Canada Yearbook - 1920

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Of oats, including oat products expressed as grain, the total
quantity returned as in Canada on March 31, 1921, was 246,614,000
bushels, as compared with 144,492,000 bushels in 1920. The total
for 1921 comprises 36,213,000 bushels in elevators and flour mills,
206,938,000 bushels in farmers' hands and 3,462,000 bushels in transit.
The total quantity of barley in Canada on March 31, 1921, was
returned as 24,845,000 bushels, as compared with 15,730,000 bushels
in 1920. The figures for 1921 comprise 6,107,500 bushels in elevators
and flour mills, 17,532,000 bushels in farmers' hands and 1,205,000
bushels in transit. Of flaxseed the total quantity in Canada on
March 31, 1921, was about 5,864,000 bushels, as compared with
2,094,000 bushels in 1920. The total for 1921 comprises 3,315,000
bushels in elevators, 1,808,000 bushels in farmers' hands and 741,000
bushels in transit.
Of rye the quantities in hand on March 31, 1921, were about
3,415,000 bushels, including 2,832,000 bushels in farmers' hands,
420,000 bushels in elevators, and 163,000 bushels in transit.
Distribution of Canadian Wheat and Oat Crops. 1 —Table
46 shows the distribution of the Canadian wheat crop for the eleven
years 1909-10 to 1919-20, for the crop years ended August 31.
46.—Distribution of the Canadian Wheat Crop, 1909-30.
A. PRODUCTION.
Grain
Available
Crop Year. Gross Loss in not mer­ Net Imports. for
production. cleaning. chantable. production. distribution.
000 bush. 000 bush. 000 bush. 000 bush. 000 bush. 000 bush.
1909-10 166,744 5,002 6,876 154,866 219 155,085
1910-11 132,049 3,962 7,923 120,164 407 120,571
1911-12 230,924 6,928 29,442 194,554 388 194,942
1912-13 224,159 6,725 17,933 199,501 887 200,388
1913-14 231,717 6,952 16,220 208,545 660 209,205
1914-15 161,280 4,838 10,487 145,955 1,914 147,869
1915-16 393,543 11,806 18,873 362,864 282 363,146
1916-17 .. 262,781 7,883 39,138 215,760 309 216,069
1917-18 233,743 7,012 10,736 215,995 261 216,256
1918-19 189,075 5,672 13,705 169,698 323 170,021
Totals.... 2,226,015 66,780 171,333 1,987,902 5,650 1,993,552
1919-20 193,260 5,798 10,830 176,632 206 176,838
'See Monthly Bulletin of Agricultural Stat istics, April 1920 (Vol. 13, No. 140), p. 75.