1 hard wheat.

Don't quarrel with the snow.

It is Canada's snow and frost that gives her the first place in the world in wheat production.

So much for the water and the snow." McTavish hitched about uneasily.

He wanted to have the speaker get done with this part of his theme.
From Canada's area Mr.Gilchrist passed on to deal with Canada's resources, warning his audience that the greater part of these resources was as yet undeveloped and that he should have to indulge in loud-sounding phrases, but he promised them that whatever words he might employ he would still be unable to adequately picture to their imagination the magnitude of Canada's undeveloped wealth.