CANADA'S DAIRY INDUSTRY IN 1915 



Ontario 



Quantity 

 1914 1915 



lbs. lbs. 



Cheese output for province 101,900,065 115,500,000 



Creamery output 23,116,104 21,350,000 



Manitoba 



Cheese output 471,355 726,725 



Creamery output 4,761,355 5,839,665 



Saskatchewan 



Creamery output : 



Government Creameries 1,398,731 2,283,945 



Independent Creameries No returns 1,798,413 



Total 4,082,358 



Alberta 



Cheese output 70,581 372,693 



Creamery output 5,450,000 7,400,000 



Prince Edward Island 



Cheese output 2,285,759 2,381,012 



Butter output 601,607 533,965 



Statistics for Quebec, British Columbia, New Brunswick and Nova Scotia not 

 available. 



FIELD CROPS OF CANADA, 1915 



The year 1915 will be memorable for the most abundant grain harvest ever reaped 

 in Canada up to that time. With the prospect of high prices for wheat and other 

 cereals, and responding to appeals for increased production on patriotic grounds, the 

 farmers of Canada took the fullest advantage of their opportunities, with the result 

 that the area sown to wheat for the harvest of 1915 was not only the largest on record 

 in Canada, but exceeded the area sown in the previous year by 1,964,400 acres, or 

 nearly 18 per cent. Finally, the growing season was uniformly favourable, and the 

 average yields per acre of all the principal cereals in Canada were higher than in any 

 previous year on record. For wheat, the average yield per acre was close upon 29 

 bushels, or eight bushels more than the previous record of 21 bushels in 1913. The 

 total area estimated to be sown to field crops in Canada for 1915 was 37,063,455 acres, 

 as compared with 35,102,175 acres, the sown area, and 33,436,675 acres, the harvested 

 area, in 1914. 



Yield of Grain Crops 



As a result of the returns of the average yield per acre, made after threshing, the 

 total yields of the grain crops in bushels for the season of 1915, compared with 1914, 

 were as follows: — 



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