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wheat is very heavy, being from sixty-three to sixty-six pounds per 

 bushel. One hundred and fifteen farmers testify to the yield of 

 oats per acre, namely : in 1877, fifty-nine and three-quarter bushels ; 

 in 1878, fifty-nine and three-quarter bushels ; in 1879, fifty-eight 

 bushels ; and fifty-seven and three-quarter bushels in 1880. In 

 barley, the testimony of one hundred and one farmers gives an 

 average yield of thirty-seven and two-third bushels per acre in 1879. 

 and forty-one bushels in 1880. Twenty-one farmers testify to the 

 yield of peas per acre, giving an average of thirty-two bushels in 

 1877, thirty-four bushels in 1878, thirty-two and a-quarter in 1879, 

 and thirty-eight and a-half bushels in 1880. Some of the yields of 

 peas were very much larger and some smaller than these averages, 

 the yields evidently depending on the farming. 



Ninety-two farmers testify to an average yield of three hundred 

 and eighteen bushels of potatoes per acre in 1880. Mr. W. H. J. 

 Swain, of Morris, has produced eight hundred to one thousand 

 bushels of turnips to the acre, and sixty bushels of beans have also 

 been raised by him per acre ; Mr. S. C. Higginson, of Oakland, has 

 produced cabbages weighing seventeen and a-half pounds each ; Mr. 

 Allan Bell, of Portage la Prairie, has had cabbages forty-five inches 

 around, and turnips weighing twenty-five pounds each ; Mr. Thomas 

 B. Patterson has realized forty tons of turnips to the acre, some of 

 them weighing as much as twenty pounds each; Mr. Robert E. 

 Mitchell, of Cook's Creek, raised a squash of six weeks' growth 

 measuring five feet six inches around the centre ; Mr. William Moss, 

 of High Bluff, has produced carrots weighing eleven pounds each, 

 and turnips measuring thirty-six inches in circumference ; Mr. James 

 Airth, of Stonewall, states that the common weight of turnips is 

 twelve pounds each, and some of them have gone as high. as thirty- 

 two and a-half pounds ; Mr. Isaac Casson, of Green Ridge, has raised 

 two hundred and seventy bushels of onions to the acre ; Mr. John 

 Geddes, of Kildonan, states that he has raised three hundred bushels 

 of carrots and eight hundred bushels of turnips per acre ; Mr. John ■ 

 Kelly, of Morris, has produced from eight hundred to one thousand 

 bushels of turnips to the acre ; Mr. Joshua Appleyard, of Stonewall, 

 also states his crop of turnips to have been one thousand bushels per 



