this high quality product. Demonstrations 

 conducted with this seed on 117 farms in 

 Ontario and Quebec resulted in showing the 

 superiority of home grown seed over the foreign. 

 Seed laboratories are now maintained by the 

 Dominion Department of Agriculture at Ottawa, 

 Winnipeg, and Calgary, and at these points some 

 28,000 tests were carried out and grain examined 

 for vitality. 



Whilst the industry in Eastern Canada has 

 been on a firm and substantial basis for some 

 years through the efforts of individual farmers 

 and those of the Experimental Farms and much 

 seed has been produced for distribution among 

 farmers, Western Canada has of late years 

 proved itself to possess the qualities of soil and 

 climate peculiarly adapting it to this interesting 

 side of agriculture, and this area bids fair to 

 surpass all other parts of the continent in this 

 regard and become its premier seed producing 

 area. As merely an example of the supreme 

 qualities of this region might be mentioned the 

 hundred bushels of six-row barley which was im- 

 ported into Alberta from Idaho in 1916, where 

 the variety had been grown and improved on for 

 a number of years and was known as the highest 

 yielding barley in the state. Sown in Southern 

 Alberta on a twenty acre patch it produced 

 seventy-five bushels to the acre, and later 

 sown on the Dominion Experimental farms at 

 Lethbridge and Lacombe the phenomenal yields 

 of 109 and 114 bushels respectively were ob- 

 tained, surpassing by a great percentage the 

 best ever achieved in its native state. 



Alberta offers splendid opportunities for 

 pure seed production on a large scale, according 

 to the best experts. Wheat, oats, barley, peas, 

 flax, rye, alfalfa, sweet clover, red clover, 

 timothy, brome grass, western rye, and seeds 

 of many kinds of vegetables can be grown 

 in different parts of the province in profitable 

 quantities and of exceptional quality. Last 

 spring seven seed centres for the multiplication 

 and distribution of pure seed were established 

 in the province, and it is estimated that this 

 fall there will be between 75,000 and 100,000 

 bushels of pure seed in Alberta.. In the irri- 

 gated district of Southern Alberta particularly, 

 success has been achieved in the growing of 

 seed, more especially alfalfa, yields of fourteen 

 bushels to the acre having been received. 



Thriving in British Columbia 



In British Columbia the production of pure 

 seed is a thriving industry which is yearly 

 becoming more profitable, and on the Pacific 

 Coast flower seeds are grown extensively and 

 exported to all parts of the world. In certain 

 coast districts of the province, seed houses 

 have established farms or arranged with local 

 farmers to grow flower seed for the English 

 and continental markets. The previously prev- 



alent belief that English grown seed was superior 

 in producing power to that grown in Canada 

 has been exploded as a result of extensive 

 experimentation, and now, in contrast to the 

 importation which took place at one time into 

 Canada, the Dominion is exporting heavily to 

 the British market. 



When Canada can produce crops which 

 surpass other countries, as judged by inter- 

 national contests and exhibitions, it must 

 naturally follow that the seed from which 

 these crops spring be of superior quality. 

 That they are recognized as such is evidenced 

 by the wide demand for seed which exhausts 

 the supply of prize-winning stock each year. 

 With the extension of growth this industry 

 must become of yet greater national importance 

 to Canada. 



Industrial British Columbia 



The inauguration of a Made in British Columbia 

 campaign, which has been enthusiastically taken up by 

 the people of the Pacific Coast province and secured a 

 large and ever increasing following, draws attention to 

 the progress of industrial manufacturing in British 

 Columbia which, from its expansive and diversified 

 growth, is now in a position to supply from within its 

 own confines nearly all the needs of its four hundred 

 thousand population. Industry on the Canadian Pacific 

 coast is making sturdy and continuous headway, backed 

 by all the fundamental necessities of development in 

 its rich and varied natural resources, its powerful water 

 resources, and its excellent shipping. In the last fiscal 

 year British Columbia exported goods to the value of 

 $83,558,649 as against imports to theextent of $81,615,- 

 288. 



In industrial importance British Columbia ranks 

 third among the provinces of Canada, following Ontario 

 and Quebec and taking the lead by a substantial margin 

 of the Canadian West. According to the returns of 

 the last industrial survey which was conducted in 1918 

 there was at the end of that year a capital of $244,697,241 

 invested in manufacturing industry in the province. 

 The various industries represented gave employment to 

 44,039 people who received in salaries and wages amounts 

 totalling $50,422,163. The cost of materials utilized in 

 the plants was $109,403,517, and the year's production 

 was $216,175,517. Though no figures have been published 

 since that date there has been a substantial progress 

 made since that time. 



Forests and Fisheries Progressing 



The industries which spring from the province's chief 

 resources in her very varied natural wealth naturally 

 loom up in greatest importance, those which are tributary 

 to her forests, her fisheries, her seaboard, and her fruit- 

 lands. In 1920 there were 567 logging firms in British 

 Columbia which gave employment to 11,250 persons 

 who received in excess of $15,000,000 in wages and 

 salaries. Allied to these were 385 saw and shingle mills 

 employing 12,645 people who received also about $15,000- 

 000 in wages. Slill tributary to the forests were 61 

 planing mills and wood working plants finding em- 

 ployment for 1902 people and paying them more than 

 $1,500,000 in the year. The leasing and exploitation 

 of all accessible pulpwood limits in the east has driven 

 manufacturers to the practically untouched resources 

 of the Pacific Coast, and already there are six pulp and 

 paper mills in full operation in that area. Though this 

 industry is in its earlies 1 infancy 2,000 men find em- 

 ploymen> in its many phases and it has an annual payroll 

 of $3,600,000. 



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