| Summary: | Agricultural development has not proceeded smoothly or
regularly. Rather it has been characteritzed by varying rates
of growth and by divergent characteristics of its development
as exemplified by the periods of expansion, World War I, the
twenties, the thirties and World War II. As agriculture
passed from one period to another, its former condition appeared
to be out of adjustment in the current period. Thus agricultural
development seemed to be one of continual flux from one disequilibrium
to another. Under such circumstances and amidst a maze
of exogenous seasonal and cyclical factors, secular trends have
been blurred and difficult to discern; and farm entrepreneurs,
already a tenacious lot and with their viewpoint focused backward
to the agricultural expansion period, have been oblivious
of the real requirements of adjustment. For that matter, no
one else seemed to know what was innately wrong with agriculture, not even the agricultural experts.<p>
The object of this study is to analyse the developments
of Canadian agriculture, with particular reference to the
recent wartime period, and with the purpose of indicating
the significance of the various features of development
to the problems and requirements of agricultural adjustment.
The particular phases of the objective may be outlined as
follows: firstly, to analyse the scope and character of
wartime agricultural changes; secondly to appraise the
significance of such changes in relation to the trends
and factors underlying agricultural development; thirdly
to evaluate the implications of such changes in regard to
the requirements of agricultural adjustment.
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