UO THROUGH CANADA 



cultivate it. In the autumn, thousands of stacks 

 may be seen. There is no rain to spoil the making. 

 A variety of blue grass highly valued by cattle 

 owners, grows in many districts, and the well-known 

 Kentucky species is said to flourish better there than 

 in its native soil. 



The ingredients of the land consist of marly clay 

 of great depth, overlaid with rich black absorbent 

 soil, which chemical analysis has shown to possess 

 all the plant foods, with almost a complete absence 

 of stones. The latter feature greatly reduces the cost 

 of breaking up the soil, and the steam plough effects 

 the process at a cost of i5j-. to 2^s. per acre. Cattle 

 grazing is carried on under favourable conditions, as 

 there is no winter slush, and the animals thrive and 

 grow fat. In April the snow clears, and spring opens, 

 often with a breath of the chinook winds, which raises 

 the temperature almost to summer heat. 



It is as a cereal-producing province that Alberta 

 is likely to be distinguished in the future. The 

 British Association meeting at Winnipeg, August, 

 1909, pointed out that it is par excellence the wheat 

 belt of the continent, and just as other areas of the 

 United States have become celebrated as the corn 

 belt of the continent, the provinces of the Canadian 

 West will become the great wheat-producers for the 

 United States and Great Britain. At the exhibition 

 at Philadelphia in 1876, a medal was taken for wheat 

 grown 750 miles north of the international boundary 



