THE FARMER FINANCIER.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10019, 15 April 1910, Page 4

THE FARMER FINANCIER.

Finance is not aways in the city. Sometimes its art is discovered, says the "Toronto Monetary Times," among the wheat ears and the grasses. Eighteen years ago, E. A. Guillemin left the shores of France and planted himself and twelve shillings at Forget, Saskatchewan. French was nDt much spoken in the West, so the new citizen worked under a double disadvantage, language and lack of capital. But three dollars is capita], though small. From him the Government wanted £2 before his homestead could be filed. Guillemin borrowed 28s and began building a fortune. First he bought land, paying 12s an acre. Presently he had acquired the title to 16 quarter sections, or 2,400 acres. Canada began to march; so did land values. Guillemin soon had secured 60 quarter sections, paying anything from £3 12s to £3 per acre. He has now reached the selling stage, having disposed this year of seven quarter sections at £5 per acre. For 54£ days this fall he thrashed wheat and ! changed agricultural statistics by 50,000 bushels. Desiring to market his crop, the railway company had to give him a train to move 34,000 bushels. He obtained tor each bushel from 84 to 87 cents. The other day he still had on hand 16,000 bushels. As a side hobby he has grown 30,000 bushels of oats, 7,000 bushels of barley, and 500 bushels of flax. In his spare moments he attends to 104 horses and a number of cattle, though since the railroad steel increased his land values, wheat-growing takes most time. Guillemin needs no longer to hire a threshing machine. This year he purchased one for £520. This farmer financier figures that it has already paid for itself, leaving a balance of £IBO to be carried forward. His wheat has averaged 23 bushels to the acre, grading No. 1

and No. 2 Northern. In the pa3t nine years he has harvested seven good crops, which says something for climate. His farm buildings are improved, £2,000 having been invested by him in that way.