Excerpt from Emigration to Canada, the Province of Ontario: It's Soil, Climate, Resources, Institutions, Free Grant Lands, &C., &C.; For the Information of Intending Emigrants

Ontario, and $211 33 in the United States. That their value per acre waft greater in Ontario than m the United States by nearly 86, being 822 10 per Lacre in Ontario, and $16, 32 per acre in the United. States. That the cap ital mvested 1n agricultural implements was greater 1n Ontario than 1n the United States ln proportion to the breadth of land cultivated, being $186 for every hundred acres of cultivated land ln Ontario, and $150 for every hundred acres of cultivated land in the United States. That the value of agricultural imple ments manufactured in Ontario did not fall very much behind the value of agricultural implements manufactured ln the United States, in proportion to population, being 30 41 per head of the population 1n Ontario, and $0 55 per head of the population ln the United States. That she grew more wheat in 1860 than any State in the Union That, in proportion to population, she produced in that year more than three times as much wheat as the United States, raising bushels for each inhabitant, while the United States raised only bushels for each inhabitant. That she was greatly ahead even of the Western States as a wheat-producing country, the average pro fiuction of wheat in the whole of the Western States being only 10 bushels for each inhabitant. That, of the eight leading staples of agriculture, common to both countries - wheat, corn rye barley, oats, buckwheat peas and beans, and potatoes - she produced 55. 95 bushels for each inhabitant, while of the same articles the United States produced only 43. 42 bushels for each inhabitant.

That - excluding Indian corn from the list - she produced of the remaining articles, bushels for each inhabitant, against bushels for each in habitant, produced in the United States. That, in proportion to populatibn, she had more capital invested in live stock than the United States, the value of live stock owned in Ontario being per head of the population, While in the United States it was per head of the population. That for every hundred of the population, Ontario owned 27 horses, and the United States only 20. That for every hundred inhabitants, Ontario owned 32 milch cows, and the United State, only 27. That for every hundred inhabitants Ontario owned 84 sheep, and the United States only 71, and that of live stock, in the number of pigs only was she exceeded by the United States, in proportion to population. That in 1860 she produced 19. 22 pounds of butter for every inhabitant, while the United States produced only 14. 62 pounds. That ln the same year she produced 2. 62 pounds of wool for each inhabitant.

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