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toum and along the Nile. To Japan also many different sorts have been 
forwarded for trial, and quite recently a number of different varieties 
have been sent for test in that part of the Saghalien Islands which re- 
verted to Japan as a result of the late war. Similar requests have also 
been recently responded to from Italy and from Mexico. Canada has 
won an enviable reputation as a country of vast agricultural resources, 
and the published records of her progress have many interested readers 
in all countries where intelligent agriculture is practised. Immigrants 
are flocking to our shores in large and increasing numbers and millions 
of acres of virgin lands are being brought under crop. ‘lhe mass of sur- 
plus food products available for export, shows every year a marked 
increase while as yet the area of land under cultivation is relatively 
small. What these exports will amount to in the near future, when the 
country becomes well settled, and the acreage of crop much larger, no 
one can accurately foretell. Enough, however, is known to warrant the 
statement that Canada will shortly become one of the greatest food- 
exporting countries of the world. 
