THE PROGRESS OF CANADA.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 9653, 18 November 1909, Page 4

THE PROGRESS OF CANADA.

Great interest is jbeing aroused in agricultural circles in the United States by the prosperity of Western Canada and the remarkable development of the Canadian Northern railway. As evidence of this, a party of seven editors of leading agricultural journals have just concluded a tour of nearly 1,000 miles of the Canadian railway system. The party included Professor Thomas Shaw, formerly first professor of agriculture at the Ontario Government's College at Guelph, now professor of agriculture in the University of Minnesota, whose books on agriculture are used as text-hooks at most of tha United States agricultural colleges. Professor Shaw, on the conclusion of his tour, stated in a message that the tour had been u revelation to him and his party, and added: ''Not only have we viewed a long succession of ncn fanning

districts with bumper crops of wheat oats, and barley, but also the evidence of une of the most remarkable instances of railroad building in history. No such instance of rapid and substantial railway development and opening of vast tracts of excellent agricultural land to the people is on rec d, even in this day of quick and gigantic accomplishment."