. Reports of tenant farmers' delegates on the Dominion of Canada as a field of settlement [microform]. Land settlement; Agriculture; Colonisation intérieure; Agriculture; genealogy. 46 aid not ascertain. Grain is not expected jto require much outlet for some years, as the new settlers always require seed and rood for themselves and animals until jtheir own crops are matured. There is a jderaand also from railway contractors, and by the time these markets fail, com- Imunications will be better. Wheat was [worth 28. 6d. to Ss. per bushel, and oats Is. 8d to 28. Potatoes and turnips grow jwell,
. Reports of tenant farmers' delegates on the Dominion of Canada as a field of settlement [microform]. Land settlement; Agriculture; Colonisation intérieure; Agriculture; genealogy. 46 aid not ascertain. Grain is not expected jto require much outlet for some years, as the new settlers always require seed and rood for themselves and animals until jtheir own crops are matured. There is a jderaand also from railway contractors, and by the time these markets fail, com- Imunications will be better. Wheat was [worth 28. 6d. to Ss. per bushel, and oats Is. 8d to 28. Potatoes and turnips grow jwell, as I have stated previously, and cattle do well on prairie grass in summer and on hay in winter, which can be got «s yet in any quantity ofE unsettled land in the neighbourhood. There is nothing 'to pay for it except the labour. The first jbreaking of the land out of prairid can be let by contract for 12s. an acre; the next land following years it can be ploughed jfor 8s. Harrowing is a mere bagatelle After the first year; and harvesting, owing to the dry climate and the level nature of the surface, is inexpensive. In â Quebec (when I speak of this Province I mean the Eastern Townships) you have |the advantage of being near the seaboard, conequently the freight to the European market is low. You require less capital than in Ontario, as land of the same quality is cheaper. The wages are lo^er. Water is in better supply naturally, and permanent pasture is found to answer. On the other hand, Ontario can furnish a greater choice of more valuable land; roads are better; schools more numer- ous ; winter is shorter ; and the people fenerally are more like ourselves, his arises from the absence in a great measure of a foreign element as compared with Quebec. Ague is â till present in some parts of Ontario, while Quebec and Manitoba are free. Manitoba has a disadvantage as conapared with both these Provinces in her distance from a market, in her sparse population, greater scarcit
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