amount or 3,176,200. Manitoba accounted for 

 $3,140,100; Quebec $1,004,000; British Columbia 

 $279,200; Nova Scotia $10,650; and New Bruns- 

 wick $6,500. 



With the increase in production of rye on 

 Canadian farms there has developed a corre- 

 sponding export trade in this grain which it is 

 confidently expected to yet further expand in 

 the near future. Whilst there were only 263,422 

 bushels of rye exported from Canada in 1915, 

 this had increased to 2,113,302 bushels in 1920, 

 and another million was added in 1921, the total 

 export being 3,201,430 valued at $6,231,170. Of 

 this 1,108,789 bushels went to the United King- 

 dom; 717,086 bushels to the United States ; 149,- 

 468 bushels to Belgium ; 59,069 bushels to France, 

 128,180 bushels to Germany; 259,459 bushels to 

 Italy; 252,199 to the Netherlands; and 527,180 

 to Norway. 



In addition to this export of the raw product 

 Canada has in the past few years worked up a 

 profitable overseas trade in rye flour. In 1919 

 the Dominion exported 1907 barrels worth $25,- 

 283; in 1920, 35,786 barrels worth $297,768; and 

 in 1921, 10,833 barrels worth $104,613. 



Multifarious Uses 



Rye has many uses. It is used in bread mak- 

 ing, for feeding to livestock, and in the manu- 

 facture of alcoholic beverages. In Europe, rye 

 bread forms the staple food of the peasantry, 

 it being estimated that one-third of the European 

 population lives on rye bread as it forms the 

 principal cereal in Belgium, Holland, Germany, 

 Austria and Russia. Rye is inferior to wheat 

 for breadmaking and is not so palatable, but rye 

 meal mixed with wheat flour forms a palatable 

 and appetizing loaf. In the United States about 

 two-thirds of the rye grown is used as food for 

 livestock, and one-third is consumed as bread by 

 the foreign population accustomed to its use. In 

 Canada, also, rye is used for bread by the foreign 

 element, and found invaluable in the fattening 

 of livestock. 



Canada is ever exhibiting fresh traits in her 

 agricultural development and turns successfully 

 to the production of crops of all kinds, surpassing 

 through the high fertility of her soil and excel- 

 lence of her climate, the yields of older areas to 

 the south of her domain. As she has exceeded 

 them not alone in the high quality of her product 

 bringing her international honors, but in average 

 production of wheat, barley and oats, so has she 

 accomplished the same in rye, and is progressing 

 in the direction of making her annual production 

 of this important cereal a really important fea- 

 ture of her agriculture. 



The Corn Belt Travels North 



A striking feature of the 1921 harvest in the 

 Canadian Western provinces is the quantity of 

 eorn to tre seen on every hand, adding a novel 



touch to the western landscape of a few years 

 ago. The traveller through the countryside 

 encountered on all sides splendid sturdy stands 

 of the growing crop, and later met plots and 

 fields of the tall ripened sheaves ready for the 

 silo and the winter's feed bin. The stalwart 

 growth and excellent yields of the corn of the 

 Prairie Provinces have occasioned exclamations 

 of amazement and admiration from visitors across 

 the line who, dwelling in what are known as the 

 "Corn States," are in the best position to appre- 

 ciate the wonderful production of Western Cana- 

 dian soil. In ingrained belief that their terri- 

 tory alone on the continent possessed the pro- 

 per ties for successful corn production, their aston- 

 ishment and marvel can be imagined. 



It is not so very many years ago since sceptics 

 said that wheat could never be grown profitably 

 in Canada, and gradually the growth and exten- 

 sion of Western Canadian cultivation saw the 

 wheat belt travel northward in its wake, until 

 now it is generally acknowledged to lie well with- 

 in the Canadian West, a situation attested by a 

 decade's uninterrupted successes in winning 

 international honors for this crop. Indications 

 would now tend to the assumption that the corn 

 belt is undergoing something of the same process 

 of shifting, and that, in the near future, corn will 

 be a staple crop of the Canadian West, and the 

 Prairie Provinces vie with the corn states across 

 the border in their annual yields. Certainly the 

 excellent crops to be seen all over this territory, 

 and the increasingly large areas devoted to the 

 culture, would demonstrate there is nothing in 

 soil or climate to hinder such circumstances com- 

 ing to pass. 



Amazed at Growth of Corn 



The realization of this fact will undoubtedly 

 have a great effect on their attitude towards 

 Canada of United States farmers in whose agri- 

 cultural activities corn enters as such a large 

 factor, and Canadian agricultural land should 

 be regarded with yet greater favor. Recently, 

 a party of United States farmers visited the 

 Canadian West to look over farm lands with the 

 intention of purchasing and settling if satisfied. 

 They were shown various sections where values 

 ranged from $25 per acre to $50 per acre. In 

 the course of their inspection they were amazed 

 and delighted to see the excellent stands of corn 

 as fine, on their own acknowledgment, as they 

 could produce on their highly held lands farther 

 south. Learning the price of the land they ex- 

 claimed, "These farms are worth at least $75 

 per acre when you can raise corn like this." 

 They were corn farmers and reckoned in terms 

 of corn production. Needless to say they de- 

 cided in favor of Canada and are now preparing 

 to raise corn north of the line. 



Other United States farmers will probably 

 be just as amazed to learn that the Canadian 

 West can raise corn to evoke the admiration of 



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