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Livestock Numbers in Thousands as of 1 December of Various Periods
(except as noted)
1935-39
1947
1948
average
Cattle
8,246
8,944
8,251
Hogs
4,078
5,381
4,604
Sheep
2,650
1,587
1,322
Poultry
40,077*
47,310
40,000
* Average 1934-1938.
The 1949 crop output is expected to be some-
of production and in net value of exports, in
what below the 1948 harvest principally owing
1948 contributing 31 percent of the latter.
to a summer drought and abnormally high
The largest single export is newsprint, in the
August temperature which caused premature
production of which Canada leads all coun-
ripening of grain over large sections of the
tries; it is estimated that three-fifths of all
Prairie provinces. Total 1949 production of
newspaper pages appearing in the world are
the four principal grains was estimated as
on Canadian newsprint. In 1948 Canada ex-
of September 1949 at approximately 17,749
ported 80 percent of its 4.6 million ton produc-
thousand metric tons compared to the 1948
tion of newsprint to the United States, while
harvest of 20,256 thousand metric tons, or a
shipments to other countries, 72 in all, were
reduction of approximately 12 percent. In
decreasing because of the world shortage of
addition to the decrease in feed grain produc-
dollars. Canada is also the world's second
tion, August estimates of the 1949 hay crop
largest producer and exporter of pulp; in
indicated a total 1949 output approximately
1948, 1.7 million tons were exported out of a
one-third below that of 1948. These reduced
total production of 7.4 million tons.
grain and forage supplies are expected to
Productive forests cover 813,000 square
cause a decrease in the exportable surplus of
miles, of which 435,000 square miles are
these commodities as well as declines in pro-
economically accessible at present. The
duction and exports of livestock products.
largest amounts of accessible merchantable
Canada, with large exportable surpluses of
timber are in Quebec, Ontario, and British
grain, meat, and dairy products, has a high
Columbia, in that order. Approximately 95
domestic nutritional standard. Civilian con-
percent of the Canadian timber cut consists
sumption has increased over the prewar levels,
of softwoods-principally spruce, Douglas fir,
owing partly to greater production as well as
pine, hemlock, and cedar.
to the higher incomes of the Canadian people.
Nearly every division of the wood, pulp, and
Food imports are principally of commodities
paper industries has been increasing produc-
not well adapted to production in Canada:
tion in the past few years, mainly by modern-
fresh fruits and vegetables, sugar and sugar
ization and expansion of existing plants
products, coffee, tea, and some fats and oils.
rather than by building new ones; few new
The kind and quantity of food imports are
paper mills are being erected because of high
of such nature, however, that Canada can be
building costs, the idle capacity existing in
considered self-sufficient in time of an emer-
other nations, and the uncertainty of sus-
gency. In the event of war a higher output
tained demand. Decreased prices and fall-
of food could be effected, as in World War II.
ing export markets are expected to affect the
b. Forestry.
industry's future.
Canada's forests are at present one of its
In the less important field of lumber pro-
most productive assets. Wood, wood prod-
duction 1947 was the peak year; 1948 unoffi-
ucts, and paper rank first both in net value
cial estimates show a slight production de-
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