. Practical handbook and guide to Manitoba and the North-West [microform]. Agriculture; Agriculture. = i S'l tsi A PRACTICAL HAND-BOOK AND QUIDB Everywhere throughout the country the busy hum of the threshing naachine is heard, and the farmers are jubilant over the results. Notwithstanding the unusually trying harvest the crops in many cases are turning out very fine. In a recent drive through the townships of east Red River we noticed a specially good sample of wheat passing through the machine on the place of Mr. Forbes, his crop of 600 bushels averaging thirty bushels to the acre. Messrs. T
. Practical handbook and guide to Manitoba and the North-West [microform]. Agriculture; Agriculture. = i S'l tsi A PRACTICAL HAND-BOOK AND QUIDB Everywhere throughout the country the busy hum of the threshing naachine is heard, and the farmers are jubilant over the results. Notwithstanding the unusually trying harvest the crops in many cases are turning out very fine. In a recent drive through the townships of east Red River we noticed a specially good sample of wheat passing through the machine on the place of Mr. Forbes, his crop of 600 bushels averaging thirty bushels to the acre. Messrs. Tuson, Macdonald, James Archibald, Corbott, , and others, of Springfield, report very fine gi-ains, with yield fully up to the average reported. Oats and barley are generally of unusually fine quality and pro- ductiveness. Mr. George Aliller, of Cook's Creek, on a sowing of two acres of fresh broken sod, reaped eighty bushels of first- class oats. Mr. FuUerton reports a fine yield of huUess oats. Mr. W. J. Allan has some fine grains of Montana rye and wheat of good promise from a few seeds sent to him from Montana last spring. Messrs. Ross and Ede, and in fact all the farmers of Sunnyside, are well satisfied with their splendid prospects for the future. The country everywhere presents a novel and gratifying appearance, in being dotted with stacks of grain in every direction the eye may turn. Farmers, though selling a load or two of wheat at the present prices for immedi- ate necessity, are inclined to hold the bulk of their crops for a dollar per bushel? MANITOBA HAY. i\mm The weather remains fair and warm, and the season of In- dian summer seems likely to continue late into the fall. Even now a few of the dawdlers in husbandry have but just carted the last of their hay, and had the season continued stormy and wet some of the cattle would have fared lightly during the winter months off even the dry and stalky stuff which has last been taken from the ground. It is a fact
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