PRODUCE FROM THE DOMINIONS

Stratford Evening Post, Volume II, Issue 240, 11 May 1933, Page 2

PRODUCE FROM THE DOMINIONS

British Commciii. I The following (paragraph from a British agricultural journal sheds a new light, on the way some sections of fanners in Great Britain view cum petition from the produce of farmers in the Dominions: "The Canadians are groat fellows ,-,,,. _-t.,tistics. At any time they call 1,-il how many trees th y have on their farms, and how many feet of railway they possess. Now, in order to bring their information up to date (hey have been having a live stock census and can quote tile following figures: 7.!)fll,000 cattle. 3,008,000 sheep, 4,710,020 pigs, and no fewer than 05,408,000 poultry, or over six fowls to' every citizen in the Dominion. Going still further into statistics they have discovered that Canadians eat 14S pounds of meal every year, H pounds of poultry, 30 pounds of Itutter four pounds of cheese, and : something like 300 eggs a In ad. Long may such healthy appetites continue, for the more they require! for home consumption the less there may be to i spare for competition with the pro i duce of the Motherland.''