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and refined, and is, therefore, worth three or four times as much as the 

 raw product. The cooked article is used ahnost exclusively to improve 

 the quality of the raw. 



The wants of the United States are said to be the product of one 

 hundred thousand acres annually. If this estimate be now excessive 

 it must soon be reached and passed. One New York paper is reported 

 to use the product of seven acres for its daily issue. 



It is stated that owing to tlie expansion of this industry the 

 greatest source of revenue in Sweden is derived from her forests ; and 

 that the Government are purchasing the private ones in order to secure 

 their protection. 



RAINFALL. 



In the folloAving tables the most noticeable feature is the small 

 amount (as compared with the eastern provinces) of total precipitation 

 with which Manitoba and the Northwest Territories produce such mag- 

 nificent crops of cereals, dairy products and vegetables, as well as horses, 

 beef, and bacon. 



Wheat is there sown over a frozen subsoil which gradually yields its 

 moisture to {lie influence of the sun, inciting and sustaining growth until 

 the rain (more than half of which falls in the summer months) brings 

 the grain to maturity. Of the total precipitation, nearly 75 per cent is 

 rain between 1st April and 1st October, the remainder falling (chiefly 

 as snow) during the other six months. 



In these tables — stations in the watershed of the Great Lakes are 

 placed together in alphabetical order for their respective lakes. 



