AgrtrnUnral & 3n imstrial llrngrrBB in QIanaba 



Published Monthly. Free on request. 



It will be appreciated by the Department if editors and 

 writers using matter from this Bulletin will quote source. 



Norman S. Rankin, Editor of Publications. 

 E. L. Chicanot, Asst. Editor. 



to a minimum of loss. It is an easy matter for them to 

 first scout out the ground and later to exercise a close 

 supervision. 



Canada, in her enormous natural wealth and the sane 

 manner in which she is setting about expansion in her 

 natural life, is her own best appeal to investors of all kinds. 

 Observers cannot but be forced to a realization of her 

 greatness and the surety of her future from merely the 

 evidence both sides of a railway track disclose. Men who 

 never contemplated investing in Canada have done so 

 after making their first trip to Canada. Investors after 

 seeing the country have doubled their investments. In 

 innumerable cases a single visit has been one of the most 

 profitable undertakings of their lives and reacted to the 

 benefit of the Dominion. 



More American business men should visit Canada. 

 Organized visits of this nature have effected greater 

 mutual benefit than perhaps any other business factor. 

 The utter wonder which individuals express on observing 

 Canadian development for the first time, is indicative of 

 the lack of realization in general of what Canada is doing. 

 In the future more and more American capital, a greater 

 number of American industries, is bound, for economic 

 reasons, to come up to Canada, and the American business 

 man should make it a point to know Canada and what 

 she is doing at first hand. He should adopt the slogan 

 "See America First" in its literal and proper significance, 

 for it includes the Canadian Dominion. 



The Crop Situation 



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

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



Agricultural conditions in Canada during the 

 month of October have been generally perfect. 

 Threshing has been carried on under excellent 

 conditions and the Western wheat crop, as 

 regards both quality and quantity, is all that 

 could be desired. The market has been some- 

 what erratic and prices lower than farmers 

 anticipated, but with regard to grains they may 

 be said to be satisfactory under the circumstances. 

 Root crops have been generally good throughout 

 the country, but the potato crops of New Bruns- 

 wick and Nova Scotia fell considerably below 

 estimates made earlier in the year. Market 

 conditions are anything but satisfactory for this 

 crop. 



Fall work is well advanced and the acreage 

 ploughed in the West is normal. Owing to fine 

 weather and lack of rain, however, little fall 

 ploughing has been done in Eastern Ontario and 

 Quebec. In Western Ontario and the Maritimes 

 fall work is at a normal stage. 



British Columbia. As anticipated, the yield of apples 

 in this province is less than 1921, being 2,538,000 boxes. 

 The quality is good, but shippers are having some difficulty 

 in finding a market at reasonable prices, and unless some 

 change occurs growers will have to be satisfied with a small 

 return. 



Alberta. Weather has been clear and cool with frost 

 in some northern sections. Threshing is completed and 

 some fifty per cent of fall ploughing done. Fall ploughing 

 is well under way in the Peace River country, and it is 

 anticipated that a greater acreage than last year will be 

 prepared. 



Saskatchewan. Threshing is completed and farmers 

 well satisfied with the results. Livestock and feed 

 situation is entirely satisfactory. Fall ploughing under 

 way and some sixty per cent completed. 



Manitoba. Weather has been fair and moderately 

 warm, which permitted the continuance of threshing, 

 which is now completed. Yields generally have proven up 

 to expectations and in the majority of cases considerably 

 better. Livestock will go into winter quarters in good 

 shape with ample supplies of feed. Potatoes have been a 

 good crop, though market not the best. Fall ploughing 

 has been more than fifty per cent completed. 



Ontario. Good progress has been made in Western 

 and Northern Ontario with fall work, and all harvesting is 

 completed. There has been some damage to corn from 

 corn borer and the government is exercising a rigorous 

 quarantine. The Niagara peninsula has produced prob- 

 ably the largest crop in its history as applied to soft fruits. 

 As usual, under these circumstances, prices have been low, 

 but owing to the operation of the district's co-operative 

 marketing organization very little waste occurred although 

 some of the lower grades brought small prices. The apple 

 situation is quite satisfactory, although the commercial 

 estimate is 90 per cent of 1921, or 796,500 barrels. The 

 potato crop of this province is estimated at 18,485,000 

 bushels, considerably in excess of 1921. 



Quebec. Harvesting conditions have been excellent, 

 but owing to the lack of rainfall very little fall work has 

 been done in this province. Light showers have fallen 

 during the latter part of October, but the percentage of fall 

 work is behind last year. The commercial apple crop is 

 estimated at 61,600 barrels, clean. 



Maritime Provinces. Generally speaking conditions 

 are satisfactory, although the potato yields fell much below 

 estimates made earlier in the season. The effect of the 

 United States tariff is being experienced in an unsatis- 

 factory market. The apple crop of New Brunswick is 

 estimated at 41,250 barrels and that of Nova Scotia at 

 1,629,000 barrels. The potato crop of New Brunswick is 

 placed at 9,715,000 bushels, Nova Scotia at 7,055,000 

 bushels, and Prince Edward Island 4,474,000 bushels. 



An Achievement for Canada in France 



In many directions it is difficult to drive 

 home the fact that Canadian wheat possesses 

 unique qualities which make it peculiarly 

 desirable from many standpoints and create for 

 it a demand from all sections of the globe. 

 Critics of Canada's climate are slow to be con- 

 vinced that it is largely this very element which 

 is responsible for the high quality of the Canadian 

 product and that for the same reason its stan- 

 dard is impossible of reproduction in other 

 countries. The profound scepticism which 

 declared that wheat could never be commercially 

 raised north of the international boundary is 



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