. Reports of tenant farmers' delegates on the Dominion of Canada as a field for settlement [microform] : second series. Agriculture; Agriculture. t is mostly prairio, grasses, riiot^, nnd thu samo jilivcc for iion. ul Scotch furHicra, t,o<'iUiaiIiiiii 1879 ijoct: t to Dakota. Kini cropping Tlie ; tho ur ocru inuru, all of certainly Biirprisecl Ti, avcraKiiiS about plh, benuatli which to dry, and U wu 11 B to tho so\ithwar(l, I wan very hiuhly Tcoption thu richest ly years to proiiuco 0 expense in culti- being 4 feet deep of ong black vegetable of wheat for thirty x-'ttcr w(!st of Win- niiip
. Reports of tenant farmers' delegates on the Dominion of Canada as a field for settlement [microform] : second series. Agriculture; Agriculture. t is mostly prairio, grasses, riiot^, nnd thu samo jilivcc for iion. ul Scotch furHicra, t,o<'iUiaiIiiiii 1879 ijoct: t to Dakota. Kini cropping Tlie ; tho ur ocru inuru, all of certainly Biirprisecl Ti, avcraKiiiS about plh, benuatli which to dry, and U wu 11 B to tho so\ithwar(l, I wan very hiuhly Tcoption thu richest ly years to proiiuco 0 expense in culti- being 4 feet deep of ong black vegetable of wheat for thirty x-'ttcr w(!st of Win- niiipeg, best of all. round on side ; e samples of each I aa I will hIiow you 1 better adapted for ⢠* rom IS to 2, wamp, as I iticturcd from i\ to 'i\ feet; siMne rivers, it has . for tho growing of ount of it being so years in succession, t down to you has 1 per acre.' ihes to 6 feet deep, ireut districts, on a luld appear to range ler bushel. Barley i, of the English and t: nys ; trying from 25 to 10. iL;ru<-h fnnu the ' C' Virntlar' I,',lullii;/ h dnui'lit. 1.(7 U McLean, ft farmer near Portage, hnd 1230 bnshols of Fife wheat oft 40 acres. Another man, ft native of Uoss-shirc, who was ploughing his own , told us he had cropped it for seventeen years in succession, his last crop yiehllug 35 bushels per njiv. Mr Ryan, ISI.!'., a good authority, said the average of wheat nnght safely In; taken at 25 ti. aO bushels, and of oats 60 bushels. . Next day we drove over Messrs. Kiddle's farm; their wheat has averoged fully 30 b\mhels per acre. Mb. Gkobok Cowan, Glenluce, WUjtown, says ; ' Mr. Mackenzie's farm is at Burnsidc, about 9 miles from Voyage la rrairie. . He favo-irod me with his average for the seasons of 1877 nnd 18,8, and his estimate "r the present year. Wheat'crop, 1877. 41 bushels ; 1878 3fl bushels ; year (1879) he expects it to be on 40 bushels, average «''"«lit <30 *â¢.: » "' ''« has grow
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