WHEAT 



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to come she should not be first among the countries of the 

 world in the amount of her exportable surplus of wheat, 

 if not in total production. If by the development of new 

 routes such as the Panama Canal and possibly the Hudson 

 Bay routes, and if by the improvement of the old routes such 

 as the St. Lawrence River, the cost of the transport of wheat 

 from the great Prairie Provinces of Canada to the markets of 

 the United Kingdom can be reduced, the problem of feeding the 

 industrial masses of Great Britain will be more than half solved. ' * 



WHEAT IN STOOK 



Australia. 



1. New South Wales. Westwards from Sydney rise the 

 Blue Mountains, steep and difficult of access. They form part 

 of the Great Dividing Range, which stretches from Cape York 

 to Wilson's Promontory, and which separates the Coastal 

 Plain from the ulterior of the Continent. 



Beyond the mountains are tablelands, and farther west 

 still, the western slopes. These slopes have an elevation of 



1 Dominions Royal Commission, 1917. 

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