The Canadian journal of medicine and surgery . -west is worth more than twenty acres of average soil along theAtlantic sea-board. The man who tills the former can growtwenty successive croi)s without much diminution in the yields,whereas the person who tills the latter must i)ay the vender offertilizers half as much for mate-rials to fertilize an acre as wouldbuy the same in the Canadian Xorrli-we-st in order to grow asingle remunerative crop. Of the three Provinces referred to, Manitoba is the oldest. Itis the smallest of the* Western Provinces, measuring l)ut ().),OOOsquare miles, yet is as
The Canadian journal of medicine and surgery . -west is worth more than twenty acres of average soil along theAtlantic sea-board. The man who tills the former can growtwenty successive croi)s without much diminution in the yields,whereas the person who tills the latter must i)ay the vender offertilizers half as much for mate-rials to fertilize an acre as wouldbuy the same in the Canadian Xorrli-we-st in order to grow asingle remunerative crop. Of the three Provinces referred to, Manitoba is the oldest. Itis the smallest of the* Western Provinces, measuring l)ut ().),OOOsquare miles, yet is as large as England, Scotland and Ireland,anel has 27,000,000 acres of aral)le land, less than ejne-sixth ofwhich is uneler plough. The natural resources of the country areas great as those of any oth( r part of the Xorih American contin-ent. The soil is a ri(-h hlae-k loam of great strength and depth,that of the Peel piver ^alley being particiilarly well adapted forthe growth of wheat. The two new Provine-es of Aliierta and Saskatcluwan contain. :^ V
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