PRINCE EDWARD ISLAND

INCREASE IN VALUE OF FARM LANDS IN 10 YEARS

(COMPILED FROM CENSUS OF 1911.)

‘7492 1‘74

Percentage of Increase in Value:

In Farm Lands, Buildings and Implements ..... 33 per cent. In Live Stock (omitting Black Foxes) .......... 54 “ “ In Field Crops, Vegetables and Fruits .......... 42 “ “ In Live Stock Sold .......................... 122 “ “ In Dairy Products Sold ...................... 95 “ “ In All Farm Products ........................ 61 “ “

In Black and Silver Foxes (Not in the Census) . . r 2,000 “ “

Improved transportation to and from the mainland by means of the Car Ferry and standardising of the gauge of the Prince Edward Island Railway, expected to be put in operation in 1914, gives hope of a much better and more rapid increase in the values of Farm Property and Farm Products than has ever taken place in the province.

The measures now being taken by the Provincial Government to promote oyster planting and culture on 100,000 acres of oyster bottom surrounding the Island promise a great increase in the production of the oysters for which the Island is famed, with proportionate increase in the export trade and affording a very considerable addition to the provincial revenue.

The Black Fox-breeding industry has proved to be during the past few years by far the most lucrative live stock industry ever established in any country.

There is a general consensus of opinion that the outlook for the progress and proSperity of the Island Province was never before so bright as it is now.