Total area and production of wheat in the Dominion of Canada, and exports of wheat and 

 wheat flour therefrom, in specified years. 



1 Not including British Columbia. 



2 Eight months ended February, 1911. 



Winter wheat, it may be added, is produced to a noteworthy 

 extent in the Dominion only in Ontario and Alberta; the respective 

 areas sown last fall for harvest in 1911 have been officially estimated 

 at 682,500 and 107,800 acres, against 609,200 and 98,000 last year. 

 The May 10 report of the Dominion Department of Agriculture says : 

 In Ontario April frosts were destructive in some regions; and from 12 to 34 per cent 

 of the area sown has been reported as winter-killed. The central counties north of 

 Lake Ontario suffered worst, the average loss as reported being 34 per cent. In the 

 western counties 27 per cent of the area in crop has been destroyed. In the southern 

 counties north of Lake Erie the loss is 10 per cent; in the northern counties and dis- 

 tricts, 12.6 per cent; and in the eastern counties, between the St. Lawrence and 

 Ottawa Rivers. 15 per cent. For the whole of Canada the area winter-killed is reported 

 to be 21 per cent, and the per cent condition of the growing crop is 82. 



ARGENTINA. 



From the fact that 20 years ago the acreage under wheat in Argen- 

 tina was approximately the same as that in Canada, it is of interest 

 to contrast the subsequent development of each country in the culti- 

 vation and exportation of this cereal. Below are the official figures 

 on the area, production, and export of wheat in Argentina for prac- 

 tically the same years as shown above for Canada: 



Total area and production of vjheat in Argentina, and exports of wheat and wheat flour 

 therefrom, in specified years. 



Within the 20-year period twelve and one-half million acres have 

 been added to the wheat fields of Argentina and only six and one- 

 half million to those of Canada, the areas in 1910 having been, respec- 



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