near the St. Lawrence, into the BaiedesChaleurs, 

 is one of surpassing beauty and fertility, which 

 has already become famous among fishermen of 

 the Eastern United States, who come there each 

 year and have established club-houses there. 

 Now an attempt is to be made to develop it 

 agriculturally. The Matapedia may be classed 

 as one of the greatest of valleys, according to 

 authorities, a region of smiling meadows and 

 high mountains, past which the river winds its 

 way. 



Here, in the Canton of Langis, a certain 

 number of colonization lots have been surveyed 

 and mapped out. Men are at work this summer 

 clearing ten acres on each lot, and erecting on 

 each potential farm a house costing about 8600 

 and a barn at a somewhat lower figure. As it is 

 not intended to place any settlers on these lands 

 until the spring of 1923, and the work is merely 

 in process, it has not been determined what the 

 exact cost to the settler will be, but on the 

 authority of the provincial Minister of Coloniz- 

 ation the settler will receive a farm at actual 

 cost and the payments expected of him will be 

 extended over thirty years. The province will 

 safeguard itself against possible loss, and 

 achieve the greatest amount of benefit for the 

 province, by carefully selecting its colonists and 

 placing them on the land with the best possible 

 assurance of success. 



A Steady Stream of Colonists 



Quebec is receiving a steady little stream of 

 new colonists in spite of the rush to newer 

 opened areas, and she is making a bid for more 

 in an endeavor to bring under cultivation the 

 millions of fertile acres which she still possesses 

 in a virgin state. The agricultural production 

 of the province in 1921 accounted for a value of 

 $1,288,813,000, and included practically every 

 farm crop imaginable, horses and cattle, sheep, 

 swine, poultry, bees, field crops, potatoes and 

 root crops, orchard and small fruits, dairy 

 products, wool, eggs, tobacco and maple sugar 

 and syrup. An endeavor is being made to lure 

 back to the old home the French-Canadian 

 population which was drawn away in less pros- 

 perous times, whilst at the same time attract 

 the British and United States immigrant. 

 Quebec's agricultural value has been proved by 

 many years of farming which stand to assure 

 the future of its new colonization tracts. 



New Fame for Maritimes 



The Maritime Provinces of Canada have 

 quietly, and in their characteristically unosten- 

 tatious way, attained a continental and inter- 

 national fame for the production of seed potatoes, 

 and such is the favor with which the Maritime 

 product is now regarded that, on the authority 

 of the Minister ot Agriculture of New Brunswick, 



the outlook for the export of seed potatoes is 

 this year more excellent than ever and the 

 demand, in fact, greater than the available 

 supply. This is based on authentic reports from 

 the markets in the states of Washington, New 

 Jersey, Delaware, Virginia and elsewhere. 



The fame of the seed potatoes of New Bruns- 

 wick and Prince Edward Island has rapidly 

 spread, for it is only three years ago since the 

 former province made the first shipment of 

 between three and four carloads to the United 

 States, whilst this year the demand is expected 

 for over 250 cars. Prince Edward Island is 

 expected to provide 125 cars for export to the 

 same country, the province being unable to meet 

 all the demands made upon it. The State of 

 Virginia, through its Potato Growers' Associa- 

 tion, has made a bid for the entire island crop 

 this year. 



The Maritime Provinces have long been 

 favorably known for the quality of their potato 

 crop, and the annual production of the area has 

 steadily increased as this fame grew and the 

 product was in greater demand. Canada 

 steadily exports potatoes to the United Kingdom, 

 United States, British Guiana, Cuba, British 

 West Indies, St. Pierre and Miquelon and other 

 countries, the greater part of which emanates 

 from the Maritimes. For instance, Cuba is in the 

 habit of importing from twenty to twenty-five 

 thousand bushels of potatoes per week and a 

 third of these have their origin in the Province 

 of New Brunswick. 



The popularity of seed potatoes is of much 

 recenter growth and originated in the superiority 

 of the Maritime product, which became im- 

 mediately apparent wherever introduced. They 

 first penetrated the Eastern States, even the 

 famed potato region of Aroostook in Maine 

 acknowledging the better quality of the New 

 Brunswick product by shipping in several car- 

 loads of the 1921 crop to ensure a supply of high 

 quality disease-free seed. This popularity is 

 rapidly spreading over a wider area, and of the 

 1921 crop of New Brunswick, twelve thousand 

 barrels of choice Bliss seed potatoes were sent 

 to Texas. In the same year sixty carloads, or 

 48,000 bushels, of certified seed potatoes were 

 shipped out of Prince Edward Island to various 

 parts of the United States. 



Eastern Potato Seed In Demand 



Long before the Maritime potatoes became 

 favorably known abroad, farmers in other parts 

 of Canada realized the benefits of securing their 

 seed from the Coast Provinces. Quebec has, for 

 some time, been in the habit of bringing in car- 

 loads of potatoes for seed purposes from the 

 East each year, whilst the results achieved with 

 Maritime seed in Ontario have to such an extent 



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