New elementary geography : adapted for use in Canadian schools . of the is the chief business IS meat, milk, butter, cheese, eggs, hides,,skins, and wool; we also sell thousands ofhorses. Our farms produce good crops of hay,.turnips, potatoes, carrots, beets, tomatoes, andmangel-wurzels that are food for animals or formen. Flax and hemp are also grown. On thefarms in many districts are valuable orchards-of the best apples in the world. Besides plums,,pears, cherries, strawberries, currants and othersmall fruits, peaches ripen in some parts o£Canada and grapes thrive in alm
New elementary geography : adapted for use in Canadian schools . of the is the chief business IS meat, milk, butter, cheese, eggs, hides,,skins, and wool; we also sell thousands ofhorses. Our farms produce good crops of hay,.turnips, potatoes, carrots, beets, tomatoes, andmangel-wurzels that are food for animals or formen. Flax and hemp are also grown. On thefarms in many districts are valuable orchards-of the best apples in the world. Besides plums,,pears, cherries, strawberries, currants and othersmall fruits, peaches ripen in some parts o£Canada and grapes thrive in almost all theprovinces. Tobacco is an important crop in a^good many districts. Thus Canadas greatest-industry of occupation is agriculture. the forest products of Canada are alsovery important. Canadian lumber made frommaple, beech, elm, ash, pine, cedar, spruce,balsam, oak, walnut, butternut, chestnut, bass-wood, cherry, hickory, birch, or Douglas fir 1 1 ^^, ,,.1: >MnM Harvesting Wheat in Uanitoba and the ITorth-West. DOMINION OF CANADA. 45. Loading Deals. finds its way to all parts of the world. Collectspecimens of all the ditterent woods you canget. The Canadian sawmills are among extensive and perfect in the world. Lum-bering in all its stages em])loysa lai-gc numberof our people in cutting, hauling, rafting, saw-ing and shipping the square timber, scantling,planks, boards, and laths, ihc sawdust andthe slabs are also us(m1 up to make pails, tubs,paper, and matches. .Vltoget iier we get a greatdeal of money from our immense forestsof valuable timber. Even small treesare valuable, becaus(> they can be madeinto paper pulp, which sells as readilyas wheat. Tanbark, tar. turpentine,and charcoal are also obtained fromour forests. Let each pupil choose aCanadian tree and then talk to theclass about it. fisheries of Canada are of greatimportance to the country. Our in-numerable fresh-water lakes and riversover thewhole extentof Canadaabo
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