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Fig. 24 | Field Crops R.M. Rhineland 1926-41 | ||||||||||
Seed | Fodder | ||||||||||
Year | Field Crops | Wheat | Barley | Oats | Rye | Flax | Crops | Roots | Other | ||
1926 | 162996 | 81128 | 31603 | 28169 | 7651 | 8856 | 4672 | 236 | 681 | ||
1931 | 151004 | 84537 | 22378 | 28055 | 471 | 4309 | 5643 | 410 | 5201 | ||
1936 | 170988 | 89820 | 29423 | 29585 | 4722 | 1626 | 13819 | 301 | 1692 | ||
1941 | 176648 | 59290 | 37861 | 25725 | 5321 | 5838 | 6939 | 1803 | 33871 | ||
Source: Census of Canada | |||||||||||
Fig. 25 | Livestock R.M. of Rhineland 1931-1941 | ||||||||||
Other | |||||||||||
Milk | Beef | Horned | |||||||||
Year | Horses | Cows | Cattle | Cattle | Sheep | Swine | Chicken | ||||
1931 | 6828 | 3896 | 0 | 4394 | 2026 | 9084 | 174526 | ||||
1941 | 4717 | 5593 | 92 | 3075 | 1528 | 17344 | 250564 | ||||
Source: Census of Canada |
Kronsthal 4-H Seed Club in the 1940's.
Credit: W. J. Siemens
have been perfectly suited to the intensive cultivation of such crops as corn and sugar beets. But if the open field system was gone, other developments in Rhineland's farm villages aided the diversification of crops in the 1930's. With the emigration to Mexico over the school question and the expansion of farms in the 1920's, land transfers in the municipality had increased. The result of these transfers was that the land bases of the remaining villages were divided into smaller sepa rately held tracts. This fragmentation of properties around farm villages encouraged the development of an infield-outfield system of agricultur-
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