CANADIAN CONDITIONS. 39

of Western Canada the fact should not be lost sight
of that, although the total rainfall averages only
13°35 inches for the Territories and 17°34 inches in
Manitoba, the amounts falling between April 1st
and October 1st are respectively 9'39 inches and
12:87 inches, or 70'3 and 742 per cent. of the
whole.
Temperature—The mean temperature generally
prevalent in summer is nearly the best temperature
for wheat raising.
Great Britain is one of the earth’s most favoured
regions for wheat-growing. It has a summer
temperature of about 60% to 62° F. In the North-West
 Territories the Dominion Government maintains
 sixteen stations where the temperature is
daily recorded. Ten of the sixteen showed a mean
summer temperature of 60° to 652 F.
Soil—The soil is largely of that black alluvial
nature which requires little cultivation, and is
almost permanently capable of producing wheat.

the same results are everywhere observed over tracts embracing
 300,000 square miles of territory. One important
result of this peculiar climate is the hardness and increased
weight of the grain. Another, equally important, is the
production of natural hay, on which horses and cattle
thrive much better than when fed on made hay. All stockraisers
 know that it is not cold that injures cattle or horses,
but those storms of sleet or soft snow which are so common
in the eastern provinces. Such storms as those are never
seen in the North-West, and the cattle are never wet from
November to April.”—Professor Macoun.
1 «Where such soil exists, under a suitable climate, its
value to the world is universally recognised. In all the