quality, disease-free seed, despite the heavy 

 duty the Emergency Tariff imposes. Recently, 

 twelve thousand barrels of choice Bliss seed 

 potatoes of the New Brunswick brand left St. 

 John to travel direct to Galveston, Texas, 

 where they also will be used as seed. Another 

 large recent consignment consisted of four 

 shiploads of fifty carloads each, which went to 

 Havana where the fame of the New Brunswick 

 potato had apparently preceded it. 



Due credit should be accorded the pro- 

 vincial government for the part it has played in 

 New Brunswick's rise to potato fame. Its en- 

 couragement of farmers has been unceasing, 

 and the aids it has extended to them have been 

 of wide compass. Of great assistance to the 

 provincial potato growers has been the avail- 

 ability of lime fertilizer in substantial quanti- 

 ties at low rates. New Brunswick is fortunate 

 in the possession of some excellent lime deposits. 

 These the provincial government undertook 

 to develop, and the railways gave sympathetic 

 co-operation in the matter of distribution, so that 

 the lime was delivered to the farmer at a mini- 

 mum of cost. From the Government lime 

 quarry located at Brookville, in thirteen months, 

 7,255 tons, or more than 200 cars, were taken 

 out and distributed amongst the farmers of the 

 province. 



At the present time Canada is exporting 

 potatoes to the United Kingdom, United States, 

 British Guiana, Cuba, British West Indies, St. 

 Pierre and Miquelon, and in smaller quantities 

 to other countries. Much of this export is of 

 the New Brunswick production. In addition 

 to the natural conditions of soil and climate 

 which New Brunswick possesses and which have 

 produced so desirable a potato, the Maritime 

 province is excellently situated for indulging 

 in the export trade most economically and pro- 

 fitably. With production still on the upward 

 trend greater things in potato production may 

 be expected of New Brunswick. 



Flax Fibre Seed 's High Germination 



An official Dominion Government report 

 has just been received on a germination test 

 of flax fibre producing seed derived from a crop 

 grown on irrigated lands at Tilley, Alberta, some 

 120 miles east of Calgary. 



This crop was itself produced from the seed 

 yields from a small experimental plot of fibre 

 flax which was grown in that locality in 1920. 

 The experiment was made in order to demon- 

 strate the possibilities of the flax fibre industry 

 in Western Canada under conditions of irriga- 

 tion. 



The Government report on the germination 

 of the flax seed produced in 1921 states that 

 a four-day germination of this seed is a record 

 for all Canada, and a ten-day germination is 



the highest average of the year, the tests being 

 given as 



Four-day 75% 



Ten-day 97% 



Good quality fibre seed of high germination 

 is in demand in Europe, and the results of this 

 official test indicate that seed produced in West- 

 ern Canada will be preferred in that market. 



It is now being arranged to make a sample 

 shipment of this Western Canadian seed, 

 sufficient to plant at least 25 acres, to Ireland, 

 and the results of the crop obtained from it will 

 be carefully noted. 



This matter is being handled through the 

 co-operation of the Canadian Pacific Railway 

 Company and the Department of Agriculture 

 Flax Fibre Division of the Dominion Govern- 

 ment. 



Prairie Wild Fruit 



The Prairie Provinces of Canada have been 

 so generously gifted by Nature in making pro- 

 vision for the settlers to come that in many re- 

 spects one may, with perfect justification, apply 

 the term "Land of Plenty" to this area. So 

 much berry fruit is raised in this territory each 

 summer that thousands of gallons go to waste 

 every year for the lack of people to pick and con- 

 sume it. Fruit grew in profusion on the Cana- 

 dian prairie long before man was there to see 

 it grow. The Indians used the wild fruit as an 

 important item of their diet, and then had 

 enough left over to make use of the juices as 

 facial and body adornment. It is true that 

 the prairie farmers do not cultivate fruit to 

 any large extent, but why should they, when a 

 bountiful nature has provided them with more 

 than they can use. Each summer farmers and 

 their families pick quantities of fruit, pre- 

 serving sufficient for every day of the ensuing 

 year, and yet, each season, thousands of bushels 

 go to waste for the lack of people to consume 

 them. 



A typical example of what may be accom- 

 plished in the way of preserving wild prairie 

 berries is reported from the Battleford country 

 of Saskatchewan by J. F. Bell, a farmer near 

 Medstead. He has photographed two hundred 

 and fifty gallons of preserved fruit which re- 

 presents only the blueberries and raspberries 

 gathered in his district during the summer, 

 and "put up" against the winter and spring. 

 The black currants, gooseberries, cranberries, 

 and dewberries comprised an additional hun- 

 dred gallons. Sickness, Mr. Bell states, pre- 

 vented his family's being able to take full ad- 

 vantage of the fruit-picking season, as he had 

 contemplated preserving five hundred gallons. 

 There was no doubt about the fruit being there, 

 and their failure to reach the mark was entirely 

 due to the inability to get out and pick it. 



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