settler in the contemplation of his desires too 

 often views in imaginary panorama, gigantic 

 grain fields, huge herds of cattle and general 

 farming operations carried out on a Titanic scale. 

 This is the effect of the tremendous breadth of 

 western conception. The easterner, with perhaps 

 a less vivid imagination and an ambition more 

 controlled, is doing things on a smaller scale, 

 and content with a lesser but sure degree of 

 prosperity, pursues his own way. 



Whilst the Canadian West in its phenomenal 

 expansion has been holding the world's attention, 

 the Maritimes have been progressing in their 

 own steady way, and it is rank fallacy to suggest 

 that their lack of publicity has been due to lack 

 of development. A survey of agricultural history 

 will show that production is not only being 

 maintained but is making steady progress. 

 Annual figures of cereals and tubers record sub- 

 stantial increases in yield, whilst the average acre 

 production is more often than not in excess of 

 the Dominion average. Livestock figures, also, 

 show a very healthy increase. 



Healthy Annual Averages 



The fertility and productivity of the farms 

 of the Maritimes, of many harvests compared 

 to the newer settled area of the western provinces, 

 is forcibly illustrated in the healthy average they 

 maintain in their production. 



Thus, in 1920, when the average yield of 

 wheat over the Dominion was 14.5 bushels to 

 the acre and the five-year average was 15.5, 

 New Brunswick had an average yield of 17.50 

 bushels, Nova Scotia 17.20 bushels, and Prince 

 Edward Island 12.00 bushels. The 1920 average 

 for oats was 33.5 bushels to the acre and the 

 five-year average 32 bushels. In that year, New 

 Brunswick secured an average of 30.25 bushels, 

 Nova Scotia 32.3 and Prince Edward Island 30 

 bushels. New Brunswick raised 23.75 bushels of 

 barley to the acre, Nova Scotia 28.4, and Prince 

 Edward Island 29 bushels when the Dominion 

 average was 24.75 and the five-year average 24.5. 

 With the potato average in 1920 at 170.5 bushels 

 and the five-year average at 136.6 bushels, New 

 Brunswick and Nova Scotia far exceeded this 

 with averages of 198 and 201 bushels respectively, 

 whilst Prince Edward Island had an average of 

 170 bushels to the acre. 



Whilst the Maritime provinces of Canada 

 are in the main capable of producing a wider 

 diversity of crops than the westerly provinces, 

 the cereals and tubers, which have made the 

 West famous, form a substantial portion of the 

 annual agricultural yield. The production is 

 increasing each year, whilst the average per acre 

 is maintained. This increase in production is 

 very clearly shown in a comparison of the official 

 yields of 1915 and 1920. Some of the increases 

 are remarkable. 



The increase in livestock is just as gratifying 

 and shows the growing interest of the Maritimes 

 in stock raising, dairying and mixed farming to 

 which so many sections are adapted. Following 

 is a comparison of the livestock in the Maritimes 

 in 1915 and five years later. 



1920 



Horses. 

 Cattle.. 

 Sheep. . 

 Swine. . 



1915 



Horses. 

 Cattle. 

 Sheep. . 

 Swine. . 



Much is to be said for the farms of the Mari- 

 times. Almost invariably picturesquely situated 

 in the charming scenery of the Atlantic coast, 

 they have many obvious advantages in the way 

 of settlement and markets, whilst climate, soil 

 fertility, and diversity of crop production are 

 rivalled by few regions. Figures show that 

 agriculture is more than maintaining its own in 

 spite of rival industries, and doubtless the time 

 will come when the three Atlantic provinces will 

 constitute a more serious rival to the prolific 

 Prairie Provinces. 



Prize Oats and Barley 



The last issue of the BULLETIN dealt with the 

 achievements of Western Canada as a prime 

 wheat growing region as supported by ten years 

 of uninterrupted success in securing the world's 

 premier honors for this cereal in contest with the 

 first growers of the American continent. The 

 West has become justly renowned for its grain 

 production, and instead of the cattle-dotted 

 prairie which the mind conjured on mention of 

 the western plains, the imagination now pictures 



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