entered as a competitor against the older grain- 

 growing areas across the international boundary. 

 If we delve into Western Canadian history, 

 it will be found that this area's fame as a pro- 

 ducer of excellent wheat really dates back as far 

 as the year 1876, when the prize- winning wheat 

 at the Centennial Exposition at Philadelphia 

 came from the Peace River Country, a region 

 which as a grain-producing area may even at 

 this date be said to be in the elementary stages 

 of development. Another part of the same 

 territory carried off the first wheat prize in 1893 

 at the Chicago World's Fair. Western Canada 

 has, however, been a serious and continuous 

 exhibitor and competitor only since 1910, since 

 which time the three provinces of Alberta, 

 Saskatchewan and Manitoba have held the 

 world's championships between them, wresting 

 the prize one from the other on different 

 occasions, but never permitting the premier 

 honor in this respect to pass the boundary of 

 the three. 



Seager Wheeler's Rise to Fame 



In the year 1910, the late James J. Hill, of 

 the Great Northern Railway Company, offered 

 a gold cup to the value of $1,000 for the best 

 bushel of hard spring wheat grown in the 

 United States. Sir Thomas Shaughnessy, 

 President of the Canadian Pacific Railway, 

 challenged him to open the competition for the 

 prize to Canada. As he was for some reason 

 unwilling to do this, Sir Thomas, on behalf of 

 the Canadian Pacific Railway, offered a new 

 prize of $1,000 in gold for the best bushel of hard 

 spring wheat grown on the continent of North 

 America. In 1911, the first international com- 

 petition was held under the auspices of the New 

 York Land Show, and the prize was won by 

 Mr. Seager Wheeler, of Rosthern, Saskatchewan, 

 now familiarly known all over the continent as 

 the "Wheat Wizard." It is considered that his 

 yield on a small strip of land that year, which 

 worked out at eighty-one bushels per acre, in 

 all probability constitutes a world's record for 

 spring wheat. 



In the following year, the prize went over the 

 provincial border into Alberta, being secured by 

 Mr. Holmes, of Raymond. In 1913, it travelled 

 back to Saskatchewan, when Paul Garlach, of 

 Allan, won out against the entire grain farmers 

 of the continent. In 1914, 1915, and 1916, the 

 prize went to Saskatchewan each year, when 

 Seager Wheeler recounted his first success and 

 took America's first place successively. Mani- 

 toba's turn came in 1917, when one of her 

 farmers, Samuel Larcombe, of Birtle, won the 

 first prize for his province. 



Saskatchewan Produces a New Champion 



Seager Wheeler did not relinquish the laurels 

 for long, and at the International Soil Products 

 Exposition at Kansas City in 1918, where he 



exhibited his Marquis and Red Bobs wheat, he 

 secured the world's championship again, and 

 successfully contested it the following year. A 

 new champion arose in the same province in 

 1920, when at the International Live Stock 

 Exposition, held in Chicago, the honor was 

 wrested from Seager Wheeler by J. C. Mitchell, 

 of Dahinda, Saskatchewan, still to stay with 

 the province and the Dominion. 



Thus for the past ten years, since which time 

 only Western Canada can be said to have entered 

 aggressively into competition with the older 

 grain-raising areas of the continent, the Western 

 provinces of the Dominion have carried off each 

 year the highest honors for wheat. In one year 

 each has the distinction come to Manitoba and 

 Alberta, Saskatchewan being predominantly 

 first among America's wheat-growing areas with 

 eight grand championships, six of which it owes 

 to that grain genius, Seager Wheeler, whose 

 name is now renowned in agricultural circles 

 the continent over. 



It is not long since the suggestion that wheat 

 could be grown at all successfully in the Cana- 

 "dian North-West was met with the profoundest 

 scepticism. Now, Canada has not only assumed 

 third place among the nations of the world in 

 the amount it grows annually, but -successfully 

 maintains its claim yearly to superiority of 

 quality over other lands. And in the three 

 Western provinces there are yet thousands of 

 acres of land, of the same fertility, unproductive, 

 due in time to raise the same quality of grain, 

 and swell the production of the Canadian West 

 many fold. 



New Brunswick's Fruit Growing 



In tabulating the fruitlands of Canada, as commonly 

 known and appreciated, the province of New Brunswick 

 does not feature very prominently, due not so much to 

 modesty in publishing the successes of years as in the 

 realization that they are insignificant in the light of the 

 wonderful possibilities of development the fruit growing 

 industry in the province is capable of. It may be surprising 

 to a great many people to learn that practically all the 

 fruits which thrive on the North American continent can 

 be cultivated with much profit and success in New 

 Brunswick, that the apple is indigenous to the province 

 with wild apple trees lining the roads for miles in many 

 sections, and that in certain favored valleys, largely 

 undeveloped, the province has potentially, according to 

 the most reliable authorities, some of the richest orchard 

 sections in Canada. 



New Brunswick possesses all the qualities of soil and 

 climate for successful fruit growing, and all small fruits 

 and a large number of varieties of apples, plums, and pears 

 are grown profitably. Each year the production of the 

 various fruits is increasing, due to the consistent efforts 

 of the provincial government and local fruit associations, 

 who have succeeded not only in encouraging the industry 

 with native farmers following other phases of agriculture, 

 but in inducing much immigration to the orchard-lands. 



Fruit development companies have taken up the 

 planning of orchards for sale, and succeeded in systemizing 

 to an extent this side of the industiy. The Canadian and 

 European markets are the aim of the provincial fruit 

 growers. The province is admirably situated to serve the 

 overseas market, being in a position to ship the apple crop 



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