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WHEAT 



time to send us wheat even more expeditiously than at 

 present. 



Farther north, beyond the railways and beyond the 

 prairies, in the valley of the Peace River, there are magnificent 

 wheatlands, and even in Yukon Territory in latitude 63 N. 

 wheat is cultivated. This is almost as far north as Archangel 

 and Iceland. 



The other provinces also produce wheat, though not in 

 such abundance as the Prairie Provinces, and Ontario, which 



REAPING WHEAT 



produces the most, uses a large part of it for feeding 

 stock. 



The Dominion produces more than 162 million bushels 

 of wheat a year, and she is capable of producing much more 

 than this. It has been stated on high authority that if one- 

 fourth of the suitable lands in Manitoba and the southern 

 parts of the other two Prairie Provinces were annually under 

 wheat the yield would be more than 812 million bushels. 



' At the present time Canada stands fifth on the list of the 

 wheat-producing countries. It is difficult to see why in years 



