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manurial condition. In a similar manner, i.e., used rather as 
an auxiliary food, it will be found most profitable to employ 
turnips for the same class of sheep. Instead of giving these 
roots in unlimited quantities, let them be supplemented with 
certain less bulky and more nutritious materials. That such 
treatment, varied somewhat according to circumstances, will be 
found more conducive to the health of both ewes and lambs, 
experimentation has abundantly proved, while the appearance 
of anzemia, with its destructive results developed directly and 
indirectly in both ewes and lambs, will most surely be reduced 
to the minimum, or altogether disappear. 
IX. — Canadian Agriculture. Part I. — Prairie Farming. By 
Professor W. Fream, B. Sc. Lond., F.L.S., F.G.S., College of 
Agriculture, Downton, Salisbury. 
The Dominion of Canada includes the whole of British North 
America except Newfoundland. By the British North America 
Act, passed in 1867, the provinces of Upper and Lower Canada 
(Ontario and Quebec), New Brunswick, and Nova Scotia were 
united under the title of the " Dominion of Canada," and pro- 
vision was made in the Act for the admission at any subsequent 
period of the other provinces and territories of British North 
America. In 1870, at the close of the Red River Rebellion, 
the province of Manitoba was formed, and, with the remainder 
of the vast Hudson's Bay Territory, now called the North-West 
Territory, was admitted into the Dominion. British Columbia 
followed in 1871, and Prince Edward Island in 1873. New- 
foundland is now the only province not included in the 
federation. 
At the last census, that of 1881, the following figures were 
obtained : — 
PllOVINf KS. 
Prince Edward Island 
Nova Scotia . , 
New Brunswick 
Quebeo 
Ontario 
Manitoba 
British Columbia .. 
The Territories 
Total .. .. 
Area in Square 
Population, 
Increase over 1871. 
Miles. 
1881. 
Numerical. 
Per cent. 
2,133 
108,891 
14,870 
15-8 
20,907 
440,572 
52,772 
13-6 
27,174 
321,233 
35,639 
12-5 
188,688 
1,359,027 
167,511 
140 
101,733 
1,923,228 
302,377 
18-6 
123,200 
65,954 
46,959 
247-2 
341,305 
49,459 
13,212 
36-4 
2,665,252 
56,446 
4,446 
8-5 
3,470,392 
4,324,810 
637,786 
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