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Identifier: statementconcern00onta (find matches)
Title: A statement concerning the extent resources, climate and industrial development of the province of Ontario, Canada
Year: 1901 (1900s)
Authors: Ontario. Dept. of Crown Lands
Subjects: Industries
Publisher: (Toronto, Cameron, Pr.)
Contributing Library: Queen's University Library, W.D. Jordan Special Collections and Music Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Queen's University - University of Toronto Libraries

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he front as one of the most profitable branches of Ontarioagriculture. The by-products of the dairy are now largely used as food forpigs, and great numbers can be raised at a minimum of cost and sold atpaying prices. The success of Canadian bacon and hams in the British market is largelydue to the fact that the quality of our hogs is superior to that of the cornfed hog of the Western States. By the opening up of pork-Pork and packing and bacon-curing establishments in Ontario a steadymarket for light young hogs is assured all the year around.These are located at Toronto, Hamilton, Ingersoll, Brantford, London,Stratford, Peterboro, Collingwood, and Palmerston. The yearly output forToronto alone is estimated at $3,000,000. Immense strides have beenmade in the hog-raising and bacon-curing industries within the past tenyears. In 1890, the value of the exports of Canada in this line of produc-tion amounted to only $646,000, whereas in 1899 it had reached ten and ahalf million dollars. (38)
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ONTARIOS AGRICULTURAL DEVELOPMENT The business of poultry-raising is undergoing- great development at the present time, and is capable of much wider expansion. Turkeys have been shipped to England for years, and considerable shipments of chickens are now being made. The export trade in eggs is also considerable. Dairying is one of the foremost branches of Ontario agriculture. On-tario exports more cheese than the whole of the United States, and on theBritish market the quality of the product is admittedly superior. Enteringlate into the race when it seemed almost won by the United States, Canadahas wrested from that country the first place on the market bythe superiority of its product. Much of the cheese consumed bythe British public is made in Ontario, although doubtless sometimes sold tothe consumer as the home article. At the Worlds Columbian Exposition,Ontario cheese swept all before it, taking a total of 261 awards, and in manycases securing 99 out of a possible 100 points. In t

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