second prize in the open class for creamery butter 

 against the butter makers of the whole continent. 

 In addition to these honors, a notable standing 

 was made in the educational butter scoring 

 contest held at Montreal, where, after submitting 

 a fourteen pound box of butter each month for 

 six months, he obtained the highest average 

 score of 96.18 points, an Alberta entrant making 

 a close second. 



A Province of Versatile Accomplishments 



Saskatchewan is a province of versatile 

 accomplishments. Having attained early fame 

 as a fur producing area, it turned successfully to 

 the raising of beef cattle on a tremendous scale 

 until more intensive agriculture limited the 

 ranges. It now holds the lead among the 

 Canadian provinces in regard to wheat, having 

 achieved the greatest provincial yield and 

 maintained it for some years. Now it bids fair 

 to become also the Dominion's first dairy 

 province. Phenomenal strides have been made 

 in the industry in the past few years, and the 

 year 1919 alone showed an increase in production 

 of nearly 35 per cent over the previous year. 

 In 1920, with 354,507 milch cows in the province, 

 a production of more than 29,000,000 .pounds of 

 butter was obtained. The export trade in this 

 product is also extending rapidly, and markets 

 on the other side of the international boundary 

 and across the Atlantic to which it has pene- 

 trated, regard it as the best of its class. 



The high quality of the rich, well-flavored 

 cream of the province is to a large extent 

 responsible for the prominent place Saskatche- 

 wan is attaining as a dairy section. Another 

 important factor in the extension of production 

 is the splendidly organized and operated cream- 

 eries of the Saskatchewan Co-operative Cream- 

 eries, Limited, a farmers' owned and controlled 

 organization, which now number twenty-five. 



About thirty thousand farmers in the pro- 

 vince patronize these creameries, shipping their 

 cream to the nearest branch to be there manu- 

 factured. It was as manager of one of these 

 branches, with the excellent raw material sup- 

 plied by local farms, and the efficient service of 

 his organization, that Mr. McGrath has been 

 able to most amply employ his professional skill 

 and give such wide prominence to Saskatchewan 

 as a dairying province. 



The Fruitlands of Manitoba 



In prefacing his address on the above subject 

 before the Manitoba Horticultural Society 

 recently, W. J. Boughen said: "My title seems a 

 joke to many people who have lived in Manitoba 

 a long time, yet to a comparative few, those 

 who know what the province produces in this 

 way, it is not a whimsical title but one which 

 has a real foundation in fact. The residents at 



large of Manitoba do not know the fruit growing 

 possibilities of their own province, and I believe 

 this may be extended to Saskatchewan and 

 Alberta." 



Mr. Boughen, to use his own expression, has 

 often staggered friends of his in 'the same 

 province by excellent crops of raspberries, sand- 

 cherries, currants, and crabs, and then modestly 

 passing over his own achievements he goes on 

 to say, "I never saw a better crop of apples 

 than that at Stevenson's orchard at Morden in 

 1919, when 300 bushels were harvested. The 

 heavily loaded trees surpassed anything I ever 

 saw, every tree loaded to its fullest capacity." 



A Natural Wild Plum Orchard 



The Morden district referred to is a natural 

 large wild plum orchard and, due to the stimulus 

 of the Dominion Experimental Station in the 

 district, is now producing large quantities of the 

 cultivated varieties, which thrive excellently and 

 arrive at substantial size in the soil which is so 

 admirably suited to their production. Last 

 year a heavy demand was met at the experi- 

 mental farm by a splendid crop of commercial 

 sale proportions. 



Grafting tame varieties on the wild trees is a 

 work easy of successful performance, and the 

 subject is treated practically and concisely in a 

 pamphlet published by the government. Trees 

 six years old have yielded two pails per tree, and 

 the trees grow to advantage up to six by eight 

 feet or nine hundred trees to the acre. The 

 profit in this venture with plums at $2.00 per 

 pail may be easily estimated, whilst a market 

 eager to absorb all the product surrounds the 

 district. 



There are not many districts where the large 

 apple has been grown successfully, but a few 

 have been raised as far north as Dauphin, and 

 the transcendent crab and the red or yellow 

 Siberian will thrive much farther north or west 

 than this. Crab apples have been widely and 

 extensively grown with the most gratifying 

 success. 



The Prolific Sandberry 



A little-known fruit in Canada which has 

 given excellent results when transplanted in 

 Manitoba is the sandberry, which is in reality a 

 dwarf plum. It is exceedingly prolific if grown 

 on light sandy soil. In the wilds it grows on dry 

 gravel ridges or the pure sand, and can be cul- 

 tivated to a successful and profitable extent 

 about a farmhouse located in such circumstances. 

 The fruit crosses readily with the plum, and some 

 of the best plum hybrids are of this sandcherry 

 crossed with the big California or Japanese 

 plums. 



Another fruit largely imported, and which 

 experience has proved can be successfully raised 

 on the prairies, is the low brush cranberry. It 

 has been authoritatively stated that no fruit- 



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