A W - h

- {| industry e r e tahllwtfutd raiei the island s far- "lll" c 000.000 additional

meliiuuepin a couple years time" *9” mo st exciting sugges- I n in the aizrcultural field l0

am last 395”-

ltﬂie p,.,,pn. was made by r Salome of Bedeque _w ho M19-ed for government aid in llltlzllﬂishing a flax process i n g '5 nt in this province. Probably atsummerside. and th9 PFOPO’ 1 is still under constderat i o n larirulture Minister And r e w

“garage revealed recently. information is be i ng prospects for the _ p r o posed. the

\lelis \'is.ser. Grevendeel Idol- tapd who is a member of a firm that liandlcs large quantities of wax and the linen made from it

island pro-

l0.00tl ACRES

The (‘top would net. the farmer (mm «;75 to $100 an acre. the Sa- lome - . .' . land lartttets may be producing goon to tattoo arcres in a couple oi,-ears time. it was stated at the time.

pniui~o.~.< made in quality po- mp productions through the es- tablisttmcttt of the Elite Seed Potato farm on Fox Island in CaS('llIl‘tDt"t‘ Bay is one of the most exciting prospects in th at c0llllll‘)'.

It is the aim of the Seed Pota- to Cei-tification service that in the course of a few years all certified seed potatoes grown in the province will have originat-

grown at this farm, it has b e en learned from Glen Ram s ay, district inspector for the Can- ada department of agriculture.

planted on the farm for multipli- cation are microscopically ex- amined for freedom from dis- ease. All stock is planted by the tuber-ttnit method and sup- ervision by the plant protection division nt-er seed treatm e n t. time of planting, cultivation. ro- gutniz. snraiv program. harvest- ing grading and storing of the crop. SEBAIGOI-‘.5 LED

in 1962 there were '20 acres of 5€baE0(~‘.~, and one acre each of Kenitebec. Irish Cobbler and

ZEX}ER SALOME. BEDEQUE AN D MELIS

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ed front the high quality seed ab

eye-indexed and all t u b e r I P

Hunter varieties grown, plus eye-index plots of each variety.

In1963 plantings were 10 acres Sebagoes. 13 acres Kenne- bec, two a one-quarter of Hunter plus eye-index plots.

Eye-index plots of Fundy. Irish Cobbler, Red Pont in c , Cherokee and Katahdin varieties were also grown for multiplica- tion.

Most signiﬁcant single develop- ment in Prince Edward Island

-agriculture last year was prob-

ly the tremendous 60.4 per cent Grade A hogs marketed in December which played a p a rt in the all-time record of 56.1 per cent of top grade hog carcasses marketed here in 1963, a record for Canada as well as for P.E.-I. The December top quality out- ut is all the more remarkable when compared with the 49.9 per cent of “A" carcasses which had provincial livest o c k men worried for a time in December of l962_ The number of animals shipped last December was also up. with 1,400 more hogs going to market than in the same month the previous year. Several reasons are advanced for the change, but most of the credit goes to the imt_oroved breeding program resulting from the commercial breeders organ-

drop in quality, and received co- operation that greatly stepped up the percentage of good qual- ity boars.

QUALIFIED SIRES

H. C. H e a rtz. senior live- stock fieldman, Canada depart- ment of agriculture, said recen- tly that there were 60 per cent more bonus boars in the pro- vince last year than in 1962. “If we can maintain that pace of im- provement for the next few years, we'll be on a par with the cattlemen" said . H e a r t z. Some 02 per cent of all beef and dairy cattle bred in the province last year, were bred to qualifie sires. it was explained.

The quality of market h og I shipped from Island farms in

tage point better than the pre- vious year, with last year‘: 56.1 per cent comparing with the 55.2 in 1962.

There were 79.103 hogs ship- ped from P.E.I. last year which is up 1,891 over the previous year. This compares with 60.543 in Nova Scotia, up 3,004 fr om 1862 and the percentage of "A" carcasses was 51,-‘l which is next to P.E.I. in the national ratings. 4 New Brunswick shipped 30,051

;hogs last year, down slightly in

1963 was almost one full percen-

casses was 49.8 which compar- les with 497 in the previous ‘year.

Cattle marketings were down sharply in Prince Edward Is- land last year with the 15,357 animals shipped comparing with 20,71-5 in 1962, but there are def- inite signs that Island cattlemen are building back to their for- mer numbers.

Nova Scotia marketings were also down last year as were those in New Brunswick. Nova Scotia was down 3,396 animals with marketings of 12,253 and N3. down 2.637 shipped. Island

d marketings were only 4,660 less

than those for the other two pro- vinces combined.

Dominion Bureau of Statistics figures indicate that there is a strong cattle buildup under w ay here after heavy slaughtering: and sales late in 1962, which are attributed for the most part by S.C. Wright. deputy agriculture minister. to the poor quality feed available from hay and grain crops during the wet wea-

at year which made it impossible to save a large por- tion of the crops in good condi-

-'3 0

There were 17,000 head of cat- itle on the Island at the end of H963 according to the DBS a n d

ization which expressed con-gnumber from the previous year lmost Of the buildup W35 in Calves cern early last. year over the ‘ and their percentage of top car-: and other mung animals-

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