A Good Harvest 



n which forty, fifty, and even sixty bushels 

 dTC threshed from the acre. Later followed the 

 threshing of our oats on my homestead, and we 

 were rewarded with a crop of seven hundred 

 bushels from the twenty acres. As we finished 

 our wheat there was a heavy dew falling, so it 

 was considered safe to fire the straw stacks, and 

 in this way we celebrated the occasion and got 

 rid of the straw at the same time. 



The glare lit up the night for miles round, and 

 ours was not the only one that night, for away 

 to the south many sijch glares could be seen, and, 

 indeed, at this season all over the North- West 

 enormous quantities of straw are burnt. It 

 seems a great waste, but is at present the only 

 way to get rid of the stuff. 



Fall ploughing had begun in many parts as 

 threshing drew to a close ; and the young 

 settler needs to realize that though he has his 

 second year's breaking ready for next year's 

 crop, or should have, the stubble is by no 

 means ready. It is true that a second year's 

 crop is often put in on stubble in some districts, 

 but in others this practice is a very doubtful 

 expedient. We had reached mid - November, 

 and, splendid as the fall had been, winter was 

 now on us, and we had a little leisure to consider 

 how we stood. 



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