

to the production of honey, and whilst there is a truly 

 remarkable development under way, the Province of 

 Saskatchewan has fallen behind her sisters, Alberta and 

 Manitoba, in this respect, and it is in an effort to remedy 

 it that the course has been instituted. 



Woman Professor in Saskatchewan 



Official attention was drawn to Miss Bray ford when she 

 was acting as lecturer and demonstrator with bees on the 

 Saskatchewan Better Farming Train. Bees with her have 

 been a life study and honey culture engrosses her exclus- 

 ively. In the year 1921 she gathered 915 pounds of honey 

 from 9 hives and sold it at 40 cents a pound, in addition to 

 several hives which she disposed of to neighbors. Though 

 the 1922 crop has not been weighed, 130 pounds of honey 

 were extracted from the first hive. This work marks her 

 as a real practical exponent of bee culture, in addition to 

 what pedagogic qualities she may possess, and explains 

 her appointment to this important position. 



Miss Brayford's observations should be of interest to 

 prairie farmers concentrating their activities on large 

 herds of cattle or expansive wheat fields. "1 think bees 

 are the most profitable side line for farming one can have, " 

 she says, "for they carry the pollen to all flowers on vine 

 and fruit crops." In her opinion beekeeping is one of 

 Canada's neglected industries, this being particularly true 

 of the West, and thousands of dollars are lost every year 

 which farmers might be adding to their incomes. She 

 believes that the culture can successfully and profitably 

 be taken up by more women. 



That interest in beekeeping in Saskatchewan and the 

 entire West is increasing is apparent from the many 

 requests Miss Brayford has had for hives as the result of 

 her tour and the manner in which she has been bombarded 

 with letters asking advice on the establishment of hives. 

 Her own success is built up on a lifelong study of the 

 insects and a natural love for what was first a hobby and 

 has now developed into a profitable commercial under- 

 taking. Coming from the East to Saskatchewan, she 

 realized she could not follow the same methods owing to 

 the shortness of the season, and she has developed the 

 industry on lines peculiarly adapted to the Western 

 provincial conditions, which she will disseminate through 

 the beekeeping course at the University. 



Manitoba has Fourteen Thousand Colonies 



Though beekeeping has not yet attained important 

 proportions in the Prairie Provinces, it is rapidly reaching 

 the status of an industry worthy of note, and there is 

 nothing in the prevailing conditions of that area to prevent 

 its continuous increase. A farmer in the Grenfell district 

 of Saskatchewan obtained one thousand pounds of first 

 class honey from thirteen two-frame hives, in addition to 

 which the bees increased to seventeen colonies. A Nor- 

 thern Manitoba farmer secured $1,500 in one season from 

 33 hives, and another farmer in the same province, from a 

 stray hive which settled on his farm six years ago, has 

 increased to 76 colonies, and last year the farmer sold more 

 than two tons of honey. 



In the year 1921, Manitoba had 14,721 colonies of bees, 

 whereas there were only 7,593 in the previous year. Last 

 year the province marketed approximately 1,000,000 

 pounds of honey, and this year there will be about 2,000,000 

 pounds to sell, bringing in a revenue of about $400,000. 

 There are about a thousand beekeepers in Manitoba and 

 they are increasing rapidly. Manitoba is the most 

 eastern of the Prairie Provinces, and its success in bee 

 culture is rapidly attracting the sister provinces to emula- 

 tion and the industry spreading the length and breadth of 

 the area. 



British Financier Lauds Canada's Progress 



Sir Archibald Mitchelson, the well-known British 

 financier, recently returned to London from Canada, which 

 he had visited in connection with the affairs of the Por- 

 cupine Davidson Gold Mines, of which he is president, and 

 expressed himself in optimistic terms regarding Canadian 



mining prospects and general development in the Domi- 

 nion. Though his remarks apply largely to the enterprise 

 which he heads, he has a good deal to say in respect of 

 Canadian progress in general which might be well digested 

 by British investors and those in the British Isles con- 

 templating investments. 



"1 am very sorry," observed Sir Archibald, "that 

 British enterprise, either through apathy or scepticism, is 

 fast losing all chances of repeating past achievments in the 

 development of new gold-fields. Any good mining en- 

 gineer who has studied the Canadian fields would tell you 

 therein lie the next greatest source of gold production in the 

 world." 



The thought behind this observation admits of very 

 wide interpretation and is applicable to British investment 

 and interest in general in every phase of Canadian life. 

 The Dominion is keenly appreciative of the many difficul- 

 ties which, since the war, have beset the way of the British 

 business man and investor to Canadian establishment and 

 investment. Money was sorely needed at home in the work 

 of reconstructing a badly disorganized trade and British 

 funds were at a considerable discount in Canada. Canada 

 has witnessed with great gratification indications of a 

 trickling flow of British capital to Canada which before the 

 war she was wont to welcome in such volume. With a 

 great deal of pleasure she has seen, in the resumption of 

 Britain's trade, a strong desire to develop business with the 

 Dominions of the Empire and an awakening to a realiza- 

 tion of how she must do this in the case of Canada, through 

 the establishment of branch plants. 



Canada, to Some Extent, Blameful 



But from views which periodically trickle through, 

 from chance remarks overheard, one cannot but conclude 

 that there is a great deal of truth in what Sir Archibald 

 Mitchelson is hitting at. Among sections of the people 

 of the British Isles a certain amount of scepticism prevails 

 over Canadian investments, a measure of doubt as to the 

 permanency of Canadian development, a lack of faith in 

 Dominion stability. The result is that, in the combina- 

 tion of circumstances setting British funds at a discount, 

 British capital in Canada is rapidly declining to a secondary 

 position. 



For this state of affairs both Canada and the United 

 Kingdom have been, to an extent, to blame. Canada in 

 her younger days suffered severely from what in human 

 beings would have been termed swelled head. Striving 

 to develop and expand too rapidly, she lost all sense of pro- 

 portion and experienced boom periods of exaggerated 

 values and wild and unjustified enthusiasm. British 

 investors took too little pains very often to ascertain the 

 soundness of investments offered them and inevitably in 

 some cases suffered severely. Canada is suffering from it 

 yet. In many people of the British Isles who do not study 

 Canada and follow its progress, it has left an unjust out- 

 look upon Canadian affairs and a sceptical regard for any 

 scheme calculated to transfer their moneys across the seas. 



The British investor living across the Atlantic does not 

 realize that it is a very different Canada which exists to-day 

 from that which went through the hectic days of the pre- 

 war booms, that every young country must undergo such 

 spells in its infancy. They cannot know that the war 

 ushered in a new era for the Dominion, and that in a clear 

 comprehension of its legitimate economic position in the 

 world and a just sense of proportions and values, it is 

 undergoing a sane and steady development. It is not for 

 a moment claimed that all Canadian investments are safe 

 or that a certain amount of wild-catting is not inevitable, 

 but in general there is a new saneness and stability about 

 progress and development is preceding at a rate as rapid 

 as before but in a thoroughly reliable and sound manner 

 calculated to best further the interests of the Dominion 

 and its investors. 



U.S. Investments Increasing 



The most convincing proof of this is to be found in the 

 manner in which United States investment in Canada is 

 increasing. Though opportunities of Canadian invest- 



