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 1] yarns of excellent quality. In the Gaspé peninsula, Quebec, a fibre is produced superior to any grown elsewhere in Canada. The installation of a flax scutching plant at Ste. Anne de la Pocatiere in 1924 has done much to revive an interest in flax production in this part of Quebec. Indications are that this industry, once very flourishing in Quebec, may soon reach its former importance. With the excellent opportunities that the valley of the St. Lawrence presents for the cultivation of large areas of flax for fibre, it should be pos- sible for the province to build up an export trade in this raw material and at the same time furnish supplies for home manufacture. Up to the pre- sent, the market for Canadian fibre has been almost exclusively in the United States from whence we have imported large quantities of flax products that could well have been produced in Canada.* Tobacco.— Favourable climatic conditions and suitable soil for the cultivation of tobacco are to be found north of the St. Lawrence river from Berthier to Two Mountains, and south from Yamaska county west to the United States border, except, of course, where the nights are too a00l to enable the early maturing of the crop. The growing of tobacco in the province is not a local industry. The area planted to tobacco in the province in 1927 was estimated at 10,018 acres, and the average yield per acre at 781 pounds. This represents a total yield of 7,824,300 pounds, valued at $1,469,217 or about 18% cents a pound. A large proportion of the Quebec crop is still used in the raw leaf but an increasing portion is taken by the large manufacturers and prepared as pipe tobacco, cut or pressed into plugs. Varieties Grown.—Selection of the most suitable varieties must he governed by the climatic and soil conditions of the locality. The season is short, extending from June 8 to the end of August, and experi- ments should be made only with the small varieties such as the Canella and those of the Havana type of small tobacco (small Havana and Petit Rouge.) In spite of the smallness of the leaf, a reasonable yield is readily obtainable by setting the plants more closely. These small tobaccos mature early and are comparatively easy to cure. Where the growing season is a little longer it is possible to grow successfully larger varieties of the seed leaf type, like the Havana Seed Leaf, Comstock Spanish and Connecticut Havana, as well as a pipe tobacco of rather small size, the Belgium Obourg. These tobaccos can be transplanted by the beginning of June and harvested before the end of August and sometimes. when the season is late, in the first week of September. Certain varieties like the Comstock Spanish are in demand as cigar binders. Some manufacturers claim that the Canadian binders from the " % For further information as to the methad of cultivation, apply to the Dominion Experimental Farm Denartment of Agriculture, Ottawa.

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