such as those of British Columbia where cultiva- 

 tion is more intensive and an acre therefore 

 capable of producing greater revenue. 



The small ranches of British Columbia 

 naturally come high, and this province easily 

 leads by a wide margin all other provinces in 

 the value of its farm land, its $175 per acre 

 indicating how much lower land may be purchased 

 in other parts of Canada. Ontario and Quebec, 

 adjacent areas where conditions largely similar 

 prevail and where the farming of the same crops 

 is carried out to much the same extent, have the 

 same acreage value $70. The little province of 

 Prince Edward Island follows -with a value of 

 $49, and the Maritime Province of Nova Scotia 

 with $43. The earliest settled Western province, 

 Manitoba, takes sixth place with an average 

 value of $39, exceeding the older province of 

 New Brunswick, which comes next, with $35. 

 Saskatchewan and Alberta, which might be 

 almost considered one area in point of extent 

 and length of settlement, are bracketed together 

 as being the cheapest localities in which to buy 

 land in Canada, at $32 per acre. Paradoxically, 

 these last two provinces have for some years 

 now vied with each other in their efforts to 

 secure to Canada the world's wheat champion- 

 ship, with the result that it has done no more 

 than cross the provincial border separating the 

 two. 



Land Returning in Excess of Price 



Items occur periodically in the newspapers of 

 farmers in older settled countries abandoning 

 their farms because of inability to pay the rent 

 on them, which in many cases exceeds in its 

 annual rate the amount which would give them 

 a Canadian farm for all time. And in the 

 Canadian West there are still thousands of acres 

 unproductive, of doubtless a greater fertility than 

 those older areas, awaiting the man with the 

 plough. The average acre sown, for instance, in 

 the province of Alberta in 1920, where the aver- 

 age acre is worth $32, produced 20.50 bushels of 

 wheat according to government figures. Between 

 harvest and Christmas this wheat was selling 

 around $2.00 per bushel, which would give the 

 farmer a return of more than $40, or nearly 

 $10 in excess of the price at which the acre was 

 valued. This lends credence to statements that 

 farmers in the Canadian west have paid for their 

 purchased farms with the first crop. 



Farm lands in Canada are undoubtedly rising 

 in value, and this tendency is especially marked 

 in the Western provinces. Whilst there are yet 

 thousands of acres which can be secured at 

 prices lower than the government's estimated 

 average value in the provinces, there are also 

 many thousands of acres held by their owners 

 at three or four times this amount. When free 

 government homesteads and lands purchased at 

 less than $20 per acre sell a few years later 

 around the $100 figure, settlement becomes not 



only a cause but an effect, and the .increase in 

 cultivation must still further elevate land values 

 and prices. 



The Products of Nova Scotia 



Some interesting facts in connection with the 

 products of the Province of Nova Scotia are set 

 forth by Mr. W. H. Dennis of Halifax, managing 

 director of the Herald, the Mail and the Leader 

 of that city. They indicate, in a graphic manner, 

 the output of coal, grain, fruit, fish, wool, 

 lumber, etc. 



Coal A train of coal cars containing Nova 

 Scotia's yearly output of coal would reach from New 

 York City to Salt Lake City. 



Apples A year's production of apples in stand- 

 ard barrels, placed end to end, would reach from New 

 York to Indianapolis. 



Lobsters Nova Scotia produces eighty per 

 cent, of the world's supply of lobsters. 



Potatoes A year's production of potatoes 

 packed in barrels, end to end, would extend from New 

 York to Denver. 



Wheat The wheat produced last year in Nova 

 Scotia would give a standard loaf of bread to every 

 man, woman and child in the States of New York, 

 Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Delaware, Maryland, 

 Virginia, and the District of Columbia. 



Oats Enough oats are grown yearly in Nova 

 Scotia to feed generously for three days every one of 

 the 21 million horses in the United States. 



Wool The wool produced yearly would make 

 500,000 suits of clothes. 



Lumber The yearly lumber cut produces 

 sufficient material for 30,000 residences of eight rooms 

 each. 



America's Champion Butter Maker 



The province of Saskatchewan, Canada, lays 

 claim to possessing the champion butter maker 

 of the American continent in the person of 

 T. S. McGrath, manager of the Birch Hills 

 Branch of the Saskatchewan Co-operative 

 Creameries, Limited, and a survey of this 

 dairyman's record for the year 1920 discloses 

 substantial grounds for this pretension. He is a 

 native of Prince Edward Island who received an 

 early and thorough training in butter and cheese 

 making, but admits he has learnt a lot about his 

 profession since going west in 1912. 



This butter maker's record for last year 

 included first prizes and grand championships at 

 exhibitions held at Moose Jaw, Winnipeg, 

 Edmonton, Saskatoon, Regina, Prince Albert, 

 North Battleford, Toronto, Vancouver, Ottawa 

 and Charlottetpwn, which pretty effectively 

 covers the Dominion fairs at which dairying was 

 a feature. At the Canadian National Exhibition 

 at Toronto, where Mr. McGrath secured first 

 and second prizes and silver cups for the highest 

 average scores, he met and vanquished all the 

 premier dairymen of the Dominion, and at the 

 National Dairy Show at Chicago, he carried off 



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