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"'The Climate And Soil Of These Provinces And Possessions, Seemingly
Less Indulgent Than Those Of Tropical Regions, Are Precisely Those By
Which The Skill, Energy, And Virtues Of The Human Race Are Best
Developed.
Nature there demands thought and labour from man as
conditions of his existence, and yields abundant rewards to a wise
industry.'
"Specially, as regards Canada; let us recapitulate her progress, as
compared with that of her giant neighbour, the United States.
"During the interval between the last census and the preceding one
(1850-1860), the decennial rate of increase of population in Canada
exceeded that in the United States by nearly 51/2 per cent. - Canada
adding 40.87 per cent. to her population in ten years, while the United
States added only 35.58 per cent. to theirs. She brought her wild land
into cultivation at a rate, in nine years, exceeding the rate of
increase of cultivated lands in the United States in ten years by
nearly 6 per cent., - Canada in 1860 having added 50 acres of cultivated
land to every 100 acres under cultivation in 1851, while the United
States in 1860 had only added 14 acres to every 100 acres under
cultivation in 1850. The value per cultivated acre of the farming lands
in Canada in 1860 exceeded the value per cultivated acre of the farming
lands of the United States - the average value per cultivated acre in
Canada being $20.87 and in the United States $16.32. In Canada a larger
capital was invested in agricultural implements, in proportion to the
amount of land cultivated, than in the United States - the average value
of agricultural implements used on a farm having 100 cultivated acres
being in Canada $182 and in the United States $150.
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