l82 HISTORICAL GEOGRAPHY OF NEWFOUNDLAND 



Ail these 

 develop- 

 ments^ 

 combined 

 with boun- 

 ties, have 

 promoted 

 agricul- 

 ture, 



and 7naiui- 

 facturing, 

 but only on 

 a small 

 scale. 



directly, and a series of ' Acts for the reduction of pauperism 

 by encouraging agriculture' (i860, 1866, &c.) have, by 

 bounties and gifts, directly promoted farming, and under one 

 of these Acts (1886) thirty families were settled near Dildo 

 Pond, and similar small results have been obtained elsewhere. 

 The poor-law was the cradle in Europe of manufacture, and 

 in Newfoundland of agriculture, which, despite incessant 

 rocking, is still in its infancy. 



Bounties, too, have been showered on manufactures ever 

 since 1877, and the Annual Reports for 1876 and 1877 

 pointed to three biscuit, one tobacco, and two machine 

 factories as the latest novelties in St. John's; and a rope- 

 walk, for making cordage, a nail factory, a woollen factory, 

 and a tanyard were added in 1882 and 1883. Even now manu- 

 factories are still in the stage in which they can be counted 

 and named by the passer-by. The reality of the manufac- 

 turing, agricultural, mining, and lumbering may be gauged 

 by the following three tables. 



I. Exports. 



^ Includes lath. ^ If dollar = 4^. \\d. ^ Ditto in 1906. 



