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Norman S. Rankin, Editor of Publications. 

 E. L. ( hicanot, Asst. Editor. 



Commerce have visited us, and are looking into 

 conditions with a view to increasing possibilities of 

 trade and investment in many lines of industry. 



Canada's total population, in spite of reduced 

 figures of immigration, according to the final 

 report of the Bureau of Statistics, is 8,788,483, 

 an increase of 1,581,840 over those returned at 

 the last decade. The balance between rural 

 and urban is slight, rural leading by something 

 over 600,000. 



General Agricultural Situation 



By J. Dougall and T. S. Acheson, General Agricultural 

 Agents, C.P.R., Eastern and Western Lines 



Agricultural reports, covering the Dominion 

 as at August 1st, continue to be encouraging. 

 Generally speaking the crop situation may be 

 said to be above normal. The wheat crop of 

 Western Canada is now assured and the con- 

 ditions as to pastures, hay and root crops in the 

 east are generally excellent. 



British Columbia. More moisture would be welcome, 

 and the output of the apple districts will be somewhat 

 reduced on this account. The estimate for the Okanagan 

 Valley is now 2,281,000 boxes, or 80 per cent of the crop 

 of 1921. Some estimates, however, quote the crop as 70 

 per cent of that of 1921. Other fruits will also show a 

 reduction from the same cause. 



Alberta. This province received a fair amount of moisture 

 during the month of July, the only district reporting a 

 shortage being Peace River, where local showers are im- 

 proving the situation. The cutting of rye has commenced. 

 Wheat is well headed out and in good condition, having 

 suffered no damage from hail. ^ Pastures and stock are in 

 excellent shape. 



Saskatchewan.- Scattered showers have been experi- 

 enced throughout during the month, and there is merely a 

 small area in the north central part of the province lacking 

 moisture. Fall and spring rye both indicate good crops. 

 Wheat is heading out nirely and in healthy condition. 

 The cutting of rye is general. Feed for stock is ample. 

 Manitoba. Weather conditions have so far been satisfac- 

 tory. Wheat heads are good and healthy and bear promise 

 of heavy yield. It is anticipated that wheat harvesting 

 will be general by the first week of August. There are no 

 reports of black rust. All districts are expecting bumper 

 yields. Livestock, pastures, and hay conditions are 

 excellent. 



Ontario. Crop conditions throughout are extremely 

 satisfactory. The cutting of fall wheat is about complete 

 and the crop is all that could be desired. Oats also pro- 

 mise a heavy yield. In the great corn district of Essex 

 the crop is reported as unusually good. Potatoes are 

 showing indications of a good yield. The apple situation 

 is bright but the quality is somewhat uneven. The yield 

 is estimated at 1,151,000 barrels. The hay crop has been 

 all that could be expected, and livestock is entirely 

 satisfactory. 



Quebec. Weather conditions have been ideal and the 

 general crop situation is very satisfactory. The hay crop 

 is being harvested in most excellent weather. Reports of 

 grain crops are very fine. The apple crop is estimated to 

 exceed that of 1921 by 75 per cent and to amount to 

 61,600 barrels. Pasture and livestock situation good. 

 New Brunswick. Conditions are generally bright. 

 Rains have assured the hay crop. Potatoes are well above 

 the ground and healthy, though the potato bug has been 

 prevalent this year. The apple crop is estimated at 25 

 per cent over 1921, or 41,250 barrels. 

 Nova Scotia. Reports indicate that all crops are in 

 first class shape. Hay will make an abundant crop. 

 Potatoes and roots are coming along well. The apple 

 crop of the Annapolis Valley is estimated to yield 75 per 

 cent of that of 1921, or 1,577,000 barrels, and reports show 

 the crop to be good and clean. 



Prince Edward Island. Farming conditions on the 

 island are excellent. The output of the co-operative 

 organizations is being well taken care of. The hay crop 

 is extremely satisfactory. 



New Farming Areas of Saskatchewan 



In the tremendous expansiveness of the Western 

 Canadian provinces and their comparatively recent date 

 of settlement, it may be generally stated that the portions 

 of the province about which little or nothing is known are 

 more extensive than those which have been settled. The 

 areas north of the settled regions, in fact, constitute the 

 greater portion of each province. In Saskatchewan, after 

 passing a little north of the Saskatchewan river, a country 

 is penetrated which is entirely new, one not yet carefully 

 explored, and about which, for the main part, information 

 is rather vague. The map shows it to be a country well 

 watered and the numerous posts of the Hudson's Bay 

 Company indicate that it is a profitable fur country. But 

 of its agricultural possibilities little is generally known. 



Recently a collection has been made of the reports on 

 this area, meagre enough, of the North-West Territories 

 Government, the Department of the Interior of the 

 Dominion government, and of two exploration parties sent 

 out by the Saskatchewan Government, which despite their 

 fragmentary nature indicate that vast tracts of rich 

 agricultural land, running into many millions of acres, 

 exist in this area directly tributary to present settlement, 

 that climatic conditions offer no obstacle to farming there, 

 and that where experiments in agriculture have been 

 attempted they have been successful. The presence of 

 large bodies of water, it is stated, have a moderating 

 influence upon the climate, giving the area milder seasons 

 than sections of the province further south, and the scepti- 

 cal have but to give due consideration to the fact that the 

 area is in the same parallel as the Peace River country, 

 looked to as one of the potentially greatest wheat growing 

 areas of the Dominion and which produced the world's 

 prize wheat more than twenty years ago. 



Great Agricultural Possibilities 



To all intents and purposes this area under consideration 

 is uninhabited except for certain settlements of Indians 

 and half-breeds, occasional church missions and a few 

 scattered fur posts. The only agricultural production 

 attempted in this region is such as is to be found at these 

 little settlements, being necessarily on a small scale, but 

 having been carried on for, in some cases, the space of half 

 a century; what has been done, however, is sufficient to 

 give a fairly good indication of agricultural possibilities 

 on a large scale when farm settlements shall have filled 

 up the area. 



The area considered in the survey is that lying north 

 of the towns of North Battleford and Prince Albert, 

 between the Saskatchewan and the Churchill Rivers, 

 described as a gently rising country, having much the 

 appearance of North- Western Manitoba, the land being 

 well adapted to farming. The soil for the main part is a 



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