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 III. The leading industry - agriculture

Collection:: Economics Books

AGRICULTURE 37 Assistance is ofteri given to an agricultural community by the Govern- ment in contributing financial help in the purchase of improved stock for co-operative use, in supplying improved strains of seeds and in assisting in the purchase of agricultural machinery, such as clover hullers, for community use. A well-organized corps of lecturers and demonstrators in agricultural subjects is provided by the Provincial Department of Agriculture, and systems of Government inspection of products to improve marketing conditions are established, as in the cheese and butter industry. The Provincial Department of Agriculture also supplies seeds and chemical fertilizers for the school gardens of which there are 1,367 in the province. with 31.212 boys and girls farmers and gardeners. Demonstration Farms.—Recently legislation was passed author- izing the Minister of Agriculture to establish demonstration farms and to remunerate the owners of such farms for extra work and purchase of material necessary for the farm management carried out under Govern- ment supervision. The supervision of these farms, now numbering thirty- four, is under the chief of the Field Husbandry Service, who prescribes methods of farming, drainage work, feeding of live stock, and anything which tends to add to the value of the farm, and make it an object lesson to other farmers. Under this system it has been shown that farms of 100 arpents properly conducted will furnish a living and effect savings. District Representatives.—An important feature of the assistance that is given the industry by Government is the system of resident agricul furists, elsewhere known as district representatives or county agents. The staff of the Agriculturists’ Service in 1926 comprised sixty-eight agriculturists besides assistants and superior officers. They are graduates of recognized agricultural colleges and reside in the counties where they are constantly endeavouring by lectures, visits and demonstrations to secure the adoption of efficient farming methods. School for Farmers.—There are three advanced agricultural schools as well as a dairy school in the province. The former consist of the Oka Institute, in the county of Two Mountains, the property of the Reverend Trappist Fathers; the Ste. Anne de la Pocatiere Agricultural School, in the county of Kamouraska, owned by.the priests of the classical college of the same place; and Macdonald Agricultural College at Ste. Anne de Bellevue, the property of a society. The first is affiliated to Montreal University and the second to Laval University. Macdonald College is affiliated to McGill University. The students in these institutions now aumber about 800 and the course of studies is most thorough and advanced. A new Middle or Practice School of Agriculture was opened in 1926 at Rimouski with enrolment of forty-nine pupils.

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