6 GEORGE V 



SESSIONAL PAPER No. 16 



A. 1916 



ANNUAL REPORT OF THE EXPERIMENTAL FARMS 



rOE. THE YEAR ENDINO JVIARCH 3i, 1915. 



EEPORT OF THE DIRECTOR 



J. H. GRISDALE, B.Agr. 



FIELD CEOP Al^J) LIVE STOCK NOTES FOR 1914. 



The area under field crops in the Dominion in 1914 is estimated to have been 

 35,102,175 acres, as compared with 35,375,430 acres in 1913, a decrease of 273,255 

 acres. Drought is estimated to have caused a crop failure in 1914 over 1,665,500 

 acres, so that the total decrease in productive area, in 1914, -was some 1,938,755 acres. 



On the other hand, the total value of the field crops produced in the two years 

 1913 and 1914, is estimated at $552,771,500 for the former and $638,580,300 for the 

 latter, an increase of $85,808,800. This increase is chiefly to be attributed to higher 

 prices since the outbreak of the war. A comparison of the figures in the following 

 tables will show this marked rise in price quite clearly. 



While the quality of the grain in 1914 was not equal to that of 1913, it may "be 

 elassed as fair. 



A comparison of the numbers of farm live stock for the years 1910-14, inclusive, 

 as given in table III, will show that there has been no marked increase in any class 

 in 1914, and in some cases a decrease is recorded. 



Table I. — Comparison of Yields and Prices Obtained for the Years 1913 and 1914. 



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