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Show Pasture in Canada Although the three prairie provincesManitoba, prov-incesManitoba, Saskatchewan and Alberta have become one of the greatest wheat-producing areas of the world, they still have about 37,000,000 acres of range or pasture land supporting many herds of cattle. cat-tle. In British Columbia over 1,250,-. 300 acres are devoted to pasture, making for all Canada a total of over 51,000,000 acres, or 31 per cent of the area of all occupied lands in the dominion. Nearly six times as much land is devoted to pasture as to hay, and more than twice a many acres are used for pasture as for the growing of wheat. |