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 44 Chief Producing Regions.—The principal honey producing regions are the St. Lawrence valley from lake St. Francis and he Lake of the Two Mountains to the city of Quebec, the south shore of the same river almost as far as Riviere du Loup, and the Eastern Townships. Apiaries, however, showing as high a yield per colony as in the best districts, are scattered along the north shore of the Ottawa river, in the Labelle region, in the Gatineau valley, in Pontiac county, and in the farming country around lake St. John. Undoubtedly there is a wide and most profitable Geld for the extension of bee-keeping in these regions and throughout the province. Plant Sources of Honey.—The principal source of honey in the good farming country is white clover and alsike. The quality of clover honey s unsurpassed. In many places in the St. Lawrence valley below Quebec, An apiary at Maacouche, Quebec and in the lake St. John district, there is practically no other source of honey, and the product from these regions is of the highest quality. In the farming country around lake St. John, bees winter well, although they are confined to their hives in cellars for over six months. Buckwheat, basswood, and sweet clover, are additional sources of honey in parts of the country between Three Rivers and the international boundary, and in the lower Ottawa valley. Fireweed is a source of abun- 3R105-—4

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