The average temperatures and precipitation for each of the first nine months of 1913:

MonthMeanMaximumMinimumPrecipitation
January-7.8537.50-45.30.70
February2.6437.70-34.30.64
March8.9044.90-31.90.65
April41.7078.5013.40.31
May47.2084.7020.701.00
June59.2087.7030.703.00
July61.1086.6037.403.18
August60.8085.9038.902.80
September52.1085.5032.90.88
January-September, 191336.2069.805.90 Total13.16
April-September, 191353.6084.8027.50"11.17
April-September, 191250.9079.9027.50"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):

19091910191119121913
Population492,432[1]540,000
Horses279,063332,922507,400551,645580,386
Milch cows124,186138,455181,146184,896194,843
Other cattle391,789431,164452,466461,244468,255
Sheep129,630135,360114,216114,810115,568
Swine131,757125,788286,295344,298387,684

[1] Estimated.

Mr. J. C. Hill & Sons, of Lloydminster, Saskatchewan, who recently became winners for the third time of the Colorado Silver Trophy, valued at $1500 for best peck of oats in the world. They now own the trophy.