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CFDps are lookii:^ well. This would ha a good country for a new settler. 

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

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

 the Governor, Lieut.-Col. Irvine. On Wednesday, the 13th, we started 

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

 factory, but thought there was room 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. Tlie farmer can insure 

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



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recover 2os., 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 same: — 



