Manitoba and North west Territories . ly healthiest countries on the globe, and are pleasant tolive in. There is no malaria, and therefore no diseases arising out of,or particular to, either the province or the climate. The climatic drawbacks are occasional storms and blizzards, andthere are sometimes summer frosts. But the liability to these is notgreater than in many parts of Canada, and certainly not so great as inmany parts of the United States immediately south of Manitoba. Very little snow falls on the prairies, the average depth being abouteighteen inches, and the native horses can graz
Manitoba and North west Territories . ly healthiest countries on the globe, and are pleasant tolive in. There is no malaria, and therefore no diseases arising out of,or particular to, either the province or the climate. The climatic drawbacks are occasional storms and blizzards, andthere are sometimes summer frosts. But the liability to these is notgreater than in many parts of Canada, and certainly not so great as inmany parts of the United States immediately south of Manitoba. Very little snow falls on the prairies, the average depth being abouteighteen inches, and the native horses can graze out of doors all the unusual winter of 1879-80 the snowfall was deeper, but suchwas the case all over the continent. The whole of the continent ofNorth America is liable to sudden variations and exceptions fromordinary seasons. The snow goes away and the ploughing begins from the first to thelatter end of April, a fortnight earlier than in the Ottawa Red River opens at about the same time, and sometimes a fort-. SUMMARIZED DESCRIPTION OF MANITOBA. 51 night earlier than the opening of the Ottawa River. The summermonths are part of May, June, July, August and September. Autumnlasts until November, when the regular frosts set in. The harvesttakes place in August and lasts till the beginning of September The soil is rich, deep black, argillaceous mould or loam, resting on adeep and very tenacious clay subsoil. It is nearly, if not quite, therichest soil in the world, and is especially adapted to the growth ofwheat. Analyses by chemists in Scotland and Germany have estab-lished this fact. The soil is so rich that it does not require the addition of manure foryears after the first breaking of the prairie, and in particular places wherethe black loam is very deep, it is practically inexhaustible. This greatrichness of the prairie soil has arisen from the gathering of droppingsfrom birds and animals and ashes of prairie fires, which have accumu-lated for ages, to
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