432 Our North Land. 



" Any one who wants land, this is the place." — Arch. Gillespie, 

 Greenwood. 



" Roots and vegetables can be grown here as well or even better than 

 in England ; as that is our native place, we should be able to judge." — 

 William Haywood, James Swain, Morris. 



" A farmer cannot make a mistake by settling here." — Neil McLeod, 

 Victoria. 



" I never knew crops to fail, only when destroyed by grasshoppers, and 

 that was only twice that I know of during my lifetime — now fifty years. 

 I never took any notice of the size of our vegetables until strangers began 

 coming into the country, who used to admire the growth of crops of all 

 kinds. . Then I began to think our country could hold its own with any 

 country — yes, beat them, too. If our soil here was worked as folks tell 

 me land is worked in other places, the crop would grow that rank that it 

 never would mature to perfection." — Robert Sutherland, Portage-la- 

 Prairie. 



" I am well satisfied with climate, farming facilities, (fee., and consider 

 them far ahead of where I came from." — James Mathewson, Emerson. 



" I would sooner live here, as I think I can do better than I could else- 

 where." — Anerew Nelson, Stonewall. 



" I consider this country the garden of the Dominion, and by all appear- 

 ance the granary not only of the Dominion, but of Great Britain. I have 

 grown flax here for several years ; it grows equal to any I ever saw. I have 

 grown timothy for eight years, and have got from two to three tons per 

 acre." — Thomas Dalzell, High Bluff. 



" I have been in this country nine years, and I would not return to 

 Ontario or any part of Canada to make a living. I have prospered better 

 here with less manual labour or trouble than I could possibly do elsewhere. 

 The soil is good, the climate is excellent, and everything is in a prosperous 

 condition." — James F. Vidal, Headingly. 



" Any man with a family of boys as I have got, that intends living by 

 farming and raising his boys to farm, is only fooling away his time in other 

 places, when he can average a hundred per cent, more each year with his 

 labour here, as I have done. I have farmed in Europe, State of New York 

 and Ontario, and I can say this safely." — Thomas H. Ellison, Scratching 

 River. 



" I would not advise any man coming out here to farm to bring any 

 more luggage with him than he can actually help. I have sometimes 



