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THE BRITISH EMPIRE: — CANADA

Potatoes

Flax

Hay and Clovei

Acres

Bushels

Acres

Bushels

Acres

Tons

Ontario

158,000

23,962,000

21,000

224,000

3,531,000

4,459,000

Quebec

311,000

57,633,000

16,000

184,000

4,290.000

5,363,000

Nova Scotia

50,000

10,209,000

—

—

632,000

948,000

New Brunswick

78,000

15,510,000

—

—

726,000

872,000

Manitoba.

37,000

3,410,000

146.000

1,158,000

209,000

312,000

P. K. Island

30,000

6,175,000

—

—

243,000

304,000

British Columbia

18.000

2,934,000

—

—

127,000

254,000

Alberta

43,000

7,138,000

104,000

726,000

384,000

499,000

Saskatchewan.

54,000

6,861,000

1,141,000

5,705,000

235,000

328,000

Total Canada

78i,000

133,832,000

1.428,000

7,997,000

10,379,000

13,339,000

Other products in 1920 :—

Total Canada

Bushels

Rye ....

650,000

11,306,000

186,000

3,528,000

Beans ....

72,000

1,265,000

Buckwheat.

378,000

8,995,000

Mixed Grains

812,000

32,421,000

Corn, husking

292,000

14,335,000

Turnips <fc other roots. Sugar Beets.

290,000 36,000

116,391,000 Tons 412,000

Fodder Corn

589,000

5,642,000

Alfalfa.

239,000

584,000

Principal Provinces

(Ontario Manitoba Saskatchewan Alberta /Ontario \ Quebec ( Quebec \ Ontario / New Brunswick ■( Quebec ( Ontario f Ontario '. Quebec ^ Manitoba / Ontario 1 Quebec i Ontario \ Quebec

Ontario ( Ontario \ Quebec

Ontario

Acres Bushels

133,000

149,000

172,000

161,000

109,000

61,000

36,000

23,000

66,000

152,000

143,000

5S2,000

143,000

29,000

244,000

48,000

120,000

84,000

36,000 449,000

87,000 163,000

2,350,000 2,319,000 2,535,000 3,420,000 2,210,000 1,035,000 045,000 381,000 1,510,000 3,908,000 S, 191,000

25,712,000

4,195,000

612,000

12,915,000 1,420,000

57,990,000

27,530,000

412,000 4,608,000

100,000

In Ontario, apples, the vine, and tobacco are grown. The live stock in Canada on June 15, 1920, comprised 3,400,000 horses, 3,530,000 milk cows, 5,947,000 other cattle, 3,721,000 sheep, 3,517,000 swine, 25,942,000 fowls, 2,164,000 turkeys, geese, and ducks. In 1918, there were divided among ranches in Manitoba, 66,563 acres, British Columbia, 393,253 acres, Alberta, 2,563,145 acres, and Saskatchewan, 2,723,217 acres : total, 5,746,178 acres (4,796 ranches). The wool clip in Canada for 1919 is estimated at 15 million lbs. The number of dairy factories in operation in 19 19 was 3,343. In 1919 the production of creamery butter was 101,554,000 lbs., value, 55,182,000 dollars ; of factory cheese, 107,735,000 lbs., value 44,806,000 dollars ; of con- densed milk, 61,898,000 lbs., valued at 9,425,000 dollars ; evaporated milk, 16,108,000 lbs., valued at 1,789,000 dollars; whole milk sold, 22,399,000 gallons, valued at 10,377,000 dollars.

Forestry. — The total area of land covered by timber is officially estimated at between 500 and 600 million acres. Of this 200 to 300 million acres