CROPS IN MANITOBA.

Waikato Times, Volume XX, Issue 1669, 17 March 1883, Page 4

CROPS IN MANITOBA.

The North British Agriculturist has received the crop report for 1882 of a portion of Manitoba and the adjoining teiritories of the Canadinn North-West, from information collected principally by the postmasters of the vaiious localities. Eighty-four districts are represented, comprising about one-fourth the whole area of settlement at the present time, and the information it contains is theiefore important as demonstrating the wonderful progress of this count) y, which, until lately, lias remained almost unknown to British agriculturists. The average yield is shown to be— Wheat, 30 bushels to the acre; oats, 51V; barley, 'iS\; potatoes, 227^; tmnips, 1000 ; flay, 15 ; rye, 20 ; pease, 37. The acreage under cultivation in the 81 districts represented is 472,770 acres, divided as follows :—: —

Mas Pahtincton* returns from the seaside. — "Yes, I've been to a sea-side retort. I have had my summer extortion, and I mnst confess my anticipations surpassed my expectations. To people in indignant circumstances the recommendations might be satisfactory ; but it is beyond my reprehension how people of effulgence— people who have lugubrious 'homes, surmounted by all that embezzles civilised life — can put up in such a cavern. They must have invested tastes." "I« your programme full, Miss Beetlecrush ?" asked a young man of a damsel who had just struggled out of the refresh-ment-room with disappointment in her ej'e and an order of dances in her hand. "Programme full ? Well I guess not. I hadn't had nothing but a piece of cake and an ice-cream, an' that don't go far towards filling my programme, I can tell you." "An y good shooting on your farm ?" asked the hunter of the farmer 1 . "Splendid," replied the agriculturist : "there's a drive-well-man down in the clover meadow, a cloth pedlar at the house, a candidate out in the barn and twp tramps down in the stockyard. Climb right over the fence, young man, load twfy) barrels and sail io," ■,

Wheat, ZdiJtaO acres, producing <5,07G,500 bush Oats. 141,0'i0 „ „ 7,447,0.10 „ Dai ley, r>J,BOO „ ■> 074 7Ci Flax, 11,800 „ „ 170,000 " Rye, 8,020 „ „ 1(,0.400 „ Pease 400 „ „ 14,800 „ Roots, 22,50.'. „ .. 1 acres ... ... . j 10|851,300 bush