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.