Index 



Mixed farming, 218-18 

 Mosquitoes, 94, 95, 100, 281 



Oats for seeding, 235, 236, 243 

 Outfit for journey, 18 



Population, 21 

 Port Arthur, 30, 168 

 Posting facilities, 91 

 Potatoes, 295 

 Prairie — 



Chicken, 161, 285 



Festivities, 109-12, 190-9 



Fires, 66, 67, 265-76 



Flora, 76, 85, 93, 94 



Storms, 86, 87 



Towns on, 165, 166 



Ranching, 222, 223 

 Railroads — 



Canadian Northern, 296 



Canadian Pacific, 53, 54, 220-1 



Grand Trunk, 296 



Hudson Bay, 296 

 Railway cars — 



Colonist, 26, 29, 33 



Ordinary, 26 



Parlour or sleeper, 240 



Tourist, 26 



Regina, 244 



St. Boniface, 33 



Saskatchewan, characteristics of, 



19, 52 

 Saskatoon, 180, 181 



Schoolhouses, 103, 210 



Seeders, 245 



Seeding, 131, 277 



Shack building, 84 



Sheep rearing, 224 



Ski, 198 



Slough, i.e. hollow with water, 47 



Stacking, 128, 129 



Stock, 249, 250-6 



Stoning, 81, 82, 280 



Stores — 



Co-operative, 188, 296 



Evils of credit, 183-5 



High prices at, 184, 185, 187 



Sweep for stacking hay, 92, 282 



Tariffs, 187 

 Telephones, 211, 276 

 Tethering chains for oxen, 49 

 Threshing, 132-45, 286-8 

 Timber on prairie, 68, 76 

 Transport facilities — 



Hudson Bay route, 31, 296 

 Loading and shipping, 171, 173 

 St. Lawrence route, 31 



Wells and well-digging, 64, 103-6 



Wheat — 



Grading, 167-72 

 Varieties of, 233, 234, 241, 

 243, 292 



Winnipeg, 31, 33 



Winter- 

 Clothing, 144 

 Occupations, 156, 157 

 Temperatures, 151, 152, 162, 

 214 



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