316 TlMEHRi. 
The secret of its superiority lies in the tact that the 
wheat of the northern latitude makes a flour of greater 
strength. 
The northern wheat is flinty and contains more gluten ; 
the southern is soft and contains more starch. 
The average yield of wheat, per acre, in the Red 
River valley north of Fargo is 23 bushels. In Manitoba 
and the Saskatchewan region the average is greater and 
amounts to 28 bushels. These figures become more 
striking when compared with results in the districts of 
the present American wheat supply. In Illinois the 
average for wheat to the acre is 1 7 bushels ; the official 
returns of Minnesota, which is considered the best 
wheat growing State in America, place the average at 
17 bushels ; in Iowa it is 10 ; in Wisconsin less than 10 ; 
in Kansas 10 ; whilst in Texas it is 8^. 
A similar superiority of yield of barley and oats also 
exists in the Dominion. 
The American authority I have quoted above goes on 
to predict the possibility of there being ready for ship- 
ment within ten years, that is by 1891, on Lake Supe- 
rior, an amount of wheat from Canadian territory which 
shall equal the total quantity now received yearly by all 
the Atlantic ports, at a price of 70 cents a bushel, which, 
after deducting the cost of growing and of transportation, 
will give a handsome profit to the grower. As wheat 
cannot now be raised in the Mississippi valley at this 
rate, other crops will have to be cultivated there, and the 
centre of activity in wheat will soon pass to the Red 
River valley, to go later, possibly, still further northward. 
This remarkable article which I would recommend all 
to read who feel interested in the extension of British 
