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The Canadian Pacific Railway Company has constrncted 5,000 miles 

 of irrigation canals, and have an irrigable acreage of 643,000 acres. 

 The cost of their irrigation works exceeds £2,000,000, 



The Alberta Irrigation Company has 130,000 acres of irrigable land, 

 on which it has spent £300,000. 



The Southern Alberta Land Company, with a capital of £1,100,000. 

 is providing facilities for irrigating 153,000 acres. These are the three 

 principal land companies operating irrigation enterprises. 



The Canadian Pacific Railway Company conducts a large experi- 

 mental farm and several branch demonstration farms to carry out irri- 

 gation investigations for the information of its settlers. 



A few words regarding Canada's total production may be of interest. 

 In 1916 the following crops were produced: — 



Bushels. 



Oats . . . . . . 410,000,000 



Wheat 



Barley 



Potatoes 



Plax 



Buckwheat 



262,000,000 



42,000,000 



63,000,000 



8,250,000 



6,000,000 



Tons. 



14,500,000 



Hay 



There were 38,000,000 acres under crop in 1916. It is interesting to 

 note the large amount of oats produced, compared with other cereals. 

 The flax-seed crop, too, is worthy of note. Flax is widely grown on the 

 prairies, and does particularly well on new land. It is cultivated 

 throughout the wheat areas, and is treated much like the wheat crop. 

 While in crop production Canada greatly exceeds xlustralia, Australia 

 has the advantage in live-stock production. The number of live stock 

 in Canada in 1916 was as follow: — 



Cattle .. .. .. 8,000,000 



Pigs . . . . . . 3,619,000 



Horses . . . . . . 3,412,000 



Sheep . . . . . . 2',369,000 



In Australia the number of live stock in 1915 was as follow: — 



Sheep .. .. .. 69,257,189 



Cattle .. .. .. 9,931,416 



Horses .. .. .. 2,377,920 



Pigs .. .. .. 753,693 



AGRICULTURAL EDUCATION IN QUEBEC AND ONTARFO. 



Under the British North America Act 1867 legislation regarding 

 education was left exclusively to the provinces, subject, however, to the 

 maintenance of privileges of such separate schools as existed at the time 

 of Federation. Under this Act Quebec, which was overwhelmingly 

 French-speaking and Roman Catholic, continued to give instruction in 

 French, and under the control of the Church. 



Apart from this, it may be said ithat a common type of education is 

 being developed from one side of the Dominion to the other. This is owing 

 to the fact that the settlers who went first to the West were Canadians, 

 and carried with them to the West the institutions of the East. As in 



