In Proportion To
Population, Canada In 1860 Raised Twice As Much Wheat As The United
States - Canada In That Year
Raising 11.2 bushels for each inhabitant,
while the United States raised only 5.50 bushels for each inhabitant.
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Together eight leading staples of agriculture - wheat, corn,
rye, barley, oats, buckwheat, peas and bean, and potatoes, - Canada,
between 1851 and 1860, increased her production of these articles from
57 millions to 123 millions of bushels - an increase; of 113 per cent.;
while the United States in ten years, from 1850 to 1860, increased
their productions of the same articles only 45 per cent. In 1860 Canada
raised, of those articles, 49.12 bushels for each inhabitant, against a
production in the United States of 43.42 bushels for each inhabitant.
Excluding Indian corn from the list - Canada raised of the remaining
articles 48.07 bushels for each inhabitant, almost three times the rate
of production in the United States, which was 16.74 bushels for each
inhabitant. And as regards live stock and their products, Canada in
1850, in proportion to her population, owned more horses and more cows,
made more butter, kept more sheep, and had a greater yield of wool,
than the United States.
"Our British Government having thus allowed the treaty to expire, and
having thereby damped the energies of the colonies, and excited the
hopes of the Protectionist and Annexationist parties in the States,
what are we to do?
"In the first place, Parliament should express its condemnation of the
failure of the executive; in the second, its desire for peace and
fraternity with the United States; and in the third, its determination
to stand by the Queen's dominions on the other side of the Atlantic.
Language so just and so clear would lead to the inevitable result of
renewed negociation.
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