strenuous competition, on foreign markets. The type of 

 dairy animal Canada has produced is in universal demand 

 and individual production records are equal to those 

 achieved elsewhere, whilst equal care is given to the 

 quality of the product. In every phase there is proof 

 conclusive of a thriving unsurpassed dairy industry in 

 Canada. 



Opportunities in Poultry Raising 



Exceptional opportunities exist in Canada 

 to-day for engaging in the agricultural or com- 

 mercial activities of poultry raising and egg 

 marketing. In this respect Canada faces a 

 peculiar situation for whilst, at the present time 

 she is exporting eggs to foreign countries at the 

 rate of about six and a half million dozen annually, 

 she is importing for domestic consumption, 

 nearly five and a half million dozen. 



It is only of recent years, since Canada has 

 diversified the larger issues of grain growing and 

 livestock raising with lesser, though no less 

 necessary, agricultural pursuits, that poultry 

 raising has been entered into on what might be 

 considered the proportions of an important in- 

 dustry. This interest in poultry raising has 

 been fostered and encouraged in every waty by 

 government campaign and propaganda and has 

 resulted in a gratifying increase in the number 

 of poultry and the production of eggs. Whilst 

 Canada has been successfully asserting herself 

 as a serious competitor amongst the dairy coun- 

 tries of the world, she has also been developing 

 in a surprising manner as an egg marketing 

 nation. Though her progress in egg production 

 has been little short of remarkable, the export 

 trade, from popular demand, has increased in 

 like proportion yet she continues to send out 

 practically the same amount as she is under the 

 necessity of importing for her own use. 



It is only within the past few years that 

 Canada has managed to obtain a lead, small as it 

 is, in egg exports over imports, due to phenome- 

 nal development in the home industry. Since 

 1909 Canada had the unenviable position of 

 importing each year more eggs than were expor- 

 ted. Total exports in 1911, for instance were 

 92,164 dozen against imports of 2,378,640 dozen. 

 In 1915 exports amounted to 965, 640 dozen only 

 against 4,354,611 dozen. By 1918 the tide had 

 turned and exports were 4,896,993 dozen against 

 4,274,452 dozen. The favorable trend has 

 continued due to activity in the promotion of the 

 industry at home and in 1921, exports were 

 6,579,853 dozen against imports of 5,341,611 

 dozen. 



Thirty-Four Million Hens 



The Bureau of Statistics reports that there 

 were 34,340,474 hens in Canada in 1921 as 

 against 25,942,105 in 1920. During 1921 these 

 hens were responsible for a production of, as near 

 as can be estimated, 161,971,000 dozen eggs as 

 compared with the previous year's production 

 of 121,604,000 dozen. 



Poultry farming has long been popular and 

 profitable in Canada, especially in the Maritime 

 provinces and British Columbia, but the increase 

 in recent years has been brought about by the 

 adoption on a greater and wider scale of poultry 

 raising by mixed farmers and those following 

 agricultural pursuits of other natures who have 

 found this branch increasingly profitable and 

 returning quick and steady revenues. In this 

 regard it is significant that Saskatchewan, the 

 first wheat province, is, in proportion to its 

 population, the first poultry province of Canada 

 with 9,000,000 hens, followed closely by Ontario. 

 It is equally significant that Alberta, another 

 Prairie province, takes third place and that 

 Manitoba, the third of the trio, is bracketed 

 fourth with Quebec. 



The opportunities lying in the poultry in- 

 dustry in Canada are self evident from a survey 

 of the facts. The export trade is developing to 

 a larger extent each year as the popularity of 

 the Canadian produce increases and the demand 

 is greater. In the decade 1911-1921 export in 

 eggs has grown from 92,164 dozen to 6,579,853 

 dozen. Despite the tremendous increase in 

 production practically an equal amount has to 

 be imported to fill domestic needs. Room 

 exists for wide expansion in production. 



Insurance in Canada 



In view of acute business conditions prevail- 

 ing during the year 1921, the amount of fire and 

 life insurance issued in Canada was very credit- 

 able. According to the Federal Bureau of 

 Statistics $514,687,611 represents the net amount 

 of new life insurance issued and paid in cash in 

 this country last year, which is a decline from 

 the previous year when the total was $630,110,- 

 900, but nearly twice as much as was written in 

 1918. While the value of life insurance issued 

 during the period under review was $116,000,000 

 less than in 1920, the number of policies was only 

 about 7,000 less, having been 648,421, as against 

 655,176. 



Canadian companies in Canada were again 

 in the lead in the amount of life insurance written, 

 with a total of $332,637,029, as compared with 

 $387,519,766 in 1920. Canadian companies 

 issued outside of Canada $86,362,883, as against 

 $100,624,400; British companies $15,660,737, 

 compared with $14,976,038; foreign companies, 

 almost entirely American, $166,388,945, as 

 against $227,615,096. As will be noted British 

 companies were the only ones to register increas- 

 ed life insurance business in 1921, both Canadian 

 and American companies recording decreases. 



Fire Policies and Premiums 



The past year was not a very favorable one 

 for fire insurance, net losses having been $27,- 

 463,837, or equal to 58% of the premiums. The 

 premiums in 1921, however, showed an increase 



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