A Tour Through Canada in 1879: With Remarks on the Advantages it Offers for Settlement to the British Farmer : to which is Appended a Report on Manitoba, Specially Compiled from the Reports of the Farmers' Delegates from Great BritainIrish Farm Office, 1880 - 48 páginas |
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Página 31 - Earth's emerald green, and many-tinted dyes, The fleecy whiteness of the upper skies ; The tread of armies thickening as they come, The boom of cannon and the beat of drum ; The brow of beauty and the form of grace, The passion and the prowess of our race ; The song of Homer in its loftiest hour...
Página 47 - ... the Canadian line they get a much larger yield than this, and in twenty-seven miles along the Assiniboine River in 1877 over 400,000 bushels were harvested that averaged considerably over 30 bushels to the acre. In the North-western provinces of Canada wheat often produces 40 and 50 bushels to the acre, while in South Minnesota 20 bushels is the average crop, in Wisconsin only 14, in Pennsylvania and Ohio 15. The fact established by climatologists that the cultivated plants yield the greatest...
Página 37 - No beaver, mink, muskrat, sable, martin, otter, or fisher shall be hunted, taken or killed, or had in possession of any person between the first day of May, and the first day of November ; nor shall any traps, snares, gins, or other contrivances, be set for them during such period ; nor shall any muskrat house be cut...
Página 47 - ... beavers should be paid to the sovereign whenever he should come into the district. This enormous territory thus easily disposed of, and the value of which for agricultural and mining purposes is unsurpassed, the last and best acquisition of the Dominion of Canada, comprises, as near as can be calculated, 2,984,000 square miles, whilst the whole of the United States south of the international boundary contains 2,933,600 square miles. Including the older portions of Quebec, Ontario, and the maritime...
Página 47 - ... cultivation. At the present rate of immigration and the rapid reclamation of this easily cultivated land, it is by no means unlikely that within the next two years 2,000,000 acres of this prairie will be under wheat cultivation, and this probably will be doubled within five years from the present time. This means an addition to. the wheat products of the world of 100,000,000 bushels, which may be increased almost indefinitely.
Página 28 - On the occasion of the visit of His Royal Highness the Prince of Wales, the Mahomedan Literary Society presented His Highness with an Address of Loyal Welcome.
Página 40 - ... Biggar, of Kirkcudbright, ' I much prefer Manitoba to Dakota. The first cost of land is less ; the soil is deeper and will stand more cropping ; the sample of wheat is better, and the produce five to ten bushels per acre more; all of which is profit. On the whole I was favourably impressed with Manitoba. No one who sees the immense extent of fertile soil and the excellence of its products can for a moment doubt that there is a great future before that country.
Página 46 - ... three, or four feet deep ; and its fertility, no doubt arose from vegetable decay and from the fires which every year sweep over those lands, depositing fine ashes. What was produced we had to take from the evidence we could collect from the people, and from the stacks and stubble in the fields; and I consider I keep safely within the mark when I say, that taking a good piece of land, it will produce, after being broken properly, 40 bushels the first year, and an average of 30 bushels for thirty...
Página 46 - Along the Red River and about Winnipeg the soil is very strong black vegetable mould, and I have no doubt most of it would carry paying crops of wheat for thirty years ; but it is very flat, and I must say that I like the country better west of Winnipeg, and the furthest point we reached (150 miles west of Winnipeg) best of all. You have here the Little Saskatchewan River, with fine sloping ground on each side ; the soil and what it produced was good, as you will see from the samples of each I now...
Página 39 - In accordance with such invitation, the following delegates visited Canada: — Mr. Biggar, The Grange, Dalbeattie, Kirkcudbrightshire. Mr. Cowan, Mains of Park, Glenluce, Wigtownshire. ' Mr. Gordon, Comlongon Mains, Annan, Dumfriesshire. Mr. Elliot, Hollybush, Galashiels. Mr. Logan, Legerwood, Earlston, Berwickshire. Mr. Snow, Pirntaton, Fountain Hall, Midlothian. Mr. Hutchinson, Brougham Castle, Penrith, Cumberland. Mr. Peat, Lees House, Silloth, Cumberland. Mr. Irving, Bowness-on-Solway, Carlisle....