HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Brussels Post, 1892-1-29, Page 6AGRICULTURAL.
From the Peace River,
'The Minister a the Interior has in hta
possesnfonsome lltitglufk'ent samples of grain,
which Mr William Ogilvie, 1).L.S„ brnnght
back with hint from the Peace river country
last week. The speei 00ns of wheat, oats
and barley are excoilent, the two -rowed bar,
ley being eapncially flue, The Pomiuiou
overtime ut etwoe 3,000,000 acres of land in
this section, wtieh formerly belonged to
British Columbia, and t110 fact that reroals
can advantngeouely be mums in Oda district
shows the land to ho of some value. Me,
Lawrouce, of hurt Vermilion, nn rho I'en°s to imptm'e the gnnbty. To do thosetbinga,
river, this y,.:"• 1 nixed J 1,0ui bushels of bar- utast tanners must step right out of thotr
ley, which he s mOIvert!n0) into !lour, and old ways an to bleier and advanced ground.
has been offered $9 per ,:v l0 for it by the They must herd the teachings of those who
Hudson Bay Company. have succeeded, and of those who know the
roads and means which leads to success.
There is a healthy show of patriotic feel alg,
and a nest commendable good spirit, in those
who have found out these things and who
have stlenectletl in the business, to be so will-
ing to help otters, give them the benefit of
all they know, and )hake them rivals at tho
front.
We oan raise more corn to the acre than
anything else, Why should we not then
avail ourselves of this unportant ernp for all
it is worth ? The range may be from twelve
to twenty tons par acre of most nutritious
food. It takes from two and a half to three
tons of ensilage to equal ono ton of hay for
fooling purposes, At the rote of fifteen to
twenty tons of corn per acre, one acro of
Dorn will keep from two and a half to three
and a half times ns much stock as one acre
of hay. In this way we certainly can cheap•
en production,
The cow giving milk wants something
more ; so we give our clover hay and some
nitrogenous grains. There are great pos-
sibilities for an acre with ensilage. One acro
will food one cow 02.0days, There is no better
food for cows in winter than ensilage, It is
next to grass, and takes its place most ad-
mirably. The criticisms of tho silo have
come from those wino know the least about
it. A man eau easily, as has been done,
make a case against ensilage by having, poor
silo and putting into it poor Dorn. There is
a sa0;ng an barve0ting corn for tho silo over
the old way of stocking, husking and grind-
ing.
The silo must be made air -tight and so
oonatrICled as to keep out the frost. With
studding two by six or eight inches, and a
tight foundation wall on which the sill is
bedded, and the use of building paper, and
ceiling iusil0 and ant, a frost•proof silo cam
be made and also ait•tigtt. It is well to
double the paper.
The corn must be planted so it can ear out,
as this makes the stalks better and the ears
add to its value. We grow the Stowell
Evergreen and like it much, We out it when
the ears are in a good boiling state. We cat
it with all hands, put it into bundles and
allow it to wit at least oneday in the field.
Then we begin to draw and to fill the silo,
leaving two men in the field to out and help
load, The loaded wraon is left at the cutter
and with the second One the team gets au-
othorload, We cover our ensilage with swede
hay cut and put on a foot deep, Then we
put beards on top. Our ensilage keeps
well,
yuu may be certain that the silo is not pro•
pony couatrooted, or tho corn WAS put in
immature. Ensilage has an odor usually,
bol is not a disagreeable ono. If, in milk-
ing, the milk is allowed to cool in tho silo,
it will take this odor just ns it will that of
the stable if allowed to cool in it, The odor
of well -Matured ensila'o oan never bo du -
tooted in the milk metro from its use. The
only difference is a better color and more
bitter.
In my judgment, improved methods moat
bo adopted and more intelligence npplled,
The cost of production must bo lessened. If
the silo will enable ns to snake batter at 10
cents a pond, thou we all want the silo, The
problem 1s, first to reduce cost, and second,
Brandon's Wheat King,
1(1r, J. W. `iandison, the wheat king of
the Brandon district, Left Winnipeg recent
ly for Glasgow, Scotland, accompanied by
Ins Wife. Before departing Mr. Saullsou
oriered 13 now binders from the Massey -
Harris firth, also paid the 11011(1 commission-
er of the Canadian Pacific $"22,000 for land
which loo proposes to add to his extensive
farm, Eight years ago Mr. Sandison tante
to Manitoba as a farem laborer,
On pie Breeding of Horses.
A well -attend d meeting of the East Pet
arbor& harmer,' Institute was 11e1d at Keene
on Jan. 9th, at which air. F. Birdsall, the
president, presided. At the morning seamen)
111r. T. 13. Linfield. B.S,A., gave a pertin-
ent address on " email Leakages on the
Farm." In the afternoon Mr. J. Lancaster
of Otonabee, read a thoughtful paper on
" How to Make lea'In_ng Pay."
Prof. Urenside, V S., of the Oratorio Agri-
cultural College," discussed " Horses and
Horse Marlste, 11 19 address was a vein -
able one. They should, he pointed out in
opening, study the requirements of thenmr-
kets. The boom in heavy horses a few
year's ago Was due to change) of ideas in the
cities of the United Suites, which led them
to look for (heavy horses to do their draught
work, and to the settlement of the Collodion
North -)vest and the demand for heavy horses
which arose Otero, and in Loth cases the
market 1001 not particular so long as the
animals wore heavy and strong. The rte..
mond fn these tomo unaetero, 1ewever, had
fallen oil'. The Northwest wan raising
horses, and the western slates had gone ex-
tensively into horse breeding and 1eul poet ty
well glut ted their own market. Some pea.
ple attributed tato fall in prices to the Mc-
Kinley bill. He said that MeaOtite had had
some'llfiltenee on p1'10e9, but not as Imm•ll
as some imagined, because on the other side
they had raised horses to such au ex cot as
to very )much decrease the priers i e. their own
market. hooses had declined do por''ent. to
price in thegreat Buffalo horse umu'kel in the
four orfiveyears. The Canadian horse hail just
a good reputation th re, n ' brought a 1 ttle
higher price than the western horse, Be-
fore the McKinley bill came into force the
demand and the prices were decreasing
in the States. At any rate with the large
Home supply, and the tariff, they would not
have a market in the States for ordinary
horses, and they had lost the North-west
market. What foreign tnarkets thou, had
they? The old country market word be of
use if they produced the class of horses ro-
gttired. They could sell there, at a profit -
obi.) price, high-class heavy horses that
would weigh from 1,000 to 1,700 pounds.
For such hullos, a dealer would pay from
$L40 to 170. Tltore was a Targe numLer of
horses in this country for which there was
not a market, The cause of this had largely
been carelessness in breeding, brought about
by the unusual demand that had exise,1. In
-the future they should only breed from the
best and soundest snares of a high rials, that
would [Hake good breeders, and for a gond
•class of horses they would get a fairly pro.
fitable return. It cost on the average $75
to raise 1 "0. They should raise horses
that the; 'mind use, but that would
at the sane time be marketable, and
they should sell them when they wore at
the highest value. A good bis; horse of any
class was better than a good little one, but
was harder to raise. On tho whole they bad
raised more good horses of the heavy class
'than of the lighter, due to the bettor sires m
Who heavy class. A very large majority of
our light horses ware scrubs. They were
lacking in quality, style, symmetry, and the
majority in action. He did not think they
could improve the quality of their light
horses quicker than by infusing !novo thor-
oughbred blood into them. He did not ad-
vocate breeding for speed, for it was too
precarious a business for tho ordinary far•
mor, but what they 5ltonld bread was whet
might bo called the general utility horse. It
was not for speed he recommended the thou,
oughbred, butt for quality, Quality was
shown in a clean cut bowl and nook, a fine
skin, with an absence of beefiness, and a
fine, closely knit texture in the hoof. '1 he
market required light horses, with brand•
ing or quality. The thoroughbred of itself
was not exactly what they wanted, for
When pure, being highly organized,
was often Inc high strung for ordinary
work, bat they wanted more thorough-
bred blond, They should brood with
mares of substance and thoroughbred sires.
There was a demand et. Immo, in the States
and in England for carriage horses. There
was also a very good demand for sad•
die horsesand roadsters. In breeding from
the thoroughbred, therefore, the farmer had
three strings to his how -the earria;0 horse
roadster and saddle horse. I3y using thor-
ohigllbred sires of siz and snhstanoe and
good mares they would greed horses that
would be rood farm horses th.it could
be used uu1il of a proper ago to sell,
which he believed to ile the proper midmost
profitable pian. It was a dillinult matter to
get at good iloaelt, Yorkshire of Cleveland
bay horse Imre, and uvea in England it was
hard to got a good (loath horse. 13ut the
best romans in. brooding Irtln a coach wore
obtained when there was a thoroughbred
foundation. Hackneys were booming now,
but to import a Ha0k50y would cost more
than the market would justify. Some trot-
ters with good straight trotting action and
size and good looks, would pro.lttuo good
roadsters, carriage horses and *novel put^
pose horses, bat Lara again it was boat to
breed from entree with blood 10 thorn. Thor-
oughbred horses for the purpose spoken of
were not high in price as a rule, and a good
one could be got for 000, For cavalry
horses there wan n dotnand in England, and
oven at 1101110, 0: weeding the supply, and for
these they should brood on the limes ho had
laid down.
Tho Silo and The Cow.
BY 1000. W. 0. 300.100, Otr wzsn 11010.
PEALS OF TRUTH.
When a man is told of a fault he should
rejoice.
Tho great mal is 1e who does not lose his
child -heart.
The woad is a comedy to those that
thin)., a tragedy to those that feel.
All ,,len that are ruined are ruined on the
side of their natural propensities.
Learning without thought is labor lost ;
thought without learning is perilous.
He who note with a u)0atabt view to his
own advantage will be much murmured
against.
Virtue never appears more lovely than
when she stretches out her hand to the
penitent and fallen.
If one who has no elegance of soul appears
graceful, it is by accident, as a fool some-
1.10188looks salsa.
Of Lard Brougham it is written that shah
was his love of excellence that if his station
in life had been that of a bootblack honorer
would have rested content until he was the
best bootblack in England.
There is one fact 1: firmly believe that
With oaroful mahe.gomcut, with tie silo
and ensilage, the dairy farmers of to -day
can keep three cows where they are now
keeping ono, Ensilage will make ilrst-class
milk,
and when yon hoar ono say that
11 milk or butter has the ensilage flavor,"
T H..0
BRUSSELS POST.
Forward I
The Lord snake unto Moses:. ,,Spenk nate
the rhildron of Israel that I. hey go forward.,
1:xelts S1 V. le.
0'er the Centuries still It smmdath
From ltanl•'Leplllllby the nm I
&Kindotb 1 Soundeth I SOInldOth 1 nounlolh 1
01111 the carr of trod 81oundet It.
When the wilderness sm'tvhndoth-
As in days that ore to thee
Typos of 101 the days and doings
111 !memoirs 's purse hogs_.
Ilio,. worth) the shadows, hiding
(led. Ouulhput our, nhidfhg,
very troth toned ear may hear hon
('alliin, every leader neat' flim
Know the nuh0an "0 and the meaning
Of the (Thurmond aloud way, loaning,
From tho sheltering slti0a above (till,-
Rend the 1110 into w'11ieh allall move nam
'bo forgot the things behind gran
All the renal hones Unit hind Min,
All iho lustful blights that blinrl'him ;
10IYpt, -earth)', station, sort) id --
"Iia 0pon her racks rerorded-
Doran and death and throned hating
Itnlo, -old Vassalage awaiting
i\'it 11 ler rlialus, .--and %Vont and Sorrow
Making desolate each morrow.
Ln 1 This glad, imperial mossago
Wit h its luminous unthawing°,
1Lath 0(1011 wondrmis help and hoping
Still. for all, who blindly groping
Through Ilfc's dlnl 0 10011 ain mares -
With their over -changing phases -
Find, within its tone and word,
Inspiration front be 1 ,rd,-
1''lnd the faith of yrst ernight
Whlrh had vanished with the
the grace in which they stood
Noah the " Paschal. " sprinkled -blood, -
Find Ile strong, obedient win,
Bidding passion's pulse :^^" Be °4111,"--
Findthe steadfast, eanfideneo
float could say : " 1 follow Moore, '-
Though the wind-swept billows .aro
That. could walk into this wave
Nothing fearing, not a doubt
But that Gad would lead then) out -
Brings cheat safely o'er the flood
To the "Promised Land " of God,
"Forward 1"
Lot this call a watchword bo
Unto me and pinto Oleo
From Baal:Moulton by tar sea.
BV LLewoL1.Y-\' A. Monnle0x.
The Blow," 'roronto.
Aml'ition, whish is clear sighted, sacri-
fices the present to rho future. Pleasure,
which is blind, saorifioos the future to the
present, but Envy, Avarice, and the baser
passions poison both tho present and the
future,
In the instructions of Ptabhotep, probab
ly tho oldest writer extant, is rho following
quotation : " If thou be wise, furnish thy
house well ; woo thy wife, cull do not quar-
rel with het' ; nourish her ; dock her out, for
find dross is her greatest delight, Perfume
her ; maho hor glad ao long as thou )loath ;
she is a blessing which hor possessor should
treat 00 becomes his own standing. Be not
unkind to her."
The Incentive of' Suffering.
There is an old story in tho (tracts annals
n a soldier undo. Antigonus who had a dis-
ease -an extremely panful one --likely to
bring him soon to ole grave. Ahvays first
in the charge was this soldier, rushing into
the hottest part of the fray as the bravest
of tho bravo. His pain prumptod him to
flgbt that he might forget It ; and he fearod
not death, because ho know in any case
ho had not long to live. Antigonus, who
greatly admires) the valor of this soldier,
discovering his malady, had him cured by
one of the most eminent physicians of the
day But from that) moment tho warrior
was absent from the front of the battle, IIe
now sought his ease ; for as be remarked 10
ills enmpallinna, Ito had something worth
living for -health, home, family end other
comforts -:011,1 lie would not risk his life 101
11 nerly, So, when oar troubles are loamy,
ave arc often by grace made courageous in
serving our (1',d. Wu feel that we have
nothing to live for in this world, and wo
are urged by !lope of the world to come, to
exhibit zeal, self-donial and Industry.
It Paye,
Itpays to wear a canning fnoo
A.nd hangh our troubles down
For n11 our little trial0 Walt,
Our laugh 101• or our frown.
Beneath the tangle of a 0111110
Ohu' douhta Will fade away,
As malts the frost in early spring
Beneath the sonny ray.
It pays to makO a worthy comae,
By coming it, our own;
To give the current of our Hume
A tanto and noble tone.
II.
nays) to onmfort henry hearts,
00p1•0s10d with dint despoil,
Anti
gloom of brightness there vas
It pays: 10 glva a 1101p!ng hand
7 o eager, iltroost, youth;
To nein with all their waywe.rdnoss,
Thou courage and their truth
'10.1,1400 with sympathy and love,
Their toned aln'll 1a1 win,;
ILAnda" to ]otlrt
tle8mishlnOlne the ."
A Race For Life,
A glen is heard at the dead of night,
Lifeboat ready!"
And every man to the signal true
Fights for phos In the eager crow :
Nor, lads, steady 1'
First a glance at t he shy .thieving foam,
Nowa look at 1110 loving home,
Thou together, 5.1 1.11 bated breath,
They Inaneb their boat in the gulf of death,
Over the breakers wild,
Little they root: of weather,
But toil• then' way
Tho' blindb,gsplmy,
Hear the skipper chow, and say,
"Up with tier Inds, and lift bar,
4.11 together ;
They, sec the ship In a sudden Rash,
81n ling eYee1
And grip then' sax with at sleeper breath ;
Now It's s'nme to a fight with death ;
Now or never
Fifty strokes and they're at hor side,
If they live in the boiling tido,
1f they last 4hro' the awful atter();
All, any' lads, lo's n rnrefor life!
Over the breakers wild,
Little th,,yy•reel: of weather,
But tear their tray
'l'hc' blinding spray,
Henr the shipper cheer, and say,
"Cp with her, lads, and lift her
All together!.
And loving hearts are on the shore
Hoping, fearing,
Till over the sea there comes a cheer,
Then the click of the oars you hear
Homeward steering,
Ne'or a thought of the danger past,
Now the lads aro on land at last ;
What's 0 storm to a gallant crow
Who race ter life, and who win it too?
Over the breakers wild,
little they reek of weather,
But, tear their way
7'hrc' blinding spray,
Bear the stripper cheer, and say,
" Up with bur, 14100, and lift hor
All together l"
-Temple Bar, J. L. MOLLOY.
At the Creekside.
Whore the nreok winds Omagh the loos,
11 i los above 11,0 misty 01(11,
Und-rneath the w'i do•, trees,
Slaetched in indolance and ease,
With his fancy but to please.
Lion 0110 farmer's son, 1001011113111.
Nov he Kerins 01,0 minnow 11 dart,
Round the boulders in the shade,
Listens to a clattering art.
Going to a neighboring mart,
Cross the stream whore human art
At the road n ford has made.
There a bloated frog, to croak,
Squats grotosquo,y nn a log ;
From it holo in yonder oak
Poops a squirrel, ,jist awoke.
Coaxing him its head tostroko,
Crouches Bob, the collie dog.
' Bluebird, robin and a,fay
Ventura near him to alight
Porches ono upon a spray,
Looks askance, as if to say,
Why in idleness to -day?
Aro you not a lazy Right l
The Kings.
A man said -net o his angel :
My spirits arc ration t'trongh.
And I cannot rainy this harts;
O brother, what shall 1 do?
" The terrible Slings aro on mo
With 51)0015 that aro deadly bright;
Against mo so from the, rrad10
l)o tato end my fathers fight?"
Than said to the man and his angel:
' Thou wavering, Coolish sail,
Back to the ranks 1 a\'hat matter
To win or to loco the whole.
" Adjudged by the little lodges
Who1111000,11100 not well, nor see;
Not thus, by the outer Issue,
The Wise shalt interpret thee,
" Thy will is rho vory, the only,
The solemn event of thine;
Tho wonism:t of hearts rlofy,nS
Is stronger than all these kings.
" Tho' out of the paths the' gather,
Mind's Doubt and I3oelly Pain,
And pallid Thirst of the Spiro
'not is kin to rho other twain,
" And 0,151, in a cloud of banners,
And ringleted Vain Desires,
And Viso, with the npo'ls nylon hint
Of ti-oo aml thy 110aton sins.
" Whal hands soovor have atoned them
Toward victory stip to ride,
A moaning left Lo filo rebel,
A. 11140 to the regicide.
"So littler and large a moaning,
A, Vehementuse an trite,
Ono quad intent to aetrhl Yuen
Doll scorn thorn and slay 1.1 ,10 too!
" While Kings of eternal evil,
Yrt dorkan rho hills about,
Tin pert is w'th broken scoot,
To rise on 11e lao1 avdonbt-
`"
Tri fear not. sensible
Nnr1111,•0ihoIca non1n'1,
13,11 llgl,t!ng, Ipt111.1ng, t1gh!.fig1,
Die, driven again: 4 the 50011 !
(Louisa lesson Gainey,
:TAN, 29, 1892.
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WINNIPEG'S GREAT GROWTH,
OOMMEROIAL DEVELOPMENT OF
MANITOBA'S OHIEF OITY,
In iho test ?Preside IL 11110 ()rime, from a
Ilam
1e4l0a cow "ill no lay a1'30,000 People
-Ea Assessed Stenos' 0'111110 la 111'15,0m1.
MIO, 11'hte the All nlull V5111 III or .0 Uhl,
10080 llcrevds 500.0110,000 -- IPI versified
inerrant lie Interests-t'nnadlaus at1(1
tion can not he found, The waterways
meeting hose lire of no small cofsoqulnee,
guaranteeing as tlley do for all time, once
they euro properly utilized, a olulpettltg
route for a groat »Intro of tho illtcrprovilluiul
c1uuueree, 11'1111 1a Sinai) oxpuudi4nru is
one place only the Blot river can he made
llo-vlgahlo for Ills largest lotto: tealuers t', the
center of rho city, By Ont)hag 't .1111141
through 10 1110111(100 110010 of level pia' ., 1)01111
-and n cowpony has already Leon ..41511i00d
for this purpose --the A9nllin'' 11 15 0111^
uectcd with Laic( s'Manitoba and Winnipeg^
psis, footling 0 00e,1d chain 111 navigable
water)) extlm.ling hundreds of miles north.
Their Enterprise. west ftum11'itluim„, Attho platoon ofthe
Notwithstanding
his roverbial shrewd a13,00.1mon t Mood It vent is also the ee11G'01g`
Hs
Yess, sa the Chit'ag0 !'imce, 1110 average illi point of the fertile plains exto,diog
American LS at fault when dealing with 1110
resources and territorial extent of central
Camila. The great majority of writers and
speakers hi the United States are prone to
consider the t11alle portion of rho territory
a Metre strip running along the international
boundary lino. Why this is it is hard to
say, but partially probably because of the
menent entrance, so to speak, of these ilia-
tricts into tllo society of civilized common'.
ties, As is well known, tiro Cauadlan
Pnoifio road was 1101 completed till 1883,
hoose the greater part of this wide region
was not thoroughly awosaible to explorers
and settlors until that time, In view, then
of this prevailing ignorance homy he inter -
listing to cite a few facts t'e ierdilu: the area
and natural resources of this northw eeteru
portion of talc continent,
A lino running 1,01)0 miles from north to
south, and another of equal length from coat
to west, tions not remelt tho borders of this
rolling, pm, l.11l,o plain, whose uniform
a'
west told northwest for mor0 than 1,000
miles. and the vault fields of petroleum and
caul,
and of the limitless area of timbal.' and
minerals extending enswward for hundreds
of mince through the rock highlands bor.
Bering ou Lake Superior. This position
guarttntoos to Winnipeg for all time to wimp
1110 eon lr01of nut only the interprovincial
trade, but 10130 talo Iilreathy sttlptllltlous 11'5,13•
contiuoutttl null trausoeoapie trade. The
highways of counnnree traversing those dif-
ferent regions most forever pour their
treasures through tie 40100 of tie city.
Having in view the immensity of rho
torrritory over which this young city reigns
01tp1'mme and its wonderful array of natural
t'clULtl'ee3, ono cannot Help observing the
hound of destiny pointing out 1Vtnnlp03 as
0110 of the great commercial centers of the
world when this great retain of nature is
developed, as it will he ore long. However,
for fear o1 hulas considered visionary, we
will refrain front lifting oven acameo of the
adaptability to ageism' Lure andslock-falsuig 1nl:ain hiding the x00110 of n future tame
is now verified by experience. But wo trill ant instead deal with Winnipeg LIS it 13.
As a railway center Winnipeg is militia'
t0 la froth 1•arlk 1n the galaxy of midway
centers on the °audita ,, she hexing no les.;
titan twelve liuos of railway centered within
iter borders. 01 the five Pacific roads three
have 1111ca to Winnipeg- -the Cistindian 1'eoi•
fir, whose headquarters for the western di-
vision are here ; the Northern Pa0111', and
Great Northam- A ,year or two from now
the Duluth & Winnipeg will have terminals
]lore, and 00 will the Manitoba & North
western railway, which rumor say's will be-
fore long become a t'anscoutineullil road.
The Great Northwest trent ad railway, whose
present eastern teruliuus Is brandon, will
also, in all probnhility, sock entrance to
1Vindhy, g etre long.
Water. pr. war for manufactories i iia1ulher
project of no sma11 im;lortanoe to the l.ity.
'Thu normal power in to .'1ssiltibo!n river is
equal to sonic '1,0(10 -horse power, and by
Constructing a short orbital connecting the
river with Lake :d anito60 at rho lowest es.
timate 0,000 additional horse -power will bo
obtained, S,rvoys and estimalvs have been
made showing this power to be ohtafulIlo
at a cost purely nominal as compared 101111
the great results. The city is now taking
steps to have this p3a•er developed, and
within two 01 three, yea's atmos) 11' minim;
will bo able to !utast Lt water•puwer sur•
passed by but few cities on the eon iuent.
Ten years ago 0110 city was a hamlet, to-
day it has 80,000 inhabitants. Ten years ago
Lite first lineof railway connecting it with rho
outside world was completed, to -day a dozen
railway linos radiate from it in every di.
reotion. The area of the city is 20.15 square
mile, its a000005ed value is .(33,000,000, and
the number of buildings is over 11,000- mag-
nificent public buildiegs, solid slruotnres of
stone tutd brick dedicated to commerce, and
many costly residences. Some sixty fac-
tories imve been established, The number
of wh,losale firms 0 forty and rotail firms is
fully 5110, and the annual volume of bust.
111108oaCeedsj+00 0,1100, The banking cam
it.al reprosentod by tau chartered !auks is
over $110,000,1100, with acelunulated surplus
of some :?i'2,u00,000. A11 the principal loan,
insurance, 1uu1 mercantile corporations have
bronco memo; here, and the loan conpooi's
represented (,ave invested soman 341„0,0(S)
ill city awl (arm properties. P1,'eot railways
arc in operation, both e1n,1rin 10,,1 Immo
systems, and 101 exuellcnt system of Neaten. -
works. The city has 110 miles of graded
streets, tett *lea of paved streets, 120 miles
of sidewalk, over thirty miles of sewers, 160
hydrants, forty water -tanks, forty public
wells, eleotrio nod gas street and louse
lighting, complete telephone mitt messenger
service, three fire stations with lirst-ehtss
equipment, and a polico force second to
none.
In educational matters Winnipeg stands
at the head of every western city of like
population, no effort being spared to provide
a universal education at the lowest possible
cost. The Dominion governnteut has pro.
aided handsomely for education by giving
one out of every eighteen square miles of
arable land to the public schools, and, be-
sides, has endowed the University of Mani•
toba with 150,000 acres of the choicest land
to be found in the province. The city has
one university, five colleges, one high-
school, ono collegiate institute, one
modal school, two medical schools,
twenty-one public schools, two ladies'
schools, and one convent. The public
schools are nearly all substantial brick
buildings and their total valuation is 8300.
000, while the amount required for their
maintenance is close on $00,000 it year.
Hotelticconmodatioi is always a question
of importance with the travelling public and
in this matter Winnipeg is second to no
city on the continent, taking size. into eon.
sideration. Theo aro in the city above
forty hotels, besides a number of restaurant,
'Pte loading ones at present aro tho Claren-
don, the Queen's, and the Leland, but by
the down of 1102 these will have to look to
their laurels, as by that time the magnifh-
mut 5tl'htOttlre to llotol Manitoba, built by
the Northern 1'aoill0 Railway company in.
connection with their depot, will he fully
opened to the public. This palatial struc-
ture, seven stories high, has been erected
at a cost of over $500,000, and tvi11 oomparo
favorably with any hotol in Chicago, New
York, or Boston. The above proves Win•
nipeg's ability to cator to the tastes of all
classes of travellers.
not in this article go beyond the points
reached by that groat western pioneer --tie
railway tram, and accordingly fully awes.
allele to settlers. The district thus equipped
embraces an area of neatly 500,000 square
miles, What this area memos is made plain
by the statement that out of it might be
carved no less than eight states, each the
size of Illinois, sod then a good slice to
spare,
Tho continent can not produce a Boil su-
perior in fertility to the rich 1)Iac10 loans
soil of Manitoba (area, 123,200 square
miles), and, with local excrop(1500, suoh its
Morass or a belt of )tills, the same applies
to the whole territory above design.
atoll. The yield of wheat per neve has 1 an
from twenty to forty and farty-lire bushels,
of tho world-famoar " Manitoba hard"
wheat, whiletho harvest of the present year
may be described as the crowning effort of
to r000rd•breaking soil, fifty to sixty bushels
to the acre beim; recorded in many muses.
This woiderous fertility, coupled with the
vast extent of territory equally adapted to
wheat -raising, warrants authoiti05 ou
wheat culture in prophecying that inside
of fifty years central Canada will ho the
world's breadmaker.
It ,vill readily be understood that a soil
so fertile naturally produces grasses in great
variety and unsurpassed in quantity and
quality, insuring au ever plentiful supply
of fodder for domestic cattle. This never -
failing supply of nutri tons grass, the plead -
fol supply of pure, running water, the
shclty: ing bluff's of timber, as well as im-
mnnily from cyclones in summer and snow-
storms in winter, combine the properties
which make Alberta one of the finest ranch•
ing districts, on the continent. Stook.
raising is carried on with equal success 111
the other provinces, and Manitoba beef and
dairyprolucl. have already an enviable re-
putation on lbs European market.
AMONG' THE WILDS O.F THE NORTH-
WEST,
9Mllivle swims a Great 011/1100ey In 1110 ,LI
most tin Itllpwn ?Het ofl'llnalla,
Mr, \V illhien Ogllivic, 1)o•niniotl land sur
veyor, who during the summer and fall ba
been 0xpioltug on behalf of the Dominion
(ilt•ernuleut in 1110 Maehelmzio River coun-
try, has arrived 111 Ullawlo from his ',Gotham
trip, ” 11'0 lest Calgary," add Air. Ogilvie,
"on July 7 last for Athabasca [Aucliog.
The descent of the Athabasca River woo be-
gun on tho morning df the 15111 1n a large
Peterburou'h emote, The perm0nent party
consisted of Myself and two In00. Tho dos
mount of (;rand Reptile, about 168 1111100, was
,,lade ill 011011 it two days. Below that the
eighty ,,tilos of rapids to fort McMurray
occupied tabour, two and a half (lays, and
from Fort McMurray to 1'orthhippowayan,
ott Lake Athabasca, 180 miles, the time was
neatly throe days, nail F'om't Smith, on the
((root Slave River, was coached on the 29111
of .1 ulv, From this point Ole descent of the
Croat Shoo River was made by 1hu'llndson
Bay steamer 1\'rigley to fort Resolution,
on the Crest Slave Lake, near the mouth of
the latter river.
The above shows what central C,ulada
can produce in 1he way of cereals and live
stock but these are by no means the only
resources of the distrie4 Forests cover
northern llanitoba, and ono of rho great
thulium' regions of the continent Banks it nn
the east, while belts of pine, spruce, sal:,
elm, and poplar forests crown every hill and
encircle every valley, lapse and stream
throughout the plains. Extensive deposits
of iron are fount) on an Island in Lake \Vin•
nipog, building-slono on various districts,
marble on Lake Manitoba, salt, mica, gyp-
sum, and other valuable minerals in the lake
district, while the petroleum and coal fields
in the western districts aro practically hies:.
hanstible. All tho above are resources be-
longing to the prairie region and show that
agricultural and stock raising are not the
only industrios that can be carried on. )3e-
oidos this, however, that marvelously rich
mineral district surrounding Lake Superior
on the north extends to within a hundred
milds of the Red river, and yields in any
gnantity, limited only by the producing
power, gold and 011ve1', iron, nickel and cop-
per e„c.
The elinato of central ranada is by people
in the oast and eolith generally considered
something awful in its severity. The fact is
that the climate of Minnesota and Manitoba
is practically idchtical, while the provinces
farther west, especially in Alberta, it is
0)110! milder, owing to rite greatly reduced
101111 suite of rho Rocky mountains, and eonae-
gnent 0i00y Ingress of the warns Pacific
winds. Proofs tis to this were furnished tiro
New York Sten a sport time ago by tho Hon.
J. 4V. Taylor, United Slates 0011501 at Win-
nipeg. He say 1 * * * 11 The prair•
ies' firstling of to spring has the pop.
oleo designation of ' Oroous* *
but I prefer the obhldrrn's name, the " Gos-
ling " plower. * ,: * It is often gathered
on the 'Mississippi bluff's, near the Falls of
St. Anthony, the 15th of April. It appears
simultaneously on the dry elevations near
'Winnipeg. It was observed even earlier,
the 1311, during the Saskatchewan rant -
Deign of 1885. * * Equally siginifi•
cult 0 * * are the records of ion ob•
strut:Wo n in rivers, their emancipation being
simultaneous from Fort Snelling, Minnesota,
to Foie Vermillion, Athabasca."
Nor the benefit of these given to (mushier
Canadi1110 "slow" it may bo stated that
0011Lrhll Ganarla's white population today is
fully :200,000, where as ton yoars ago it 'was
lint 40,000, in 1891 central Canada hail
1 5 111[1111 of railroads, to -day she hos nearly
.4,11011 tutus. In 1881 the total grain crop
was loos than 1,00',(100 bushels, while this
season's total grain (rnp will lm about 60,-
000,003 bushels), 'Phis (record of grain -rids•
ing by so small a piute:1 population stands
without a, parallel.
['he. eommt'reial headquarters, tho iudust
taint, intelloo'nal, and oducational coot's of sympathize with ,you, old man,
this vast territory fs the city of'\ dnnipog, 0hlbbol'ly-lion t lyinp'hthllc with mo.
whose ro 11th In a few yens a from an n 1
m Sy mthlze with the tailor,
Retire 1ind0on'0 Bay aonipany'5 trolling post
to a oumpact, solid city of 30,000 1 di abh-
tants is ono of rho morsels of rapid Sit)'
building. 'Winnipeg is situated on a level
plain, where 11111 rapid -running Assini110lu
joins its waters with those of the lied river,
sixty-six Milos north of the international
!honnclary lino and forty miles south of Lotto
Winuhpog, the souond largest inland sea of
rho continent, and forming, in conjunction
with the lied river anti the great go,skatohe-
wan river, 101 unbroken chain of navigable
waters extending not thwestward over 1,000
guiles
'1'hoHtnlsott's Bay conpany'00lfiolals 00110
solo8tod this Spot for at ti'ading•pnst chows
wisely and very probably i,uilt better than
they know, as a mono commanding posi-
Itis said of Lot d brougham " tilat ho
never left a minute a employed."
" Your mother, I understand, has boon 03,
I'hrnnns," " Yessir." " fa she melding,
'Phoenix?" "A9omlin'? No, indeed 1 She
said 1 could go without clothes before she
would sew another claimed stitch,"
How glad I am that leap year's 0otn8,
011, Futuro bright and sunny 1
For every single girl 1 know
Has staolis and stooks of money.
Young Wife--" Don't you consider mar•
ridge a means of groom, George?" Young
11118111011 (who has etre dy liven forced to
play 90001011 fiddle in tho honslholil)--"Yea;
anything 1s o means of grace that loads to
repentance."
At Resolution a atop of several days was
l lade, A t Chippewa.yau, on Lake Athabasca,
the headquarters of the Hudson Bay Com-
pany, district of Athabasola, wheat was
grown by the Ronan Cat hullo Mission which
111 1570 was 05'11011ted at rho Contrnninl Ex-
hibition in Philadelphia. This post is in 01'
10 N. lat. During the peat summer a plague
of grasshoppers destroyed everything grown
around the post.
At this void, tie Mackenzie River is up -
wood of a toile wide, with a good deptk
of water and a moderate current, A survey
was made alotg the Liard River to the
mouth or what is 1o01011y known its the Nel-
son River... ort Liard is 180 miles above
Simpson, on the Littre River, which at this
point is about (000 yards w'ille, and i9 i11 11,w
water ten tout deep in midstream, 1L're also
the Hudson Bay Company las a garden, in
which polities are graven. It is said, too, that
Wheat can be grown here.
Up the Hutson River a snowy was con -
tinct ed In Fort Nelson, about 1(10 miles above
the confluence with 1 ho 111)'!. There is a
Cal hobo mission here, but in July last all
tiro buildings were swept away by Uro flood,
and the people in the valley wore driven to
high ground hack from the river. A few
potatoes wore phoned intim spring, lint wore
destroyed by tho Ilomh Generally the post
grows enough potatoes for the use of the
011ice'5 to enough
and took aln'walts, As
the route to be travelled over involved the
ascent of the Nelson river flout this point
for upward of 200 miles, and a portage of
twenty-five miles to 111e water system of the
Peace River, three Indians were engaged to
assist the parta' on the journey. But, Indian -
like, at the expiration of four days they got
homesick, and deserted in the early merit-
ing of the fifth day, leaving the party to
make its way as beat it could to the Peeve
Rive', 'rho ascent was coutnucd without
their aid for three days, when the current
imeanie So strong and the ,water so shallow
duct f 1 was lard labor to get up at all. After
four or LIvo days' travelling the condition of
things became so bad that ono or two miles
was hardday'c work. As the point whore
the portage was to be made could not be less
than forty or fifty miles further on, and as
the provisions were running siert, I deter-
mined to abaudou the canoe and start over-
loud to Fort St, John, em Peace Bluer.
1:(1011 man of the party had at the start a
peek of ragout seventy-five monads weight,
A course was taken which it 00101 hoped
would lead to Fort 80. John, but we wore
toot certain.
'Che country for tomtity-flue 10110s prov-
ed to be douse woods Or 011,1111 timber,
thorough which it was dillieult for a man
151 1.11011t a pax:): to Make his way, and very
dill 11111 sot11 nue : ole consequence wan that
slow progress was mule, 111,1 01111 hes of ouch
member of the patty being literally torn to
pieces, The distance covered by our party
could not have been loss than 1.10 to 100
miles. Tho last four days of the journey the
Members of the party were on au allowance
of provisions, all the store they had being
six pounds of bread among the three. This
had to bo supplemented by killing such part-
ridges, rats, andaquircol0 As were soon, which
unfortnnatcly proved very few.
"'Phe ovouine of the fourteenth day after
leaving the Nelson River, St. John was
reached, mucic to the surprise of the Indians,
who were all congregatedthou, having coma
in from their summer hunt to procure the
necessary outfit for the fall and winter hunt.
They were amtued at the party's arrival and
could not understated how white sten who
had stover been in the country before mold
make their way so well without a guide. I
then started down the Peace River to work
my way to Ed.notton by open water, but
the day after my departure a 0o0ero snow
storm commenced, which lusted for throe
days, and twenty-four hours after I left
Tort St. John the river 1000 running thickly
with ice. At holt Duuvegan, 123 miles be-
low Fort St. John, a stay of three days was
made taking°beery Lions, and Ole journey
to rho crossing, sixty-four miles further
clown, was made overland, At the crossing
it was found impossible to Dross tbe river on
account of the drifbie°, so the party had to
remain Hero for nearly two weeks,
" At Fort Duuvegan there is a Hudson
Bay Company post and a Protestant and
Rohan Cathoho mission, all of which grow
large quantities of potatoes and garden
studs Toinatocs here also ripen and pump-
kins fully mature. Cabbage and cauliflower
grow to tremendous size, Ono cabbage ex-
hibited, stripped of atl pose loaves and loft
fit for cooking, measured fifty-three Moises
in 011 oumforence and weighed twenty-eight
pounds. Carrots and beets grow to an ex.
traordinary size, as ohm do turnips.
" Twelve miles above the Peace River
crossing Shaftesbury Mission is situaoted.
1 -Zero talo Roy. J. G. Brick is farming. He
is snrronmled by gotta a number of Indians,
whom ho tries to teach to farm. Rio grin•
cipal hope for the benefit of the datives hos
in his school.
c' From Athabasca to Edmonton the jour-
ney wits macho by horse, tenon, and sleigh.
'1'110 distance meowed ed front the Limo of leav-
ing Calgary was about 2,900 miles, of 'wither
about 1,900 was made in our 0ano0 M nner-
ous signs of moose, door, mid hear wor: soon
on tho Liard and Nelson rivers, lint stone of
the animals wore seen. Through 1110 00110 -
try rho wood linllbbo roams, but untie of the
ammo's cane into view. Seven01 bear tracks
were crossed, but no bears 000x0 aeon. A
row forbearing animals wore soon ata die.
Porsens•-I intend giving this diamond taneo, but sono was killed."
breastpin to Miss Inez Dc Maui.
Cepheus (also a suitor for' the young 1011, 's
hand) --My dear boy, fust hs a subject I'd
rather you wouldn't breech,
A Good Meal
The Wrong Man.
Olabberly--lay tailor cane around yes.
Imlay and I couldn't pay hint. Sad, I as.
01100 you.
Popotte-f know hew that is, and I can
A Polite WnY to .Express It•
Weary Willie -I'm hungry. I wish I
was in the desert of Sahara.
'pattered Disk --•You'd starve to (loath
thein Baro,
Weary Willis ---No, I wouldn't, I'd oat
the sand-whi0ll-is there, and that pyramid
of Cheops.
sr
The Mean Thing.
Miss Clanwhopper, who wears false tree-
so0, but imagI,ines nobody knows it, calls on
her friend, Miss (inobbe'ly,
Miss S. -Ilan 1)01111131;y finished 300010)301.
trait it
Miss 11,-- .I'11 have to give him anothol'sib.
ting, so ho can got the right color of may
hair.
MISS 4..• -If that's all, why don't you sold,
it to him by a servant