Jasper County Democrat, Volume 17, Number 14, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 May 1914 — WHEAT GROWING IN CANADA. [ARTICLE]

WHEAT GROWING IN CANADA.

< Reports That It Costs 55 Cents a Bushel to Raise Wheat in Saskatchewan. American wheat growers and farmers will be interested in a report of a commission appointed by the government of Saskatchewan “to examine into the ways and means for bettering the position of Saskat bewail grain in the European markets.” Incident to this investigation the commission looked into the cost of producing wheat under present conditions in the Province of Canada. The wheat producers of various sections of the United States will be interested to know that under present conditions the cost of producing wheat as determined by the commission is reported to be 55 cents per bushel on the farm and 62 cents per bushel f. o. b. cars at country points. According to the report, the cost of production has increased 12.1.5 per cent since 1909, while, on ■he other hand, the price of wheat to the Saskatchewan farmer has decreased from Si 1-5 cents per bushel in 1909 to 66 1-8 cents per bushel in 1913. leaving a net return, on this basis, of 1 1-8 cents per bushel to the farmer.

It is possible that the interesting figures which have been developed by the grain commission Mil account for the fact that a large number of American farmers who have, in recent years, left the States to engage in farming in this territory are how asking for a certificate which permits the return of household effects to the United Stat es. If the economic situation suggested in the above statement is not the cause, perhaps it may be found in the long and rigorous winters, characteristic of this section as compared with those in the leading farming districts of the States.