fore serious loss has been effected. That the 

 dairy industry is on a wonderful scale of as- 

 cending progress there is every evidence, and 

 there still remain the widest possibilities for 

 profit in the industry. Practically the entire 

 output is at the present time exported, and there 

 is no doubt that with the name it has universally 

 won for itself, foreign markets could absorb much 

 more. The recent awards in London must 

 assuredly be the occasion of fresh interest in 

 this old Canadian industry. 



Christmas Flowers from Western Canada 



Roses from the Canadian Prairie at Christ- 

 mas time! Chrysanthemums, poinsettas and 

 carnations leaving in their thousands to beautify 

 and cheer points on the continent which con- 

 sider themselves, climatically, far more blessed 

 by nature! What an anomaly! In the festive 

 season when all the world seeks floral decora- 

 tions to embellish and gladden homes, churches 

 and schools, a Western Canadian city plays no 

 small part in providing these, and this Christ- 

 mas, as on previous Christmases, the little 

 prairie city of Medicine Hat, in Southern Al- 

 berta, has sent a profusion of blossoms all over 

 the continent. Not only will they cover 

 Canada, East and West, but cities of the United 

 States will be the brighter on this holiday for 

 the colorful touch added by these delicate 

 blooms. 



The Eden from which these flowers emanate 

 is known as the Rosery. Fourteen years ago 

 it was instituted with a nucleus of two green- 

 houses and to-day is the largest producer of 

 flowers in the Canadian West. Chrysanthe- 

 mums, carnations, violets, lilies, stocks, roses, 

 ferns, cyclamen, flourish there, and throughout 

 the winter months the houses of glass are 

 glories of varied tints and perfumes. Lettuce, 

 cucumbers and tomatoes are also grown in large 

 quantities, but it is in the production of an 

 abundance of rich decorative blooms that the 

 Rosery has come to be so widely known, and 

 created such a demand for its lovely product. 



Expands Rapidly from Modest Beginning 



In the original two small greenhouses, a 

 beginning was made in the prairie city with 

 hothouse vegetables, flowers being added year 

 by year as the business grew and the possibilities 

 in this line were realized. The richness and 

 excellence of the floral product brought about 

 an ever increasing demand which was met by 

 the addition of more and more greenhouses, 

 until now there are thirty-two of these buildings, 

 averaging 250 feet in length and covering about 

 four and a half acres. A great advantage 

 in the development of the nursery has been 

 the fact that Medicine Hat is situated on a 

 natural gas field, the gas for heating being 

 supplied at cheap rates. Six large boilers of 

 eighty horse power each keep the plant at the 



right degree of temperature throughout the 

 winter, and it is the economic fuelling with gas 

 which permits the product of the company to 

 compete with the product of other nurseries 

 at very distant points. 



The status which the business of the Rosery 

 has reached has not been accomplished without 

 years of infinite pains and sometimes serious 

 losses. As a pioneer industry, extensive ex- 

 perimentation was entailed in order to discover 

 the best lines for Western Canadian growth, 

 and the possibility of establishing such an in- 

 dustry on a firm basis must have been at times 

 in doubt. Now, however, the nursery supplies 

 florists throughout the Prairie Provinces and 

 many points in British Columbia. 



Through Winnipeg, Eastern Canada re- 

 ceives its floral provisions from the nursery, 

 where orders are also filled for the United 

 States. The Christmas trade this year called 

 for ten thousand chrysanthemums, four thousand 

 poinsettas, and eight thousand carnations. 

 Approximately sixty per cent, of these will be 

 sent to Winnipeg for distribution in Eastern 

 Canada, a portion of the remainder crossing the 

 international line to aid in the Christmas 

 celebrations of United States cities. 



Canadian Wool Goes Overseas 



The first determined attempt on the part of 

 Canadian wool growers to compete on the over- 

 seas market with the wool of Australia, New 

 Zealand, South Africa, and South America is 

 being made by actual sales in the London wool 

 market. The first shipments of some seven dif- 

 ferent types of Canadian wool have been made to 

 England by the Canadian Co-operative Wool 

 Growers, these representing some of the best 

 wools grown in Eastern Canada and the range 

 area of the West. A factor in hastening this 

 movement has been the closing of the United 

 States market by the Emergency Tariff which 

 provides for a duty of fifteen cents, render! 

 export from Canada absolutely prohibitive. 



In the fiscal year 1921, wool export shi 

 ments from Canada totalled in value $2,16 

 256, and in 1920, $5,472,236. In 1921, 7,128,06 

 pounds went to the United Stated, 130,169 to 

 the United Kingdom, and 29,6tf9 to Newfound- 

 land. In the year previous 8,859,682 poun " 

 were exported to the United States, 195,081 

 the United Kingdom, and 29,964 to Newfoun 

 land. Canada has, however, always been the 

 principal market and consumer of her own 

 wool products and still remains so. It is worthy 

 of note that up to the middle of October, sales of 

 the Canadian Co-operative Wool Growers to 

 the Canadian trade exceeded the total sales of 

 last season by some 500,000 pounds. 



Systematic Breeding and Grading 



The growing trade and the increase in the 

 home use of Canadian wools in Canadian mills 



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