Agriculture -- Prairie Provinces; Northwest, Canadian -- Economic conditions
=Dr. Wm. Saunders=, Director of the Canadian Government
Experimental Farm at Ottawa, Canada: "The Canadian Northwest
can supply not only sufficient wheat for a local population
of thirty millions, but have left over for export three times
as much as the total import of the British Isles. One-fourth
of its arable land is devoted to wheat."
=Professor Shaw.=--"The first foot of soil in the provinces of
Manitoba, Saskatchewan and Alberta is worth more than all the
mines from Alaska to Mexico, and more than all the forests
from the boundary to the Arctic ocean. One acre of the
average soil in Western Canada is worth more than ten acres
of average land in the United States."
=Professor Tanner.=--"The black earth of Central Russia, the
richest soil in the world, has to yield its distinguished
position to rich, deep, fertile soil of Western Canada. Here
the most fertile soil of the world is to be found. These
soils are rich vegetable humus or clay loam with good clay
subsoil. To the high percentage of nitrogen is due the high
percentage of gluten which gives the 'Canadian No. 1 Hard'
the flouring qualities which have spread its fame abroad to
the ends of the earth."
=St. Paul Farmer.=--During a recent trip through Western
Canada, the editor of the _St. Paul Farmer_, in referring to
Government forces in agriculture, spoke of the interest that
the Dominion and the Provincial Governments took in farming
and farm education, as "complete and effective."
=The General Manager= of a Canadian bank is reported to have
said that, "owing to the speedy manner in which grain came
forward in the fall of 1913, our farmer customers in the
prairie provinces paid off about three million dollars of
liabilities between September 20, and October 10."
=Hon. W. T. White=, speaking at a New York meeting, said: "We
used to give you good Canadians but now we are getting back
good Americans. Ours came from the east, yours are going into
our west. Some of the most practical citizens, the best
Canada has to-day, are the Americans. We received last year
no less than 140,000. Manitoba, Saskatchewan, Alberta, three
provinces, have each a larger territory than modern Germany,
less than ten per cent under cultivation. This year they had
a crop of over 200 million bushels of wheat. You cannot get
any country where contracts are more faithfully regarded or
obligations more carefully safeguarded by law than in
Canada."
=Sir Thomas Shaughnessy.=--"Immigration into Canada cannot
cease, for it is due to economic conditions which show no
signs of changing."
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