West Features in Production. 



The production of creamery butter which 

 has been so favorably received on a wide 

 market and of which more than ten million 

 dollars worth was exported in 1921, is aided 

 in a varying extent by all the provinces of the 

 Dominion, it being an important factor in 

 agricultural revenue in each. In the year 

 under review the province of Quebec led with 

 a production of 40,037,692 pounds valued at 

 $22,352,146. Ontario followed with 37,148,898 

 pounds valued at $21,245,664. These two 

 provinces maintain a wide lead over the rest 

 of Canada, Alberta being next in line with a 

 value of more than $6,500,000". Manitoba ac- 

 counted for over $4,000,000 in this item of 

 production; Saskatchewan $3,700,000; Nova 

 Scotia $1,518,757; Prince Edward Island $674, 

 000 and New Brunswick $607,000. 



Ontario led easily in the production of 

 factory cheese with 92,847,769 pounds valued 

 at $24,615,290. This is both a greater output 

 and value for the province than in creamery 

 butter, the only instance to be found among 

 the provinces. Quebec followed in production 

 with a value of $13,356,475. The little province 

 of Prince Edward Island followed with $525, 

 635; Alberta $110,355; New Brunswick $329, 

 782; and British Columbia $96,134. 



The rapid manner in which the production 

 of creamery products is increasing in Canada 

 is indicated in a concise manner by a compar- 

 ison with the figures of ten and twenty years 

 ago. In 1900 the production of creamery 

 butter was 36,066,739 pounds valued at $7, 

 240,972. By 1910 it had nearly doubled with a 

 production of 64,698,165 pounds valued at $15,- 

 645,845. By 1920 it had almost redoubled 

 again with 110,030,399 pounds worth $62,306,- 

 794, quadrupling in value. A large factor in 

 maintaining this consistent increase has been 

 the enthusiastic entry of the Western provinces 

 into the industry and the past few years have 

 seen the most remarkable development of 

 dairying on the prairies. 



West's Remarkable Development. 



To cite the instance of one province only, 

 In 1920 Saskatchewan secured an increase of 

 more than 40,000 pounds of creamery butter 

 over her previous year's record accounting for 

 an increase of more than half a million dollars 

 in revenue from this source. Taking the four 

 western provinces together, in the last five 

 years they have doubled their total creamery 

 butter production the comparative amounts 

 being 14,077,743 in 1915 and 28,120,940 in 1920. 

 The value in this five year period has 

 nearly quadrupled, the respective figures being 

 $4,091,874 and $15,908,592. Dairying on the 

 prairie is progressing at a startling rate. Man- 



itoba in five years has increased her annual 

 production of creamery butter from five mil- 

 lion pounds to seven millions, Saskatchewan 

 from three millions to six millions, and Alberta 

 the astounding increment of eight million 

 pounds, or from three millions to eleven. 



Canada in the past twenty years has made 

 remarkable progress in the production of 

 creamery products and the proportionately 

 greater attention devoted to the industry in 

 the past few years augurs yet greater triumphs 

 for Canada's dairy herds with a maintenance 

 of the same high standard of production. In- 

 dications of her prominence in this industry, 

 excellent forecasts of her greater future are 

 many. Already the dairy herds of Canada are 

 being drawn upon to improve the stock of 

 older countries. In 1920 after securing prac- 

 tically all the Canadian prizes in the same 

 class, a Saskatchewan butter-maker carried 

 away the second prize for creamery butter at 

 the National Dairy Show, Chicago. To cap 

 this a new world's record for milk and butter 

 production has been set by Bella Pontiac, an 

 Ontario Holstein Friesian cow owned by T. A. 

 Barren, of Brantford, who in a year under test 

 ending in June last produced 27,017 pounds 

 of milk, 1,259 pounds of fat, and 1,594 pounds 

 of butter. Is anything further needed to give 

 Canada a prominent place among the dairy 

 nations of the world? 



Industrial Quebec 



Though as an industrial province Quebec 

 must take second place to Ontario in point 

 of capitalization and output, Canadian industry 

 had its birth in what is now the French-Cana- 

 dian province and though subsequently out- 

 stripped by its adjoining sister, it has made 

 and continues to make marked and consistent 

 progress. The output of Quebec's manufac- 

 tures in 1919-1920 was $890,420,023 compared 

 with $158,287,994 in 1900, a notable growth in 

 less than twenty years. Quebec has all the 

 necessary qualifications for industrial growth, 

 wealth of waterpowers and natural resources, 

 an excellent shipboard and ports, fine railway 

 facilities and waterways, and a class of artisans 

 and workers to which tribute is paid from all 

 sections of the American continent. 



Canadian industry was born of Quebec's 

 settlement and consequent necessity. The 

 thrifty mothers of Canada to provide clothing 

 for their children laid the foundation of the 

 textile industry with the spinning wheel and 

 hand loom in the seventeenth century. Hat 

 and shoe factories were established in Quebec 

 prior to the year 1668, and records of the year 



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