CANADA’S WHEAT.

Hokitika Guardian, 26 January 1922, Page 4

CANADA’S WHEAT.

DOMINION FORCING AHEAD. VANCOUVER, Dee. 28. Canada, possessing as it does unlimited acreage for wheat raising, has now taken second place among the wheat producing countries of the world. With ! an expected yield this year of 288,490,000 bushels, the International Institute of Agricultve is authority for the statement that in production Canada is surpassed only by the United States.

Admittedly, figures are dull and uninspiring as a rule, hut there is a glorious'epic written by the statistics that show the ever-increasing production of the prairie provinces of Canada. In the year before the war Canada took fifth place among the wheat producing countries. Russia stood at the top of the list with an aggregate of 934 million bushels, the United States was second with 763 million bushels, then followed France with 319 millions, and India with 312 millions. In the first year of the war production in France was cut. in two by the invasion of the Hun, hut Canada, in spite of this, dropped intb sixth place, the Argentine and Italy both surpassing the Dominion. Many suns have risen over the prairies since that time, and much history has been written, while now ground was being broken and better methods of cultivation were being installed on those rich plains, where so many sturdy Britishers and Americans of recent years have made their adopted homes. It is no idle boast to-day that Canada is the “Granary of the Empire,” for the grain growers of Western Canada arc going a long way towards feeding the people of tlie entire world. Canadian wheat and wheat flour lias been exported this autumn to the United Kingdom, Belgium, British West Indies, France, United States, Italy, Roumania, Sweden, Turkey, Cuba, Denmark, Norway, Panama, and a score of other countries. Ships carried Canada’s wheat from Dominion ports to Dutch Guiana and GibYaltar; to Bermuda and the Gold Coast. ENORMOUS GROWTH.

The close of the year witnessed the exportation of many shiploads to Greece in addition to other new markets which have shown a decided preference for Canada’s famous No. 1 hard wheat, which has few equals anywhere in the world. The enormous growth of Canadian wheat exportation business has given the Canadians themselves considerable satisfaction, and despite the alarm which was caused at the outset, the operation of America’s discriminatory revised tariff legislation, is passing nowadays almost unnoticed as Ottawa has uncovered much more profitable markets than the United States ever provided. It is expected that some day a Canadian author will be inspired to write the saga of Canadian wheat.- He will trace the history of its production when lonely men ploughed their single furrows in the face of discouragement and disappointment to the latter days of the motor tractors and their serried ranks of machine driven drillers, cutters and binders,” says one Eastern commentator, who adds: “He will trace the growth of the agricultural industry from tne days when the settler hitched up the old farm horse to carry his few bushels to the village down to our own times when powerful motor trucks haul hundreds of thousands of bushels to the million-dollar elevators.’

The population of'Canada has trebled since the days of Confederation, but the value of her field crops lias increased. twelve-fold while her wheat harvest to-day is twenty-five times larger than it was half a century ago. Great cities have sprung up. built and maintained from the profits of successive harvests, and the men of tne cities who laughed at the farmers who had faitii in the virgin soil of the prairie have learned wisdom. Only a few years have passed since th.> day when so many people said that the nrairie could not grow wheat, but to-day Canada is second among the nations’of the world in the quantity she produces, and first in quality, according to the leading' wheat experts of the Dominion, who claim to have collected itu.thoritati.ve data on this point. Russia lias toyed with Communism and lias fallen back to seventh place, while Canada has kept on working and the goal of world leadership is oven now in sight.

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