DAISY 



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DALHOUSIE UNIVERSITY 



westward dairying kept pace with them, and as 

 early as 1852 cows were kept with success at 

 Fort Simpson. At Fort Good Hope, just out- 

 side the Arctic Circle, and at York Factory, 

 on Hudson Bay, as well as other remote points, 

 cows have been kept for many years. These 

 examples merely show the widespread character 

 of the industry. Ontario is still, and has been 

 for over half a century, the center of dairying. 

 It has over 1,000,000 milch cows, more than 

 one-third of all the milch cows in the Domin- 

 ion, and its annual output of milk is nearly 

 half that of the Dominion. Ontario's output 

 is approximately 4,500,000,000 pounds, or 2,250,- 

 000,000 quarts of milk a year; the Dominion 

 yield is about 10,000,000,000 pounds, or 5,000- 

 000,000 quarts. Quebec is not far behind 

 Ontario, having over 800,000 milch cows and 

 an annual output of 1,500,000,000 quarts of milk 

 a year. Ontario and Quebec together furnish 

 about seventy per cent of the Dominion's out- 

 put of milk. A conservative estimate places 

 the annual value of all dairy products at $100,- 

 000,000, an increase of more than sixty per 

 cent since 1900. Most of these products are 

 made for domestic consumption, but over $20,- 

 000,000 worth of cheese is exported each year, 

 all but one per cent being sold to Great Britain 

 and Ireland. Canadian cheese is famous the 

 world over. E.H.F. 



Consult Curler's American Dairying; Lane's 

 The Business of Dairying. 



Related Subjects. For more detailed infor- 

 mation as to the various phases of dairying the 

 following articles in these volumes should be con- 

 sulted : 



Agriculture Creamery 



Barn Cream Separator 



Butter Disease 



Buttermilk Subtitle Diseases of 



Cattle Animals 



Cheese Milk 



Churn Silo and Silage 



Cow 



DAISY, "the poet's darling," a familiar and 

 favorite flower in Europe and America. The 

 typical daisy is pure white and single, with 

 a yellow or brown center. In Europe it grows 

 commonly in all the fields and meadows, 



"And open pastures, where you scarcely tell 

 White daisies from white dew." 



In the United States and Canada the white 

 daisy, a species of wild chrysanthemum, though 

 a delight to the eye and loved by the children, 

 is the farmer's pest, which must be killed off 

 if he is" to have hay. Without any care or 

 attention this little flower will grow and spread 

 and choke out other plants, so to the farmer 



or gardener it is a weed, the white-weed (s 

 page 861 ) ; but to the florist it is the popular, 

 hardy marguerite. 



Many improvements have been' wrought in 

 the daisy, some now being double, and there 

 is a great variety of colors. Burbank's Shasta 



BURBANK'S SHASTA DAISY 





The flower has a diameter of four inches. It 

 was developed from the parent blossoms shown 

 at right and drawn to scale. 



daisy, four inches across, with large pure-white 

 petals, is especially admired in garden borders 

 and for house decoration. 



In the United States the name is loosely 

 applied to other flowers, such as the black-eyed 

 Susan and some wild asters. This "unassum- 

 ing commonplace of nature" was the emblem of 

 love and fidelity in the days of chivalry, but 

 in modern flower language the daisy represents 

 simplicity and modesty. See BURBAN K, LUTHER ; 

 BLACK-EYED SUSAN. 



DALHOUSIE , dal hoo ' zi, the county town of 

 Restigouche County, N. B., situated at the 

 mouth of the Restigouche River, on Chalev 

 Bay, sixteen miles east of Campbellton. It 

 harbor is well protected and is large and deei 

 having a depth of twenty-four feet at tr 

 wharf. There is steamship connection wit 

 other ports on the coast, and railway conne 

 tion by a branch of the Intercolonial Railwaj 

 Dalhousie is noted for the scenery in its vicii 

 ity; everywhere are splendid forests of spnu 

 pine, cedar and maple. These forests al 

 provide material for the town's lumber ar 

 shingle mills, the chief industrial establish 

 ments. The commercial fisheries and 

 packing are second only to the industries de 

 pendent on the forests, and many anglers al 

 make Dalhousie their headquarters. Popul 

 tion in 1911, 1.650; in 1916, estimated, 1.900. 



DALHOUSIE UNIVERSITY, at Halifa 

 N. S., a coeducational, undenominational 

 stitution for higher education. It has a larg 



