be borne in mind too, that the sugar maple flourishes gen- 

 erally on rough or stoney ground, such as is not adapted to 

 tillage, and Quebec farmers are encouraged to make land, 

 which is at the present time unproductive on account of 

 its nature, revenue producing by the planting of maples. 



A good deal remains to be done too, in utilizing the val- 

 uable by-products of the sugar and syrup. About sixteen 

 quarts of sap will make a pound of sugar and the average 

 yield of sugar is from two to three pounds per tree. Only 

 the more modern and scientific makers, however, are ex- 

 tracting the by-products of maple vinegar and sugar sand. 

 From the product of a thousand tapped trees, which is 

 about the average Quebec grove, twenty-five to thirty gal- 

 lons of very fine vinegar can be made from materials 

 usually thrown away. Sugar sand, known also as nitre, 

 a chemical of importance, is extracted from a sediment 

 left in the evaporation of the liquid. ' 



Industrial Growth in the Maritimes 



Because the Maritime Provinces of Canada 

 have largely settled into an existence of un- 

 ruffled tranquillity and do not blazon forth peri- 

 odically features of progressive growth, there 

 may have been formed a conception that there 

 is little progression there. But nothing is fur- 

 ther from the truth. 



A survey of industrial conditions in the Ma- 

 ritime Provinces covering the year 1919 has just 

 been published. This shows a gratifying in- 

 dustrial situation and when compared with the 

 figures of the two preceding years, illustrates 

 a pleasing progress in manufacturing activities. 

 The following tables for the three provinces are 

 pithily illuminative of three years' progress. 



NEW BRUNSWICK 



1917 1918 



1919 



Establishments. 

 Capital. 

 Employees. 

 Salaries amd Wages. 

 Materials used. 

 Value of Production. 



Establishments. 

 Capital. 

 Employees. 

 Salaries and Wages 

 Materials Used. 

 Value of Production. 



PRINCE EDWARD ISLAND 

 1917 1918 



Establishments. 

 Capital. 

 Employees. 

 Salaries and Wages. 

 Materials Used. 

 Value of Production. 



534 



$2,652,374 



1,923 



$837,230 



$3,402,485 



$5,517,910 



484 



$2,886,662 



1,467 



$797,067 



$3,547,800 



$5,693,878 



1919 



539 



$2,867,035 



1,734 



$973,306 



$4,269.843 



$6,869,584 



Industries turning out log products was 

 easily first in New Brunswick, accounting for 249 

 establishments in 1919, capitalized at $31,816,- 

 125 and a production for the year of $26,713,403. 

 Next in order were three cotton establishments 

 capitalized at $4,636,587, with an annual produc- 

 tion of $6,736,974. The pulp and paper indus- 

 try was third in importance with five mills 

 capitalized at $11,960,778, realizing a yearly 

 output valued at $5,874,318. 



Rolling mills and steel furnaces accounted 

 for the greatest industrial activity in Nova 

 Scotia, there being four such plants in operation 

 in which a capital of $20,339,234 was invested 

 and whose annual production was $31,362,000. 

 A total of 486 establishments turned out log 

 products, their capitalization totalling $6,372,000 

 and their production $8,331,824. Next in order 

 were 264 fish preserving and curing establish- 

 ments capitalized at $3,828,517 and with a pro- 

 duction of $7,877,785. Thirty-seven ship-build- 

 ing and repair plants capitalized at $6,732,419 

 accounted for a production in 1919 of $7,663,072. 



More Elevators Needed 



An echo of the tremendous Canadian crop 

 of 1921 which, diverted from the usual channels 

 which took it across the border, rushed to Cana- 

 dian, Atlantic and Pacific ports, taxing their 

 capacities to the limit, is being heard in the de- 

 mand for increased elevator accommodation. A 

 new factor has entered into the situation giving 

 Canada and Dominion ports greater control of 

 the traffic and export of her own crop, and it is 

 recognized that vastly increased storage space 

 is going to be needed to accommodate future 

 crops pending their shipping. 



The consistent annual increases in the 

 volume of Canada's grain crop has rendered 

 imperative a corresponding yearly increase in 

 elevator storage capacity, and each year sees new 

 elevators dotting the grain growing provinces. 

 At the last time statistics were taken, Canada 

 had 3,775 elevators with an aggregate capacity 

 of 214,279,964 bushels. The insistent demand 

 at the present time is not at railway shipping 

 points, but in the expectation of handling a 

 greater proportion of Canadian grain at Cana- 

 dian ports these termini are facing the need of 

 greater storage space. Though 1921 was for 

 Canada a record grain handling year, more traffic 

 would have accrued to her could more have been 

 handled, and on both the Atlantic and Pacific 

 a certain amount of business had to be refused. 

 It is in this direction that expansion is planned. 



The Harbor Commissioners at Montreal 

 are working on plans for a grain elevator of 

 ten million bushels capacity which will be the 

 most capacious in the world, outholding by half 

 a million bushels that elevator at Port Arthur 

 which at present holds the honor. The growth 

 of the volume of grain in and out of the Port of 

 Montreal has made the construction of more 

 elevator space absolutely essential, as during the 

 past year, which exceeded in activity anything 

 Montreal has ever known, business had to be re- 

 fused owing to lack of accommodation . The sud- 

 den effect of the United States tariff on Montreal 

 traffic is revealed in the fact that it was consid- 

 ered that the present volume of grain traffic 



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