Tr---- Picture News---A Progressive Farmer TOS 7H & Q 2, Yr) UULLT EY ie ---- Aa EE i TTT Tr x ee TT CTT ETT Joy covmresy arCaR Ee oa, (1) The Prince of Wales steers a Hydro-Glider on the river at Paisley Mills, England, (2) The Queen and Princess Mary pay a visit to Ox- ford, Eng. Miss Jex Blake receiving the Queen at Lady Margaret Hall, a woman's College. i (3) New Canadian Pacific Railway Office, Rotterdam, Holland. (4) Two New York college girls took advantage of their Easter Holidays to lay in their year's supply of maple syrup, (5) New Canadian Pacific Railway Office at 98 Boulevard Adolphe Max, Brussels. (6) Four sons and a grandson of ths late Yuan Shih Kai, first President of China, who are attending school in the United States. (7) A St. Hilda College crew in training at Oxford for the Ladies' Henley. LTT Im LTT LUE THT) * s p " he > pon UR UTITHT TIT ALE TIT kia HI) View of the Laurence Home and Farm at North Battleford, Sa The nature of the eriences of | strong mower" as Mr. Laurence puts With one hundred and fifty acres pioneer farmers in Western Canada | it, twenty-two tons of hay. By this|in erop the following year, the twenty years ago is exemplified in time it was iecessary to think about | Laurences felt that they were now the story of Job Laurence, a farmer | winter quarters. Logs were cut and| real farmers. Their ploneerine dave who has found success in Central|a house Sixteen by twenty-four Was | Were over and they could face the Saskatchewan. He and his family |built. The roof of this house was | future with confidence. Since that left their home in England in 1908. | made of "prairie shingles" (sod from | time they have broken more land Saskatoon was their "jumping off" | the Prairie) and proved to be com.|sach year and have summer-fallow- place. On arriving here they invest. fortable and warm in the winter and ed when needed. Prosperi bas ed the greater part of their capital | cool in summe:, But no land was| come to them slowly but surely of $600 in a milk cow, a yoke of | broken that summer. } they have been able to add oxen, a wagon, a plow, rag har- n the winter that followed they | size of th rows and a few small tools. But as|lost one of their oxen. The other] of adjoini ! begin- their capital dwindled their hopes ) spri ning they have always had some grew. After all, as Mr. Laurence s bot . proved | livestock, and practically their first says: "Hope is the best capital any however, to be too light for the| investment on their arrival at Sas. New country ean|breaking plow and it was poseible | katoon was in a milk eow and a They were now ready for|to break only ten acres of lard onfcalf. In fact, they are still milk. their three hundred mile trek across | the Laurence farm the second sum- ing a cow that is the off-spring of country. With bag and baggage | « "1 would strongly advise ali| the calf bought during those early and their newly acquired outfit they want to farm in Western | days. For a number of years the left Saskatoon on May 1, 1903, snd Canada to put everything aside dur. | Laurences raised on their farm all made for that part of the 'country | ing the breaking season, and break | their heavy work-horses, and have of which the enterprising town of | every possible acre in May and| had a few *avy colts to sell besides. Lloydminster is now the centre. June," Mr. Laurence says. "If the] Since 1911 they have threshed their ut here they did not stay, The breaking season is allowed to slip) grain with their own machine and eat distance from the railway and | by a year is practically Jost." ave also contracted to do thresh. the poor prospects of their obtaining| For two years Saskatoon, a hun. ing for other people, thus adding any work in this district, which at|dred miles away was their nearest | considerably to their income, at time was very sparsely settled, | point, and "to keep the pot boil. Before coming to Canada neither Was not very encouraging. They. ing" the Laurences did considerable | of the Laurences had ever worked on therefore, came east again as far "freighting" hetween Battleford and la farm. As Battleford and looked for land Saskatoon. In 1905 the ral'way| They have now a home that com. in the surrounding country. It was| came. bares favorably with city dwelling near Battleford that the finally At the beginning of the fourth [of the same size. With a hot and located about the middle of 1903 on | year in the country of their adoption | cold water system up and down. the farm they now ocewpy. they had seventy-five acres of land | stairs, electric lieht and local and The built a sod stable, which ready for seeding, Sixty acres were long distance telephones in the prow to be so shady and cool after seeded to wheat and fifteen to oats | house and their automobile seedy to iving two or three months in tents With a sample of the Wheat they | take them wherever they want to Jat they moved 2m x hemtelves, grew that year they nop the fut 5 hy feel that the city dweller aying time now having a prize a e first seed grain fa no advantage over them. they cut with a scythe, or an "arm-|at North Battleford. TH ANE | wie --l ----