CANADIAN CONDITIONS.

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increase, for Britain has not a large agricultural
population to draw on for purposes of emigration.
It will thus be seen that Canada cannot be regarded
as an all-British colony, a fact which is of consider.
able importance in discussing her relations to Great
Britain.

MARKET FOR CANADIAN Probpuce.

Under existing circumstances there is no doubt
that far the most important available market for
Canadian agricultural produce is Great Britain.
The United States, as a result of its strange fear
of imports, has so taxed its people as to practically
exclude Canadian produce from its markets, and so
the market for Canadian crops and cattle is to be
found in the 42 million people here at home, Those,
therefore, who urge that a preference to Canadian
food products will direct trade in Imperial channels
forget that this, so far as is possible, has already
been accomplished,
Although the time must eventually come when
the United States will want Canadian wheat, yet
the superiority of Canadian wheat over all other
wheat ensures that Great Britain will take all that
Canada can grow until Canada produces more
than Great Britain requires,
Meanwhile, with the growth of the population of
the United States, mixed farming is there replacing
 the one crop farm, and this, coupled with the
growing exhaustion of the productive power of