AGRICULTURAL DEVELOPMENT IN NORTH-WEST CANADA, 221 
Wheat.—The yield of wheat in bushels per acre for the area 
cccupied by the three prairie provinces can be shown collectively only 
since 1898. Since then it has fluctuated widely—from 9°11 bushels 
in 1900 to 25°16 in 1901. During the past six years it has been twice 
above 20 bushels and four times below 16 bushels. The period is 
much too short for decisive conclusions, but there is no justification 
in the history of crops in the North-West for the custom of multiplying 
the estimated acreages by the arbitrary figure of 20 bushels and arriving 
in this way at a haphazard estimate of the crop. 
The following diagram exhibits the yield of wheat in the area 
occupied by the three prairie provinces from 1898 to 1908. Tho 
statistics upon which the diagram is based are those of the provincial 
and of the Dominion authorities, shown separately since the series of 
the latter authority began. 
Diagram showing the Yield of Wheat in Manitoba and the North-West Terri- 
tories from 1898 till 1904, and in Manitoba and the Provinces of Saskat- 
chewan and Alberta, 1905 till 1908. 
[Aggregate Statistics of Bulletins of respective Provinces—Solid Line 
Statistics of the Census and Statistical Department, Ottawa—Broken Line. ] 
- 1898 1899 1900 /90/ 1902 1903 1904 1905 1906 1/907 1908 
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