122 OUR ISLAND STORY ly a ton and a half per acre—worth at ten dollars per ton, $3,735, 000; from 22,497 acres under mixed grain, 934,000 bushels were obtained—nearly forty-two bushels per acre—worth $560,400. Al ¬ together the field crops of this Province in 1925 were—according to the official estimate, 273,083 acres, yielding 21,209,000 bushels of grain, and 373,500 tons of hay, the whole being worth at current prices upwards of $15,500,000. Of course, a large proportion of the increase of this year went, or will go, to the maintenance of the farm households, and as feed for cattle, pigs, and poultry. These things add to the labor and care of the farmers; and, also, to their profits 1 According to the official estimates there were this year manufactured from the produce of the dairies 1,800,000 pounds of butter, which, at the average price of forty cents a pound, was worth $720,000; and 2,100,000 pounds of cheese, which at twenty- one cents a pound was worth $441,000—or a total of $1,161,000 from the dairies. It is estimated, by one of the best authorities, that 40,000 hogs were produced in this Province during 1925 and that their average weight was 180 lbs. Sold at eleven cents per pound on the average, and twelve dollars and sixty cents for selects, hogs brought to the Island this year not less than $750,000. About 22,000 sheep and lambs were exported, and realized nearly $250, 000, and about three million dozens of eggs were disposed of to the buyers at an average price of thirty cents per dozen, realizing about $900,000. The value of the increase and export of cattle is not easily arrived at. Bun tain & Bell report that in the ten trips of the Canadian Government steamers from Charlottetown there were taken to St. John's, Nfld., 102 horses, 1122 cattle, 75 calves, 444 sheep and 615 pigs—the whole estimated to be worth close upon $90,000.00. From other ports there were exports of live stock as well as of beef and of other meats; but of these no records are at hand. The breeding, rearing and sale of foxes and fox-skins interested many persons throughout the Province this year. About five thousand live foxes were sold and sent to the States and Europe, as well as to other parts of Canada ; and their value has been conservatively estimated at about $1,500,000, while the value of the fox skins sold was about $1,250,000.