are superior both for seed and table- stock purposes to anything produced in Canada. Almost invariably the tablestock potatoes command a premium on every market to which they are shipped. The future for the Island product looks bright, ‘so long as this high standard is rigidly maintained.

FOX RANCH REVIEW

(See Fox Ranch Section)

DAIRYING

Prince Edward Island is admirably adapted for Dairying, being blessed with an abundance of running streams of pure cold water, as well as bubbling springs and wells. There are no extremes of tem- perture. The nights in summer are tempered by the sea breezes from the Gulf. This is a big factor in enabling the farmers to furnish the best raw material in Canada for the manufacture of butter and cheese. The quality of these pro- ducts is above the average for Canada. Our butter last year graded 99% No. l’s, and our cheese 95%. The quality of the Taw material enabled our dairymen to make such a fine showing.

Prince Edward Island is able to stamp all their Dairy Products as made from tubercular free cattle, which means that all cattle in the» Province have been tested for tuberculosis and all reacters destroyed, which only amounted to % of 1%.. When buyers of Dairy Products know that our cattle are free from a desease like tuberculosis, it is one of the greatest selling agencies we have. There is a big export movement in milk cows, and no doubt the Disease Free Area will give us the preference, other things being equal.

At the present time there is a united effort on the part of the farmers to feature Live Stock as the Sheet Anchor of farming. This move is fostered by both the Federal and Provincial Governments. From this coupled with our natural and climatic advantages, we will shortly see realized a permanent form of agriculture and a more prosperous and contented people.

Following in the wake of improved quality and quanity of Live Stock will come increased immigration. There should be a return of our men and women who have gone to other parts. They can better their condition here and build for themselves permanent homes and keep this little Province for our own people. This can be accomplished by following the

intensive system of dairy farming followed in Denmark. This is the object our farm- ers have in view. They wish to see their families settle around them, and not have to leave home and be hewers of wood and drawers of water.

POULTRY RAISING

In 1928 eggs and poultry netted the far- mers of this province $1,660,000.00 I doubt very much if this could be duplicated in Canada by any section of country of equal size.

Poultry raising in this province as a part of a diversified farm program is a highly profitable phase of farm activity> Conditions are highly adaptable to an average size flock.

The average price received fir eggs in 1928 was thirty cents a dozen. Where flocks were properly fed and cared for an AERA price of 379 cents was received.

Poultry for meat when marketed brought the highest prices in Canada. In 1928 five pound live cull hens brought twenty cents a pound. Six pound dressed milk-fed chickens, secured thirty-two to thirty-three cents a pound.

We are well supplied with markets. All important Canadian packing companies have branches located in this province, who deal extensively in poultry and eggs.

Co-operative marketing is. fast finding favor among our farmers. In the P.E.I. Co-operative Egg & Poultry Assn., we have one of the oldest and finest co-opera- tives found in America. It is owned and operated exclusively by the farmers. The Co-operative is comprised of Egg Circles and a Central Selling Agency. The col- lector of a Circle calls at each member's house, and collects his eggs. These in turn are shipped to the Central Agency in Charlottetown, where they are graded and sold.

In the summer the management place live poultry cars at suitable places in the province, when unprofitable hens owned by members are loaded and sold. In the fall and winter live and dressed chickens- are marketed for members. In _ short,— it is a farmers’ organization, hard to dupli- cate in Canada for the services offered to the parties interested in poultry.

The Dominion Live Stock Branch, real- izing the importance of poultry as a rev- enue earner, offers considerable assistance along this phase of farming. The Poultry ‘Promoter is the medium through which the Live Stock Branch policies may be interpreted to the people, and is the in- strument through which they are given effect. Live Stock Branch offices are lo- cated in the Riley Building, Charlotte-_ town, or may be addressed to Box 200. Officers of this Branch are only too pleased to assist poultrymen in their poul- try problems.

In a sales way our business concerns are interested in putting a quality product on the market and they endeavor to sell a product which will bring renewed busin- ess. We have to offer eggs in carlot, or L.C.L. shipments. Cars of market hens, dressed poultry, baby chicks and hatching eggs.

All parties who might wish to secure further information regarding poultry raising in this province, may communicate with F. M. Nash, Dominion Poultry Rep- resentative, Riley Building, Box 200, Char- lottetown, Prince Edward Island.

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