Excerpt from Year in Manitoba: Being the Experience of a Retired Officer in Settling His Sons; With Illustrations, Observations on the Country, and Suggestions for Settlers Generally As an ex-military officer, with three or four sons to settle, the problem, how best to do this, had long been before me as a practical question; and, being fond of a country life myself, I determined to take a small farm in a good agricultural county, and there have my boys thoroughly schooled in every detail of husbandry, so as to be fitted for the work of emigrant farmers when the time arrived for them to settle in one or other of our colonies. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.