Canadian Agriculture. 
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" Tlie sections arc appointed as follows : — 
"Open foh Homestead and 1'ke-emptioxs. — Xos. 2, 1, 6, 10, 12, 11, IG, 
18, 20, 22, 24, 28, 30, 32, 34, 36. 
"Canadian Pacific Railway Sections. — -Xos. 1, 3, 5, 7, 9, 13, 15, 17, l(t, 
21, 23, 25, 27, 31, 33, 35. 
"Nos. 1,9, 13, 21, 25,33 alonp; the main line, Winnipeg to Moose Jaw, 
sold to Canada North- West Land Company, the balance of their lands being 
in Southern Manitoba. 
" School Sections. — Nos. 1 1, 29 (reserved by Government solely for school 
purposes). 
" Hudson's Bay Section. — Nos. 8 and 26." 
In the above diagram each little square represents an area of one 
square mile, and it must be apparent from the details just given 
that it is impossible for one purchaser to secure a very large 
uninterrupted tract of land. 
To encourage and promote the construction of railways, the 
Dominion Government have granted certain concessions of 
Jand to the railway companies, so that both the latter and the 
Government are in a position to offer lands to intending settlers. 
The Manitoba and North-Western Railway Company, at present 
engaged in laying a line from Portage la Prairie, in Manitoba, 
to Prince Albert on the North Saskatchewan, have a land grant 
of 2,750,000 acres, out of which they had at the beginning of 
1884 acquired a right to sell 512,000 acres. The Company sell 
land warrants, entitling the purchaser to one or more quarter 
sections of 160 acres each, to be selected by himself from any of 
the Company's unsold land. 
The Government grant to the Canadian Pacific Railway com- 
prises, in addition to other concessions, the lands lying within 
a belt twenty-four miles wide on each side of the line in Mani- 
toba and the North-West. These lands are offered for sale, at 
prices ranging from \Qs. per acre upwards, with conditions 
requiring cultivation, or at lesser figures without conditions. To 
encourage cultivation the Company stipulate that : — 
" A rebate of from 5s. to 14s. sterling per acre, according to the price paid 
for the land, will be allowed on the acreage actually cropped, on the following 
conditions : 
" 1. The purchaser will not be entitled to rebate unless at time of purchase 
he enters into an undertal^ing to cultivate the land. 
" 2. One-half of the land contracted for to be brought under cultivatioa 
within four years from date of contract. In cases where purchasers do not 
reside continuously on the land, at least one-eighth of the whole quantity pur- 
chased shall be cultivated during each of the four years. 
"3. Where a purchaser fails to carry out fully the conditions as to cultiva- 
tion within the time named, he will bo required to pay the full purchase price 
on all the land contracted for. But if from causes beyond his control, jiroved 
to the satisfaction of the ('ompany, a settler so fails, he may be allowed the 
rebate on the land actually cultivated during the four years, on payment of 
the balance due, including the full purchase price of the remainder of the land 
contracted for. 
