READY-MADE FARMS.

Taranaki Herald, Volume LIX, Issue 143674, 19 December 1911, Page 4

READY-MADE FARMS.

DUKE OF SUTHERLAND’S ENTERPRISE IN CANADA. Tho Duke of Sutherland, who lias been on a visit to tho Western Provinces of Canada, where ho has acquired largo estates, gave a representative of The Daily Mail before leaving for England some details of his scheme of I ready-made farms for British settlers. At Brooks, Alberta, tho Duke has purchased about 2000 acres of land, which has been divided into small holdings of 80 to 160 acres each. Houses have been erected on these holdings and ready-made farms prepared. “The primary object of this trip,” said the Duke/“is to sec what I can do to encourage and assist British settlers to come to Canada. Tho 2000 acres J have purchased from tho Canadian Pacific Railway are between Medicine Hat and Strathmore, Alberta. Tho Canadian Pacific Railway have already laid out for .mo seventeen excellent farms in working order. BRITISH SETTLERS. “Wo made a special visit to the Fqrt George district in British Columbia, and I have just purchased there a largo tract of land for agricultural development at White’s Landing on tho Fraser River. Tho property purchased here • amounts to about 2500 acres, part of r which is already cleared, and just as j soon as possible a largo demonstration farm will bo established. A road will be built in the spring, and the property will bo divided up into farms on which I will send out Scotch and other British farmers. When they get hero they will go to the ready-rar.de farms and will bo saved all the heartache and disappointment of struggling for a permanent foothold in the new land. “What discourages English and Scotch settlers is that they have to com© out to an uncleared and desolate tract of land instead of having land ready for farming operations. “On my property at Clyde, a few miles from Edmonton, tho capital of Alberta. I intend bringing out a largo party of British labourers for my 2500 acres, who will be put to work at onco at the Canadian rat© of wages and bo given a chance to secure for themselves some of tho land that they will clear.”