Abstract: When the manuscript for "Crop Production in West-_ern Canada" was first prepared it included not only the chapters relating to Crops and Cropping Practices which appear in it, but also several others dealing with the soil and its management under Western conditions.When it was discovered that the whole would make a book containing nearly 800 pages, it was conSidered inadvisable to publish it in one volume.Accordingly the material was divided and that having to do directly with crops was published in 1919 under the title referred to.The part which treats of the soil and its management appears in.this volume.The substance of the different chapters of the book is drawn from lectures and addresses delivered either at the University of Saskatchewan or at Agricultural Meetings at different places in Western Canada or the Western States during the past ten years.