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in a treatise largely devoted to the results of an
Imperial dole to this industry. There is certainly
no country in the world which is so attractive to
the agriculturist, and probably no country in the
world in which the agriculturist is so carefully
considered by his Government. But in a country
where climate, race, and resources tend to energy
and enterprise, the increase of the development of
secondary industries and complicated manufactures
is only a question of time. This is important as
pointing to the unwisdom of regarding Canada as
a large farm, or of adopting a policy which ignores
her manufactures while favouring what is for the
moment her overwhelmingly predominant industry.
Canadian agriculture is too commonly regarded
as being concerned simply with wheat-raising and
stock-breeding. It is difficult to estimate with
any great degree of accuracy the actual extent
of land available for wheat growing in Canada,
for it depends on cultivation and climate, and
to some extent on science, as well as on geological
formations. It must also be remembered that
single crop farming on virgin soil is at length
almost invariably replaced by mixed farming, and
thus the wheat output is reduced.
The opening up for the purposes of wheat growing
of the vast prairies of the North-West, the largest,
richest, and most prolific wheat area in the world,
must inevitably create a great effect upon the wheat
markets of the world.
Although we are within measurable distance of
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