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Africa is a continent of magnificent distances, it being the 

 largest of the three great southward projections from the 

 main mass of the earth's surface. Sfi Excluding the islands, 

 this continent includes I 1 ,262,000 square miles. Sfi Algeria and 

 Tunis — the two North African colonies — are of considerable 

 importance, Algeria producing from 20,000.000 to 50,000,000 

 bushels of wheat annually, 4,000,000 to 6,000.000 bushels of 

 which are exported. Tunis grows from 4.000,000 to 1 0,000,000 

 bushels, bringing the total maximum production of this part 

 of Africa up to about 50,000,000 bushels. W In this part of 

 the world, harvest begins in May and ends in June, while 

 the seeding time is in September and October. W In Egypt, 

 about 6,500,000 bushels of wheat are produced. The im- 

 ports of that country now amount to from 2,500,000 to 

 3,000,000 bushels of wheat annually. Sfi Morocco and 

 Tripoli are unimportant either in the amount of 

 wheat grown'or the imports of wheat and flour. M 

 South Africa is a much more important part of 

 the country commercially, although little wheat 

 is grown there — nearly all of the wheat 

 and flour being imported from Australia. 



