an increase of 115 per cent over the 1910 figure." 

 But this figure was by no means a peak for 

 Canada, but merely a step in a series of gradients. 

 The 1921 acreage was 23,261,224 in Canada, or 

 an increase of more than 21 per cent over 1919. 

 In addition to this the Prairie Provinces, where 

 the greatest expansion in acreage is taking place, 

 will have, according to the estimate of the 

 Western Agricultural Agent of the Canadian 

 Pacific Railway, an increase of nearly 39 per 

 cent over last year, not all, but a large section 

 of which, will be devoted to wheat. 



The production of wheat in the United 

 States increased from 635,000,000 bushels in 1910 

 to 833,000,000 bushels in 1920, an increase of 

 approximately 35 per cent. In the same period 

 Canada's wheat production increased from 149,- 

 989,600 bushels to 263,189,300 bushels, or an 

 increase of 70 per cent. The value of the wheat 

 crop in the United States during the decade 

 increased by 100 per cent, or from $560,000,000 

 to $1,197,000.000. In the same time the value 

 of Canada's wheat crop increased by 400 per 

 cent, or from $99,530,000 in 1910 to $427,356,000 

 in 1920. 



Canada's Grain Production only Beginning 



It must be borne in mind when considering 

 these figures and noting the lengthy lead the 

 United States still has over Canada in wheat 

 production, that the former has to all intents 

 and purposes reached its zenith of production 

 in fact the tendency is for a decline -whilst the 

 Dominion, in view of the minute portion of her 

 area under cultivation, and the wonderful possi- 

 bilities of development, may be considered as 

 having merely entered the lists. Whilst in the 

 three Prairie Provinces of Manitoba, Saskat- 

 chewan and Alberta there are less than 121,000,- 

 000 acres under private ownership, much of 

 which is not under cultivation, there are approx- 

 imately 25,000,000 acres of a surveyed total of 

 200,000,000 acres available for homestead entry. 

 In addition to these surveyed areas, there are 

 tracts which have been only partly surveyed and 

 which contain more than 250,000,000 acres. 



The biggest factor in increasing Canada's 

 wheat acreage in the past, and one whose effect 

 will be felt to an increasing extent in the future, 

 is this very availability of large tracts of land 

 upon which hinges the price of farm wheat lands, 

 and which determines the price at which wheat 

 can be grown. The average price per acre of 

 land devoted to wheat growing in the United 

 States has been returned at $92, whilst the aver- 

 age in Canada of settled wheat land has been 

 unofficially estimated at $43 per acre. That 

 this is not a just estimate for all purposes is 

 evident when it is considered that the average 

 price of settled farm lands in Saskatchewan and 

 Alberta, most of which are wheat lands, is less 

 than $25 per acre, and in addition there are these 



large tracts which may be acquired for a lesser 

 sum or for the price of filing on them. 



The future of Canadian wheat is also pre- 

 saged by its excellent quality, which is beyond 

 question. This has been attested by ten years 

 of uninterrupted successes in carrying off the 

 wheat championship of the world, to be wrested 

 from Canada last year by the State of Montana, 

 only by means of seed of Canadian origin. 



How long will it be before Canada is leading 

 the world in the production of wheat ? At the 

 present time she occupies the second place in 

 this regard, and a country of less than nine 

 million people is accounting for approximately 

 one-quarter the wheat yield of the United States, 

 a land of more than one hundred and nine mil- 

 lions. In the last decade Canada's wheat pro- 

 duction increased by 70 per cent, and granted the 

 agricultural immigration, which would seem to 

 be promised her with all the attractions she has to 

 offer, and the settlement of a further portion of 

 her vacant acreage, the present decade should 

 see at least a hundred per cent increase and 

 Canada the granary not alone of the British 

 Empire, but of the entire world. 



Agriculture in Prince Edward Island 



Prince Edward Island received the name of 

 "The Million Acre Farm," "The Denmark of 

 Canada" and other soubriquets, devised in an 

 endeavor to succinctly describe the unique place 

 the little island province occupies in Canadian 

 agricultural life. The island is, in reality, one 

 large farm of 1,398,000 acres, of gently undulat- 

 ing surface and copses of stately trees and clumps 

 of brush, with wild bits of woodland, and arms 

 of the sea cutting in to the land in all directions. 

 It is a region of transcendent loveliness and rural 

 tranquillity, where truest beauty blends with 

 agricultural activity; to the inhabitants just 

 "the island, " for to those who live upon it, it is 

 without rival among the many bright jewels of 

 the ocean. 



Agriculture affords direct livelihood to fully 

 eighty per cent of the province's population of 

 88,615 people and indirectly to a large percent- 

 age of the remainder. While the domestic rear- 

 ing of foxes has of late years somewhat over- 

 shadowed other phases of agriculture, a revenue 

 of $1,240,000 being produced from this source in 

 1921, it is the most economic province of the 

 Dominion, producing enough annually to supply 

 its own needs and having enough left over to 

 engage substantially in export. 



In its limited area it has more tillable land 

 than any of the other Maritime provinces and 

 practically the whole island is under cultivation. 

 Mixed farming and scientific dairying are the 

 most profitable phases of its agriculture, while 

 beef cattle are raised in sufficient quantities to 

 supply local needs and permit of export to the 

 mainland. Expert poultry raising has resulted 



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