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and courtesy of those we met there. We were at Brandon at 

 noon the next day, as planned, but had failed in securing the full 

 night's rest to which we were entitled because of a delay in the 

 movement of the trans-continental train. Having only time for a 

 brief stay here, without waiting for Superintendent Bedford, who 

 was in town to receive us, we secured a livery horse and drove north, 

 crossing the valley of the Assiniboine, which is here some mile and 

 a half or two miles wide, and about noon reached the government 

 experiment station located at this point. As an opportunity to 











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Buflfalo berry hedge at Brandon, Man., Experiment Station. 



test what can be done in the way of cultivation of crops in this 

 part of Manitoba under normal conditions, I judge this station is 

 not well located, as it is in the valley of the river referred to, a 

 valley running east and west with a range of hills of some seventy- 

 five to a hundred feet high on either side. That portion of the 

 station that we saw is located either on the bottom lands of the 

 valley or on the south slope of the hills which border it on the north. 

 A comparatively small portion of the country, as far as we could 

 judge, has a similar environment. 



As a result of the unusual rains this season and the heavy wind 

 storms, nearly all of the experiment plats of grain at this station 



