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18 inches A. V. Beckstead acre per acre Agathe Alex Allan Bell Anne Assiniboine Begg Birds Hill black loam Burnside bushels Canadian North-West Canadian Pacific Railway cattle Chas Clear Springs climate is healthy Cook's Creek Depth of black difficulty in getting difficulty in obtaining Ellison Emerson F. B. Allan farm feet deep Ferguson found the climate getting wood Gillespie Gladstone grain grass Greenwood Headingly High Bluff intending settlers James John Kildonan land manure McDonald McKinnon Meadow Lea miles Morris Neil Henderson Neil McLeod Nelson Brown Nelsonville oats obtaining wood Ogletree Owens plenty of hay plenty of wood Polson Poplar Point Portage Portage-La-Prairie prairie raised corn successfully Ridgeville Robt Rockwood S. C. Higginson Saskatchewan Scratching River SETTLERS RESPECTING sickness Springfield Stewart Stonewall Sutherland TESTIMONY OF SETTLERS Thos Tidsbury turnips W. A. Farmer W. B. Hall West Lynne Westbourne Winnipeg winter Yield Yield Yield
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Page 15 - W The townships are numbered in regular order northerly from the International Boundary line or 49th Parallel of latitude, and lie in ranges numbered East and West from a certain Meridian line, drawn northerly from the said 49th parallel, from a point ten miles or thereabouts
Page 11 - in addition to the favourable climatic conditions indicated by the thermometer, the length of the day in summer in the higher northern latitudes, favours the rapid and vigorous growth of vegetation, and takes the place to a certain extent of heat in this respect.
Page 40 - an abundance of seeds, as to make the fodder partake of the nature of a feed of grain, and it will be seen that the tales about the readiness with which stock will fatten on prairie hay are not overdrawn. It may be interesting to enumerate a few of the grasses found in the
Page 40 - grasses, have ten or twenty leaves. Of course this is an extremely valuable feature in grass, as the leaves are more easily digested than the culms. The culms are exceedingly fine in the prairie grass, and this again would strike a farmer as indicating a good quality of grass, add to this that there are in some
Page 83 - I would recommend settlers to get oxen for breaking " the sod. Horses cost much more to keep as they require " grain. Oxen can be worked on the grass. I am more in " the stock line, and I can say the country is well adapted " for stock-raising. The pasturage could not be better.