The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1898-06-25


and we'll up toward James Bay. At
Waswanipi, a Hudson Bay post en-
route to Rupert's Landing, he found
Mr.. Baxter, an agent, who takes an
interest in farming.
After looking over the results, Mr..
OSullivan says: ut is surprising to see
the fine vegetables and grains he has
grown there never saw better cab
bage, carrots, and turnips, and he gave
me samples of wheat which he had
grown from seed raised there the year
before, and other wheat which he had
grown from seed obtained from the
Agricultural farm at ottawa. They
are equally good, and can compare
favorably with wheat grown in any
other part of the province. The sur
rounding country is as level, rich clay
land" AT Moose Factory on James
Bay Bishop Newman raises the fin
est of celery, tomatoes, vegetables mar
rows, cauliflower, and other garden
stuff
One can scarcely overestimate the
practical value of the testimony as to
the climate on the northern slope to-
ward James Bay. That wheat and deli
cate vegetables can be grown fully 200
miles rue north of Toronto is fact
| the significance of which will probably
| not become fully apparent to the pres
| ent generation. Eventually, however,
it must mean the settlement of that
| vast territory from the crowded re-
| gions of the Old World
| In the west the wheat runs far up
| tnu ar5t ba \,
| will probably be found in Athabasca,
just east of the Rockies. The influence
of the chinooks, the warm winds of
| the Pacific, gives a moderate climate
there for the hundreds of miles north
| of Edmonton, which is itself some $50
miles north of the latitude of Toronto.
| A committee of the senate established
the fact that flowers bloom as early on
the shores of the Greek Slave Lake,
1900 miles north of Toronto, as they do
| in Winnipeg. In the Peace River
Valley the climate is pretty much the
same as in western Ontario, yet the
Peace River is at its most southerly
point over miles north of Windsor.
The largest rush of immigration in
Manitoba this year is into the Swan
River Valley. This is in the extreme
| northwest of the province, yet it is
practically the same latitude as the
| English midlands. Mr.. Burrows, a
member of the Manitoba Legislature,
reporting on this new district to Mr..
Sifton on the 1st of March, says that
the history Of grain raising in Mani
toba for the past fifteen years demon
strates the fact clearly that all alti-
tudes have very much to do with sum
mer frosts. The most successful dis
tricts in Manitoba for the raising of
No hard wheat are those localities
at an altitude Of from 500 to 1900 feet
above the sea level.
1t is also known in every case where
a district is found to be subject to
summer frost as in Manitoba, where
land is found to be at q
high altitude Most of the Swar
River Valley is less than 120(
feet above the sea. Lieut.-Gov. Pater-
son of Manitoba, who went on tour
of inspection last fall over to Hudson
bay, in his report says that every In
dian south Of the Nelson river could
have an excellent kitchen garden If hi
took the trouble to cultivate the land
The Nelson river enters Hudson bay al
York factory, about latitude 81 degrees
some 300 miles further north thar
Moose Factory where Bishop Newn
ham is conducting his experiments.
Grouping all these facts together i
is not too much to claim that the
wheat belt of Canada averages a
least 500 miles in width by 1000 IL
length, a greater stretch than an,
other part of the world, except Russis
and Siberia, possesses. The bulk of thi
track of land lies west of Lake Supe
: rior, the barren lands north of tina
, lake cutting the fertile portion of tn,
Dominion into two distinct parts. o
the great western wheat-growinl
country Winnipeg is the commercial i
not the geographical center. 1t has III
, to the present time, save during TIL
boom period, grown rather slowly, blu
has kept pace with the growth of pop
ulation upon the land.
Now that the rush to the Canadian
wheat plains is beginning, Winnipei
will probably show a greater proper
Tomato growth than any other Canad
ian city. 1t may forget the lesson o
the last period Of speculation, and re
tard it's development by another boon,
If this is avoided and the people o
: Winnipeg bend their energies to main
tain the city in it's present position a
| the railway metropolis and commercial
7 center of the west, Winnipeg in an
other ten years should have well on Z
100000 inhabitants. If this promise
) fulfilled, it will be by the pushing o
: wheat production even further north
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