Identifier: newfoundlandatbe00harv (find matches)
Title: Newfoundland at the beginning of the 20th century : a treatise of history and development
Year: 1902 (1900s)
Authors: Harvey, M. (Moses), 1820-1901
Subjects: George V, King of Great Britain, 1865-1936
Publisher: New York : The South Publishing Co.
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Toronto

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View, Bay of Islands. Marys Peninsula and especially the Salmonier Arm of that bay.Though much of the peninsula of Avalon consists of thin,rocky or swampy soil, yet there are here and there wide areasof soil which admit of profitable cultivation, and which whenduly treated with manure yield excellent root crops of allkinds, as well as oats, barley and luxuriant grass crops. AroundSt. Johns the soil is thin and poor; yet snug farmsteads andwell cultivated fields are everywhere visible, and the cropsproduced show what industry can accomplish. Perhaps the most satisfactory proof of the agriculturalcapabilities of the island is derivable from what has beenalready accomplished. Owing to the causes enumerated in the
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Newfoundland Railway. 74 NEWFOUNDLAND. preceding historical section—the legal prohibition of settlementor reclaimation of land up to the close of last century—thewant of roads, and, till 1884, the want of railways, renderingaccess to good lands difficult or impossible, and the almost ex-clusive employment of the people in the fisheries—the progressof agriculture has been very slow. The latest census—that of1891, shows that only 179,215 acres of land are yet occupied;but it also shows that the value of the growing crops that yearwas $1,562,298. Further, the income derived from cattle andother domestic animals, that year was $732,000 or a total of$2,295,398. The same census gave the live stock, horses,cattle, sheep, etc., at $1,189,413. These are surely creditable results from the very limitedindustry yet devoted to farming. It should also be rememberedthat the cultivation of the land is as yet confined to the neigh-borhood of the towns and villages, and the portion opened bythe

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