Conclusion 



; remark of an old-time rancher repeated to the 

 I effect that he had known a season when, owing 

 to the drought, there was not a blade of grass 

 over a stretch of twenty miles in our district. 

 Then, again, we had personal knowledge and 

 sad experience of one June frost, which ruined 

 many plots of growing potatoes and greatly 

 damaged wheat and oat crops. In short, I 

 would strongly urge settlers who intend growing 

 crops to procure from the Government at Ottawa 

 or the Experimental Farms records of climatic 

 conditions for past years and make a careful 

 study of such. 



A second remark I wish to make is that events 

 move rapidly in many districts, and though the 

 conditions I have attempted to describe may 

 seem very primitive to a British reader, it need 

 not be assumed that they remain so long. A few 

 years may in some districts see houses, barns, 

 and farm buildings superior, in my opinion, for 

 the purpose for which they are intended, to many 

 on British farms taking the place of log shacks 

 and stables. 



So rapidly, too, do events move, legislative 

 enactments tending materially to improve the 

 conditions of life may quickly be passed. This 

 is illustrated by a recent Act which has, I believe, 

 been passed in Saskatchewan and other pro- 



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