Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from Foreign Agriculture, Vol. 2: A Review of Foreign Farm Policy, Production, and Trade; February 1938
The exporting of natural products forms the basis of the Canadian national economy. In the early years, furs, fish, and wood products were of first importance in the export trade.' But during the nineteenth century, under the stimulus of the increasing demand for imported food, particularly wheat, incidental to the industrialization of Western Europe, agricultural exports assumed fie place. The emphasis on expansion of agricultural production and exports is accounted for, primarily, by the large land resources in relation to the population only about people at the present time. The general View appeared to be that the foreign market was practically limitless and that the main agricultural problems were those of increased production and of transportation to market. As late as 1930, homesteading of new areas, especially in the western wheat regions, was still being undertaken. Wheat has always been the principal Canadian agricultural product as well as the leading agricultural export. Other important items are cheese, tobacco, pork products, live cattle, apples, and certain other fruits. In most cases, the greater part of the exports is taken by the United Kingdom. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.