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in 1911 and 1912. This increased acre-yield is 

 due in part to favorable seasons and also to the 

 practice of better culture methods and to the 

 planting of adapted, early-maturing varieties. 



There has been an unprecedented development 

 of the Canadian northwest since 1903. If this 

 rate of development continues for the next ten 

 years, Canada will rank with Russia and the 

 United States as one of the three greatest wheat 

 producing countries of the world. It is estimated 

 that there are in the three western provinces 

 about 180,000,000 acres available for cultivation, 

 the greater part of which is adapted to wheat 

 growing. Of this area, not more than 6% is at 

 present under cultivation. There is enough good 

 wheat land in the western provinces alone when 

 this land is brought under cultivation, to produce 

 two billion bushels of wheat annually, and allow 

 one-third of the land to lie fallow each year. To 

 the north of Alberta and Saskatchewan in the 

 territories of Mackenzie, Keewatin, Ungava and 

 Yukon lies an immense area of more than 900,000,- 

 000 acres, some of which will eventually be cul- 

 tivated in wheat, as shown by the fact that wheat 

 has already been successfully grown at several 

 points within this region. 



