a sweeping vista of miles of surging waves of 

 golden tossing heads justifying the appellation 

 of "Granary of the Empire." The prominence 

 given to successful wheat growing is apt to 

 suggest a specialization and exceptional achieve- 

 ment, but the versatility of Western Canadian 

 production was very ably illustrated at the last 

 International Livestock and Grain Show held in 

 Chicago in 1920, when out of twenty-five prizes, 

 Canada secured twenty-one including the premier 

 trophies for wheat, oats and Clydesdale horses. 



The prominence wheat receives may over- 

 shadow the production of other cereals to the 

 exclusion of the successes they have also achieved 

 in the international field. Yields of 120 bushels 

 of oats to the acre have been recorded in Western 

 Canada and one-hundred-bushel yields have 

 ceased to cause comment. In point of quality, 

 it might be mentioned that the $1,500 trophy for 

 oats presented by the State of Colorado was 

 won four times successively by J. C. Hill & Sons, 

 of Lloydminster, Alta. 



Championship Five Years Running 



To take the successes of the last five years. 

 In 1916, at the International Soil Products 

 Exposition at El Paso, Texas, Alberta oats was 

 awarded the sweepstakes, and later, when the 

 same exposition came to be held at Peoria, 

 Illinois, Alberta dropped one place, securing the 

 second prize, whilst the premier honor was 

 divided between her sister provinces of Manitoba 

 and Saskatchewan. In 1918, when the Inter- 

 national Exposition was held at Kansas City, 

 Manitoba secured the ascendancy over its sisters 

 and carried off the first three prizes for oats as 

 well as the sweepstakes for the same crop, 

 In 1919, one of the years in which the wheat 

 championship went to Saskatchewan, it also 

 secured the premier oats honor with first place 

 and sweepstakes. Coming right up to 1920, at the 

 International Livestock and Grain Show at 

 Chicago, J. C. Lucas, of Cayley, Alberta, brought 

 the world's oat championship to his province. 

 In the past five years, Alberta has secured the 

 oat sweepstakes twice, Manitoba and Saskatche- 

 wan once each and divided it once. Never once 

 has it left the boundaries of the three prairie 

 provinces. 



Barley, which is the other cereal in the pro- 

 duction of which Western Canadian farmers 

 have entered largely and pitted their crops 

 against the best of the continent, rivals oats in 

 its list of awards. For four successive years at 

 the expositions of the International Dry Farming 

 Congress held respectively at Lethbridge, Alta., 

 Tulsa, Okla., Wichita, Texas, and Kansas City, 

 Mo., the first prize was secured by an exhibit 

 of Western Canadian barley. To follow this up, 

 Manitoba carried off the first three prizes for 

 this crop in 1918. 



Taken in conjunction with the wheat 



records this is a truly remarkable showing, 

 giving Western Canada nearly every cereal 

 honor for a number of years against the com- 

 petition of the world's first farming areas. 

 And when it is considered that the huge tract, 

 which includes the farms which raised these 

 champion crops, is yet to a great extent undevel- 

 oped, the achievement is still more remarkable 

 and augurs a wonderfully productive future for 

 the time when ever growing settlement shall 

 have broken up the waiting millions of fertile 

 acres. 



British Columbia's Berry Crop 



Prospects for the 1921 berry crop in British 

 Columbia were never brighter, and the only 

 thing that can hinder a record yield will be a 

 severe spring frost. It is estimated on reliable 

 authority, that the acreage under berry cultiva- 

 tion this year amounts to 2,500 acres. Of this 

 area one thousand acres will be planted in rasp- 

 berries, as compared with six hundred and 

 twenty- five acres last year; strawberry acreage 

 increased from 850 acres in 1920 to 1,447 acres 

 this year; the balance of the area will be planted 

 in other small fruits such as blueberries, goose- 

 berries, blackberries, etc. 



With an average of two tons to the acre, the 

 production of berries will be approximately three 

 thousand tons. Put in more concrete form, it 

 means that it would take a train of five hundred 

 freight cars to contain the prospective 1921 

 British Columbia berry crop. Owing to their 

 bulk, a freight car will only hold about six tons 

 of small fruits. 



During the past few years, a number of co- 

 operative berry marketing organizations have 

 handled British Columbia's berry crop. Owing 

 to overlapping and the need for greater unity 

 amongst berry-growers, due to the constant 

 fluctuations of the market, it was decided to 

 merge these different associations into one body. 

 At the present time, nine of the thirteen existing 

 co-operative companies have joined this new 

 establishment and the other four are expected 

 to come in shortly. 



This association will be a pure and simple 

 sales organization. It will endeavor to enlarge 

 the present market for British Columbia berries. 

 Special efforts will be made to increase the 

 prairie demand, where the bulk of the crop is 

 shipped. A larger quantity of small fruits than 

 hitherto will also be turned over to provincial 

 factories to be made into jam. 



The price that should be realized for this 

 year's crop will be approximately one-third less 

 than last year's price. This will be offset by the 

 increased production, which, it is estimated, will 

 be 50 per cent, greater than 1920, when the crop 

 brought in $1,000,000. The grower will have to 

 take less for his berries, which he can afford to 



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