. Review of reviews and world's work. THE GREATEST IRRIGATION WORK IN AMERICA. (Scene on the main ditch —60 feet wide at the bottom—of the Canadian Pacificsundertaking at Calgary.) 584 THE AMERICAN MONTHLY REVIEW OF \A4 GRAIN ELEVATORS AT HARTNEY, ,\l ANITOUA. devoted to wheat in western Canada, givingan average crop of 200,000,000 bushels. Thehighest estimate of the wheat crop of Minnesotaand the Dakotas, this year, is ,000,000bushels; 220,000,000 bushels is the largest cropever raised by the Northwestern wheat ten years, western Canada will he producingmore wheat than
. Review of reviews and world's work. THE GREATEST IRRIGATION WORK IN AMERICA. (Scene on the main ditch —60 feet wide at the bottom—of the Canadian Pacificsundertaking at Calgary.) 584 THE AMERICAN MONTHLY REVIEW OF \A4 GRAIN ELEVATORS AT HARTNEY, ,\l ANITOUA. devoted to wheat in western Canada, givingan average crop of 200,000,000 bushels. Thehighest estimate of the wheat crop of Minnesotaand the Dakotas, this year, is ,000,000bushels; 220,000,000 bushels is the largest cropever raised by the Northwestern wheat ten years, western Canada will he producingmore wheat than the American hard spring-wheat country. There will he two million peo-ple instead of seven hundred and fifty thou-sand, and the men, the implements, the capital,and the railways to harvest and move the enor-mous crop. It has been estimated that of the 230, acres included in what isusually meant by western< anada.—Manitoba, Alber-ta. Assiniboia, and Saskatch-ewan.—,000 lie with-in the humid region and aresuitable for that no more ,000 acres will ever bedevoted to wheat, western(anada will one day ,000 o wheat, — some 50,000, more than the la
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