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the future of Canada as a great wheat-exporting
country.

Land fit for settlement in Western Canada, 171,000,000
acres,
If which there is now under cultivation, 5,000,000 acres.
Present production of wheat and other grains, about
125,000,000 bushels.
Possible wheat production {one-fourth under crop annually),
200.000,000 bushels.

QuaLiTy oF CANADIAN WHEAT.

Analyses established the fact that the quantity
»f albuminoids (flesh-forming principles) was onetenth
 greater in Canadian flour than in the best
brand of Hungarian. I went to a prominent baker
in London to see if there was any possibility of
having a test made by using Canadian flour in one
of the modern bakeries. The test was made by the
bakers themselves for their own information. This
reliable firm of bakers furnished me with a report
afterwards. One of their tests in using Canadian
four gave the rate of 1461b. of bread from roolb.
of flour, and that of excellent quality. They got at
the rate of 152 Ib. of bread from the next, and 151 1b.
from a third test. All of these were from strong
Canadian flour. There is no other flour going to
England from any country, so far as I can learn,
that makes as much bread per 100 lb., or as good
bread, as Canadian flour.
Canadian flour not only contains an exceptionally
large percentage of albuminoids, but the different
forms of gluten are present in such a condition as
to give the dough great tenacity and capacity to take
ap water. Such a thing as adulteration of Canadian
flour by Indian corn flour, or other cheaper and inferior
substances, is entirely unknown.
The flour milling interest in Canada is a very
important one. There are not less than 2,500 mills,
employing over 6,000 men. The values of the wheat