38 ESSAYS ON WHEAT 



Average Yield of Wheat in Bushels per Acre 



Yield Yield 



per acre per acre 



United Kingdom . . . 31.9 United States 14.6 



Germany 31.8 Australia 13 2 



Austria 20.2 British India 11 9 



Canada 20.0 Eussia 10.8 



^^^nce 19.1 Argentina 9.9 



Hungary 18.8 



from which it will be seen that the fertility of the soil in 

 Canada has exceeded that of the United States by 5.4 

 bushels per acre but has been considerably less than that 

 of the United Kingdom and Germany. 



The average yield of spring wheat per acre for the 

 Prairie Provinces for the ten-year period, 1908-17 inclu- 

 sive, was as follows : ^ 



Average Yield of Spring Wheat in Bushels per Acre 



Manitoba 17.75 bushels 



Saskatchewan 18.50 bushels 



Alberta 22.50 bushels 



Upwards of nine-tenths of Canada's wheat is produced 

 in the Prairie Provinces. These provinces, in the five 

 years, 1913-17 inclusive, produced 1,283,000,000 bushels 

 of wheat, whereas the rest of Canada in the same period 

 produced only 118,000,000 bushels.^ 



In per capita production of wheat Canada leads all coun- 

 tries. This is due to the smallness of her population rela- 

 tively to the vastness of her acreage sown to wheat. The 



* Monthly Bulletin of Agricultural Statistics, Ottawa, August, 

 1918, pp. 222-223. 



5 The annual figures upon which this calculation is based are given 

 in a foot-note in the last Section of Chapter III. 



