyoming. He lacked capital, but obtained the 

 approval and assistance of the Secretary of the Interior, Franklin K. 

 Lane, and J. P. Morgan and other leading New York bankers. The 

 corporation was then formed with several of these bankers as members 

 of the board of directors and Mr. Campbell as president. On this huge 

 *arm not a horse will be usecl. Instead, large tractors capable of turn, 

 ing over large quantities of prairie sod were purchased. In all fifty- two 



