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months, April 1 to October 1 for twenty-one years, 

 at Indian Head is given as 12.93 inches almost 

 as great as the average rainfall at Ottawa for the 

 same period. Thus while the annual rainfall is 

 deficient, judging by eastern standards, there is 

 this advantage about 70% of the rainfall comes 

 during the growing season. June and July are 

 usually the months of greatest rainfall. 



WHEAT GROWING AREAS 



Prof. Charles E. Saunders, cerealist of the 

 dominion experimental farms, has divided Canada 

 into six chief wheat producing sections as follows: 



1. The Maritime Provinces Nova Scotia, 

 Prince Edward Island, and New Brunswick Not 

 very much wheat is grown in this section mostly 

 spring sown kernels plump but rather soft and 

 starchy best varieties Preston, Huron, Stanley, 

 Pringle's Champlain, Red Fife and Marquis. 



2. Quebec and Northern Ontario: Small acreage 

 mostly spring wheats medium hard and good 

 quality for milling best varieties Huron, Pres- 

 ton, Bishop, Marquis, Red Fife and White Fife. 



3. Southern Ontario: 561,000 acres in 1912 

 mostly winter wheat large, plump grain but 

 soft and quite starchy best varieties Dawson's 

 Golden Chaff (beardless), Turkey Red (bearded), 

 Egyptian Amber and Tasmania Red. 



4. Manitoba, Saskatchewan and Northern and 

 Central Alberta: A large territory large acreage 

 mostly spring wheat hard, glutinous kernels- 

 excellent quality for milling best varieties- 

 Marquis and Prelude (very early), Huron, Pres- 



