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GENERAL INDEXChamplain, 1 56 ;the first habitants, 16 505-7 ; 1909), 676; intensive cultivation, 678-9;land cleared, (1630) 2 455 n., (1759) 584; province s leadership in, 9 104, 183.increase in cultivated land (1720-30), 15 54; Prairie Provinces : homestead entriesresumption of uncleared land, 2 459 ;rotation and the area surveyed up to 1901, 20 298,of crops to be encouraged, 469-70; crops 300, 304 areas ; granted out of public lands,grown in seventeenth century, 16 512-13; 304, 314 totalbegins to pay after 1665, 15 54 ; acreage and extent of sur;retail of veyed area, 314 ; unsurveyed areas suitabletobacco forbidden, 2 481 ;tobacco exported for tillage, 315 ; percentage of cultivableto La Rochelle. 15 55 ;cultivation of tobacco, land in crop (1912), 315; rise in land values,2 510; military service detrimental to, 510; 316. Manitoba: grants (1882, 1885), 299;retarded by conditions, 511-12, 560-1 ;effect frosts of August 1885 and 1888, 299, 300 ;of fur trade on, 541-2; land clearing and failure of bonanza farms, 9 181tillage, 16 515-17; its slow ; plant foodgrowth, 2 541-3; infirst lands cleared between Quebec and Monsoils (tables), 20 510-15 ;climatic conditions, 516 ; temperatures, precipitation,treal, 559 ;farm boundary disputes, 576 ;and sunshine over twenty years (tables), 517 ;Peter Kami s account of (1749), 580-1.productivity of soil, 516-18; drainage, naturalQuebec: Governor Murray s report (1762), and artificial, 518-19 ;farm management,4 525; its revival, 529; Hessian fly devasta 519-20 ; deep-breaking and back-setting,tion and result, 15 191; contemporary 520-1 ; summer fallowing, 521-2 ;mixedcolonization, 16 511; three divisions of farming, 9 244, 20 522 ;rotation of crops,climate and temperature, 511-12; gloomy 525 ;rural problems, 533, 634. Saskatperiod (1760-1850), 517-18; farmers homes, chewan : Dennis s forecast of theimplements, and producclothing, 518-21; progress tive areas of the North-West, 19 156 ; reportsince 1853, 523-5; position of farming on surface soils with analyses (tables), 20(1896-1912), 9 244.548-54 ;soil deterioration, 553, 579-80 ;Maritime Provinces : climate and geography, 14 637 ; temperatures and vegetation, 554-5 ;H.B.C. crops prior toprecipitation, 637-8. Nova Scotia :geology andsettlement, 558 ; pioneer methods, 558, 559 ;farming in 1885, 559-60 ; discouragementsagriculture, 639-41 ;statistics of area and up to 1890, 561 ;variations of soil andoccupancy, 644, 651-2 ;areas suitable for, climate, 567-8 ;summer tillage, 568 ;mis644-5 ; lines of settlement, 645-8 ;back cellaneous crops, 670ward condition, 648; plague of mice ; grain-farmer s con(1815), ditions and13 260 ;the year without a summer methods, 575-7. Alberta : the(1816), acreage under lease in 1891, 303 ;reform260 ;letters of Agricola, 265-7, 14 649 ;in the leasing system, 304recent immigration, 651 ; sugar-beet;weevil pest, 386 ; raising, 323types of farming, 653 ; distribution of shelter trees,; principal crops, 653-4 326;; climate and precipitation (tables), 584-yields per acre, 654 ;market gardening, 654. 586 ;area and area available for settlement,New Brunswick : first settlers and, 13 183 ;586 ; possibilities in north for, 586-8 ; soil,premature frosts of 1804, 185; the year 588 ;natural vegetation, 588 ; cultivatedwithout a summer (1816), 187-8; geological grasses, 589; position of farming (1896-areas, 14 641-3 ;statistics of area and 1912), 9 244.occupancy, 663 ;climatic conditions, 663 ;British Columbia :pioneer farmers, 22history of, 663-5 ; types of farming, 665-6 ;525-9 ; prospects in 1863, 529-34 ; pricescrops and average yields, 666-7. Prince in 1862, 532-3 ;conditions and prospects inEdward Island :geology and, 643-4 ;climatic 1872, 535-6; value of production (1912),conditions, 657-8 ;statistics of occupancy, 536 ;area of arable land, 539 ;obstacles to658 ; history, 658-6 1 mussel;mud as a progress, 540-1 areas alienated and left un;fertilizer, 659-60 ; types of farming, 661-2. settled, 541 ; regulations before ConfederaOntario : area and acreage occupied and tion, 643-4 ; alienations of arable land, 544 ;assessed, 18 551; effect of Great Lakes on, small holdings, 649 ; changing fortunes of,551; as influenced by geology, 551-2; early 548-50 ;future of, 551-2.settlement, 552-5 ;work of loyalists, 553-4 ;Dominion : area under cultivation or enretarded by War of 1812, 554-5; expansion closed, 7 651 ; climatic and soil conditions,(1816-46), 556-62; first British immigration, 651656-7 ; nationality as shown ;a contrast in pioneer conditions, 652 ;in types of influence of geological conditions on, 9 72-4 ;farm buildings and speech, 557 ; statistics prospects at Confederation, 99, 103-5 ;of occupancy, 558 ; primitive implements of lack of markets prior to railways, 7 652pioneers, 559 ;; products of early settlers, unit of occupancy, 652 ; percentage of559 ;introduction and development of population engaged in and value of yield,machinery, 561, 563-4, 570; first reapingmachines,564, 565; development (1846- 653, 9 283 ;9 283 ;in hands of working proprietors, 7a period of falling prices, 179-67), 565-9; a half-century of British immi 180; opening up of the West, 191-3; troubledgration, 568-9; depression before Confeder prosperity, 243-6 ;self-contained producation, 569 ; growth of scientific farming tion, 7 653 ; scarcity of labour, 9 246,(1867-88), 569-74; modern period, 9 244, 283 ;tobacco cultivation, 7 675 ;area and18 574-82 ; gain in British market offsets value of field crops (1910), 676; increasingloss in the United States, 574-5 ; develop stability of, 677.ment after 1895, 575-6; farm values (1885- See Agricultural Education and State Aid ;