The acme magazine . Just here, perhaps, you have thetemerity to hint that the climate of Can-ada north and west of the Great Lakes,a land till lately occupied by Eskimo, istoo cold for white people. Then listen to his scorn. The wheat belt of Canada has a mild-er average annual temperature than havethe bordering States of America. Whydont you read your meteorological fig-ures, the figures of your own statisti-cians? Northing does not always meancolding. Why, it takes a modicum ofcold to produce vigorous manhood, justas it does to grow strong, firm, well-fiavored apples. Look around you in ev-e
The acme magazine . Just here, perhaps, you have thetemerity to hint that the climate of Can-ada north and west of the Great Lakes,a land till lately occupied by Eskimo, istoo cold for white people. Then listen to his scorn. The wheat belt of Canada has a mild-er average annual temperature than havethe bordering States of America. Whydont you read your meteorological fig-ures, the figures of your own statisti-cians? Northing does not always meancolding. Why, it takes a modicum ofcold to produce vigorous manhood, justas it does to grow strong, firm, well-fiavored apples. Look around you in ev-ery Canadian city from Halifax to Vic-toria and tell me if you ever saw a morevigorous or virile looking population. Ifyour eyes are open and the eyes of yourunderstanding, you will see on Canadianstreets men and women of greater weightof bone and more noticeable physicalhardness—and hardness and hardihoodof temperament—than you have seen inyour travels throughout the Old of them are transplanted from. Moostoos, Chief of (he Sucker Creek Band, European centers, but like transplantedapples trees, their fibre has- strengthenedand hardened in the new soil. He pauses to take breath and youhasten to interpose fresh objections. Allowing that you can grow wheat,you say; what about the rest? Whatelse is your prairie country good for? Inthe States there is a variety of soil con-ditions which makes possible diversifiedfarming, and this means real develop-ment. You have left a big opening for himand he takes advantage of it. A nation can grow rich and strongand great on wheat alone, he the money we get for our wheatwe can buy the luxuries of the we. have a variety of soils. Wouldyou see some of the varieties, and in asingle days jaunt ? Go to the Moose Jawdistrict. From the city the soil to thenorth and west, for fifteen or twentymiles, is a heavy clay, with clay sub-soil;from that to the Saskatchewan river soilis lighter and somewhat broken with hill
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