This gentleman, Director of the Experimental Farms of the Dominion of Canada, has returned from his Western explorations in the interest of agriculture, having extended his observations to Vancouver Island on the Pacific coast. He reports Manitoba as flourishing in spite of the unusually dry season. Settlements are starting up even to the foot of the Rocky Mountains. Cattle feed out to the end of November. In British Columbia settlers are locating faster than farming provides for them, so that a large portion of the supplies has to be brought from a distance. Timber and the fisheries will be productive industries for ages. Banff, on the Bow River, is prosperous. A large hotel is forming, and the Government laying out a beautiful Public Park. The Western Indians seem contented and happy.