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In a \\i-i-k tin- first hoiis,- is MJ>. Nri;dil>our helps nei;_di)N.ur. 

 hi two in- three wr.-ks M -\ ,-ral l.i^r houses spring up. lotting the 

 hitherto lonely expanse with centres .f lift- an<l inter, -st. The 



Bn ii"\\ lia\.- their shelters ; complacently th.-y look 

 their 11, -\\ n, -at IO.T caltins, which usually consist of om- large 

 m with a ladder in tin- middle that leads to tin- l"ft or 

 upp. uhere rude |iiarters fur tin- niL r ht an- found. A 



lark strip on tin- ^n-en prairie that l..-sp,-aks tin- pn 



the plough is tli- ii-\t st,-p in advance; tln-n a pii-c.- 't' t'.'iic- 

 ing, <>r in- or two stal.lrs or otln-r oiithoiis.-x. ami cattl-' ^ath-r 

 roiiu.l thr st.-a.lin^. .Inn.- COMI.-S. an<l tin- plough is in full 

 swi: ' >i.| " haw " an- ln-ar.l for inil.-s ar<.unl. Black 



strips of ploughed laul. U-roiiiin^r lai-^.-r c\.-ry .lay an- in>tice- 

 alilr. \\"h-r.- tin- praii-ii- has l.t-m l.rokt-n u.-ar the houses th<- 

 chaur.-s an- that the <lark-<,'iv-M of tin- j>'tato vim- \8 seen 

 ii|. an. I t'arth.-r of}' a jiii-ce of o&is or barley looking 

 and Eiealthy. IVrhaps a row of brees is planted along 

 tin- road in front of the houses; and now \isit the settlenn-nt 

 in Si-|>triiilH-r, tin- most <lt-Ii<rht ful tini- of tin- y-ar for prairit- 

 1 ask th.- srttl.-rs how th.-y likt- th- n-w country, 

 tin- answrr will !< in iiiiifty-iiitn- cases out of a hundred, 



ith class," or "you couldn't pay me to return to On- 



\Vith pri'lr tln-y point out tin- pm^ivss that has l>een 



mail.- in a f.-w months, and contrast it with what would have 



i ar-coinplislu-d in tin- saiin- tinif on a Lush farm in any .'t' 



tin- oldi-r jimviii.'. \ \t yrar a tin.- tit-Id of wlirat i- pn-tty 



to stn-tch away from tin- front d.n.r, and th'- milk h- 

 ;rnishi-t| with n>ws of l.ri^ht jians tilled with cn-amy milk. 

 The North-XVi-vt Lids fair t<- l- thr futun- granary of th- 

 rcely possil.l,- to .-stimat,. its illiinital.il- p<s- 

 sil.iliti'-s. This km i^ th.- true hal.itat of tin- w ' 



jilant. Tin yi. Id is astonishing, not only U-catise of the rich- 

 ness of the soil, l.iit U-causr hen- the j.lai full de- 



\rlo|.mrnt. Some of the bast wheat n grown al 1'rinc.- Alhert > 



tive hundivd miles north-west from Winnipeg, and at I 

 Vrrniillion ,, |',. art - rivn- six or srven hundn-d miles still 

 further a\\ay to the north-west. Wheat from 1',-aer i 



