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Denmark contributed about one-fourth, while of the other Con- 

 tinental countries Russia, France, Sweden, and Holland were 

 important sources of supply, while Colonial butter from New 

 Zealand, Australia, and Canada amounted in the aggregate to 

 1,087,825 cwt, or 26*5 per cent, of the total supply. 



A Report on the North- West of Canada, with special refer- 

 ence to wheat production, has been prepared for the Board of 

 Trade by Professor Mavor, of the Univer- 



the United Kingdom. The region to which the Report refers 

 comprises Manitoba and the territories of Assiniboia, Saskat- 

 chewan and Alberta, having a total area of 229 million acres 

 (excluding the area of water). 



The Report gives much interesting information respecting 

 the geology, physical geography and climatology of the region, 

 and its settlement, together with the history, present conditions 

 and prospects of agriculture, and includes a discussion of certain 

 estimates of the possible area of wheat growing and of the 

 possible production and export of wheat in the future. 



The cultivation of wheat depends upon so great a variety of 

 conditions that any estimate of the area physically or economi- 

 cally susceptible of being utilised for wheat production must be 

 more or less speculative, and Professor Mavor makes it clear 

 that even the most careful estimates must be received with the 

 greatest caution, but he puts forward two calculations made by 

 persons of authority and experience, as well as one taken from 

 a pamphlet on " Wheat Growing in Canada," by Dr. Saunders, 

 the Director of Experimental Farms. 



In the first of these estimates it is calculated that out of a 

 total area of 153 million acres some 92 million acres are sus- 

 ceptible of settlement or cultivation, of which 23 millions would 

 be annually available for crop production, and of this 13! 

 millions would be available for wheat production. Assuming 



Estimates of 

 Future Wheat 

 Production 

 in Canada. 



sity of Toronto. The object of the inquiry 

 was to throw light on the existing condi- 

 tions and future prospects of wheat growing 

 in the North-West of Canada for export to 



