MANITOBA

Ashburton Guardian, Volume VII, Issue 2265, 28 October 1889, Page 2

MANITOBA

A Mr Turnbuil, a native of North Britain, a large landowner m Manitoba, was recently m England for tho purpose of buying a lot ofShoctborns to take out to Jonaaa. The picture he gave the " North British Agriuchnriat " of farmiag m Manitoba was not a very good one. Yon can get plenty of laod, he eaid, m Manitoba for nothing, but it may be fifty or a hundred miles, or more, from any railway station. You csn grow big orops of wheat upon it, bnt yoa will very often get a great part of your wheat destroyed by frost, And after you get your wheat, at great expense, conveyed to the nearest railway station, you may find that some corn factor bas arranged wi h the railway company for the monopoly of buying all the wheat laid down at that station This corn f uotor tails you your wheat is frosted although it may never haev felt a touch, of frobt and he offers you the price of froited wheat for it; and as it is a matter of Bobson's choice with the seller you have to take it. Labour is not to be had In Manitoba at lest than famine I prices when it is wanted, that is during the summer ; and it oan be had for nothing at any other time, that id during the winter. Finally, Mr Tnrnbull expresses the most decided opinion that if farmers m the Old World would live ai economically and work as hard as they have to do when they go to Manitoba they would never find any necessity for going 80 nesr the setting sun.