AGRICULTURAL STATISTICS 



Dominion Government. 



Field Crops of Canada, 1913. — The 



Census and Statistics Office of the 

 Dominion Department of Trade and 

 Commerce reported that the season 

 of 1913 was very favorable for grain 

 growing in the Northwest Provinces, 

 where, during the ripening, harvesting 

 and threshing periods conditions gen- 

 erally speaking were ideal. In On- 

 tario, Quebec and parts of the Mari- 

 time Provinces, on the other hand, the 

 yield of grain was adversely affected 

 by prolonged drought. 



For the whole of Canada the prin- 

 cipal field crops occupied a total es- 

 timated area of 35,375,000 acres as 

 compared with 35,575,000 acres in 

 1912, and their value, computed at av- 

 erage local market prices, was $552,- 

 771,500, as compared with 1557,344,100 

 in 1912. 



Wheat upon 11,015,000 acres pro- 

 duced 231,717,000 bushels of the value 

 of $156,462,000, the corresponding fig- 

 ures in 1912 being 10,996,700 acres, 

 224,159,000 bushels and $139,090,000. 

 Of the total wheat area, 970,000 acres 

 were devoted to fall wheat, the pro- 

 duction being 22,592,000 bushels and 

 the value $18,185,000, as comparad 

 with 971,000 acres, 20,387,000 bushels 

 and $17,157,000 in 1912. Oats yield- 

 ed a total of 404,669,000 bushels from 

 10,434,000 acres, and the value reached 

 $128,893,000, the corresponding figures 

 of 1912 being 9,966,000 acres, 391,629,- 

 000 bushels and $126,304,000. 



Both the spring wheat and oat crops 

 of 1913 are the highest on record in 

 Canada, spring wheat as regards area, 

 yield and value and oats as regards 

 area and yield. 



The value of the oat crop was ex- 



ceeded in 1911 when the amount was 

 $132,949,000. Barley upon 1,613,000 

 acres yielded 48,319,000 bushels of the 

 value of $20,144,000, as against 1,581,- 

 000 acres, 49,398,000 bushels and $22,- 

 354,000 in 1912. Flax seed occupied 

 1,552,800 acres, and the production 

 was 17,539,000 bushels of the value of 

 $17,084,000, as compared with 2,021,- 

 900 acres, 26,130,000 bushels and 

 $23,608,000 in 1912. 



The quality of the grain crops, as 

 indicated by the average weight per 

 measured bushel, was excellent, and 

 was superior to 1912. Spring wheat 

 averaged 60.37 lb. against 58.90 lb. 

 in 1912, oats 36.50 lb. against 35.50 lb. 

 and barley 48.50 lb. against 47.50 lb. 



In the three Northwest Provinces 

 of Manitoba, Saskatchewan and Al- 

 berta the production in 1913 of wheat 

 was estimated at 209,262,000 bushels, 

 compared with 204,280,000 bushels i.i 

 1912, of oats at 242,413,000 bushels, 

 compared with 242,321,000 bushels, 

 and of barley at 31,060,000 bushels, 

 compared with 31,600,000 bushels. 

 The wheat production of 1913 in Mani- 

 toba was 53,331,000 bushels from 

 2,804,000 acres, in Saskatchewan 121,- 

 559,000 bushels from 5,720,000 acres, 

 and in Alberta 34,372,000 bushels from 

 1,512,000 acres. 



Field Crops of Canada, 1912 and 

 1913.— Table I. on pages 252-257 

 gives for 1913, compared with 1912, 

 the area, yield and value of the prin- 

 cipal field crops for Canada and for 

 each of the nine Provinces. The fig- 

 ures are taken from the Dominion 

 "Census and Statistics Monthly" of 

 December, 1913, and are stated to 

 have been carefully recalculated from 

 data of the census of 1911. 



