St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1886-07-03
Northwest Territory of all grades were as
follows:

Bushels.
From product of 1882. 100 600
From product of 1885,. /. ESQ, 600
From product of 1SS4................2,00 GEO. 600
From product of 1885,. l, 500 600
AND FOR PROOF
of the quality of the grain exported the
official Inspection lists will show that
so. 600 bushels all told OF No. hard wheat
have not been shipped out OF the provinces
and Canadian Northwest during all the
years stated, neither since the establish
ment Of government inspectors nor While
officially inspected by the railways nor
during the two periods combined. In the
light of the foregoing facts it may be asked
how it happens that Manitoba makes such
a magnificent exhibit of agricultural and
horticultural products at the colonial eXhi-
bitlon and in the sample car Of the Canadian
Pacific railway? y problem easy OF solrl-
ton: At the 1855 provincial exhibition,
held at Winnipeg. Nah, the principal eX-
hibitUr was
MIR. DONALD \. SMITH,
the chief stakeholder of the HudSon's Bay
company (as he recently boosted at a
meeting i'll London) and one of the directors
of the Canadian Pacific railway That
gentleman has unique farm at Silver
Heights. near Winnipeg, where those won
to astonish and entrap the unsuspecting
emigrant. Mr. Smith may raise on his
model farm in acknowledgements of all varie-
ties OF superior excellence, under system
so expensive as to be utterly prohbitory to
the average farmer and quite inpracticable
to any large extent. even to Mr.. Smith.
With his acres of glass conservatory, he
can easily produce roots and vegetables of
mammoth proportions, under the manipula-
ton Of a scientist in charge of the Manitoba
farm, while he luXuriateS in his gorgeous
palace in Montreal, whose splendors have
recently been so graphically depicted by
the press, and can
CHUCKLE AT THE GUILIBILITY
of human nature with the patent of nobility
in his pocket, which the queen of England
recently conferred upon him. Ingenious
Sir Donald A. Smith, who ever before wore
spurs of knight and the favor of the sover-
eign by pursuits so pastoral Thou hast
indeed outrvaled Barnum in his speciality
OF humbugging the public. An agent of
the Canadian Pacific Railway company trav-
eled through the province last autumn n for
the purpose of procuring satisfactory speci-
mems of farm products for exhibition, but
signally failed in his mission, not through
want of industrious research. but because
ChO 1elllllClo ilstu tllOl1l ltObs tOlll
MOTIVES OF HUMANITY
l place these facts before the public through
the medium of the GLOBE. which is so
widely circulated at home and abroad, and
because combined effort is at present made
to inveigle innocent people to ruin. The
most abusive articles are at present circu-
lated in the English and Manitoban papers,
intermiXed with statements derOgatory to
the Northwestern states and territories,
whose settlers are so universally prosper
Gus. The following is choice example:
''Mr. Robert Pickering, asubstantial farmer
from Lucknow, has been visiting friends at
Fargo, OAK, and is sizing up the Northwest.
He says that in Dakota the crops have been
seriously injured by frost, and the fields have
a browniSh appearance, as though they had
been swept by fire. He was surprised on
| crossing the line into Manitoba to find the
| fields beautifully green and showing no signs
| of having been damaged by FROST" and he
| goes on to state that 1.-The Dakota boom had
| pretty well collapsed, and that the tide of i'm
| migration would turn towards Manitoba next
/ year.
Mr.. Pickering has earned his railway
| pass, but has
| OVERCOME HIS ALLOTTED ROLE,
| because no one will believe that a special
| Providence is reversing the order of nature
| in favor OF Manitoba, whose past history
| shows that 1t is the antithesis of modern
/ Canaan; besides, some of us were up there
| spying out the land at the time the lOqua-
| ciOus substantial farmer was spreading
| himself before his audiences, and found
| the order of things quite the re-
verse. and failed to discover in Manitoba
| any such verdant fields as he describes, but
on the contrary the crops were in the back
ward condition above stated. The Mani
| toba papers were also heraldng the news
that farmer at Regina, the capital of the
Northwest Territory, had wheat growing
there ON the 18th of June that measured
eighteen inches!
"Where ignorance is bliss it is folly to be
WISE
A Dakota newspaper relates that in his
district, forty miles south of the boundary,
wheat had been shown him growing il
great quantities that measured thirty-twC
inches ON the 10th of June. In Dakota, az
we all know, the wheat is now well
ADVANCED TOWARDS MATURITY,
and will be harvested throughout the whole
territory, while the wheat in Manitoba, un
| der the influence of the cold winds of Aug
ust is working backwards OF at long way
from being ripe and it will be frozen in the
field as usual unless the season is an eXcep
tional one. Any one can satisfy himself
of the serious depression existing III Mani
toba, and that farming cannot be made tt
pay there by a glance at the advertising
columns of the Manitoba newspapers
where the fee simple Of improved farms 10
Gated near the railway and principal town;
and villages is offered for sums SO small a:
to be bewidering.
HERE ARE A FEW SPECIMENS:
Three hundred and twenty acres in South
ern Manitoba, 800.
Best lands in Manitoba, near best market
churches schools, etc., 50 per acre.
Improved farms in Boyn's settlement S;
per acre.
One hundred and forty acres A 1 land
twelve miles from city of Winnipeg, beaut
} fully situated in Red river valley, near raj
way, schools and churches, for less than cos
of buildings.
Splendid improved farm, with good fran
dwelling, stable and granaries in well-settle
district within two miles of railway station
eighty acres cultivated, 100 acres fenced wit
: wire, to be sold for less than cost of improve
l ments.
A country solely dependent ON its agri
cultural resources, which are so small, an
! whose taxation is so oppressive that tn
direct customs and excise duties on her in
ports exceed the total amount of her Ell
ports, should not throw stones at neigh
boring territory, whose resources are illin
liable, whose people are prosperous. cor
tented and happy. and where nature is S
prodigal of her gifts, that at many station
in the new settlements more No. 1 har
wheat (the quality Manitoba boasts of Pre-
ducing) was shipped last season than Man
toba and the whole Canadian Northwe.
territory combined have produced since til
beginning of their history. RHAMNUs.
4 July L, 1886.
THE NEW YORK
Furniture and Crockery Company