Agricultural and Industrial 

 Progress in Canada 



A monthly review of Agricultural and Industrial progress in Canada, 

 published by the Department of Colonization and Development of the 

 Canadian Pacific Railway at Montreal, Canada. 



VOL. 3 No. 11 



MONTREAL 



November, 1921 



The World's Second Wheat Producer 



CANADA has risen to second place among 

 the wheat growing countries of the world, 

 according to the estimates of the Inter- 

 national Institute of Agriculture. With her ex- 

 pected yield of 288,493, 000 bushels from the 1921 

 harvest, she is now surpassed in this regard by 

 the United States alone. The vaunted slogan 

 "Granary of the Empire" has come to justify a 

 greater expansion in signification, for the golden 

 fields of the Canadian West are going a long way 

 towards feeding the people of the entire world. 



Canadian wheat and wheat flour are now 

 exported to the United Kingdom, United States, 

 Belgium, British 

 West Indies, France, 

 Gibraltar, Italy, 

 Netherlands, Rou- 

 mania, St. Pierre and 

 Miquelon, San Do- 

 mingo, Sweden, Tur- 

 key, Venezula, 

 Bermuda, British 

 Guiana, South 

 Africa, West Africa, 

 Canary Isles, Chile, 

 Cuba, Denmark, 

 Dutch Guiana, 

 Dutch West Indies, 

 Egypt, French West 

 Indies, Hayti, New- 

 foundland, Norway, 

 Panama and other 

 countries. 



The history of the growth of Canadian agri- 

 culture and wheat growing forms a marvellous 

 record of consistent progress. In a very short 

 space of time the territory which so many said 

 could grow no wheat has become the second in the 

 world in the quantity produced and the first in 

 quality. Since the Confederation of the Canadian 

 provinces in 1867, at which time the history of 

 Canada as a modern nation may be said to have 

 commenced, whilst the population of Canada has 

 trebled, the value of her field crops has multiplied 



WORLD'S LEADING WHEAT PRODUCERS. 

 1921 ESTIMATES. 



twelve times and that of her annual wheat crop 

 nearly twenty times, which is illustrative of the 

 healthy state of agriculture and leaves no appre- 

 hension of the country's suffering at the expense 

 of the rural sections in the building of urban 

 centres. 



The value of all field crops grown in 1870 was 

 $ 1 1 1 , 1 1 6 , 606 , and that of the wheat crop $ 1 6 ,993 

 265. In 1920 these values were respectively 

 $1,455,244,050 and $427,357,300. In 1920 the 

 Dominion obtained for the first time in her his- 

 tory a billion dollar crop, more than trebling the 

 value of the crop grown a decade previously. 



Agriculture is Canada's first industry and 

 though other branches of national activity are 



rapidly increasing in 



importance, the pur- 

 suit of farming 

 maintains a lengthy 

 lead which it will no 

 doubt maintain for 



1. United States 



2. Canada 



3. France 



4. India 



5. South America 



6. 



756,825,000 

 288,493,000 

 282,493,000 

 246,250,000 

 212,000,000 



Bushels. 



Italy 188,128,000 



7. Spain 143,205,000 



8. Australasia 116,000,000 



9. Africa 104,948,000 



10. Germany 100,000,000 



many generations to 

 come in spite of the 

 extensive exploita- 

 tion of resources 

 which assuredly lies 

 in Canada's imme- 

 diate future. 



Of the rich fertile 

 plains of the Can- 

 adian West only 

 about one-fifth of 

 the area which has 

 been declared fit for 



cultivation is occupied, and roughly, 300,000,- 

 000 acres west of Lake Superior await parcelling 

 out into farms and homesteads for the millions 

 of immigrants to come. 



The cultivation of this area at the same rate 

 of production would give Canada an annual 

 wheat yield of something round 1,400,000,000 

 bushels, or twice that of the present production of 

 the entire United States. 



Canada's rate of settlement and develop- 

 ment is the only determining factor of the 

 time when she will have attained the world's 

 first place as a wheat Jrpducer 

 and quantity. 



