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94 T H R O U G H T H E M A C K E N Z I E B A S IN
F r o m M r . E r a s t u s Lawrence, the head of the f a m i l y , we got
definite information regarding the region and its prospects
for agriculture. We spent Sunday at his comfortable home,
and examined his f a rm carefully. I n front of the house was
a field of wheat, 110 acres i n extent, as fine a field as we
had ever seen anywhere, and of this they had not had a
f a i l u r e , he said, d u r i n g a l l their f a r m i n g experience, the
r e t u r n never f a l l i n g below fourteen bushels to the acre, in
the worst of years, twenty- five being about the average y i e l d.
They sowed late i n A p r i l , but reaped generally about the
15th of August. They had never, he said, been seriously
i n j u r e d by frost since 1884, and i n fact no frost had occurred
to injure wheat since 1887. There was abundance of hay,
and 10,000 head of stock, he believed, could be raised at
that very point. Many hogs were raised, w i t h great profit,
bacon and pork being, of course, high- priced. One of the
sons, M r . E . H . Lawrence, s a i d he had raised sixteen pigs,,
which at eighteen months dressed 370 pounds apiece. At
that time there were about 500 head of cattle, 250 horses,,
and 200 pigs i n the settlement.
A f t e r service at the Reverend M r . Scott's neat l i t t l e church,,
we returned to M r . Lawrence's, and enjoyed an excellent d i n ner,
i n c l u d i n g home- cured ham, fresh eggs, butter and cream.
That was a notable Sunday for us i n the wilds, and seldom/
to be repeated.
Strange to say, we found the true locust here, our old R e d '
R i v e r pest, w h i c h had quartered itself on the settlement more
than once. I examined numbers of them, and found the-scarlet
egg of the ichneumon fly under many of the shards.
No one seemed to know e x a c t l y how they came, whether inflight
or otherwise; but there they were, devouring some-barley,
but l i v i n g m a i n l y upon grass, which they seemed to
prefer to grain. They had appeared nine years before our
coming, and disappeared, and then, three years before, had'
come again.
We found quarters i n a large b u i l d i n g at the fort, w h i ch
was i n charge of M r . W i l s o n , whose wife was a daughter o f
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| OCR | 94 T H R O U G H T H E M A C K E N Z I E B A S IN F r o m M r . E r a s t u s Lawrence, the head of the f a m i l y , we got definite information regarding the region and its prospects for agriculture. We spent Sunday at his comfortable home, and examined his f a rm carefully. I n front of the house was a field of wheat, 110 acres i n extent, as fine a field as we had ever seen anywhere, and of this they had not had a f a i l u r e , he said, d u r i n g a l l their f a r m i n g experience, the r e t u r n never f a l l i n g below fourteen bushels to the acre, in the worst of years, twenty- five being about the average y i e l d. They sowed late i n A p r i l , but reaped generally about the 15th of August. They had never, he said, been seriously i n j u r e d by frost since 1884, and i n fact no frost had occurred to injure wheat since 1887. There was abundance of hay, and 10,000 head of stock, he believed, could be raised at that very point. Many hogs were raised, w i t h great profit, bacon and pork being, of course, high- priced. One of the sons, M r . E . H . Lawrence, s a i d he had raised sixteen pigs,, which at eighteen months dressed 370 pounds apiece. At that time there were about 500 head of cattle, 250 horses,, and 200 pigs i n the settlement. A f t e r service at the Reverend M r . Scott's neat l i t t l e church,, we returned to M r . Lawrence's, and enjoyed an excellent d i n ner, i n c l u d i n g home- cured ham, fresh eggs, butter and cream. That was a notable Sunday for us i n the wilds, and seldom/ to be repeated. Strange to say, we found the true locust here, our old R e d ' R i v e r pest, w h i c h had quartered itself on the settlement more than once. I examined numbers of them, and found the-scarlet egg of the ichneumon fly under many of the shards. No one seemed to know e x a c t l y how they came, whether inflight or otherwise; but there they were, devouring some-barley, but l i v i n g m a i n l y upon grass, which they seemed to prefer to grain. They had appeared nine years before our coming, and disappeared, and then, three years before, had' come again. We found quarters i n a large b u i l d i n g at the fort, w h i ch was i n charge of M r . W i l s o n , whose wife was a daughter o f |
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