| Show THE UNITED STATES WILL SOON KNOCK AT THE doods OF CANADA FOR WHEAT A crop of 60 GOO bushels of wheat will be the record of 1904 the results of the threshing in western canada are not yet ed but from information at hand it Is safe to say that the average per aar will be reasonably high and a fair estimate will place the total yield of wheat at bishell bis hels at pres ent prices this will add to the wealth of the farmers nearly 60 then think of the immense eld of oats and barley and the large herds of cattle for all of which good prices will be paid fhe following official telegram was ent by honorable sifton min ister of the interior to lord strath cona high commissioner tor can ada am now able to state definitely that under conditions of unusual biffl culty in northwest a fair average crop of wheat of good quality has been reaped and is now secure from sub damage the reports of in jury by frost and rust were grossly exaggerated the wheat of manitoba and northwest territories will aagre gate from fifty five to sixty million bushels the quality Is good and the price 1 ranging around one dollar per bushel frank II 11 spearman in the satur day evening post says when our first transcontinental railroad was built learned men at tempted by Iso therman demonstration to prove that wheat could not profit ably be grown north of where the line was projected but the real granary of the world lies up to miles coith of the canadian pacific railroad aej the day Is not definitely distant when the united slates will knock at the doors of canada for its bread kail road men see such a day it may be hoped that statesmen also will see it and arrange their reciprocities while they mav do so gracefully americans already have swarmed into that far country and to a degree have taken the american wheat field with them despite the fact that tor years a little dakota station on the st paul road eureka held the distinction of being the largest primary grain market in ohp world the dal otas and minnesota will one day yield their palm to sas katch ewan |
