Identifier: swanrivervalleym00meth (find matches)
Title: Swan River Valley, Manitoba, including the municipalities of Swan River and Minitonas : report on a rural survey of the agricultural, educational, social and religious life
Year: 1914 (1910s)
Authors: Methodist Church (Canada). Dept. of Evangelism and Social Service Riddell, Walter Alexander, 1881-1963 Swan River Survey Committee Presbyterian Church in Canada. Board of Home Missions and Social Service Presbyterian Church in Canada. Board of Social Service and Evangelism Methodist Church (Canada). Dept. of Temperance and Moral Reform
Subjects: Social surveys Education
Publisher: (S.l. : s.n.)
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Toronto

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ops ofwheat, oats and barley without summer fallow, and two crops ofwheat and one each of oats and barley, followed by summer fallow.The grass rotation is more common, consisting of one crop each ofwheat, oats and barley, and seeding down for a year or two, withtimothy. On 607 of the farms in Bowsman district, there was culti-vated grass: 877 in Swan River, and 887 in the Benito district.The other parts of the Valley showed that 667c of the farms had somecultivated grass. In the Benito district the average number of acresof cultivated grass on each quarter-section farm averaged 24, and onthe half-section farms, 28. The three special townships show one farmer in every four hasbeen either growing or experimenting with clover and alfalfa. Theaverage for the other parts was considerably less. As mentionedabove, some farmers have had good success. There were a few,however, who reported their attempt a failure. • The Modal Wage is the wage which occurs most frequently Inany wage group. 10
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(.OOD POULTKY The growing of fodder corn has not been very encouraging for thefew who have beentrying to grow it. The past summer, with theearly frost in August, was a very unfavorable corn season. Only afew fair specimens were seen. These were grown from seed sent outby the Agricultural College. With a view to securing suitable varietiesof corn and clovers the farmers should petition the Department of Agri-culture for a demonstration farm. These farms are being established indifferent parts of the province. There is little doubt as to the valuethat such a farm would be to the Valley. In a new country like Swan River the need for fertilizers Is notfelt for the first few years. Constant cropping, however, has shownthat the productiveness of the richest soils in the Valley is increasedby the application of barn-yard manure. On about 80% of the farmsIn the older districts manure is being applied to the land. The con-venience of hauling the manure direct from the stables is offset bythe t

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