The Maritime Provinces

Live Stock.*—The live stock industry is a most important branch of agricultural activity which is likely to expand rapidly as marketing efficiency increases. In the Maritime Provinces is one of the most successful live stock co- operative organizations on the North American continent—the Maritime Live Stock Marketing Board. This organization of producers is of great pecuniary benefit to these provinces through its efficient and orderly disposal of surplus meat animals in the most attractive market. As a result of united effort hogs and lambs from the Maritimes command prices equal to those paid at the large competitive market centres in Canada.

The live stock population in 1929 as given by the Dominion Bureau of Statistics in Febru- ary, 1930, was as follows:—

Prince

New Nova

| now < Brunswick Scotia WDAMen Cas cscs nie Sane 33,241 50,199 52,104 Milch cows. . ne 55, 803 105 ,667 141,207 Other cattle. 64,726 109,919 145,199 ON re. : 97,367 151,257 277,761 DAMA G8 o ahs eas seen 54,285 66,467 47,458 Poultryiiticcitc cece ilk 924,252 1,005 ,394 1,114,171

The total value of all farm animals in the Maritimes is estimated at approximately fifty- five million dollars, a higher value than at any other time in the past five years.

Hogs.—The production of hogs, particularly in Prince Edward Island, is almost entirely devoted to the bacon hog, or Wiltshire type, which is in preferred demand in the world’s mar- kets. In no other part of Canada has greater progress been made in the output of select pigs, especially in Prince Edward Island.

* Contributed largely by the Live Stock Branch of the Federal Department of Agriculture.

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