made applications to the Board for certificates 

 of qualification. Of this total 43,063 have been 

 granted certificates and at the present time 

 651 are gaining furthre practical farming ex- 

 perience before being considered as qualified. 

 A number are still in abeyance and othesr dis- 

 qualified or recommended for practical train- 

 ing. 



The following table shows the number of 

 men settled on the land and the total amount 

 of loans approved by provinces : 



No. of Loans 



British Columbia 2880 



Alberta 5785 



Saskatchewan 4,927 



Manitoba 3231 



Ontario 1442 



Quebec 341 



New Brunswick 491 



Nova Scotia 361 



Prince E. Island 313 



Amount 



$12,798,827 



23,048,972 



19,425,238 



13,445,460 



6,337,362 



1,774,991 



1,504,135 



1,200,576 



866,186 



19,771 $80,371,747 



Whilst lands fifteen miles on each side of 

 a railway were reserved for soldier filing, 8,772 

 men took advantage of the reservation and 

 occupied free lands. Of these 3,100 received 

 from the Board financial assistance to purchase 

 livestock and farm implements and to erect 

 buildings. The total, therefore, of men who 

 have gone on the land under the aegis of the 

 Board is 25,443, including 19,771 who have re- 

 ceived financial assistance. 



In the three prairie provinces where Dom- 

 inion lands were available, every elegible re- 

 turned soldier was entitled under the Act to 

 a soldier grant of 160 acres in addition to his 

 civilian right to homestead another 160 acres. 

 The average soldier grant and homestead 

 taken up is 240 acres, making a total area of 

 free lands disposed of, of more than 2,000,000 

 acres. The total area of land occupied by 

 soldier settlers under the Act is 4,854,759 acres 

 made up of purchased land, 2,153,184 acres; 

 encumbered land 360,227 acres ; and soldier 

 grants, 1,361,280 acres. 



98% Quality 200,000 Acres. 



The progress made by Canada's soldiers 

 turned farmers is gratifying in the extreme, as 

 high as ninety-eight per cent having made 

 good according to inspectors of the Board. In 

 the year 1920 soldier settlers broke 194,253 

 acres of new land and it is expected that during 

 1921 an area aggregating half a million acres 

 will be brought under cultivation. Last 

 season's crop returns received by the Board 

 show that a total of $13,953,178 worth of main 

 crops was produced by soldier settlers, these 



men having added to Canada's annual produc- 

 tion more than two and a half million bushels 

 of wheat, six and a half million bushels of 

 oats and more than three hundred thousand 

 tons of hay. 



The rehabilitation of Canada's army which 

 was both rapid and tranquil has aroused univ- 

 ersal admiration. This is a record of how part 

 of it was accomplished, how men who found 

 that after the campaign they could not tolerate 

 indoor life sought their reestablishment in the 

 out of doors and wielding the plough in the 

 same spirit they had the sword, achieved the 

 victory of peace as they had that of war. 



Dairying Increasing in Canada 



Canadian agriculture has achieved a wide 

 renown in a great diversity of products, the 

 latitude being as broad, in fact, as the lines of 

 agriculture followed limited only by situation 

 and climate. Famous, agriculturally, in the 

 first instance for her giant ranches which sent 

 their big fat cattle all over the world, she 

 turned as successfully to grain raising when 

 the farmer invaded the rancher's domain, and 

 in competition with the continent's first agri- 

 culturalists carried off the premier honors. 

 Later when the adaptability of certain areas 

 to mixed farming was proved, and the general 

 advisability of this method of farming accepted, 

 the excellent standard of her purebred stock 

 brought a demand from many foreign coun- 

 tries for animals to restock their herds. In the 

 export of fruit and other products Canada is 

 each year penetrating new markets, and would 

 now seem to be making a bid for fame as a 

 dairying country with the strongest evidence 

 in the way of a yearly increasing output whilst 

 maintaining a quality which keeps the product 

 in general demand. 



The Dominion achieved a new record in 

 dairy production in 1920 with an output valued 

 at $144,483,188 which was nine million dollars 

 in excess of the previous year's production. 

 Creamery butter in that year with an output 

 of 110,030,399 pounds showed an increase of 

 6,139,692 over the figures for 1919 with an 

 average price secured of 56j/-> cents per pound 

 as against 54 cents. Cheese made in factories 

 during the year aggregated 149,521,008 

 pounds, a decrease of 16,000,000 from the 

 previous year which makes the increase on the 

 total dairy products all the more remarkable 

 and pleasing. In 'addition to these two 

 products condenseries turned out 53,980,993 

 pounds of condensed milk ; 30,369,642 pounds 

 of evaporated milk, and 7,574,668 pounds of 

 milk powder. The total value of all dairy 

 products as previously stated was $144,483,188. 



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