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Show CANADA'S BIG DISPLAY. itesources of the Dominion Kxtenslvely Shown at Omaha. Omaha, Aug. 27. In the International Inter-national hall at the Trans-Mississippi exposition the largest exhibit is that of the Dominion of Canada. It occupies 5,000 feet of floor space and 6,000 feet of wall space, covered with the best the country can produce. It is an agricultural, mineral, forestry and dairy exhibit combined. The location is first-class, taking in the main entrance to the building. Wheat that grades "No. 1 hard northern," north-ern," and is produced to the amount of thirty-eight to forty-five bushels per acre all through the dominion is the principal agricultural product shown. Commissioner Myers says the dominion can supply the breadstuffs for all of the nations of the earth. Not only wheat, but oats, barley, rye, corn and all of the cereals known to the United States grow and flourish in every locality, local-ity, yielding abundantly. The corn is as large as that grown further south; the small grain has a lighter color, the berry being more plump and larger. |