Canadian grocer July-September 1919 . there been no sharp declines,but as a matter of fact in perhaps the majority of in-stances the trend of prices has been in an upwarddirection since the signing of the armistice, Now Peace Day has come and gone, after ninemonths of armistice conditions, and the world issettling down to the knowledge, that conditions thattook years to produce cannot change in a is no fear of slumping prices—CANADIANGROCER said this nine months ago, and it says soagain to-day. There will be downward revision, butthe fear of tobogganing prices was a nightmare that
Canadian grocer July-September 1919 . there been no sharp declines,but as a matter of fact in perhaps the majority of in-stances the trend of prices has been in an upwarddirection since the signing of the armistice, Now Peace Day has come and gone, after ninemonths of armistice conditions, and the world issettling down to the knowledge, that conditions thattook years to produce cannot change in a is no fear of slumping prices—CANADIANGROCER said this nine months ago, and it says soagain to-day. There will be downward revision, butthe fear of tobogganing prices was a nightmare thathail no sound basis in fact. The part of reasonablecaution is always the part of wisdom, but the manwho waits tor a landslide in prices is facing a veryconsiderable wait. August 1, 1919 33 EPS*wPi P£r&%%.4| rl^^H ^;&»-^iss§ BImP Mi BrJ :?. 5 H^»~ ?, »Cif ^^•MS I ^?; \ j The Forest Wealth of the Maritimes Some Facts and Figures in Regard to One of the Great Industries of the Prosperous Provinces Down By the Sea. THE Maritime Provinces, while nat-urally they cannot stand at thehead of the great lumbering in-dustry in Canada because of their lessersize, are nevertheless an exceedingly im-portant factor in this great industry. Itis estimated that New Brunswick has asupply of merchantable saw timber to-talling 25,000,000,000 board feet, whileNova Scotias total reaches 15,000,000,-000. The New Bruunswick total is madeup mainly of white pine, spruce, balsam,fir and cedar. The main hardwoods areyellow birch, maple and beech. In NovaScotia about half the total commercialtimber is of soft varieties. The geo-graphical situation of these provincesand the proximity of her ports to theports of insular and continental Europehave been a great factor in developingthe overseas trade. To estimate the importance of thelumbering industry to the provinces it isonly necessary to realize that barely 27per cent, of all land in New Brunswickis under agricultural cultivation, andthat the balance
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