Natural resources of Quebec

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Identifikator:: 1796289558

URN:: urn:nbn:de:zbw-retromon-181093

Document type:: Monograph

Title:: Natural resources of Quebec

Edition:: Rev. ed.

Place of publication:: Ottawa

Publisher:: Natural resources intelligence service

Year of publication:: 1929

Scope:: 132 p; illus., maps

Digitisation:: 2022

Collection:: Economics Books

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Title:: Chapter II. The land and the people

Collection:: Economics Books

THE LAND AND THE PEOPLE : 21 ful and favourable to most forms of agriculture. The prevailing features are long, cold winters; short springs and warm bright summers. Though cold, the winters are most exhilarating for the atmosphere is dry and there is abundance of sunshine. A heavy snowfall protects the winter wheat and the grass from damage by frost, and being a non-conductor of heat, the deeper the snow the warmer the ground. The fertilizing elements it contains filter into the ground with the thaw; its presence gives the soil a rest and prevents leaching in the winter; by slow permeation it keeps the soil moist much longer than does its equivalent in rain and its slow melting on the heights is a check on wasteful floods. Statistics of Climate.—The Bureau of Statistics at Quebec city publishes monthly a meteorological bulletin showing the precipitation and temperature from observations made at seventy-nine stations in the province. The information is given by the Federal Meteorological Service with the assistance of the Running Streams Commission of Quebec. This bulletin is sent gratuitously on request to interested persons. The tables which follow show the monthly average temperature, the monthly precipitation, and monthly duration of sunshine for several years at widely separated localities both in the long-settled areas and in those in which colonization is now in progress. MONTHLY AVERAGE TEMPERATURE: MONTREAL AND QUEBEC Months January........ February. ...... Match. oy April. ......... May..... .... June........... July. .......... August......... September... .. . October. ....... November......| December... .. Montreal 1923 ' 1924 ' 1925 | 1921 ' 1922 ' 1923 | 1924 ! 1925 Quebec 1921 | 1922 1 17.5 12.8 111.5 | 14.3 1641 9.11114 30.1’ 18.9 30.1! 38.3 141.0! 50.2 8.5 13.7 14.1 28.7 30.9 9.0 13-3 26-8 7:2 5.7 16.0 33.01 36-1 18.9! 33.9 ' 22-6 31.7 5.2 18-6 27-5 | 38.0 8.3 16.6 | 42.4 42.5 30.9 50-5 48.8 62.4 "' 62:1 62.8 72-5 67.5 65-1 65-5 66.91 66-4 65.71 67-4 6961 63-0 64.0 62.0 66-1 61-91 60.6 59-11856-5'57.3 57.7 58.1 56-4!55.4 53.1 46.9 44.8 48.1 148.3140.0 43.8 42.2 46.7145.8 38.1 20.71 35.8 1 35.6 | 35.8 | 33.41 27.7 131.5 ' 33.2] 33.81 30.0 19.21 18.31 20.7 1 15.0 | 20.2 15.1! 141 26.5" 10.9 | 16-8

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