CHAPTER XIX 



CONCLUSION 



If it is true that one half the world does not 

 know how the other half lives, surely the saying 

 applies to what is called the British Empire, 

 so I make no apology for offering a few con- 

 cluding remarks, which may, I trust, add to the 

 knowledge of the British reader as to life in 

 the great Western Dominion. 



In the first place, it must not be assumed that 

 the two somewhat extreme seasons which I have 

 tried to depict, as illustrating our early prairie 

 experiences, exhaust the weather conditions of 

 the Prairie Provinces. We had gone there im- 

 pressed with the idea that we should have to 

 deal with dry-farming conditions, under which 

 the conservation of the moisture in the soil was 

 a very important factor towards the harvesting 

 of a bumper crop. Now, although our experi- 

 ence did not bear out this idea, I am far from 

 suggesting that there may not be many seasons 

 when it is very necessary. I have heard the 



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