The great Canadian North-west, finest farming lands in the world.
Bibliographic record
Abstract
We, the representatives from Vermont, forty in number, left Richford, Vt., on July the 30th, under the personal guidance of Mr. D. J. Waggoner, Colonization Agent, to inspect the lands along the line of the Canadian Pacific Railway and Manitoba and North-western Eailway in the Canadian North- west, also the Province of Manitoba; but in consequence of the large amount of territory to inspect and the limited time at our disposal, we found it impossible to reach all intended points.The first inspection made was at Brandon, on the Experimental Farm.Throughthe courtesy and kindness of Mayor McDermit, the party was furnished with conveyances which enabled us to inspect the country around that point.We found the farm in flourishing condition, under the super- vision of Mr. Bedford, who, we think, deserves great credit for his systematic management."We also visited and met Mr. Sandison, the Wheat King of Manitoba, who came here nine years ago as a farm labourer, without capital, and now owns a farm of 7,000 acres, 3,000 of which is under a high state of cultivation, the crop being princi- pally wheat.After bidding adieu to Brandon we next visited Regina, where teams were kindly furnished the party by the Land Agent, who drove us through a fine farming country, and we were highly pleased with the splendid crop and the fertility of the soil.After remaining a day at Regina, we proceeded to the Prince Albert district, which equalled or excelled the report of the Maine delegates, where they state without exaggeration: " It is one of the finest countries on the continent of America."We found the soil of a superior quality of rich, black, vegetable mould, and we found it produced as fine crops as we have ever seen.The climate is splendid and the water abundant, and we think it is well adapted for mixed farming and stock-raising, wheat, oats, barley, potatoes, pease, &c.We found fine herds of rattle and sheep throughout the district, the best we have ever seen.We also found milch cows fat enough for the market, with calves running by their sides, fed only on native grass.After a thorough inspection of the vast tract of farming land lying between Prince Albert and Stony Creek, we have arrived at the conclusion that no better place could be found for people seeking homes with little or no capital.The delegation wish to return their thanks to Mr. D. J. Waggoner, Colonization Agent, for the many favours shown them, and all agree in speaking of him in the highest terms, and further that he has carried out his agreement with the party to the very letter, and that he has not overestimated the capabilities of this vast country, where countless thousands mav yet make themselves comfortable homes in a short time and at slight expense.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame machine prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.
Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.013 | 0.002 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.004 | 0.001 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| Research integrity | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.068 | 0.006 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".