In 190S 4.2d3.000 acres were disposed of. At this rapid rate of allotment our public domain suitable for agricultural purposes will be disposed of within the next twentyfive years. The lack of fertile lands within our own boundaries has been recently emphasized by the immigration of American farmers into the Dominion of Canada. Men will not leave the land of their birth. forswear fidelity to their native flag. and take the oath of allegiance as a subject of a foreign monarch unless actuated by a motive little less imperative than necessity. This question of the conservation of the soil resolves itself Into two elements: First. the extension of our lands capable of cultivation. second. the restoration of exhausted lands to a state of fertility.
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