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plows at work in breaking the ground for next year's 

 planting, is in itself worth coming out here to see ! 

 No living man in the past ever saw such an extent of 

 bountiful crops everywhere in Pennsylvania, Ohio, 

 Indiana, North Dakota, Minnesota, Wisconsin, Sas- 

 katchewan, Alberta and Assiniboia as can be seen at 

 the present time. 



It is a revelation of this country's resources, a har- 

 binger of great prosperity, when every man who needs 

 work or who wants to work and will work may have all 

 the work that he can do and at good wages as well. The 

 product of the millions of acres of wheat, of oats and 

 of flax which are now nearly ready for the markets of 

 the world, and which will command the highest prices 

 ever paid for grain at this season of the year except- 

 ing during war time must, when sold, set all the idle 

 mills a-going and keep the furnaces at white heat and 

 fill the empty freight cars to overflowing and the sail- 

 ing and steam vessels to bursting with the golden 

 grain. Wherever we went trains of cars were waiting 

 to be loaded. Others already loaded were blocked in 

 the sidings. The local elevators in the minor towns 

 were reported filled to their limit, and the tide 

 has but just started. It was a glorious and inspiriting 

 spectacle, this veritable sea of grain and of flax, 

 which stretched away as far as the eye of man could 

 see. 



One of the passengers who had been a member of 



