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to be added to above, as I have paid already all
BXpenses.
[ know other men, my neighbours, who have done
sven twice as well as I have, for instance, Mr. John
Mair, a Scotchman, and several others.
During these twenty years I never had a crop so
poor that it did not pay expenses and a little more.
The poorest was in 1889, when I only had 11 bushels
per acre, but the price was good—7o cents. The
largest yield per acre was in 1887, when I had 45
bushels per acre No. 1 hard.
In my second year, with only a yoke of cattle, I produced
 2,100 bushels of grain, 1,200 wheat, and goo
bushels oats, and every year I have increased the output,
 but I have never killed myself with work. There
is no such hard work to do in this country as in
Ontario. For instance, in the year 1887, when I had
the 45 bushels to the acre, I was baking and cooking,
and with the assistance of a boy of sixteen years old 1
put in and took off a crop, 6,000 bushels wheat and
2,000 oats, as well as breaking and back-setting 70
acres. I also ploughed 30 acres summer fallow twice.
[n the early days, when little of the country was
under cultivation, we lived in fear of frost, but since so
much of the land is under cultivation we never think
of it. Yours truly,
W. H. Brown.

ForGeT, AssiNiBoia, Nov. 23rd, 1903.
Mr. F. T. Grirrin,
C. P. R. Land Commissioner.
Sir,—I came to Oak Lake, Manitoba, eleven years
ago, from the province of Lorraine, in France. I was
absolutely without money on my arrival, and borrowed
the $1000 fee to enable me to enter for my homestead
on S. W. 1-4 of section 20, township 8, range 4, west
2nd meridian, near Moose Mountain. I now have
t,120 acres of land, with good buildings and machinery,
Cc.