. The visit of the tenant-farmer delegates to Canada in 1890 [microform] : the reports of Mr. George Brown ... on the agricultural resources of Canada, Prince Edward Island, Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, Quebec, Ontario, Manitoba, the North-West Territories, and British Columbia. Agriculture; Agricultural resources; Agriculture; Ressources agricoles. 102 The A(/rii'ultui'at Jtinout'cct of Canada. twenty-Hvf tnilosâ\nly tile farmers tlial they wei-e y;ettini,'a nuii'kel price fur tiu'ir wlieat. Tlie price for timt day was ;{s. Id. per bushel, «ir liOs. ^(1. ])er quarter. From I'orta^e-la-Pmirio
. The visit of the tenant-farmer delegates to Canada in 1890 [microform] : the reports of Mr. George Brown ... on the agricultural resources of Canada, Prince Edward Island, Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, Quebec, Ontario, Manitoba, the North-West Territories, and British Columbia. Agriculture; Agricultural resources; Agriculture; Ressources agricoles. 102 The A(/rii'ultui'at Jtinout'cct of Canada. twenty-Hvf tnilosâ\nly tile farmers tlial they wei-e y;ettini,'a nuii'kel price fur tiu'ir wlieat. Tlie price for timt day was ;{s. Id. per bushel, «ir liOs. ^(1. ])er quarter. From I'orta^e-la-Pmirio s\r continued our journey \\('stward, on the main line i)f liie Canadian Pacific, the first italt beini^' at Indian Head, in Assiniboia, .'{) I miles west of Winnipei,'. \ear Indian ilead an! situated the Mell Farm, tlie Farm of the J'rassey Colonisation Company, aiul the (Jovei-nment Kxperimental Karns. Wctioii was made in an almost continuous down- pour of rain, we could hardly do them justice. 1 noticed that some of the wheat on the Bell larm had been nuieh damai^ed by frost, and consequently was a \ery ])0(»r siim|)le. The new railway from Uej^ina northward havin^j just Ix'eu cc-mph-ted, we Iravelleil over it as far as Princt* Albert. Aotwitlistandini; tlu- (h-luc;*' of rain from above, and th(! unlimited amount of mud below, the next day was spent in seeint; tho surroundinj:; coinitiy. We were shown souu' very f^ood samples of wheat and barley. 'I'he cattle also appeared to l)e healthy, in good condition, and nu)re lunnerous than I. expected to find them in a district which had, until recently, been so very renu)to frouj any railway commu- nication. Prince Albert was the most northerly point reaelnd during nur toiii' in (';i:i:!i!;i. <);i r.'lMi'n t i Ke'.rii'a we iittended ;ni exiiiiti-. "^^C^ll-fc!*' "TT^ â HI} if.'Si'; r^ . '&>:y^ MNCU , Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have bee
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