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NATURAL RESOURCES OF QUEBEC 
variations are noted. In the counties along the St. Lawrence from Mont- 
real to Quebec and from Montreal to the Ontario boundary, the main 
revenue of most farmers is derived from hay and grain, although dairying 
is gradually superseding these. In the greater part of the Eastern Town- 
ships, together with the counties bordering the state of Maine, in the 
St. Lawrence valley from Quebec down to and including the lake St. John 
Having time on the Island of Orleans 
district, and in the Labelle, Gatineau and Mattawinie districts, dairying 
is the main source of revenue. Beef production, though it has been decli- 
ning for many years, is still practised with a certain degree of success in 
the Ottawa and Gatineau valleys and in a few sections of the Eastern 
Townships. It is principally on the farms of the Eastern Townships 
where the most numerous flocks of sheep are to be found. Raising of 
sheep has made great progress in Beauce and in almost all the counties 
of the lower St. Lawrence as far as Gaspé. 
Quebec holds a leading place among the provinces of Canada in the 
value of its agricultural production. Field crops surpass all other branches 
of agriculture in value. Of these, oats show the largest production, valued 
in 1927 at $35,932,000. The value of potatoes grown was $18,569,000. 
The most valuable of all field crops, however, are the fodder crops, and of 
these hay and clover stand first. Of the total value of field crops produced 
in 1927, viz., $144,273,000, hay and clover valued at $67,509,000 consti-