A more serious impediment to the success of farming in the unsettled parts of the North-West is the occasional occurrence of summer frosts, which sometimes damage the wheat crop to a considerable extent. Forty years ago the Ontario farmer used to suffer from this plague of uncleared countries, but the gradual disappearance of the forest and bush before the settler's axe—the Canadian, by the way, is said t+ be "born with an axe in his hand by the side of a tree-stump "—has led to a decrease in the amount of surface consequent cure of the ey change is already taking ce in Saskatchewan and Northern Alberta; for the amount of frosted wheat. sent to the local mills is said to be very much less in proportion to the total crop than it was ye years ago. The farmer who is able to feed damaged grain to cattle (a step which is also taken when the price of grain is very low) will not suffer so much as his neighbour without stock, in the case of such a visitation; moreover, it is generally possible to choose Iand for homesteading, where the summer frosts are practically harmless. The settler—this series of articles may fitly close with this piece of advice—should always choose land with a slope towards the "North, and open in that direction; for during the summer nights there is generally a. breeze from that direction, and on such land the dark, white mists born of subterranean waters cannot brood long enough to do damage—in the event of a fall of temperature.
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