. Canadian forest industries 1901-1902. Lumbering; Forests and forestry; Forest products; Wood-pulp industry; Wood-using industries. THE CANADA LUMBERMAN April, 1901 object whereof is to make the settlers get their living out of the timber. In 1891 there were in the county of Pontiac 440,795 acres of land occupied or taken from the Crown domain for colonization purposes, and of this quantity 138,548 acres, or about 31 per cent., were under crop. The aver- age yield per acre of these farms was bushels of grain, '4 ton of hay, bushels of potatoes, and % bushels of turnips or other root
. Canadian forest industries 1901-1902. Lumbering; Forests and forestry; Forest products; Wood-pulp industry; Wood-using industries. THE CANADA LUMBERMAN April, 1901 object whereof is to make the settlers get their living out of the timber. In 1891 there were in the county of Pontiac 440,795 acres of land occupied or taken from the Crown domain for colonization purposes, and of this quantity 138,548 acres, or about 31 per cent., were under crop. The aver- age yield per acre of these farms was bushels of grain, '4 ton of hay, bushels of potatoes, and % bushels of turnips or other roots. The greater portion of the cereals consisted of oats. Estimating the cereals at 50 cents a bushel on an average, the potatoes and turnips at 25 cents, and the hay at $12 a ton, the average yield of these farms was $ per acre, barely enough to cover the cost of cultivating and harvesting. The county of Ottawa had 923,614 acres of land occu- pied, of which 241,443 acres, or per cent., were under crop. These yielded on an average, per acre, bushels of cereals, ton of hay, bushels of pota- toes, and bushel of other roots, of an aggregate value of $ In the centre ot Cure Labelle's famous coloniza- tion region—the townships of Wentworth, Montcalm, Howard, Clyde, Joly and Marchand—73,258 acres were taken up for colonization, whereof 12,091 or less than 17 per cent, were under crops. The product of these crops gave an average yield per acre of bushels of cereals, ton of hay, bushels of potatoes, bushels of other roots, of an aggregate value of $ Apart from this there were 62,210 acres in pasture in Pontiac and 103,754 in Ottawa, in all 165,964 acres. Sup- posing the value of products of the live stock to be equal to that of the crops, we find that the agricultural revenue of those 545,955 acres under crops and in pasture amounts to $4,036,773. Under a well managed cutting, carried on with prudence and discernment, these
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