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Show INSPECTING THE CROPS, Tho Truth Th Not Aa Bud Aa Sumo llnvo Siiitl. C. Malr, Immigration Oftlccr in ehnrce of this district, is now traveliny through the "cttlements for inforiuatlou rcganl-wf, rcganl-wf, the i rops on which to Imso a leport for tho Department of tlio Interior. After driviiiK around llaymond and as far ns Muratli, Mr. Mair snid tlint he found no ii'oiind for tlio extravi!Uit reports sent nut rt'gardlm: n total crop failure. Whilo in some llelds the crops will not pay to cut, in tho adjinluir llelds the wheat will return twenty to thirty tiuslit'l per ncro The results of proper furmhin Is liu'eby shown and it is the easo without exception that on ground Hint imi been properly cultl vated tlio yield will bo HUbstanti.il. Wherever Irrigation lias been practiced, prac-ticed, in too few cases, unfortunately, tlio lesults nro full bumper uropsVn all sections fall wheat has done w6ll, the average jieiil bcim: estimated at 22 bushels. , ' In nil parts of , tlio district lliesiiKnr beets aro lookinj! exceptionally well and if tlio growers' take the specialists advleo and irrigate systematically the lonimuu will bo trublu that harvested last (nil. In HUiDiiinrizini! tho situation is: Oal crop, poor; wheat, an nvernjtu of 15 bushels; liny, scarce; beets, good. The nvorngu wheat yield through Manitoba on which tho farmers nrr growing wealthy is 18 bushels to Hit acre, which is higher than the nvernge yield In any state in tho Union. Raymond Ray-mond Chronicle. . |
