Agriculture -- Prairie Provinces; Northwest, Canadian -- Economic conditions
Disc Drill (single to
twenty double) $ 96.00
Mowers 53.50
Twelve in. Gang Plows 82.00
Binders, six-foot cut 145.00
Binders, seven-foot cut 158.00
Binders, eight-foot cut 165.00
Rakes 35.00
Gasoline Tractors (Case) 2,480.00
Gasoline Tractors (Nicols) 3,665.00
Gasoline Tractors (International) 1,800.00
Steam Tractors (Case) 2,272.00
Steam Tractors (Nicols) 2,895.00
Case Separator 1,202.00
Nicols Separator 1,150.00
International Separator 1,280.00
=Agricultural Cooperation.=--The Provincial Government has established
co-operation in creameries, elevators, telephone, hail insurance,
agricultural societies and live stock. Five million dollars have been
set aside for road improvements. The new agricultural college, with its
1,300 acre farm, costing one million dollars, is an evidence of public
activity. The college has 100 students.
=Temperatures= and hours' sunshine in Saskatchewan ranged lower, and
rainfall during the growing season higher, than the average for several
years.
The average temperatures and precipitation for each of the first nine
months of 1913:
Month Mean Maximum Minimum Precipitation
January -7.85 37.5 -45.3 .70
February 2.64 37.7 -34.3 .64
March 8.9 44.9 -31.9 .65
April 41.7 78.5 13.4 .31
May 47.2 84.7 20.7 1.00
June 59.2 87.7 30.7 3.00
July 61.1 86.6 37.4 3.18
August 60.8 85.9 38.9 2.80
September 52.1 85.5 32.9 .88
January-September, 1913 36.2 69.8 5.9 Total 13.16
April-September, 1913 53.6 84.8 27.5 " 11.17
April-September, 1912 50.9 79.9 27.5 " 13.92
=Interior Storage Elevators.=--A great advantage and an immense relief for
the hundreds of elevators of from thirty to forty thousand bushels'
capacity, will be the two interior storage elevators now under
construction at Saskatoon and Moose Jaw, each with a capacity of 3
million bushels.
=Farm Help in 1913.=--Labourers work by the month, for $32 to $41. Servant
girls were paid from $14 to $22 this year as compared with from $10 to
$15 in 1907.
=Population and Live Stock.=--(Dominion Census Bureau):
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