8-29: AGRICULTURE - B.C. NORTH PEACE RIVER

Estimated for 1956

 

Total number of farms: 1,000

Wheat - - - - - 25,000 acres Truck Gardens - - - - - - - 15 acres
Cats - - - - - - 25,000 acres Creeping Red Fescue - - - 1500 acres
Barly - - - - - - 30,000 acres Brome - - - - - - - - - - - - - 500 acres
Flax - - - - - - - 12,000 acres Altaswede - - - - - - - - - - - 50 acres
Tame Hay - - - 20,000 acres Alsike - - -- - - - - - - - - - - - 150 acres
Summerfallows-25,000 acres Sweet Clover - - - - - - - - - - 350 acres
Pasture - - - - - 15,000 acres Alfalfa - - - - -- - - - - - - - - - 600 acres

Truck Garden and

152,500 acres Total Seed Crop 3,265 acres

total acreage cultivated: 152,500

3,265

155,765

Milk production in 1956 was 1,022,000 lbs.

Livestock: Cattle - - - - - 9,000

Hogs - - - - - - 13,000

Sheep - - - - - 800

most farms have small poultry flocks 50 - 100 birds

R.W. Brown

Dist. Agriculturist

1919 - first grain shipped out - thousands of sacks - 75 cents a bushel for grain.

Information from Mrs F. Davies, Fort St. John