APPENDIX I. 139

A staff correspondent of the Toronto Globe points
sut that: ¢ At least 10 million bushels more wheat
will be secured in Manitoba this year than in its neighbour
 to the south. This, too, although the acreage in
Manitoba under wheat is certainly not over two-thirds
as much as the wheat area in North Dakota. These
figures supply a sufficient reason for the rush of the
Dakotans into the Canadian North-West, especially
when they can sell their land in the Red River Valley
for $30 or $40 an acre, With the money thus obtained,
 the Dakotan farmers can double the area of
their farms by moving across the line into a district
that gives even higher crop returns than the State in
which they heretofore have made a comfortable
subsistence.”

CanapA v. UNITED STATES.
In Canada in 1902 ... 2,665,608 acres produced 67 million
bushels of wheat.
[n the United States ... 46,202,424 acres produced 670 million
bushels of wheat.

Ning REASONS FOR THE ‘‘ AMERICAN Invasion.”

se (1) Little attractive free grant land remains in the
United States; (2) the Canadian Government gives
settlers free grants of 160 acres ; (3) alternate squaremile
 blocks of railway grants can be bought in Canada
at low prices ; (4) the uncropped or virgin prairies of
Canada are uncommonly fertile; (5) they yield more
and better wheat than more southerly prairies because
the length of sunlight per day during the growing
season increases as agriculture moves north; (6) the
immigration literature of Canada is ‘attractive and
trustworthy ; (7) it is very extensively circulated in
rural parts of the United States by resident Canadian
agents, who advertise extensively in American papers
at Government expense ; (8) agents of the speculative
American companies ‘go after settlers, dig ‘em out’
and send them to Canada to view the Canaan there.