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making a total of 3,174,325 acres. In the three Provisional
 Territories there were in all 625,758 acres in
wheat, and about 363,879 acres in other crops, making
a total of 989,637 acres, which, added to the acreage
under cultivation in Manitoba, makes in all 4,163,962
acres. From this comparatively small area over 67
million bushels of wheat and nearly 59 million bushels
of other grain were produced.
In 1903 the season was less favourable, and while
there was an increase in the acreage of land devoted
to wheat in Manitoba and the Territories the total
production has been about 52 million bushels of wheat
with about 54 million bushels of other grain. While
the land prepared for crop in 1904 is considerably
in excess of that for 1go3 it is not likely to exceed
54 million acres in all, which is not much more than
three per cent. of the land suitable for agriculture
within the limits referred to.
The following figures as to the quantity of land fit
for settlement in the Province of Manitoba and the
three Provisional Territories, Assiniboia, Saskatchewan,
 and Alberta, have been obtained from official
sources and may be accepted as approximately correct:

Manitoba e ve
Assiniboia I~ vee
Saskatchewan ... wae
Alberta ... ves “

Total _—

Total Area
Exclusive
of Water,
Acres.

41,000,000
57,000,000
70,000,000
64,000,000

Estimated
Proportion
Suitable for
Cultivation,

H
8
7

Acres.

= 27,000,000
= 50,000,000
= 52,000,000
= 42.000,000

171,000,000

It is thus estimated that there are within the limits
referred to, after making allowance for lands unfit for
agriculture, about 171 million acres suitable for cultivation
 by which is meant land of such a degree of