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There were 500 acres of oats ready for cutting ; they would 
yield from 50 to 60 bushels per acre, and are largely used for 
feeding the horses. A 400-acre field of flax was nearly ripe ; 
it was being grown for its seed, which would sell for 35. per 
bushel, and the land would go into wheat. Last summer 1400 
tons of prairie-hay were gathered in ; the natural herbage of the 
prairie is cut by mowing-machines, allowed to remain exposed 
for about six hours, then horse-raked, laden on waggons, and 
stacked, the hay-stacks being conveniently " roofed " up but not 
thatched, the cost of the latter process being at present too 
great. About sixty cows and a few pigs are kept. 
A good example is being set on the Bell Farm in the planting 
of trees ; some were planted in 1883, as has already been stated, 
and last spring 25 miles of young poplar trees were set out. 
They cost bd. each, and were planted 20 feet apart, the cost per 
single row per mile being therefore 5/. lOs. 
It is proposed when the whole area of the Bell Farm has been 
brought under cultivation to divide it into 300 farms, each with 
dwelling-house, stabling, and shedding. The farms, with their 
equipment, will be fairly valued, and then offered to the men 
who have taken part in the improvements, at the valuation 
price, with liberty to render payment in five or ten annual 
instalments. 
Moreover, outside the 20,000 acres which constitute the Bell 
Farm proper, the Qu'Appelle Valley Farming Company offer 
their lands for sale in sections varying from 213 to 2560 acres 
in fee-simple, without conditions, at from 1/. 12s. to 3Z. per acre, 
payable as may be agreed. The Company undertake to break 
and have ready for seeding the following spring, free of charge, 
25 per cent, of the acreage purchased, and they offer various 
other privileges. The estimates are best reproduced as officially 
stated, the exchange in this case being at the rate of 5 dollars to 
the pound sterling. 
" In order to give some idea of the cost, the foUowiug estimates have been 
careful!}^ prepared, and may be taken as a guide. They are framed on the 
supposition that all labour is hired, and that the purchaser contributes com- 
paratively nothing to the result bevond supervision. The question of stock 
is not gone into, though the addition of cattle, sheep, and pigs would most 
materially add to the profits, and indeed are a necessity to a thoroughly well- 
appointed farm. 
" For a farm of 213 acres — one-third of a square mile section — the size best 
adapted for the team of three horses and one plough, on the sujiposition that 
tlie purchaser starts work in April with 25 per cent, ready for crop, and 
without importing into the consideration the original cost of the land, nor 
interest on capital : — 
