APPENDIX 1.

WE have collected in this appendix some
rather miscellaneous extracts from various
Canadian publications, in order to give, as
shortly as possible, information on topics
germane to the subject under discussion.
Only a selection is possible here, and for
further statistics the reader is referred to
the well-known books of reference on the
Dominion (e.g., the Statistical Year Book of
Canada). The extracts are from Government
Blue Books, pamphlets, &c., except where
their source is specifically mentioned.

THE PosSIBILITIES OF THE DOMINION.

Leaving now any further discussion of these enormous
 northern territories, let us return to the smaller
and better known districts nearer the lines of railway.
Of the 171 million acres in Manitoba and the three
Provisional Territories, which are said to be suitable
for cultivation, a very small part is yet under crop.
In Manitoba there were 2,039,940 acres under wheat
in 1902, and 1,134,385 acres in other farm crops,
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