Western Canada and its Great Resources
The Testimony of Settlers, farmer Delegates and high Authorities

14 WESTERN CANADA Wheat, 27 bushels per acre. Oats, 75 “ “ Barley, 55 “ “ Pease, 1’0 “ “ Timothy, 1| tons “ Red clover, 3 “ “ Green corn fodder, 46 tons per acre. Last year one kernel of corn produced fourteen stalks, the united length of which was eighty-five feet. Mr. T. 0. Davis, a resident of Prince Albert, took me into his garden, where I could see no special pains had been taken to force anything, but still the growth was wonderful. An apricot tree five feet high • maple trees, one year old, two feet high ; tobacco with leaves 14 x 28 inches ; potatoes of late planting, fifteen stalks and twenty potatoes to the hill, besides a lot of little ones; cauliflower, headed, cooked and eaten; raspberries of this year’s planting, one stalk had twenty-one berries; flowers without number, such as poppies, four-o’clocks, pansies, mignonette, etc. But my samples, here they are : One sample of Fife wheat, 4 ft. 8 in. high, will yield about 40 bushels per acre. One sample of Ladoga wheat, 5 ft. high, will yield about 40 bushels per acre. One sample of Ladoga wheat, 4 ft. 3 in. high, will yield about 35 bushels per acre. One sample of oats, 4 ft. high, will yield about 75 bushels per acre. The above are all from the farm of Mr. Win. Plaxton, six miles out of town. We next called on Mr. T. F. Miller, near here. He also gave me a fine lot of samples, as follows :— Oats, ready to cut, 3 ft. 6 in. high, will yield about 60 bushels per acre. Oats, sowed 19th June, 4 ft. high, will yield about 30 bushels per acre. Ladoga wheat, 5 ft. high, will yield about 30 bushels per acre. Ladoga wheat, ft. high, will yield about 40 bushels per acre. Fife wheat, ft. high, will yield about 27 bushels per acre. Barley, ready to cut, 4 ft. high, will yield about 50 bushels per acre. Mr. Miller came here poor 17 years ago, but he is now well off. He says he never missed a crop; never was nipped by the frost till last year. Their frosted crop yielded 25 bushels an acre and sold for 75 cents a bushel. He sold last year cattle to the amount of $213, and this year, so far, to the amount of $140. Mr. J. McArthur, of this place, came here in 1884 with 200 sheep. He has now 1,500; sold this year 103 fat wethers at $5.50 each, and 5,000 lbs. of wool at 12 cents a pound ; besides 500 lambs, which can be sold at any time for $3 each. Mr. McArtlrur is now a banker in town. Mr. James Mair told me that in one year he had from 90 acres 2,300 bushels of wheat; from 8 acres 600 bushels of barley; from 12 acres 1,150 bushels of oats. He. has always had good crops, except two years, which then gave him about-15 bushels per acre each time. He came here in 1880. And now, Dakota farmers, frieads and neighbours, you who have had the courage, hope and life nearly ground out of you through the long succession of failure of crops ; you who must make a move very soon or go to the wall, perhaps never to recover, why not come this way ? This place is near you ; the people are the most cordial, the most hospitable, I ever met. They not only want you to come, but with outstretched arms they beg you to come and be one of their happy and prosperous group. The climate is mild and healthful, the land is free, the harvest is sure, and the profit is rich. With one accord, the people here all say, Come. They will meet you at the border and show you the way. All you have to do is to come. To the gentlemen at Carberry, Brandon and Prince Albert, who treated me so generously, I now return my sincerest thanks for the favours shown me, hoping also that their very bountiful harvest will be safely garnered, and that before long I will be one of their company. JAMES B. TRUSCOTT.* Millard, Faulk Co., South Dakota. *Mr. Truscott is now settled in Prince Albert, and on another page will be found his report of the country.