Abstract
THE second part of the current number of this Journal opens with the second instalment of Mr. Fream's report upon Canadian agriculture. The climate, soil, and products of Eastern Canada, comprising the better-known States of Ontario, Quebec, and the maritime provinces, are chiefly dealt with, whereas, in the first report, prairie farming, and the almost untrodden regions of the north-west were particularly dealt with. The principal object of the report is to show the capabilities and rapid progress of Canada, and this is achieved by numerous statistics as to production and exports. In these provinces the first fertility of the soil has been in a great degree exhausted, and as a consequence mixed farming with the maintenance of live stock, and the use of improved processes, is taking the place of consecutive corn-growing. The growth of the dairy industry is a remarkable fact, and in the management of their cows and the manipulation of the products of the dairy, more attention is apparently paid to the teachings of science than is usual in the mother country. The exports of cheese have increased from 6,000,000 pounds per annum in 1870, to 76,000,000 pounds in 1884. The butter trade has long been stationary, owing to the uncertain demand for Canadian butter. The Canadian cattle trade has also increased by leaps and bounds from a gross number of 6940 head in 1877, to 61,843 in 1884. The report is full of details of personal experience gained from many settlers in all parts of Old Canada. Names and addresses of the principal farmers, dairymen, and stock-breeders, are given with great frequency, and confer a special value on the report as a guide to intending settlers.
Journal of life Royal Agricultural Society.
Vol. 21, Part II., Series II. (London: John Murray, 1885.)
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Our Book Shelf . Nature 33, 218 (1886). https://doi.org/10.1038/033218a0
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