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the unloading of the freight cars, however, are 

 _lpcated at Fort William and Port Arthur, over 400 

 miles to the east on Lake Superior. 



Regina, Calgary, and Edmonton are likewise 

 cities which have come to be of considerable im- 

 portance because of the development of the wheat 

 industry in various Canadian regions. 



The Extent to which Wheat is Produced in 

 Canada. - The large plains of Canada seem to be 

 as well adapted to wheat growing on a grand scale 

 as any similar area in the world. Extensive, un- 

 developed wheat tracts lie in northern Alberta and 

 Saskatchewan. Likewise many valleys in British 

 ^Columbia are also thought to be well adapted to 

 extensive wheat growing. 



The total production in 1913 was reported to 



_be 231,717.000 bushels ; in 1902 it was 100,523,000 



bushels. Thus in a decade there is shown an in- 



crease of more than 125 per cent. The average 

 yield in 1913 was 21.04 bushels per acre. This is a 

 low average, rather lower than the average yearly 

 yield, for 1913 was not a year of exceptionally good 

 crops. Yields as high as 40 bushels per acre 

 are not unusual in the wheat districts west of 

 Winnipeg, although on the other hand the crops 

 are sometimes reduced by drought or frost so that 

 10 or 15 bushels per acre is all that is produced. 

 In these regions, however, because of the favorable 

 soil, climate, and intelligent methods of farming, 



