Employment and Natural Resources Possibilities of Making New Opportunities, for Employment Through the Settlement and Development of Agricultural and Forest Lands, and Other Resources (Classic Reprint)

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Excerpt from Employment and Natural Resources Possibilities of Making New Opportunities, for Employment Through the Settlement and Development of Agricultural and Forest Lands, and Other ResourcesLand classification is one of the fundamental lessons which Canada has to teach. The Province of New Brunswick has made an excellent start in this line. All of the Crown lands in this Province are being covered systematically by a soil survey showing clearly the relative fertility of the various areas. Fertility is of course only one factor in locating profitable farm land - the other main factor being market conditions. By following up the soil survey by the market survey the test given by the Secretary for determining true agricultural land could be applied.Town planning is another matter in which Canada has made a good start. Pioneer work in this regard has been done by Mr. Thomas Adams, town planning adviser to the Commission of Con servation at Ottawa. He has worked with the large city, the small town, and the agricultural community. His plans for laying out townships save from one-quarter to one-third the road mileage by having the roads radiate from a community center instead of being laid out in the customary way along the section lines. These plans also provide for segregating forest lands and' for dividing the agri cultural lands into farm allotments of efficient areas for family use. The farm areas will vary, of course, in accordance with the fertility of the soil. Town planning should be based upon an ade quate land classification, but the two lines of work do not iri fact always go together in Canadian practice any more than in our own.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.