Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1890-05-02

which NC found a model Of cleanliness and
practical utility The cheese and dairy house,
fine building with a continual stream Of
spring water passing through, contains pa
tent separator and churns of the most approx
ed pattern The stables l0Ox30 are three stories
high and contain every convenience and there
is also provided shedding for 800 colts. The
stables contain shire and coach stations and
short horn and Hereford bulls, all splendid
specimens, while last though not by any means
least, we noticed in a corner a group OF Berk-
shire pigs which presented the appearance OF
good living. M
The visit terminated after most enjoyable
afternoon had been spent, with an assurance
by Mr. Robinson that he would only be- too
happy to assist and advise any intending set
tiers as he felt confident that any man with
small capital and "a head ON his shoulders"
was bound to make mixed dairy farming
success
Leaving Elbow Park Farm we drove on to
Mitnapore, Mr. Shaw's homestead. Mr.. Shaw
Is one OF the first settlers in the District The
Province of Alberta would be we'll off indeed
il it had many such farms as that of Mr..
Shaws. He has met with great success in
raising grain and is enthusiastic as to the
future of his province. But it is as well that
we should allow him to tell his own story:
SUCCESSFUL FARMERS STORY.
have had seven years experience in tho
country and each year confirms the impress
sion, that the district around Calgary, extend
ing for many miles North, South & East is
one of the best in the whole Dominion Of
Canada for mixed farming. The land avail.
able TO the West is limited on account of the
proximity of the mountains. This land pro-
duced in 1888 on an average to the acre, oats
60 bushels wheat 80 and potatoes 800, with
very rough cultivation and with n rainfall
much under the average. In fact since 1885
every year has been a dry one. The produc-
ton in 1889 with scarcely any rain at all,
land dry like powder where one would I'M
agine nothing would grow, and which in most
other countries would constitute a total fall
ure, was on an average, oats % bushels, wheat
33, potatoes $50. Perhaps l had better give
the actual weights sown and the actual
weights raised of the various grains OH this
farm:
2420 lbs of Canadian Trump oats, pro-
duced 50, $50 lbs
$40 lbs of Canadian Banner oats produced
636O lbs
2O4O lbs of Welcome & Black Champion
pr duced 26, 100 lbs.
96O lbs of Barley 11,70o lbs.
45o ;, ;, Scotch fyfe Wheat 1O,99O lbs.
$50 =, :, Mars :, hard $3.50 lbs
$50 ;, ;, Magayr f, - $3.50 lbs.
100 >, >, Early Puritan potatoes 500 lbs.
$50 ', >, Thorburn 5000 lbs.
Cabbages all weights from l ID. to 20 lbs,
each, and no water given to them except for
the first fortnight after planting out. Carrots,
Beets, Onions, Turnips, all equally god. OF
Buckwheat and Flax, we had also very
good crop, put in for experimental purposes,
and merely mentioned here, to show that we
are not bothered with summer frosts-if we
were Buckwheat would not ripen.
The 1888 crops were splendid both in quail
ity and yield-the 1882 ones could not be beat
en- in quality but the yield was short. Itmay
be asked, how could anything grow when
there was no rainl The fact is, the salvation