apples, won the third prize of a bronze medal. 

 One of the judges stated that this apple would 

 have won first prize as an eating apple, being 

 the best all round apple in the \vhole exhibition. 

 The Ontario exhibits also won four first prizes 

 of gold medals, five second silver medals, and 

 one third bronze medal. Nova Scotia won th^ 

 first prize for Starkes and Golden Russets and 

 second for Cox's Orange. British Columbia 

 won the second prize with Cox's Orange Pippin 

 and the third prize for the best dessert apple. 

 New Brunswick won two first prizes with Mac- 

 kintosh Reds and Snows and two third prizes 

 with Russets and Princess Louise." 



Three Million Barrel Yield 



The Dominion Fruit Commissioner's Branch 

 has estimated the apple yield for 1921 at 

 3,337,200 barrels as against 3,404,340 barrels 

 last year. Nova Scotia is expected to lead 

 with "1,300,000 barrels; British Columbia will 

 have 1,009,000 barrels; Ontario, 960,000 barrels; 

 Quebec, 35,200 barrels; and New Brunswick, 

 33,000 barrels. 



Probably the two outstanding fruit pro- 

 ducing districts of the Dominion are the Anna- 

 polis Valley in Nova Scotia, and the Okanagan 

 Valley in British Columbia, situated at either 

 extremity of the continent. Whereas in 1920 

 the Annapolis Valley produced about one and 

 a half millon barrels of apples, estimates made 

 this year place the yield at more than two 

 million barrels. In the Okanagan valley esti- 

 mates have risen from about four million dol- 

 lars in 1920 to nine million dollars this year. 



The total value of Canada's apple produc- 

 tion in 1920 was $29,849,149 as compared with 

 $24,396,210 in 1919. The total yield was 3,- 

 404,340 barrels as against 3,334,660 barrels in 

 the previous year, the increase being small and 

 the substantial difference in values being in 

 the main accounted for in the prices received, 

 the average value of a barrel in 1920 being 

 $8.77 as against $7.31 in 1919. Export sales 

 amounted to 1,127,400 barrels of the value, 

 at par rate of exchange, $12,470,444, an average 

 price per barrel of $11.06. The province of 

 Nova Scotia exported almost two-thirds of its 

 total crop of 1920 at an average wholesale price 

 of $10.60 per barrel. The average wholesale 

 price on the domestic market was $6.25 per 

 barrel. 



Ontario Leads all Provinces 



Ontario continued to lead among the prov- 

 inces of Canada in apple production with a 

 total yield of 1,621,800 barrels valued at $13,- 

 073,765, an average price of $8.06. Nova 

 Scotia was not far behind with 1,160,000 barrels 

 valued at $10,931,420, or an average price of 

 $9.42. British Columbia, on the other side 

 of the continent, the province which is fast 

 taking the lead in fruit production, held the 



third place with a production of 504,540 bar- 

 rels, which at an average price of $10.12 were 

 worth a total of $5,106,905. Quebec's total 

 yield amounted to 88,000 barrels worth $569,- 

 688, or an average of $6.47, and that of New 

 Brunswick 30,000 barrels valued at $167,371, 

 an average of $5.78. 



The total increase for the year in production 

 amounted to 69,680 barrels over the figures of 

 1919 and in value $5,452,939. The provinces of 

 Ontario and Quebec were responsible for these 

 increases, both recording substantial increments 

 over the previous year whilst the other three fruit 

 growing provinces registered slight declines. 



The Government survey takes cognizance 

 only of the five provinces noted which comprise, 

 for all intents and purposes, the total Canadian 

 area on which apples are commercially raised 

 and from which an export trade is carried on. 

 It should not be assumed, however, from the 

 omission of the other provinces that no fruit 

 is produced there. This side of agriculture has 

 largely been neglected in the almost exclusive 

 attention paid to grain growing, but apple 

 growing is now a successful pursuit in many 

 parts of Manitoba, and some excellent varieties 

 are produced on the irrigated lands of Southern 

 Alberta. 



Helps All Farmers 



A further tribute to the prowess of Mr. Seager 

 Wheeler in wheat production is given by the 

 Olean (N.Y.) Herald in a recent editorial. 

 It says: 



Seager Wheeler, Canada's wheat wizard, gets thirty 

 dollars a bushel for Early Triumph, his new variety 

 of seed wheat. It ripens ten days earlier than any 

 other wheat and yields eight to ten bushels more to 

 the acre. 



That helps all farmers, by increasing their possible 

 profits. It also moves the wheat belt one hundred 

 miles farther north, putting millions of acres under 

 cultivation. 



Wheeler, on his Saskatchewan farm, has a wheat 

 production record of eighty-two bushels an acre. In 

 international expositions he has won the world's cham- 

 pionship five times. 



Men like Wheeler and Luther Burbank will be the 

 outstanding figures of our time, when a really civilized 

 posterity re-writes history and puts wars and other 

 things where they belong on a back seat. 



The record of Mr. Wheeler, whose farm is 

 located at Rosthern, Central Saskatchewan, is 

 well known to all students of agriculture. 



The editor of this publication well remembers 

 the beginning of his rapid climb to fame. In 

 1912, his exhibit was awarded at the New York 

 Land Show the $1,000 gDld prize donated by 

 the Canadian Pacific Railway for the best 

 bushel of hard spring wheat grown in North 

 America, and a telegram of congratulation was 

 sent to him on his success. When the presen- 

 tation of the prize was later made, at a banquet 

 tendered to him by the Canadian Club at 



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