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crops are looking well. Tliis woukl be a good country for a now settler. 

 We returned to Winnipeg, and on our way visited the Provincial tiaol. 

 1 thouglit everything most satisfactory. We were met very kindly by 

 the Governor, Lieut.-Col. Irvine. On Wednesday, the ] 3th, we started 

 by train for Killarney, a very useful mixed country. We saw the dairy 

 factory, but thought there was rooin for improvement. 



We left Killarney at 8 a.m. on the 14th, and first called at 

 Crofters. the crofters' settlement, about 10 miles north. They have 



suffered very much from hailstorms ; these are local, but the 

 crops in several places in this district are ruined. The farmer can insure 

 against these storms which sometimes visit Manitoba ; Is. per acre will 



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recover 25s., in case their crops are destroyed by hail. I think that the 

 crofters commenced rather injudiciously, getting expensive implements, 

 and otherwise getting into debt. I am told that the interest charged 

 on implements is from 18 per cent, to 24 per cent.— a very good reason 

 for not getting into debt. All crofters are not alike. Those who came 

 out on their own resources have done well, which the following figures will 

 prove, and there is no reason why the others should not do the eame: — 



Skttlgrs in 1881 and 1882. 



Started with 

 ... $G0O 



L. McLean ... 



Clmrlcs McLean 400 



John McLean 400 



lluflh Lnmont and famly ... 800 



■William Carles ... ' ... 1,000 



John Campbell, Slioal L'ike... 000 



Kiel Lament, ,, ... (iOO 



Captain McLean, 1,000 



John McPhail, „ ... 500 



John McPhail, ,, ,.,. 500 



(jointly) 



Now worth 



$8,000 



7.0C0 



(),00O 



10,000 



8,000 



G.OOO 



G.OOO 



80,000 



0,000 



G,000 



