GUELPH, ONTARIO - Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada
GUELPH, ONTARIO - Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada
GUELPH, ONTARIO - Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada
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Bruce County is a leading producer of oats in the Province of Ontario.<br />
area 51.4 per cent has increased in value through the efforts of the owner, <strong>and</strong><br />
is called improved l<strong>and</strong>. The remaining 23.7 per cent of the occupied l<strong>and</strong> is<br />
unimproved <strong>and</strong> consists of woodl<strong>and</strong>, natural pasture <strong>and</strong> waste l<strong>and</strong>. As<br />
indicated in Table 9 the improved l<strong>and</strong> consists of:<br />
TABLE 9<br />
PRESENT USE OF IMPROVED LAND<br />
Field crops...........................................................................<br />
Pasture ..................................................................................<br />
Fallow...................................................................................<br />
Orchard................................................................................<br />
Market Garden......................................................................<br />
Small Fruits...........................................................................<br />
Other ....................................................................................<br />
% OF TOTAL<br />
Acres<br />
311,067 57.2<br />
200,033 36.9<br />
19,155 3.5<br />
111 ...............<br />
34 ...............<br />
31 ...............<br />
12,997 2.4<br />
Approximately 94 per cent of the improved l<strong>and</strong> supports pasture <strong>and</strong> field<br />
crops. The large proportion of pasture is desirable in an area where many of<br />
the farms are devoted to stock raising. Only small acreages are used for<br />
orchards, market gardens <strong>and</strong> small fruits, <strong>and</strong> these are located chiefly near<br />
Lake Huron where the climate is moderated by the presence of the large body<br />
of water.<br />
The acreages of the various field crops grown in the County for 1948 are<br />
shown in Table 10. These figures are taken from the Annual Report of the<br />
Statistics Branch (1948), Ontario Department of <strong><strong>Agri</strong>culture</strong>. The total acreage<br />
of field crops (323,090) differs slightly from that of the 1941 Census (311,067),<br />
because the records apply to two different years. The following table shows the<br />
predominance of hay <strong>and</strong> clover, oats, mixed grain, alfalfa <strong>and</strong> fall wheat in<br />
the acreage of field crops of Bruce County. The County is one of the major<br />
flax producers in the Province, but has small acreages of other cash crops. The<br />
proport!ion of field crops grown presents a picture of the dominant type of<br />
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