Agricultural colleges in Canada have been so 

 instituted and arranged that the best possible 

 agricultural education is within reach of any boy 

 or girl or youth aspiring to the pursuit of scienti- 

 fic farming. To meet the needs of the people of 

 the farm who find it impossible to get away to 

 take the longer courses, short, intensive instruc- 

 tional courses are given in the winter months. 



Then in the fear that even so some may not 

 be reached, the college goes to the farmer, and by 

 means of specially equipped trains travelling 

 through the country takes a demonstration 

 and instructional course to the farmer's door. 



The Progress of Quebec 



Quebec is the largest of the provinces of Canada with 

 an area of 703,653 square miles or more than 462,000,000 

 acres. It has eighteen ciiies, eighty towns and more than 

 two hundred and twenty villages. In Montreal the prov- 

 ince possesses the second port of the American continent, 

 the first inland port of the world, and the fifth city in point 

 of population on the continent. 



Quebec has been richly endowed by Nature with all 

 manner of gifts, forests, minerals, fisheries, and fertile 

 agricultural land which she is intelligently exploiting and 

 bringing each year into a higher revenue-bearing state. 

 Admirably situated for expansion and development, she 

 has profited by these natural conditions, and a survey of 

 her economic history for the past decade or so indicates a 

 substantial growth in every phase of her provincial life. 



Recently published census figures give the province a 

 population of 2,503,548 which, compared with the 2,002,- 

 712 people registered at the 1911 census, indicates for the 

 decade, an increase of more than half a million or slightly 

 over twenty-five per cent. Montreal's population, which 

 in 1911 was half a million, has increased in ten years by 

 more than fifty per cent. At the time of the 1911 census, 

 970,094 of the population were returned as urban residents 

 and 1,032,618 as rural. The proportion is agreed upon as 

 being about the same at the present time. Approximately 

 eighty per cent, of the people of Quebec province employ 

 the French language. 



Agriculture the Principal Industry 



Agriculture may still be said, in spite of commercial 

 and industrial development, to be the principal industry of 

 Quebec, fully one half of the population being engaged in 

 the many phases of work upon the land, though only about 

 one-twentieth of its area has been brought under cultiva- 

 tion. Progress in agriculture in recent years has been 

 remarkable. Whereas the total value of agricultural 

 production in 1910 was only $20,590,000, in 1920 it was 

 $217,775,080, a splendid growth. 



Wheat production increased from 1,223,000 bushels in 

 1911 to 3,775,000 bushels in 1920, and in the same period, 

 oat production increased from 37,500,000 to 66,729,000 

 bushels, and barley from 2,271,000 to 4,910,000 bushels. 

 Whilst the value of the livestock on the farms of the 

 province was $122,298,171 in 1914, its value in 1920 was 

 $206,814,000, nearly doubling in the six year period. 



A phase of agriculture, which is peculiarly a Quebec one, 

 is the production _of maple sugar. The sugar maple is 

 found extensively in the province, and the product of the 

 tree is extracted and manufactured for domestic as well as 

 commercial production. The commercial production has 

 grown rapidly in recent years and risen from a value of 

 $1,680,393 in 1911 to $6,743,141 in 1920. Quebec is also 

 one of Canada's lobacco producing regions, and in this, 

 crop production has made the same excellent strides of 

 progress, increasing from a yield of 10,095,900 pounds in 

 1911 to 26,400,000 pounds in 1920. 



In the Gulf of the St. Lawrence and her rivers and 

 inland waters, Quebec possesses valuable fisheries which 

 rank as fifth among those of the provinces of the Dominion 

 with an annual produciion value of about two and a half 

 million dollars. The principal species caught and 

 marketed are salmon, lobster, cod, haddock, herring, irack- 

 erel, clams and smelts, in the fisheries the san e progress 

 is noted in enhancing provincial revenue and from a value 

 of $1,692,476 in 1910 they increased to $2,591,982 in 1920. 



Wide Variety of Mineral Deposits 



Quebec has been generously gifted with a wide var 

 of valuable mineral deposits, the annual revenue from i 

 exploitation of which amounts to more than twenty n 

 lion dollars. A feature of the mineral industry is its virtu 

 monopoly of the world's supply of asbes'os. T he grow t 

 of the mining induscry can be gauged from the fact tha 

 whilst the revenue from this source in 1900 was $2,546,07(5 

 and in 1910 $7,323,281, in 1920 it amounted to $27,722,50 

 In the last decade (he value of asbestos production h 

 increased from $2,685,441 to$14,674,572; gold from $11,. 

 800 to $19,346; and silver from $11,500 to $58,032. 



A great source of wealth is its timber, which, throug 

 an intelligent policy of conservation, is being preserved as< 

 perpetual producer of revenue. The 111,600,000 acres of 

 forest preserves are valued at $445,000,000 and ir has been 

 estimated that there are 600,000,000 cords of pulpwood 

 available in the province. While statistics of the lurr.her 

 industry ten years ago are not available, the healthy man- 

 ner in which the lumber industry is growing may be realized 

 from the fact that in the three-year period from 1917 to 

 1919, the value of the forest products industry rose from 

 $35,585,196 to $58,328,477. The value of sawn lumber 

 increased from $17,270,908 to $39,269,903 and that of 

 other forest products from $18,314,287 to $19,058,574. 



Continued Expansion Assured 



Quebec is admirably situated to expand industrially and 

 commercially, and in her rranufacturirg industries the 

 same s:rides in progress vhich she has exhibited in other 

 phases of her provincial life are noticeable, \\hereas in 

 1910 there were 6,584 industrial establishments in the 

 province, at the time of the last industrial census, in 1918, 

 there were 10,552 such establishments. Employees in the 

 period had increased from 158,407 to 208,149; the capital 

 invested in plants from $326,946,925 to $834,751,346; the 

 materials utilized in manufacture from $184,374,053 to 

 $458,951,916; and the plants' production from $3^0,- 

 901,656 to $900,453,967. 



In every phase of her provincial life, Quebec, in a su 

 conducted over any n umber of years, exhibits steady 

 jopment and the most gratifying progress. The proviw 

 is admirably adapted to manufacturing and commercial 

 enterprises of all kinds, with excellent communication with 

 the United States, and rapid service to the British Isles 

 and continental Europe. With a wealth of water powers, 

 aggregating 7,000,000,000 horse-power, fine waterways, 

 seaboard, and harbors, there would seem to be no hindrance 

 to uninterrupted progress. 



A Land of Homes 



The greatest of instinctive desires in the 

 human race, ever dominant though frequently 

 from necessity stifled, is the ambition to own 

 a home with a piece of land about it a place 

 wherein to take secure anchorage, a harbor in 

 old age, an inheritance to posterity. This 

 craving for possession is the fundamental of 

 man's life endeavor, the ultimate goal of his 

 efforts. To a comparatively small section of the 

 populace is it given to possess an ancestral home, 

 a home and lands to be theirs and their family's 

 for all time. Statistics show that a small per- 



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