THE FERTILITY OF MANITORA.

Daily Telegraph (Napier), Issue 3223, 28 October 1881, Page 4

THE FERTILITY OF MANITORA.

I visited farms in the pariah of KiWonmi where wheat had been sown and where crop had been reaped for sixty years in sncws sion without manure being applied. the "Red River farmers have ]on» reanrrie ■ the natural ferfcilizersof the soil as an in oumbrnnee of which they try to rid them selves with the least possible trouble , That a piece of land shouP bear wheat for three generations in sucree , sion is extraordinary, but that the yield n , 'the end of that period should amount tr twenty-five bushels an acre is more extraordinary still.' On virgin soil the yield i< enormous. The best evidence on this head, because it is perfectly authentic, is that furnished by Mr Senator Sutherland, a native of the province, to a Committee of the Dominion House of Commons in 1876. slr Sutherland then said that he had ' raised sixty bushels of spring wheat per acre, weighing sixty-six pounds per bushel, the land having been measured and the grain ■weighed carefully. I have also received reliable Information to the effect that seventy bushels of wheat have been, produced from one bushel of wheat sown.'—Newfoundland to Manitoba, by W. Fraser Eae.