. Facts about grain growing, stock raising and dairying in the midst of the great fertile belt [microform] : the district of Kinistino, Saskatchewan, Northwest Territories of Canada. Agriculture; Agriculture. KvC^^ n lysp %^ The Electoral District of Kinistino. \:j>Yi^$y At a time when, as at present, the labor markets of p;urope, and more especially of Oreat Britain, are overstocked to a degree almost unprecedented in the history of the world, and when both in the Ri-eat centres of commerce and in the agricultural districts alike, scores of lusty men, able and willing to work, are literall
. Facts about grain growing, stock raising and dairying in the midst of the great fertile belt [microform] : the district of Kinistino, Saskatchewan, Northwest Territories of Canada. Agriculture; Agriculture. KvC^^ n lysp %^ The Electoral District of Kinistino. \:j>Yi^$y At a time when, as at present, the labor markets of p;urope, and more especially of Oreat Britain, are overstocked to a degree almost unprecedented in the history of the world, and when both in the Ri-eat centres of commerce and in the agricultural districts alike, scores of lusty men, able and willing to work, are literally crowded out from the means of earning a livelihocKl, it is natural that emigra- tion should suggest itself os the readiest, if not the classes of persons who find their energies cramped and their ])ros])ects "cribbed, cabined and con- fined " in their own over-pouulate<l countries. To such men the writer would say: "Come to the North-\Vest. Whether from the' long settled pro- vinces in this continent or from the mother land beyond the broad Atlantic or from the swartning hives of Kurope, come to the Nortli-West. You will find here elbow room which is what vou re-. FARM PRODUCTS AT CARROT RIVKK AORICULTLRAI, SOCIKTY'S EXHIBITION, 1892. only means, of relieving the congestion which is now sapping the vitality of the older countries. The average British farmer is in too many cases no longer the sturdy, independent yeoman of former times. High rents, low prices and deterioration of the soil, combined with an ever increasing compe- tition from abroad, are slowly and surely working his ruin. The struggling agriculturalist, barely able to make both ends meet, or perhaps already in difficulties, is ready like a drowning man to grasp at an^ straw to save himself from destruction. The Canadian North-West offers him, not a straw, but a stout plank that will not only keep his bead above water, but will, if aided by his own exer- tions, float him safely to the haven of p
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