An excellent yield is promised for corn. Recent 

 rains have improved pasturage. 



Quebec: Harvesting of hay is practically all 

 completed, yield being light. Probably 50% of 

 average yield. Cereals are reported doing fairly 

 well, owing to recent rains. More moisture 

 required for root crops, which are fair. Slight 

 improvement in pasturage. 



Maritime Provinces: Harvesting of hay 

 practically completed, yield light. Lack of 

 moisture retarded all crops. Fair promise for 

 roots, but likely below average. Recent rains 

 have improved pasture, but general conditions 

 only fair. Fruits, principally apples promise 

 well. Heavy recent rains in New Brunswick and 

 Prince Edward Island have been generally 

 beneficial. 



Farm Owner, not Tenant 



In all reason man was intended to live upon 

 the land and own a small plot of mother earth. 

 Yet it is the existing state in the older European 

 countries, and the trend in the United States is 

 to fast bring about the same condition, for all 

 the land to come into the possession and under 

 the control of a minority of the population. 

 Thus do not only all the men of the nation not 

 possess land but many agriculturalists do not 

 own the holdings they till and cultivate, but are 

 merely tenants paying rent to their landlords 

 annually for the fruits the earth yields to their 

 efforts. 



An agricultural survey of one of the counties 

 of Minnesota recently appeared which indicated 

 that nearly half of the farmers in that county 

 are merely tenants and not owners, paying for 

 the privilege of aiding the land to become pro- 

 ductive. This is a purely fortuitous example 

 and in the absence of statistics it is not known 

 how this proportion would agree with that for 

 the whole state or the total farming area of the 

 country. But certain it is that a great number 

 of the farmers of the United States do not own 

 the land they farm, and each year are under 

 the obligation of returning to their landlords a 

 substantial portion of that revenue they have 

 induced the land to yield. And with increased 

 population and settlement the tendency is all 

 this way. In the British Isles and continental 

 Europe the hope of land tenure is of course 

 much more hopeless and the absolute acquisi- 

 tion of a plot of ground is practically beyond the 

 aspirations of the average citizen, 



Tenant farming is in every way unsatisfac- 

 tory, and on the other hand there is a gratifi- 

 cation in owning a piece of land which nothing 

 else exactly imparts. The natural satisfaction 

 which the owner of a piece of land experiences, 

 material and sentimental, in improving it and 

 maintaining it in perfect fruition is denied to 

 the tenant, who, in addition to lacking the in- 



ducement of ownership, pays rent according to 

 the value and productivity of the farm he occu- 

 pies. A man who intends to occupy a farm all 

 his life is certainly going to treat it better than 

 one who may be gone at the close of the season, 

 and it logically follows that the first man is 

 going to be the better citizen and greater national 

 asset. 



A Land of Farm Owners 



Canada furnishes a diametrically opposing 

 picture a land of farm owners and farm land- 

 wanting owners. Broadly it may be stated that 

 there are few tenant farmers in Canada. The 

 Dominion may come to this state eventually 

 but the time is not in sight with the vast tracts 

 of virgin agricultural land of proved fertility 

 awaiting settlement, millions of acres to make 

 permanent farms for tens of thousands of farm 

 owners. Improved farms, close to railways and 

 markets, can be purchased yet for prices even 

 lower than farmers in other countries pay to 

 cultivate for one year. And not only have 

 farmers bought farms in Canada at the same 

 purchase price as they were accustomed to pay- 

 ing rental, but it has been no uncommon occur- 

 rence for the first crop to refund them the pur- 

 chase price in its entirety. 



Homestead land, the available extent of which 

 is fast decreasing under the absorption of set- 

 tlement, may be secured for but the fulfilment 

 of a few residential and cultural duties, offering 

 for nothing in return a permanent home and a 

 farm of a quarter of a square mile in area for all 

 time. It is difficult now-a-days to secure home- 

 steads except at some distance from the rail- 

 roads, but in the rapidity of settlement and 

 increased production, towns with all their im- 

 provements and conveniences spring up, rail- 

 roads are extended, and the homesteader finds 

 that he is in the centre of a thriving farm colony 

 and his land worth anything up to $100 per acre, 

 of which he is the sole owner. 



With wide tracts of rich agricultural land 

 awaiting settlement and improved farms to be 

 purchased at low rates in Canada, offering com- 

 fortable homes and substantial land holdings 

 for all time, the wonder of it is that there are 

 still farmers who are content to be tenant farm- 

 ers elsewhere. 



The Destination of Canada's Crop 



During the seven years 1915 to 1921, the total 

 exports of grain from Canada amounted to 

 1,222,664,772 bushels. Only fifteen per cent, of 

 this went to the United States, the balance of 

 85 per cent, going to other countries. Of the 

 total exportation of grain during this period, 

 415,950,748 bushels, or 37 per cent., left Canada 

 by Canadian sea ports, whilst 541,900,167 bush- 

 els were exported via the United States. Grain, 



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