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in Manitoba was 26 bushels, and in the North-West
Territories 25 bushels. In 1903, when the season
was so unfavourable, the yield in Manitoba averaged
16:42 bushels per acre. In Ontario, in 1902, winter
wheat averaged 25'9 and spring wheat 187 bushels.
“The average of a ten years’ record tells much the
same story. A ten years’ average for Manitoba from
1891 to 1900 gives 19 bushels of spring wheat per
acre. During the same time South Dakota gives
10'04 and North Dakota 12:07. The wheat yield for
the whole of the United States for the same period
was 13-3 bushels per acre; while in Ontario, the only
province with statistics covering this period, we have
an average of 1g°4 of fall wheat and 152 per acre of
spring wheat. This larger yield in Canada is no
doubt partly due to the land being more productive,
and partly to a more favourable climate, and in some
measure to better farming.” —Professor Sanders, Government
 Expevimental Farm, Ottawa.

7. Land prices—In spite of the manifest inferiority
 of United States land to Canadian, the
price that must be paid for farmlands in the United
States is far higher than in Canada, This, of
course, is due to the lack of supply and greater
demand. United States farmers are therefore
selling their farms and coming to Canada to take
up cheaper and better land.

“The possibilities are indicated by the fact that
only 3,198,000 acres in Manitoba and 1,000,000 acres
in the Territories are yet under cultivation. The
writer estimates that 20,000 farmers from the States
came into our North-West this season. Wheat land in
the States now costs $25 to $40 an acre, whereas
with us it is only from $3 to $15 per acre.”—The
“ Morden Empive.”