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which it was saved, with the total quantity saved, and the 
average tonnage per acre of prairie grass and of cultivated 
grasses and clovers respectively ; to give the dates of the begin- 
ning and ending of harvest, with the average yield per acre in 
bushels, and comparative quality of each of the respective 
grains, — wheat, barley, oats, flax and peas ; to state generally 
the quality of the grains and the extent to which they have 
been injured, if at all ; to give the respective average dates at 
which the following varieties of wheat, viz.. Red Fyfe, White 
Fyfe, White Russian, Golden Droj), and Lost Nation ripened, 
and the average yield per acre of each ; to state generally the 
condition of field potatoes and roots, and their probable quality, 
with the probable yield per acre ; to state whether the supply 
of farm-labourers had been equal to the demand or not ; to 
report on native hops growing wild, as to whether they were 
picked and sold, and with what success, and if hop-growing 
could be made a paying industry in Manitoba ; to name the 
principal varieties of fruit growing wild, whether they were 
plentiful or scarce, and what fruits had been cultivated, and the 
success which attended them ; to state whether prairie chicken 
and wild ducks were as plentiful or more so than last year, and 
if the law for their protection was generally observed ; and to- 
state if hares and rabbits were numerous, and what damage they 
had done. The foregoing indicate the principal topics on. 
which information was sent to the Department in the latter 
half of September, and a summary of which appears in Crop 
Bulletin, No. 9, dated October 31, 1884. Last summer was an 
unusually backward one in Manitoba and the North- West, but 
the following figures relating to the ripening and yield of wheat 
in the Province should, nevertheless, prove interesting : — 
Variety of Wheat. 
Average Date of 
Ripening. 
Average Yield in 
Bushels per Acre. 
Eed Fyfe 
August 28 
22-48 
White Fyfe 
August 29 
24-00 
September 3 
25-88 
Golden Drop 
Aiicrust 27 
23-18 
Lost Nation 
Sc'iitimbcr 4 
25-83 
For the entire Province the average date at which cutting 
began was August 27, and ended September 28, while stacking 
ended October 3 ; average yield 22"31 bushels per acre. Per- 
centages of loss, and the causes, were estimated as follows : — 
rain, -0140 ; hail, -0033 ; frost, -0132 ; rust, -0001 ; smut, -0036 ; 
sprouting, -0003 ; shrinkage, -0152. A large percentage of loss 
