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and trade organisation are obvious limitations 

 to the agricultural occupations of a country. 



CANADA 



The rapid strides of Canada's development 

 in cereal acreage of recent years has almost 

 paralleled the earlier Westward movement of 

 cultivation in the States. Limited by the 

 practical exclusion of maize, acreage increase has 

 largely taken the form of wheat. With a popu- 

 lation of only seven millions, her wheat production 

 is still small compared with that of the United 

 States. Comparing totals, Canada's ten million 

 acres under wheat in 19 n is roughly but a 

 quarter of the American acreage in the nineties, 

 and the total production of 200,000,000 bushels 

 reached in 1911 is only equal to America's annual 

 exports up to seven years ago. Rapid as the 

 extension has recently been, indications seem to 

 show that the pace in the immediate future 

 will be even greater : the mileage of new railways 

 constructed in 1912 shows a total of 2,000 miles 

 as against 669 for 1911, and 629 for 1910. A por- 

 tion of this increased mileage is accounted for by 

 the construction of the Eastward and Westward 

 links of two railway systems, which already 

 control an extensive mileage in the prairie district. 

 For the present at all events, these links must be 



