The Exeter Advocate, 1922-8-3, Page 2MARI4 CENSUS SHOTS NET
INCREASE IN RURAL POPULATION
President of Ontario Agricultural College Explains Reasons
for Shifting of Country Residents During the
Past Ten Years.
A despatch from Guelph says: --'people than for towespeopte and for
There has been no rural depopulation the nation.
in Or-tarao the last ten years, although!, In an analysts o f the 1921 census re -
there has been a eonside.�•able shifting• turns, President Reynolds del laree
ef the population in the country tills-' that the districts surrounding large
trzetsin that period, asaerte1 Pres s eities have become suburban areas,
dere Reynolds. inn a recent address, I places of residence for those working
There has been a sbi+*tirrg of pope -;,1n; the city,
latex; frexn back to front, from disc k Such a district encourages special
filets distant from markets to the_' ized wee intersive farming (a) to
neighcacrhood, of markets; from dis-' furnish local supplies of food, such as
trice a l previeed with transportationraillt, fruit and vegetables; (b) to sup
tea these wet' provided; from general ply raw material for cit, manufacture
eeee irag ereas to areas where climate ,ers. (There is little co. -ordination in
and anal favor intensified fanning; this matter between farmieg and city
from general farming areas h o4 imanufacturing).
Ontario to greera? farming areas in' Where z fever-
Neve O:;ta io, where land is cheap and er neive tie. and soil are
able, iiltensir�+ azzd sg£cializeal firm-
fertile; from s=ail vi::ages ane tewns rat; :s oft the increase with etereepeed-.
ager teems end cit es o fair as"dairyingnhag increase in local pepulntie .
ee se:G reteen:s are a':alts- a;e, teeoe in Where dairy ino; air fruit -a owis.g are
Eli to » en:a r ziet rural nreareete, s2 ,I eerie to eaten t-e<y with mien farm -
e
the s n,Erw , ire,* the popt,"..tk tends to remain'
In s4:tri 'v wa C•re .. ile;:in4e in 'i?'kD:. steely, Testae -tee. era; Dairying, Oxt
.t+ae;1; hes dyt11.a7di e eneredo LC de .ss ford, Bram, Peres. Wats-aloe, Heetin s,
rill nee: i. rattan either eletn e.n- Halla acne; emit-e`"+:reting., 1?'rii10E' 141
mere of leui as a testa or ;a ;Iselin,: z,ard, eteeree e i tilt,
, w,p
is ez:•nire. rewer ;as a cake. 1 The ntixel farming; areas, witha+at
?the e� �.P9 it 1:; a:*a the n, gait{ large local markets to e*ncnuraee
r ietser �6I�' a se:-reateaa use o; speci:ali`l,e f(irn:in ', nave ('declined OPPOSITION *�(�
ri..:a4reree, ere ':e: