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Show AN ILLINOIS FARMFBl IN WtBT CRN CANADA. A re.ent Isue if the Shelbyvllle. Illinois, liemocrat nonialna a long and Interesting letter from Mr. Kilns KiMt. formerly a proaproua farmer of that aiatn. who recently emigrated to Wet-ern Wet-ern Canada, laklig up a claim for himself and lor each of hla three ao-il Krom Mr Konl a 'eller. which was wrltien reh. I Hint, we puhll-h the following, believing it will prove of great liitereal to thoae who have contemplated con-templated settling In the Canadian Northwest: ' I had In Aiiaiin. liloj secured a claim for mvself. and OP-d on three quarter eecilons for my aona. My claim Ib one half mile south of the Kdtr.onion and I ake Ht. Anne trail. "Coming so late In the season we had Mule opportunity to break and lo prepare ground for a flrat year a rrup. atlll we raised over ion bushels of very line potatoea. and eowed a few acrcB of barler. but the aeBaon was too far advanced for the bnrley. However, How-ever, we aecurisi good feed from It, and on rented ground 18 mllce eaat of ua. raised a fire crop of oata, ao that we will have plenty of feed for horsea. We cut about f,n tone of hay and tint a will have an abundanre We have, all told, about 24n acrea of hay meadow, whlrh would yield the paat year over three tone to the acre, and la an ordinary or-dinary aeaaon the meadow would fur nlab 600 tone of hay. The grass Ii vety nutritious, and rattle on tha ranges become very fat without be- j Ing fed a pound of grain. i "On the upland the graaa growa from eight to ten Inchea tall. Thla la called range grass, and la aultable for stork at any time, evea la tha winter when the ground la not covered too deep with snow. Horsea aubalst on II alone, at all times, provided they are, native stock. The gross In tha bay meadows here Is called red-top, and grows froru five to ail reel In length, and when rut at the proper lime yields an abundant cnuj of nutrltloua hay "Our cattle have not cost ua cent since we enme on our homestead, nnlv the sninll oinluy for salt and labor In piiM'ui; up liny and shelter. All cattle have been doing well this winter, and feeding up lo the first of January waa unnecessary n there wns good ranqe 1 tip to thai time "Alt the snows up lo thul dale were followed by winds from the northwest north-west that melts II very rapidly; these winds nre called Chlmatk winds, and are always warm. In one night a Chinook wind may take away three or four Inches of snow. "We have bull: on our clnlm a comfortable com-fortable house of hewn logs, Suxti feet, one and one-half stories la height, wllh a good cellar. 1 luring the latter port of June we rufted logs down the Sturgeon to a sawmill, alsnit eight miles away, and thnn aecured S.onn feet of good lumber which eas 1 needed for the bouse. Later In tbe I aeason a shlnrle mill located fix I nillee away To this we hauled and had ahlnglrs cut for the root. "Wo had an aluindnnce of wild fruit tba past aeason. consisting of giaite-berries, giaite-berries, atrawberrles. rasptierrlisi. eye-berrlea, eye-berrlea, blueberries, cherries and aae-katoona. aae-katoona. The latter are a fine I, siting berry, red, and quite pleusanl to the taate. but not much to lie desired In cookery. The atrawberrles are the same aa those that grow wild In Illinois. Illi-nois. Raspberries are red In color, large and espial to any of the tame variation, and bo are the gooaeberrli-a, Tha cranberries conalsl of the high and trailing varieties The lot lor am moat sought and contlrunua m the awampa. The ground Is literally covered cov-ered with them as with a ml carpet, but the best and most somlit Is ilia blueberry, so culled by the Indians. This Is the famous 'huckleberry' (whortleberry) of the Blue Kuigx MoiinliiltiB In Pennsylvania, and cannot can-not be e-elled for excellence by any fruit cultivated It Is foui'd here l,th on the pralrln and lu the Umber in Im mense quantities "flame Is very plentiful so far as prairie chickens, pheasants, ducka of all kinds, and geeee aro concerned We have taken nearly too chickens and pheasants also a great many ducka. "An occasional deer IB seen, but are not plentiful, only one having beat taken during Iba season In this aeitla ment. "Fish are very plentiful at all sea. sons of the year. Fish wagons anil eleds are nnsslng almost riailv ain. the trail with hisivy loads of fish, dot-lined dot-lined for Ht. Albert and Kdtnontne. From the latter point they are shipped south on tho Calgary and Eilmontoa mllniad to polntn along the line, and also to Asslnllsila, on the Canad'aa l'sclllc rallrond." For further Information apply pj any aulhurlred Canadian Uovercm-Mit Aku whose mldtiaa appears (Isa. w here In this pup. r |
