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Agricultural Transformation,
Victoria County, Ontario Canada
An Agricultural Transformation.
The past history of the six southern townships, Emily, Ops,
Mariposa, Verulam, Fenelon, and Eldon, and especially of the three
first named, has been closely bound up with the cultivation of the
soil. In its starkest essentials, the history of South Victoria is
the history of agricultural development in a forest area, and any
annalist who deals with town and village life to the neglect of this
fundamental aspect of the region will falsify the true meaning of
one hundred years of local history.
The agriculture of the century under discussion falls into two
approximately equal periods of development. From 1821 to 1871 was
the era of pioneering, when the demolition of the forests still
absorbed most of the energies of the people. From 1871 down to the
present may be seen the free development of modern mixed farming
along certain broad lines and in accordance with certain formative
factors.
A first impression of the changing aspects of agriculture through
out the century may be had from the subjoined table of statistics.
The figures for 1850, which represent the pioneer period, have been
worked out from the census and the Assessment Rolls. The data for
1882, 1896, and 1920 are collated from the annual reports of the
provincial Bureau of Industries, established in 1882. The statistics
chosen have been carefully compared in all respects with those of
the harvests in adjacent years, and in each case have been found to
belong to an especially favorable season.
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Agricultural Transformation
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Victoria County, Ontario
Canada Centennial History, Watson Kirkconnell M.A., 1921
Victoria County
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