As a matter of fact, it is an extensive district suitable for immediate cultivation, and containing, as well, valuable timber for lumber, fencing and building.
The first inquiry the intending immigrant makes is about frost.
At the Dunvegan and St.Augustine Mission farms, on the river bank above the Landing, Father Busson told me that White Russian and Red Fyfe wheat had been raised since 1881, and during all these years it had never been seriously injured, whilst the yield has reached as high as thirty-five bushels to the acre.

Seeding began about the middle of April, and harvesting about the middle of August.

He was of opinion that along the rim of the upper prairie level wheat would ripen, but farther back he thought it unsafe, and so no doubt it is for the present.

Mr.Brick's fine farm, opposite the Six Islands, and other farms also, were a success, but, of course, all these were along the river.

With regard to the upper level, I heard opinions adverse to Father Busson's, though, like his, conjectural.