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weighed roots here and found them to surpass any I ever grew in Canada. 

 I do not think there is any use telling the immigrants the weights, as they 

 will hardly believe it. It is enough for them to know that this country 

 can produce more to the acre, with less cultivation, than any part of 

 Canada." — George Tidsbury, High Bluff. 



" Let them come — this is the best country I ever struck for a man with 

 a few thousand dollars to go into stock. I only raise oats for my horses 

 and have some eighty head of cattle, so cannot say much about crops. I 

 will have sixty to seventy bushels of oats to the acre this season." — James 

 Fullerton, Cook's Creek. 



" From what I have seen in other countries this is as good a place as any 

 man can come to. For my part, I have done better here than I could ever 

 do in any other country. I raised wheat here, and there have been men 

 from California and other places looking at it, and they said they never saw 

 anything like it before. One year I raised thirty-five bushels to the acre 

 of Black Ses wheat, and I have raised wheat which stood six and a-half 

 feet high, and not one straw of it lay down. I would be glad if half of the 

 people of Ireland were here — and they would then be in the best part of 

 the world. Every one who comes here can do well if it is not their own 

 fault." — James Owens, Ste. Anne, Point du Chene. 



"Good advantages for settlers in this country; plenty of hay and 

 pasturage. Can raise any quantity of stock without interfering with the 

 grain crop. Good water and plenty of wood." — John Hall, Ste. Anne, 

 Point du Chene. 



" We think this country cannot be beat for farming, and farmers can 

 raise all the stock they want and cost them nothing, as they can cut all the 

 hay on the prairie they want for winter feed, and their cattle will grow 

 fat on it if well watered and cared for." — James Lawrie & Bro., Morris. 



" Any man with $500, willing to work, can soon be independent here." 

 — Alex. Adams, Clear Springs. 



" I had twenty-eight acres in crop last year, and had one thousand one 

 hundred bushels of grain, of which I sold $450 worth, besides having feed 

 for my team and bread for my family." — James Davidson, High Bluff. 



These letters are all from localities in the Province of Manitoba, 

 where settlers have had from five to ten years' experience, and 

 where the discontent to which I have referred existed. Farther to 

 the west, in the territories, the settlers have had for the most part 



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