in a voluminous egg export trade; whilst the 

 flavor of island mutton and lamb has long estab- 

 lished its popularity. Fruit growing is a pursuit 

 which has attained important proportions and 

 yet leaves considerable room for expansion. 



Nearly 14,000 Farms In Operation 



There are in Prince Edward Island 13,888 

 farms which in 1921 accounted fora crop produc- 

 tion of nearly fifteen million dollars and in the 

 previous year of higher agricultural prices, for 

 more than nineteen million dollars. In 1921, 

 34,106 acres of wheat returning an average rate 

 of 16.75 bushels per acre, gave a total provincial 

 yield of 573,000 bushels. The oat acreage of 

 189,453, at an average of 27 bushels to the acre, 

 yielded 5, 11 8,000 bushels. A total of 6,334 acres of 

 barley at 23.25 bushels to the acre, accounted for 

 a gross production of 147,400 bushels. There 

 were 212 acres seeded to peas which yielded 23.50 

 bushels to the acre or a total of 5,000 bushels. 

 An acreage of 36,921 of potatoes, at an average 

 of 162 bushels, returned 5,965,820 bushels. The 

 255,010 acres of hay and clover at an average of 

 .8 of a ton, returned a total of 215,174 tons. 



Prince Edward Island potatoes have for 

 some years been renowned over the continent 

 and in general demand for seed. Experiments 

 conducted in the states of Virginia, New Jersey, 

 Maine and Vermont definitely established the 

 fact that island grown potato seed meet all the 

 requirements of these states and there has con- 

 sequently been importation of considerable 

 volume. In the year 1921, 60 carloads, or 

 48,000 bushels of certified seed potatoes were 

 shipped from Prince Edward Island to various 

 parts of the United States. 



Dairying Horses and Catties 



Dairying is an industry on which the island 

 particularly prides itself and one in which every 

 endeavor is made to maintain the fine type of 

 dairy cattle and improve the excellency of the 

 product. Only one of the signal achievements of 

 the island in this regard was the securing a short 

 while ago of the four-year-old Canadian milk 

 production record by the Charlottetown Ayr- 

 shire "Buttercup of Glenholm" which under a 

 365-day test produced 16,444 pounds of milk and 

 662 pounds of fat, the milk production being 400 

 pounds in excess of any previous record in the 

 class. There are thirty-five creameries and 

 cheese factories on the island which in 1921 were 

 responsible for producing 1,681,774 pounds of 

 cheese worth $294,155 and 1,169,098 pounds of 

 butter worth $440,050. 



The province has 31,311 horses and 138,195 

 cattle, uniformally of exceptional breeding. 

 There are 71,923 sheep 59,840 lambs, and 42,447 

 swine. Whilst Prince Edward Island is the 

 smallest province of the Dominion, it produces 

 proportionately more cattle than any state of the 

 American Union with the single exception of 



Iowa. Island sheep have developed a consider- 

 able industry to which the rolling lands are 

 specially well adapted, and in 1921, 28,797 

 pounds of wool were received at Charlottetown 

 by the Prince Edward Island Sheepbreeders' 

 Association. Nearly one million dozen eggs are 

 sold annually, productive of a revenue of nearly 

 half a million dollars. 



Prince Edward Island is almost unique on the 

 American continent as a purely self-supporting 

 agricultural area. It is a region of prosperous 

 farms and picturesque comfortable farm homes, 

 where the tranquil serenity of the countryside is 

 reminiscent of old world scenery, and the most 

 desirable of living conditions prevail. For 

 those who would combine the life beautiful with 

 the pleasantest of agricultural activities, no spot 

 could be found more delectable than little Prince 

 Edward Island over whose rolling farm lands 

 blow the fresh salt breezes from the Atlantic. 



Thirty Years' Successful Farming 



In a period when the profession of farming 

 is more or less stagnant, when the tendency in so 

 many countries is from the rural districts to the 

 cities and industrial centres, and the oft-made 

 complaint is that the ardors and deprivations of 

 an agricultural life are not commensurate with 

 its compensations, it is consoling to read the 

 history of a satisfied farmer of thirty years' 

 standing, one of the continent's premier agricul- 

 turists, celebrating his seventieth birthday in 

 the tranquil satisfaction of the honors which 

 have come to him in his chosen profession. 



Such a man is Samuel Larcombe, of Birtle, 

 Manitoba, who expresses pride in the realization 

 of the signal part he has played in making the 

 possibilities of Western Canada known to the 

 world. 



The record of Mr. Larcombe's thirty years 

 of farming is almost phenomenal. In that 

 period, with the products of his Manitoba farm, 

 he has carried off no less than three thousand 

 prizes, including the world's championship for 

 wheat at the Peoria International Fair in 1917 

 and the sweepstake for the best individual 

 farmer's exhibit as well as the sweepstake for 

 wheat in the dry-farming section at the World's 

 Soil Products exhibition in Kansas in 1918. 

 His Canadian successes constitute an aggregate 

 which gives him an average over his farming 

 years of one hundred prizes per year. 



Born In a Devon Village 



Born in a little Devon village and for ten 

 years following the pursuit of market gardener, 

 Mr. Larcombe's experience forms a further 

 addition to the examples of outstanding success 

 achieved by immigrants from the British Isles, 

 unacquainted with Western conditions. He 

 came to Winnipeg in 1889 and proceeded to 

 Birtle, where even then existed a thriving colony 



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