CANADA'S CO-OP FARM. Six years of hard work has given the members of the Matador Co-op farm a comfortable standard of o~x living. Here are Mr. O'Hara with his wife and children enjoying a meal in their comfortable surburban-type house on the farm, 40 miles north of Swift Current, Saskatchewan.
CANADA'S CO-OP FARM AFTER SIX YEARS IS A SUCCESS. One of Canada's biggest experiments in co-operative farming, 40 miles north of Swift Current, Saskatchawan, is finishing up its sixth year with its granaries and storage bins full. The Matador, 14 square miles of what was once parrt of an old west cattle ranch, was organised in 1946 by 17 veterans of World War II. They began their collective venture under a Government lease using their war service grants as initial payment. With this, plus a pool of whatever resources they had, they bought an old jeep, a couple of tractors, a flew surplus airport buildings which they moved to the site. In six years they have brought 8,400 acres of tough prarie rangeland under cultivation in spite of hail, drought, and early frost which brought three poor crop yields. Houses are built horseshoe style to give close neighbours for the wies and children. The community now numbers 18 men, 14 wives and 32 children and each family owns a chare in assets totalling more than $200,000,00.
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