. The advantages of Canada for emigrants. I lived in a countrywhere there ivas frozen grain, I would keep pigs. And yet the ther-mometer, I suppose, falls as low at Virden as at any place in the North-West. Even the loss from occasional drought, which every agriculturalregion is liable to, can be largely averted by proper tillage. ? There aremen in Manitoba who have sown their wheat on stubble withoutploughing for several years in succession, trusting for a wet seasonto give them a harvest ; and when the crop has been partly or whollywanting, they have blamed the country. In any other country
. The advantages of Canada for emigrants. I lived in a countrywhere there ivas frozen grain, I would keep pigs. And yet the ther-mometer, I suppose, falls as low at Virden as at any place in the North-West. Even the loss from occasional drought, which every agriculturalregion is liable to, can be largely averted by proper tillage. ? There aremen in Manitoba who have sown their wheat on stubble withoutploughing for several years in succession, trusting for a wet seasonto give them a harvest ; and when the crop has been partly or whollywanting, they have blamed the country. In any other country butthis such men would starve. During the last 10 years, taking one 20 The Advantages of Canada for Emigrants. year with another, the harvests in Western Canada have, I believe,been equal to those of any other country in the world. But lastsummer some localities suttered a good deal from dry weather; andyet in those very places there were farmers who got a first-rate yield,because of proper attention to summer-fallowing and GALLOWAY CATTLE ON A MANITOBA FARM. I found some difference of opinion as to the ! merits of wheat and mixed farming; but without doubt Farming. men are coming more and more to recognise the su-periority of the latter. And one of these, in a con-versation on this subject, remarked that it was a disgrace tothe farmers here that they buy what they need in the wayof butter, eggs, bacon, &c, instead of raising it. And certainly atthe present time there is really no excuse for making mistakes aboutfarming in the Canadian North-West. Not to speak of the Farmers[nstitutes, and the thoroughly interesting agricultural journals pub-lished in the country, the Government affords every facility forobtaining information as to the best methods and times of ploughing,seeding, and harvesting, and is anxious to impart this \d more courteous as well as capable set of men could be found foribis work than the managers in charge of the Gove
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