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ANNUAL REPORT
OF THE
BUREAU OF INDUSTRIES
FOR THE
PROVINCE OF ONTARIO
1896
{PUBLISHED BY THE ONTARIO DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE, TORONTO,)
PRINTED BY ORDER OF
THE LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY OF ONTARIO.
TORONTO: WARWICK ERG'S ft BUTTER, Pbintibb and Bookbindibs, 68 and 70 Fbont Stbir Wnr.
1808.
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PUBLICUBRARy^
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FIFTEENTH ANNUAL REPORT
OP THE
BUREAU OF INDUSTRIES
1896
To THE HONO&ABLK THB MINI8TBB OF AGRICULTURE :
Sib, — I have the honor to present herewith the fifteenth annual report of the Bureau of Indaatries for the Province of Ontario for the year 1896, oonsbting of :
I. The Weather and the Orops ; II. Live Stock, the Dairy and the Apiary : III. Values, Rents and Farm Wages : lY. Chattel Mortgages ;
y. Municipal Statistics ; Appendix.
I have the honor to be, Sir,
Zours obedient servant,
>;- 0. C. JAMES,
Secretary. ToEONTO, May 12th, 1898.
[?]
CONTENTS.
LETTER OF TRANSMISSION. Pao
PART I-THE WEATHER AND THE CROPS.
The Wrathkr :
Notes frf»in the Temiscumingue District^ 1 — Temperature, 2 — Precipitation of rain and snow during November- Mar cli» 1895-96, 3— Riiiiifall during April -September, 3— Sun- shine, 4.
FaKM IiAiSDR OF THE PROVINCE :
Rural areas assesaed, 5 — Area in jmsture, 5 — Area in crops, 6 — Area in crops by county groups, 6 — Proportional areas under crop, 7.
Fall Wheat :
Condition of the crop, 7— Table giving acreage and yield by county groups, 8.
Sr&oro Wheat :
Oondition of the crop, 9— Table giving acreage and yield by county groups, 9.
Bakliy :
Condiiion of the crop, 9 — Table giving acreage and yield by county groups, 10.
Oatss:
Condition of the crop, 10— Table giving acreage and yield by county groups, 10.
K : Condition of the crt*p, 11 — Table giving acreage and yield by county groups, 11.
Condition of the crop, 11 —Table giving acreage and yield by county groups, 12, Cork :
Condition of tlie cmp, 13— Table giving acreage and yield by county groups, 12^ — ReniiurkH of correspondents, 13,
ircEWiLEAT :
Condition of the crop» 16 — Table giving acreage and yield by county groups, 16,
Beaks :
Condition of the crop, 1(S — Table giving acreage and yield by county groups^ 17.
F|BU» Rlots :
Potatoes, 17 — Mangel -wurzels, 18 — Carrots, 19 — Turnips, 19.
Ifjl¥ AKi* Clover :
Condition of the crop, 20 — Table giving acreage and yield by county groups, £0* CoMpAJUTivK Yields oir Fikld Chops :
Aggregate yield of field crops, 21 — Average yields per acre, 22 — Ratios of aggregate crops, 22 — RatioH of yield per acre, 23.
FictiiT A?cD Friit Trees :
General condition of orchards during the year, 23— Area in orchard and garden, 24 — Remarks of correspondents, 24»
Farjh SuFPLfEil:
Fall Pix^h-tso :
TtnfcKSHiKO ASJD Maeketino :
K * KM brPEOVEMKKTS :
TfiE Army Worm :
RxTRAOTs rttOM Remarks of CoRRESPONnsNTB :
^
f Statistic* of thb Weatheb akd run Cbop« :
Table i. Showing for each mouth the highefit, lowest, mean highefit^ mean lo^ and me&D tenipemture at the principal atationa in Ontario in 1806 ; aIhoI annual menu ftir each atation.
Table il Showing for each moiith the annual average of the highest, lowest, : ^^ highest, mean lowest and mean temperature at the principal stations in OntAno^ derived for the fifteen years 1882-96 ; also the average annual mean at each Btation for the same period . . , .....»*, * » ,,
ABLE lit. Monthly summary of bright sunshine at the princijml stationa . . .
Table iv. Monthly summary of inches of rain and anow precipitation
Table v. Summary of the total fall of rain and snow, and of the number of dAjtl which rain or enow fell at stations reporting for the whole year
Table vi. Compamtive meteorological register for the seven years 1890-66^ as recorded at Toionto Observatory ,
Table vn. The weather at Lake Temiscaminguc
Tablk VIII, Showing by county municipalities and group of counties the rural area of Ontario, as returned by municipal assessors for 1996
Table ix. Showing by county municipalities the area and produce of fall wheat. . . Table x. Showing by county municipalities the area and produce of .spring wheftt Tablk XI. Showing by county municijjalities the area and prt>duce of barley. .....
Tarlb XII. Showing by county monicipalitieB the area and produce of oats. . Table xni. Showing by county municipalities the area and produce of rye. . Table xiv. Showing by county municipalities the area and produce of peas.,
Table xv. Showing by county municipalities the area, produce and yield per acre
of com for huftkijig and for silo and fodder .....,.....,,,.
Table xvi. Showing by county municipalities the area and produce of buckwheat. .
Table xvii. Showing by county municipalities the area and produce of beans
Table xviii. Showing by county municipalities the area and produce of hay
Table xix. Showing by county municipalities the area and prcKiuce of potatoes. . . . Table xx. Showing by county municipalities the area and produce of mangels Table xxi. Showing by county municipalities the area and produce of carrots. . . . Table xxii. Showing by county munici|jalitie8 the area and produce of turnips . . .
Table xxiii. Showing by county municipalities the per cent, ratios of totftl yields in 1896 to average of total yields for the fifteen years lb82-96
Table xxiv. Showing by county municipaliticH the per cent, ratios of average yield per acre in 1896 to average yields per acre for the fifteen years 1882-96. .
Table xxv. Showing by county municipalities the total area under crops enumerated in tables ix. xxii. ; also the area in pasture and in orchard ,..,....
Table xxvi. Showing by county mimicijjalities the number of apple trees and the estimated yield in bushels
Table xxvii. Showing by county municipalities and groups of counties the number of acres under the various crops in Ontario per 1,000 acres of cleared land .
Table xxvm. Showing a comparison of the average yield per acre of cereals in Ontario and the principal grain-growing States of the American Union and of Manitoba , . ,
IThe Wheat Ceop of the World
"Prinoipal Cbops of the United States fn 1896
Producttion AJJn Export of Corn in the United States Singe 1880 :
Production and Export of Wheat ik thu United States Since 1880 :
World's Barley Crop :
World's Oats Crop.
L Page.
P PAET n.^LIYK STOCK, THE DAIRY, AND THE APIARY.
Itfvi Stoqx : 71
Getiend review of the oondition of live stock in Ontario during 1896, 71 — Table show- ing the number of horses, 72— Table ahowiug the number of cattle, 73 — Table showing the number of hogs, 73— -Table showing the number of aheep, 74 — Table ^M
Bhowing the wool clip^ 74— -Table uhowing the number of poultry, 75 — Remarks ^M
by correspondents, 75 — Table showing by county gn>np« the number of live fit4^k sold in years ending June 30th, 1895 and 1896» 78.
Thi Apiary : 78
General condition of bees, 78 — Number of hives and value of apiiury outtii 79 — Remarks of corres|)ondents« 79.
TBt Djort : ^M
General review, 80 — Remarks of eorreapondente, 81 — Table giving Btatistics for ^| all factories for the fourteen years 1883-D6, 84 — Monthly atatistica of cheese ^M factories^ 85 — Table givnig the BUitistics of creameries, 85. "
GhIESB VAQtORULS AND CbBAM£EIE8 IK ONTARIO : 81
Cheeae and butter B<jard8, S^ — Dairy Inspecfcora and IiiBtruotora, 86 — Dairy Schools, 86 — Cheese factories with name and post office address of the secretary of each factory, 87 —Creameries in Ontario in 189<i, 105*
STATWdca OP Liv^E Stock and Dairy PRonuers : lOt
Table i. Showing by ctmnty municii>alitioa the number of horses and hogs. ....... 110
Table ii. Showing by county municiiialitioa the number t»f cattle ,,..,.,. Ill
Tajle in. Showing by ootmty municipalities the number of sheep and poultry. , . , . 112
Table iv. Showing by county mtmicipalitiea the number of horses, catth?, flheep,
bogs and poultry ft<»ld in the years ending June 30, 1895 and ISSis. . . 113
Table v. Showing by county inunici|>alitie8 the clip of wool in Ontario, . . 114
Table vi. Showing by county municipalities the number and value of hives of bees 115
Table vii. Showing by county municipalities the quantity and value of cheese made
at fftciories in Ontario .*..,.,..,.., US
P^IRT III. ^VALUES. RENTS, AND FARM WAGES
"^iiuxa OF Farm pEOPERty : 117
Comijarative table showing by county groups the value of farm lands, buildings, implements and live atiick, 117- Values per acre, 118 — Rental of leased farms, 119.
ViitJia OK Live Stock : 119
Value uf horses, 119— -Value of cattle, 120 — Values of sheep and hogs, 120— Values of poultry and of total live stock, 121 — Value of live stock per head, 121.
Values op Crops : 12f
Market prices. 122 — ^^liue of crofis, 123 — Crop values by county groups, 123— Value of produce per acre under crop. 124 — Per cent, ratios of values per acre, 124.
Fajui Labor and Wages : 125
Wages of farm bborers and domestic servants, 125 — Remarks of correspondents, 126. SrAtmiCB OP Values, Rexts, and Tah^ Wages : 129
Table i. Showing by county municipalities the values of farm land, buildings and
implements , 130
Table ii. Showing by county municipalities the values of farm live stock and total
farm property ; also the rent per acre of leased farms as rei>orted in 1896 131
ii
ONTARIO BtTREATT OP IFBUSTRras.
Paoi Table in* Showing by comity municipalities the average value per acre occupied
of farm land^ buildings, implements and live gtook. • . • 19
TikBLB IV, Showing by county municipalitiefl the value of horaoH and cattle 13
Tablb v^ Showing by county municipalities the value of aheep, hogs and poultry. 13
Table vi. Showing by county municjpalitiea the value of live stock aold or killed
in the year li
Table vii. Showing by county munici|>alities the value per head of the several claoaes of horsefl and cattle, and als<i the value per head of all the honioa and cattle aold 131
Table vin. Showing by county municipalities the value per head of aheepi hogs and
poultry, and alao the value of each per head sold 19
Table ix. Showing the average price of agricultural producia at the leading marketa
of Ontario . , _ , 19
Table r. Showing by county municipalities the value at market prices of the total
crop of fall wheat and Bpriixg wheat , , . 14
Table xi. Showing by county municipalitiea the value at market prices of the total
crop of barley and oata II
Table xii. Showing by county municipalitien the value at market prices of the total
crop of rye and peas , .,....,.♦.. 11
Table xm. Showing by county municiimlities the value at market prices of the
total crop of corn (for husking and silo) and buckwheat ....,, 14
Table xiv. Showing by county munici|^ities the value at market prices of the totJil
crop of beana and potatoes .,..,... 141
Table xv. Showing by cjounfey municipalities the value at market prices of the total
crop of mangel -wurzels and carrots , * . . . ..,....., , lit
Table xvi. Shiiwing by county muiuciimlities the value at market prices of the
total crop of turnips and hay and clover , 14
Table xvu. Showing by county municipalities the aggregate value of all field crops ;
also the value &i market price of the total clip uf wtjol 141
Table xviu. Showing by county municipalities the market value of crop per acre
of wheat and barley ,..,,,.... ............,* "II
Table xix. Showing by county municipalities the market value of crop per acre of
oats, rye and peas *..... .... IS
Table xx. Showing by county municipalities the average market value of crop per
acre of corn» buckwheat and beans . , IS!
Table xxi. Showing by county inunioipalities the market value of crtjp per acre of potatoes, mangel -wurzelii and carr^jt*. ................. .................
Table xxii. Showing by county municipalities and groupa of counties the market value per acre of turnip.^ hay and clover and all field crops.
[ The Price of Wheat kob. 241 YEAtts ,
PART IV.— CHATTEL MORTGAGES.
[Table I. Showing by county municip dities the total number and amount of chattel
mortgagejj on record and discharged
Table II — Showing by county municipalities the number and amoiint of chattel mortgages registered against Farmers
IS
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PART I.
THE WEATHER AND THE CROPS.
THE WEATHER.
Temperfttore, precipitation and sunjshiiie, aa well aa the nature and tilth of the Boil, b&ye much to do in determiniDg the success or failure of crops. Early or late frosts, and lltemftte freezing and thawing in winter may do much injury, while seasonable tempera- tut and timely lulls of rain or snow, and, in the growing season, a due share of sunshine^ osttiltj mean splendid crops matured in the best possible condition. There is, therefore, oiocb to interest amd instruct in the following weather statistics.
The May bulletin said that the two most noticeable facts regarding the preceding six ao&tfas were the low tempeiature of March and the high temperature of ApriL The temperature up to the end of B^ebruary continued slightly above the average, followed by colder weather in March, which lasted until about the 10th of April. Then came a rapid rise, the temperature increasing in some cases nearly twenty degrees in the daily amounL A very rapid growth of vegetation resulted. The extreme heat continued for some da; reoordB of eighty degrees and even of ninety degrees being made* The remainder of iDoath continued warm and dry, although slight frost occurred about the 25th ; no injary •eemi to ha^e resulted. The highest average temperature occurred in the northern part ol the Province,
The August bulletin stated that the month of May was eyen more noticeable than April for high temperaturci it being nearly seven degrees above its average for the four- teen years 1882-95.
The precipitation for the six months of the growing season, according to the Novem- ber bulletin, was three inches above that of 1805, and half an inch greater than the average amount. The rainfall of September wus L80 inches above the average. Frost wiifdt in many parts of the Province from the 19Lh to the 26th of August, though no mjtlry appeared to result; but from the 19th to the 23rd of September heavy frosts Ooctirred, ice formed, and considerable damage was reported in many districts. Snow fell pnerally throughout the Province during the third week of October, some of the falJa Wig heavy.
29oT86 FROM THE Tbmiscamingue DISTRICT. Following are aele tWBifrom the notes of the Government meteorological observer at Haileybnry ;
1896, February 10, — Woodpeckers heard. '* March 26. — First crows seen. ' April 12. — Snow goiog fast.
** 14. — Spring birds arrived.
*' 17 — Sleighing done for season, *' •' 21. — ^ Heaviest fall of snow on record here — ^ nine inches.
" '* 24, — Wild geese passing ; snow nearly all gone,
'* ** 27.— Frogs piping.
** *• 28. — Ice breaking up fast.
" *• 29, — Navigation began ; first kingfisher seen,
•* <» 30. — ^ice gone completely.
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The mean temp^rmture of tbe Province for the aix montliB was 60.67^^ being ♦Tli** higher than that of the aarae period in 18D5, and 2.49'* above the average for the fifteen years, 1882-1896. The highest mean temperature was recorded at London, and the next highest at Stony Greek ^ which led in AugiiBt and September ; while the lowest mean temperature was experienced at Saugeen, and the next lowest at K&ckcHOe, the latter abowiDg the lowest fig^ires in April and September, §eptember was the only month which failed to show a higher temperature than its own average in the fifteen years. Of the five other montha the increase in temperatnre was 6.69* in May, 5.20' in Aprils and 3.31** in August.
ONTARIO BUREAa OF INDUSTRIES,
Pftioi PiTATioir. The foUovinst table gives tbe fall of rain aad snow in the winter moDth*, bj dutricts, for the yrars 1895-6 aad 1894-5^ together with the average for the fifteen years, 1882-96. It is well to remember^ in atuiying this table, that an inch of^ r&b ii tbe equivalent of ten inches of snow :
{1896..» .. 1894 1883-95 .
riJi95
(1882-95 .,
{189G 1895 1882 96 .,
rt896
Febftiw^ ....<1895
\ 1382 96 ..
n89<l
ITitch < 1896 ,...,
(1882-96 ..
T«tJ. for j\^
W«a6 and
Boaihwoab.
RMia.
10.
1.63 0.70 3 :}9
3.70 3.26 1.69
0 59 0.99 1.14
0.43 0.13 1.48
0.81 0 45 1.15
d.lB 4.44
7.85
Sqow*
North wMt And north.
RaiD,
ID.
1,77 0.87 2 04
1.57 l.U 1.18
0.23 0.31 0.87
0.19 0.09
0.59
0,51 0,21 0 71
4 27 2.64
5 42
Snow.
in.
16.3 16.9 14.2
21.6
10 2 21.1
24.4 40 9 28.2
18. t; 18.9 21.1
11 2
11,5 13.7
90.9 98.4 98.3
Centra,
EftlD.
in. 3,74
0.47 2 38
1.75 1.44 1,51
1 54
1.34 1.24
0.91 0,09 1.16
0 82 0.77 1.09
8 76 4 U
7.S8
SuoWf
10.
3.9 6.1 5.7
10 a, 4.3 11.2
13 9 28.2
18.6
28,0 8 0
14 5
12,0 8.6 9.4
1)8.6 55.1 59 4
EMt and
nortbeait.
Rftin. Snow,
ID.
2,73 1 10
2.01
3.87 1 10 1.18
0,25 0.62 0 89
0.32
o.oa
0.67
O.BO 0.21 0.89
6.97
2,96 6,61
IQ.
7,8 7.3 8.8
9,5
9,0
14.3
19.7 29.5
22.3
30,6 11,3 18.8
12.0 13.5 13.0
79.6 70.6 77.1
Proirince ftverftg«.
lUin.
ID.
2.47
0,76 3 30
3.32 1.49
1.39
0.66 0.77
].03
0.46 0,08 0.98
0,74 O.ll 0.97
6.51 3,53
6.67
Snow,
m.
7.T
11.4
8.9
13,2
6,6 14.9
17.1 31.3 21.4
24 5 13.0 16 7
11.4
10.8 11.4
73.9 72.1 73.3
The precipitation of both rain and snow for the live months, taking the Provinoa orer, was about an average. In February 24.5 inches of snow fell, compared with an itnrtge of 16,7 inches for that month in the fifti^n years 1883-96, but none of the other monthF, excepting March, came up to their respective averages in the depth <»f ■Qowfall. The heaviest raizitall was in NoveEnber, when 2.47 inches fell ; in December there was 2 22 inches, but the other months were below their usual 6gurea in this wgirO.
The -rainfall during the growing season (April-September) is, however, of more importance than that of the winter, and the precipitation for the six months is given ia p Ikfi laUoviog table :
Month.
We«t «Dd southwest.
N«rthweBt and Dortb.
Centre.
' East and northeast.
Province »Ter«fe.
189V.
^883-96.
1896.
in. 1.23 1,96 2,17 1.91 3.68 4.16
16 29
1883-9«.
in. 1.40 3 66
2 72 3.47
2.82 8.07
15.03
1896.
188296.
1896.
1^82-96.
1896.
1883-96,
Totali..
ia. 1.83 3.39 3.88 3,95 3. OS 1 49
li.is
in.
1 80 3.46 3.14 3.50 3.64
2 69
1G.22
in. 0.90 1.98 1.T4 2 98 1.33 4 66
13,69
in, 1.P6 3,94 2,91 3.38 3,46 3.73
14.98
in. 1,12 2.08 2.77 3,81 3.57 4.56
16.41
ID.
1.30 3 72 2.80 3.81 3.83 2.67
15,19
ttL.
1.26 2.10 3.39 2.79 2.86 4.47
16,87
1.53 2.91 2,89 3,64 3.69 3.79
16.35
:
^^^^^^^^^ ONTARIO BUREAU OF INDUSTRlliS, '
^^H The rftinfall of the Province for the six months was 15.87 inchen, which iB .52 in
^^^V more than the average for the fifteen years 1882-96* The greatest precipitation waa
^^H the west and south west district, and the least rainfall was in the centre district, while 1
^^H other two districts were aboat an average. While May and June show the greatl
^^^B rainfall for the fifteen years' period, September, August and July (in the order give
■ had the heaviest precipitations in 1896. ** April showers'* do not appear in be freqa«
1 or heavy in Ontario, the average rainfall for that month being bat L53 in hee» which
I only a little more than half that of May and June ; although April has aIbj an aver^
^^M snowfall of three and a half inches^ which must be taken into consideration.
^^^B SuKSHiNB. The amount of sunshine recorded at five stations ia given in the J
^^^ lowing table for the six months, April to September inclusive, for the years 1195 a
^^^ 1896, and also the average for the fifteen years 1882-96. The last column gives t
^^^ hours of possible sunsbinej calculated for latitude 45".
Months.
1
4
«E
1
1
fc
H
04
1^*
houra.
bourn.
hour**.
haoFB.
hotirp.
hours.
hours.
(1896 ....
April .,...,....< 18iiB .. ,
ll8S2-9a,.
Hl.l
191.8
156.4
195.2
217.1
1»03
Uo6.4
^^^^^^1
193.2
200.1
190,7
199.5
192.1
195.1
m I
197.2
175.3
204.2
196. n
190 9
fl89tJ...,
May. <im6 ,...
(1882 96.,
273.9
283.0
218.0
276.1
261.7
263.1
Uci.i
\
267.6
26L4
250.4
246.0
236.2
253.1
207.0
221.2
199.6
218.5
319.6
213.3
•
n896 ....|
Jmae < 1895 ....
1 1883-96..
262.0
300.2
339,7
310.4
308.4
303.1
1466.7
296.9
286.5
281 2
280.6
287.4
286.3
343.8
261.9
234.4
259.2
250.6
349 8
4
fl896 ....
July. Jism
1882-96..
245.9
246.7
220.6
2093
266.3
237.8
U7O.9
241.7
243 3
321.6
205.1
251.5
232.4
272. S
280.8
266 3
270.3
369,4
369.8
fl85»6 ....
Auguat <1B95 .,,.
(1882 96..
232.3
272.2
272.1
269.4
276 9
262,6
U34.5
286,7
236 5
214 8
199.6
252.5
228 0
232.4
249.8
219.5
247.0
246.8
239,1
fl8fl6 ....
September .....< 1895 ...,
11882^96.,
1G9.5
180.3
161.6
154 4
184.3
166 0
1376 3
<
191.2
208.9
182.6
193.4
194 6
194 1
182.8
214.0
164.8
199.6
196.2
191.5
Totalnfor iJfia?""
1313 7
1473.1
1358 4
1404 J
1514.7
1412.9
1127.3
1434.7
1341.2
1324.2
1413.3
1388.1
V2B14.P 1
1318.4
1424.9
1249.9
1398.8
1379.2
1S54.3
An average of 1,412.9 hours of sunshine were registered in the six months ou
.J
V possible 2,614,9 hours, being 24.8 hours more than in the preceding year^ and 58.6 hoi
H more than the average for the fifteen years. June, May aod August were relatiTi
H bright months, but the other three months were below the average in sunshiue. Kingi(|
H registered the most sunshine d
uring the season and \
i
1
ONTARIO BUREAU OF INDUSTRIES.
FARM I4ANDS OF THE PROVINCE.
Rural Area Abbesskd. The following table giveu the acreage afiseeaed in towiuhipB which are municipal Ij orgaoized, by county groups, the total for the Province being given for &1t classes of land for 1895 and 1696 :
Difltnct«.
Uk^ Brt«.....
UiJce Haron
Gflor^riAfi Bay
li«ke Ontario. ......
9l Lawreooe and OtUw». .........
EmI Midland ......
Northera DiatriGt* . .
TlieProrinoe.lJ^
Aerea ibiieitsed.
Aorei olenred.
BesideDl.
Non
reiiideat.
Tot»L
189«.
1806.
2.313,485
2,^70,420 1,976,072 3,210,021 3,003,163
6,142,060
2,639,980 1,720,718
22,174,899 22,131,895
24.401
68, 91)5 48,230 45,292 44,212
301,991 180.419 390.909
997,509 981,420
2,337*886 2,329,385 2,02»,302 3,265,313 3,047,365
6,347.011 2,720,429 2,111.687
23.172,408 23,113,316
1,680.266 1,474,676 1,172,118 2,446.030 2,38t).741
2,497,197 909,868 204.969
12,671,851
1,633,381 1,489.700 1,149,616 2,415.403 2,362,35*3
2.430.732 897,7K9 198,016
12,42is'.992
1,799,766 1,269,187 l,566.8(Sa
7,264,167 7,777,461
The rural area assessed now amountfi to 23|172.408 acres (an iocrease of 59,093 acr oompared with the year before), of which nearly one million acres are non-resident. Thol pfirceotage of cleared land is 54.7 as against 53.8 per cent in 1895. The highest ratios of cleared Und are found in the Lake Ontario and West Midland groups.
Aria m Pasture. The table folio wing gives the number of acres in pasture by ooDoty gixraps and for the Province for each of the five years 1S92-96, and also the percentage of cleared land in pasture in 18 96 :
Y«ftr.
X
3
247,681 261.181
J»4..,. I 247,630
im I 247,657
im I 238,665
&it« per 1,000, dmdinl696..J 166.
1
1
8
-6 S
1
d
•5
0
0
1
»-5
II
1
IS
aert<«.
i
I
t^crm.
acrea.
acTM.
acres.
OOTM.
acres.
35G,213
182.149
506,052
383,382
700,650
204,931
33,666
2,619,744
373,061
235,602
518,391
391,876
706.176
209,859
33,507
2.728,655
369.178
233,936 619,aoa
388,225
711,042
300,979
32,650
2,703,341
376.268
228,961 535,379
867,018' 695,576
199,514
32,487
2,682.180
3fiO,067
322,766 604,688
360,343 673,231
181,389
23,191
2.5«2,040
241.6
165 4
206,6
160.6 283.0
226. S
164.2
306.7
The number of acres in pasture in the Province is given as 2,619,744, which is less thaa in any of the three years immediately preceding. The St. Lawrence and Ottawa ooondes (where dairying is extensively practised) and the Northern Dbtricts are the joolj groups showing an increase in the area in pasture compared with 1895. The ratio in pasture per 1^000 acres cleared b 206.7 for the Province, ranging from 283.0 in tbo St Lawrence and Ottawa diatricl to 155.4 in the Georgian Bay groop.
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AcREAGS OHDBB Oho?, The followitig tftble j(ive8 the acreage nnder crop for each of the five years 1892-96, together with the average for the fifteen jears, 1892- 96:
Field eropt.
r*Jl whe»t
Spfing wheal ,.,
Barl«7
0»la
Rye
Pe«
Bnckwheal
Beaai
Potatoes
Mangel- wurwli . .
DArroti
Turnip* , . .
Hay Mid doTer
Total
189B,
1»96.
876^960 255,361 462,793 2,426.107 14a 680 8^,601 S17.667 178,962
i4B,eoe
178,966 80,101 12.333
148,234 3» 436.711
8,511,444
743,199
223,967
478,046
2,373,309
120,360
799,963
302,929
148,699
136,262
72,747
181.647
34,383
13,0(K3
16U806
2,537.674
8,321»173
1894.
1893.
1893.
1883.96,
aereft.
acrei«
acres.
778,993
913,961
966,6^
887,206
230,016
356.731
661,302
490,Xa8
436,261
4«7.315
499,326
656,OT
2,342,766
1,986,644
1,861,469
1.838^a|
90,144
68,486
73,073
1099
786,007
738,741
774.782
TorjH
267,348
217,394
181.463
}^
111,361
96,865
91,403
146,268
133,838
125,104
59.281
48,86^
33.249
36.301
167,253
142,601
145,703
158,344
27,670
21,619
22.026
32,478
11,186
9,288
9,941
10,666
147,667
136.604
139,627
117.667
2; 676,943
3,766,894
3,615.367
3.381,909
8,227,lfl8
8,064,(13
a,080,206
7,7&8,04S
The total area under crop in the Province in 1896 is 8,511,444 acres, which is more than in any other year of the table. The largest acreage is still oredited to hay» but the area of thai crop has been graduall j decreaiing, and it looks as if oata will soon have the greatest acreage of any of our ield crops. Barley, beans, potatoes, carrots and turnips have also decreased in area under crop.
The acreage of all crops mentioiied in the preofding table is given in the following table, and for the eame periods, by county groups and for the Province :
Tear.
1896,...
1896
1894
1893..... 1892
Alf!TWg9
1882-96
acreii. 1,097,436 U057,730 1,047,397
1,046,138 1,002,829
972,609,
G
acres,
946.198
909,262
873.424
869,971
869,630
822,614
p3
p m
aore«,
792,817
773,416
758.184
733,666
733,539
698,863
IS
I
-3
1^
acrefl, 1.692,840 1.661,847, 1,694,366 1,636,218 1,642,660
1,510,864
acreft. 1,707.294 1,676,762 1,687 J18 I,*j60,l38 1,696,482
1.639v73S
I'
IS
-r
w
acrea. 1.519.090 1,511,493 1,529,255 1.490,4331 1.503,724
1,435,479
S
1
acres
604,692
597,027
6^,254
681.S69
593,111
670,386
a«r««.
161,078
143,636
140,665
137.199
138,341
107,696
i
•crfe. 8.511,444 8.321,173 8,227,lf»3 8.064,612 8,OSO,20«
7,758,048
[
The largest area under crop is foand in the Lake Ontario group, which ii closely followed by the West Midland district. Every gronp shows an increase over its respec- tive figures for the preceding year, and alao eompared with any of the preceding years, except the St. Lawrence and Ottawa district, which had its largest area under crop in 1894
J
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IPBOPOBTiONAL Arbas undrb Crop. The relatiye distribution of the 0Q8 cropft per 1,000 acree cleared is given in the following table, by county groups and
I for the Province for 1895 and 1S96, together with the average for the fifteen years
Mdd2 96:
HidUod,
996.
895,.
'82-96
Midkodl
N«ribwn J Diflrie«i]
4|
1
^
1
m I A
lit. 3
129.0
11
163.4
7.1
91.1
7.0
75.1
5.B
108.4
33.0
a
A
64,9 34.4
54.3 20 0 74.0 68 J
97.7|ie.3
86.4 12.9
f^-
{1996..
100.3
70.1 GO.l 70.1
4.4
6.2
37.1 19.8 30.0
5,6 3.4
4.5
69.2 59.8 77.3
39 9
29.6 36-1 62.5
19.fi 18.3 35.7
39.1 81-5 43 0
41.5 46,1 48.B
44.4
48,3 54.3
60.4
62.9
107-3
38.3 18 8 26 8 18,9 47 6 84.7
36.3 33.1
77.8
30,8 19.5 53 8
30.3 18.0 42.7
41.3 43.7 80.7
11-6 13,1
15.3
36.5 38.5 57.1
i
o
149.S 142.8
ISO.O
203.8 30^.9 133.7
213.6 314.8
173,5
316.9 217.6 170.9
174.1
173 7 140.1
16.7 81 7 15.339.7
9.6 43.9
I
3.374 1.8|70 1,1)68
6.498 3.0 97 3,184.8
10.7 8.3 3.3
63.0 59.3 63.3
19.694.3
16,5 13.9
193.2 8 7 190.2| 7 5 180.0 12 5
197.8 195.3
159 5
193.2 182,1 173.6
191 4 191 0
160 3
16.4 14.8 19.5
4,3
3
e.i
11,7 9.7 8.9
106-5
107.7
80.3
38.3 26.3 13 3
13.1 9.3 4.3
33.8 32.0 17.3
10.0 10.5' 9.0
1.4 l.l 1.2
7.8 6.3 3,4
3.7 2,5 1.4
31.311.9 1.9 33.6'12,8 1.9 IS. 9 13.0 13
94 4' 76.3
33.3 34 4 39.5
81.8 82.9 69.3
32 0 32.3 28.3122.1 17.313.4
87 4 8 80.3
085
^1
3 3 2.4
.9
.9
14.3
I 3 14
.513
1,6 13
1.9|l4
.7113
.8!
1.0'
.6
.8 .8 .8
* >
3.1' 3.6 1.9
11.3 13.8 U 1
I
7|16.8
,9 16 6
1.0.14.0
1.1118.7 1.2 18.9 1.0,16.9
173.8
1S3.7 304.3
3
694.4 689.8 706.7
176.4. 641.7 183.7 631. 6| 196.6 641.8
173.21 676.5 187 8 673.8
196.5
167.5 176.6
186. i:
3.1117.0 3,4 .918.0 171.9 3.5|l7.5| 3.1 .918.6 183.2 1.3514 6 2.6' 1.1 14.6 183.6
31.0 16.7 1.6116.0 30.8 14.6; 1.6 16.1
16.1 13.7 1.5116,9
35.4
21.9 13.3
5 5 4.0 3.5
30.6
17.5
12 0
I
4.9
4.8
6.0
66.6 39.311.6 64.4. 36,4 10.9
61.7 23.61 8.0
17 14.1 2.1 15,3; 1.0ll4.8*
I I
.6|33,4l
.6 34.6 .734-6
1.6 1.6
.9
3.8
2.9 19
1,0 .8 .7
1.0 1.1
.8
1.2 1-6 1.1
2.8 2,7 3.2
11.8
12.7
S
250.0 373.3
261.0
676.4
691.9 683.9 667.6
716.3
709.8 718.8
608.3 631.8 633.5
187 4 664.6 203.6; 665.0 197,7 687.2
2 0 16.6 361 6i 737.3 1.8|U.6I 368,3 726.4 l,5ilfi.9 370.0 766.5
5-4 14.11 3.8
5.8 14.9| 3-2[13-8
9|U.7 2 8 1.0 12,2 3.01 .910.2
191.5 671.6 204,3' 669.6
307.61 676.1
Ont of every thousand acres cleared^ 671.7 are devoted to the fourteen crops com- priting the tabls, which ia a slight iDcreftse over the fij^ures of the previona year, aUhongh thfi 9t Lawrence and Ottawa and East Midland difltricta show a decline in ratio.
FALL WHEAT.
I
The reports made to the Bureau in November, 1895, indicated that an increased kreiire waa being given to fall wheat. The crop waa pnt in under most favorable eon* ditions. Some sowing took place ae early as August 25th| and »ome as late as October 25tlif but the bulk was sown about September 15tb. On the whole, October was not nrj favorable to the crop ; the early growth was retarded, and the general condition iTM not the most favorable at the beginniog of November, although mnoh deetred rains I lid more favorable weather were just then promising an improvement. The following mni mete given for the increased acreage : Shortage of straw this year ; decreasing F wodootioa of spring wheat ; very favorable condition of weather and of soil in September; Lope for better wheat prioea.
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I I
I
The May balletin tbus Bumioari?^d the returns regarding the condition of fall wheat : '* There has not been for manj years so unfavorable a report as we have jast received. The large majority of our correspondents report extenaive destruction by freezing from ioe forming on the bare fields. The less is much heavier on clay than on light soils, A large a mo ant will be plowed wp or re- sown to spring grain. The reports from the town- ships along lakes Erie and Ontario, from Windsor to KiDgston, are with very few exceptions, of a most unfavorable nature. In Huron, Grey and part of Simcoe the general report is ^thin and patchy/ The rtiost favorable reports come from a range of townships beginning in Lambton and running east through parts of Middlesex^ Perth» Oxford, Wellington, Duflerin and Sonth Simcoe. Putting the very beat cone true tion upon the reports the general condition at present can be summed up as, poor condition with reduced acreage.'^
'The August reports regarding fall wheat were variable and conflictingp but on the whole rather under than over the average. In Essex and Kent where harvesting began as early as June 26tb, the reports were rather poor. There were numerous complaints of damage by ** Hessian fly," though some said also, ** or some other insect." In Elgin and Lincoln the condition was fair. In Haldimand the situation was summed up thus : **The worst failure for many years.*' Welland reported yields of from five to twelve bushels per acre. Lambton sent good reports, Huron fair, Bruce poor, Grey variable, Simcoe good» In the West Midland counties, from Middlesex to Dufferin, the situation was summed up as fair yield with good quality. Winter killing, drouth and grasshoppefB were causes in various localities for decreasing the yield below what was expected. lo the east most of the crop was harvested from July 10th to 20th. There were many reports of injury, yet on the whole the crop turned out well^ the quality being very good. While from the eskst, where the acreage is iriuch less iban in the west, there were some reports of complete loss, there were others of extraordinary yield.
In November the reports were conflicting regarding fall wheat, but it was said that the crop could be fairly described as of good quality, although in some localities it was injured while in stacks and in hauling. Scattering mention was made of the HessiAa fly and the weevil.
The acreage and yield of fall wheftt are given in the following table by county groupa and for the Province for 1895 and 1896^ together with the average for the Province for the fifteen years 1882-96.
DiBtheta.
Laki« Krio ....,,*
L»ke Huron
Georg'iati Bay
We«t Midland
Lake Ont&rio ......>....
St. Lftwrence and Ottawa.
East Midland
Mortliern Diatriot
Toial*
1896.
Acres,
333,216
134,335
76.122'
239,07S
167,33e:
11,077
34,662
1,139
678,956
BuaheU.
J.
3,157,724 3,206 J07
1.471,396
4,5S3,684
2,911,-
222,17'
496,859
39,260
16,078,441
03617
14.1 16.4 10,3 19,2 4
20,1 20.1 2S 7
17.3
1895.
Acrei
Buftbel,
P3
197.846
108,191
62,29*
20«,384t
143,016
8,066
17,748
656
743,199
8,232,813 16.8
2.276,lK}3 21-0
1,602J44;25 7
3,782,195 18.3
2,637,33'V|l&.6
177,SM22 0
342»J«85 19.3
13,51120.6
14,155,283
19.0
Yt*ATly average for tbe tirteeD years 18tJ3-96.
Acres.
324,964
l.-^S^SSfi
76.448
247,217
160,056
14,049
24,878
638
887,206
BusheU.
4,184.48618.6
2,767.f>58 19 9
1.592,070^30.8
5,087,568130. e
3,236,542 20.9
2f 50.153 18,5
483.5^5119
13,189^20.7
17,625,061
19,9
There ia an increase of 133,756 acrea in the area of fall wheat over the figures for the preceding year, every dktrici shariog in the extension ; but a decrease of L8 bmihelB occora in the average yield of the Province compared with that of 1895, and the totfkl yield ia only 15,078,441, which la scarcely a million buahela more than in the preceding year. The total yield of the West Midland counties amonnts to over foar and a half
L.
milJioii busbels. The Nortbera Bintricts are credited this year with the splendid average jieldof 25.7 busbels per acre, while but 14.1 bushelB were averaged in the h%ke Erie
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SPRING WHEAT.
The first reports regarding spring wheat wore made in August. The area in thia crop ooatinued to decline, and reports were no more encouraging than tbey have been for •e?eral years. The principal complaints were as to inferior quality, though a few sectiona IB th« east f^ye good yields and of first-clasi quality. Most reports were of moderate yields. Harveating began on July 24, and was quite general over the Province at the end of the first week of August. There were a few reports of rust, and also of grasshoppers.
When writing in November correspondents had less than usual to say about spring wheak While the yield was regarded as almost an average one the grain was hardly as pi amp as was looked for.
I The following table gives the acreage and yield by county groups : Lkke £n« Like Enron ^ Ge<jrgi»n B»y
We«t Midland
h%ke ODt&rio ... ....
St. Ia^ re nee Mid OttawA .
East Midland
Novthem District .....
DivtricU.
Totals.
1896.
Aorei.
2,196
28,676 37.106 70»307 70,604 33,022 4,266
Bu^hek.
&K
26,112 11,9 9g,0K3 9.5
12,6 12.2 13.4
i*i,a!
360,525 454,051 1*40,147 1,153,803 424,606 13.3 61,995 14 5
I 3,519,32213.8
1895.
Acres.
i.eas
7,868 22,974 31.198 61,612 6&,046 2d,707
3,866
223,957
Bub he] ft.
<s&
24,763
125.361 377,307 542.961 871,004 1,089,758 378,788 62,611
3»472,543
Yearly average for tlu fifteen years 1^83-90.
Acres.
14.7 15,9 16 4 17.4 14.1 16 8 12,8 16.2
15,5
9,761
39,484
60,687
67,680
142,679
107»699
64,537
7,661
490,188;
Bufthels.
li
it
139,49714.3
416,52514.1
884,583114.6
1,081,62015.1
2,186,899 15.3
1,750,223 16 3
90:,*»68 14 0
133,103 17 J
7,444,411 15.3
There are 255,361 acres in spriog wheat, which is 31^404 more than in the preced- ing year, although but little more than one-half the area given as the average for the fifteen years. The average yield for the Province is only 13.8 bushels per acre, which 11 I 4 buahels lower than the average for 1882-96 The total yield for the year is 3,519,- ^22 bushels, being slightly more than that of 1895, and less than half of the average yield lor the fifteen years. The best average yield for the year is found in the St. Liwrenoe and Ottawa counties, being 16.3 bushels, while that of the Lake Huron district is only 9.5 bushels.
BARLEY.
The August bulletin stated that along Lake Erie there had been a fair yieli, but that I rains had discolored a large portion. In the West Midland district the quality was er, with a fair yield ; in the west the loss by insects was no greater than usual i in Ihe east the indications pointed to a crop above the average in quality. Kotwithstand- lag complaints as to early drouth^ rain at hsrveatingi grasshoppers, etc.| there were pros* peoti of a good yield as corresp3ndenta wrote.
According to November returns there was a go(Kl yield of barley, hut fre<|ue3it ihower* at harvesting had discolored much of the crop, and in a few instances some of the I grain tpdrouted. However, a good deal of excellent bu-ley had been saved*
The ftcre«ge and yield are ((ivea in the following table bj ooanty groups ;
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I
0i>trictfl«
Lftke Erie
Lake Harem
GeorgiftiiBsy
Weit MidUud
Lftke OnUrio
St. Lmwrenoe mnd OttAWS
fiftat MidUod , . . . .
Northera Diatriot
Tot»li
IS96,
AoriM.
43,936
48,590
106^718
144,36&
47.03fi
S7»!H3
i,373
4Ga,792
BTubek,
799,883 1,231,665 l»S7ia6l 3.158,439 S,890,59D 1,2»4438
937.025 56,868
la. 669.744
3
mi
35.5 38.5 28.3 39,1 37.0 36.3 36.0 34.0.
87.4
1895,
Atrm.
38.011 45,384 53,013 116,374 148»453 46,063 88.362
fiaihelf.
786.534, 1,271,588 1,636,367 3,130,56« 3,309,489 1,144,473
865,507|32.e
3,386 56,991
it
38.1
38.0 39 0 36.8 22.3
24.8
Yeirly irers^e for the fifteen yumn IsSS-W.
Acr««^
33.5
478,046 13,090,607.16.3
35,349
53,896;
50.4
132.770
344,879
78,703
66,869
3.173
665,073
BuihcU.
II
862,704 1,429.079 1,303,629 3,418,830
6,2H196 1,890.339 1,6«6. 335,33,7 50,403 33.3
34.4 31.6 25.8 87.8 36.4 34.0
16,754,306
36.6
The ftcreaf^e of bftrlev is 15,254 lees thftn in 1895^ and haa been falliog ofiTBteadiljr for many yean, more aBpecIallj in the eaatern half of the Province. The yield per acre however, ia above the average, which makea the .total yield more than that of the pre oedicg year, although fully four million bnsbola lem than the average for the fifteen years
OATS.
^ oeoi
W The Augnat bulletin reported that the condition of oats in the weat was fair. There
■ waa some injury by mat, and here and there the army worm waa reported. In the latter
case individual farmers have sneered aeverelj, bol the effect upon the total yield of the
province waa small. From the eaat came reparta of a large acreage and good conditton.
The hot weather oaaaed rapid filling, and aome reported light grain.
» According to the November retarna, oats suffered seriously from the attacks of the
army worm in varioai portions of the Province. The rainy weather at cutting was also injurious to late sown oats. Rust and amut were more prevalent than uaual, and much of the grain turned out light in weight, although in aome sections the crop might have been termed first- claaa in every respect.
The following table presenta the acreage and yield by county groups :
Dietricti.
Lake Erie.......
Lake Huron . . .
Georgian Bay . . . Went Midland . . lAke Ontario . . . 8t. Lawrf.mce& Ottawa
East! Midland
Nortberu DiBtricta
'Totali.
1896.
Acret.
Buflholi,
J5 3
P
32,9
Acres.
230,338
7,438,753
218,934
900,479
10,341,863
34 4
397.882
350,353
7,753,362
3L0
346.933
630,443
19.971,313
37.7
525.580,
415,669
14,300,371
34,4
410,255
482,444
16,496,305
S4.2
462,344
179,997
5,506,868
90.6
175,518
39,596
1,173,367
29.6
36,063
2,425,107
82,979,992
34.2
2,373,309
1895.
Buah^
£ "i Aoree.
8.481,808 11,673,633
8,862,445 20,292,238 14,170,951 14,{»04,138
6,389,938
l,i22,3til
84,6l7,5f;6
Yearly average for the fifte«D yoam 18t^ 96.
38.7i 88.9 35.9; 38.6 34.6 33.3 30.1 31.1
35.7
178,893 208,690 179,198 386,714 319,7il2 407,808 133,407 34,687
1,838,069
BusheJa.
n
6,167,304 7,363,489
5,963,583 14,496,190 11,350,846 13,0l7J»5i
4,079,269
84.6
30 .S 33.8 37.S 36.« 31.9 SO.B
752,097 30.6 63,019,912 34.1
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Ad increaae in the acreage of oata is obeerved in every diatncti but the averAge jield per acre is 34 2 boabels^ whichp while nearly eqaal to that of the average for the fifteen jmn^ is 1.5 bushels less than the yield of 1895. The result is that the total yield it 1,717,574 bushels below that of the precediug year. lo the West Midland district, where the acreage is large and the yield usually generons, Boms twentj millions of bushels of oata are now annually f^rown. Until 1893 the St Lawrenoe and Ottawa group led in
of this cereal.
RYE.
^
Compared with other grains this crop is not largely grown. The Aogast bulletin iiid the followiag to say regarding it : ''In the east there are a few reports, some lair, bDl most are good ; in the west the crop varies about the same. On the whole the crop ii qnjte up to the average for quality/'
The November returns were to the effect that there had been about an average yield, and that the grain sampled well, while the area had increased.
The acreage and yield by county groups and for the Province are given in the follow^ iBg table :
1896.
Diflirictt.
tAka Erie
Lake Huron ...
Gwsiaa Bay
WMMidlMtd
IiKk« Ontario
9l Lawtpqca and Ottawa
EMt IbiidlADd . ,
•Kivtbem LHttricts
T<»U1b. *-.
Aorea*
26,4«6 4,6f>3 7,501
46,176
21,793
14,931
871
146,690
Both els.
1895.
Yearly »irerik|?e for the fifteen yean 1882 96.
342.121 13,9 72,752 15-6 129,61«17-3 430.548 16.4 662,392 US 366,598 16.81 313,108|14,S| 13J1L15.7I
2,250,873 15 0. 120,350
\ I I
Acres.
23,221
2,556 8,409 20,006 39,010 18,220| 13.3261 603|
Btiih«l0.
354,327 15. S
48,180 18.9
67,78016.9
349,894 17.5
584,616 15.0
305,584 "' ~
188,313
ll,Ba5
1.900,117
16.8 14.1 19 3
16,8
13,215
1,361
3,195
7.487
31,796
28,355
16,199
865
102,473
Bush ell.
199,241115.1 23,5a« 17.3 55,267 17.8
125,5IKH
466,540
497,602 17.5
248,619 16,316
1,631,799
16.8 14 6
!5.3 18.9
15,9
There are 28,330 acres more in rye than in the previous year, and this inoreaie hi I been shared in by every group. The yield per acre is almost an average one. Rye I
Ofe than doabled its area in the last three years, but mnch of the crop is sown for green ' feed, and the tigures given for total yield of grain should therefore be disconnted.
PEAS.
The Angnst bolletin had the following aboat peas : Lite sowiDg, *' to avoid the [bag," is more oonimon than ever, and as a consequence there has been little harvesting Da by Angnst 8th. There are very few poor reports ; many report a heavy growth of Mildew has been fonnd here and there. Th^ reports of " bugs ** are not so 'fiomerans as formerly. The following ate fair samples of correspondents' comments £l *' An exoellent crop," ** Onr best crop,'* " Very few bags,'' *' Never had better," ** One ( tlif beat crops of Ontario,*' *' Graaehoppers don't eat peaa,'' etc. A good crop may be for. According to the November reports the crop could be sum mad np as fair, although , in Kuoe w«item sections it suSered from drouth. The ** bugs," while nnmerons, did not to have been any more destructive than usuaL
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The acre&ge and yield are gi\r6ii in the following table hy county groups ;
liiitricta.
I^akt* Erie
Lake Huron
Georgian Ray .
Wort Midland .........
l^ke Ontario .
St. Lawrence and Ottawa
Eatt Midland
Northern DUtricte
Totals
1896.
Aoree.
60,088
11 ►.721 ]5f,155 225,181 83.028 74.391 17,904
829,601
Busbeli^
(S S.
853,784 17.0 2,525,913 23.1 2.745,115 23,7
1896.
Actea.
3,272,586 4,541,739 1,685,787 1,463,612 404,662
17,493,148
n,2
20.2 20 3
19 7 22 6
21.1
46,592 101,366
ni,no5
143,256
Buabela.
^j^,10'J 83,6061 74,4641
16,9821
778,9;*7 2,300,300 2.37riJ17 .\ 1**0,96 1 3.89;,448;17-r^ I,f)01,.H0LMH 0
il
17 1 22.7 21-3 22. .S
1,149..^1 373,827
15 4 22 0
Yearly average for the fifteen yean 1882^96.
Aerea,
Bnahelfl.
Ui
IS fc
19 SI
799,963| 16,508,10319,6
59,011 1 87,826 87,e20 140.805 174,230 89,433 57,4961 11,423'
707,844
1,041,543,17, e 1,940,988 22.1
],8g3,89&'2r6 2,9f". 1,896 21.0
3,413.649
1,7I9,H83
1,091,330
259,089
14,322,273
19.6 19. 2 19.0 22 7
20,2
The area of peas is still increasiDg, although the St Lawrence and Ottawa and East Midland groups are slightly below their respective acreages of the previous year. The average yield per acre ia 21 A bushels, which is nearly one bushel above the average for the fifteen years, and makes the total yield of the Province 17,493,148 bushels. The largest area of peas is found m the L&ke Ontario eountiea.
OORN< The following table shows the acreage and yield of com by oounty groups :
i
Distrtota.
For busking.
For alio and fodder.
Total area.
Acres.
Btt^hels {in the ear),
U
H
«&
Acres.
17,874
16,219
17,579 13,954
11,612 7,861
36.933
32,711
88,936 33,145
43.638 36,918
11,939 10,276
661 316
178,962 149,899 125,498
Tons (^een.)
It 1'
1896 aores.
1895 acrea.
AiP«raM
1682^% aorea.
Lake Erie | ^^gj
j Lake Huron ....{la^B GeorgianBay....(l^ Weit Midland -{J^
Lake Ontario ....{ J®^
St, Lawrence and/ 1896 Ottawa 11895
East Midland ^ . ■ { Jg^
Northern Dij- / 1896 tricti ,,,....\1895
ri896...
Total*.,. ,< 1896...
1 1892-96
153,583 149,921'
23,961 23,914
3,752 3,317
45,791 44,591
37,467 83,392
41,3^ 37,961
11,220 9,362
657 471
317,667 302.929 267,340
12,282,095 13,423,60*5
1,917,844 1,975,079
180.617 216,924
3,623,603 3,888,624
2,606,158 2,323,804
2,786.746 2,904,821
64S,466 662,287
26,836 24,764
24,071,364 24,319,899 18,093,816
80,0 89.5
80,0 82.6'
48 I
66 4
79.1 76.0
69.6 69.6
67.4 76,6
57-8 60.1
48.2 52.6
76.8 81 9 70,3
158,799 137,201
194.212 168.274
143,662 96,603
401,644
377,525
397,048 382,7^
635,816 496,945
112,140 114.797
5,669 2,689
1,948,780 1,775,654 1,354.526
8 88\
9 03/
11 05 \
12 06/
12 371 13.99 / 1
10.87 \ il^54J
10 20\ 11.65;
12.31 \ 13.46/
9.401 11.17/
9.931 8.22/
10.89) 11,85 } 10.79 J
171,457 41,540 16,364 82,724 76,403 84,874 23,149 1,118
496,629
165,140 37,868 10,678 77,302 60,687 74,879 19,638 786
4fiS,828
110,370
16^961
4,429
39,064 39,443
10,999 494
258,196
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Every dtfitrict has an enlarged area, botb in corn for haaking and for fodder pur- p09t$t the total for the Province ahovring an increase of 43,801 acres, two-thirds of which iddition is claimed for the silo and fodder. The yields per acre of both okaaea of corn m Jan than in the year before, bat are above the average for the five years 1892-96.
In the August bulletin an increased area waa reported. Gruba and grasshoppers did lome injury, and a few correspondents feared the army worm, bat the crop was not nerioiiBly affected by insect pests. In many sections, more pcirticnlarly in the h ike Erie district, considt'rable damage was done by rain, but the splendid corn weather of the latter pirt of July and the beginning of August had brouQ^ht the plant along grandly ; and although a conaiderable portion of the seed was put in late to supplement the anticipated poor crop of hay, the main crop of corn was spoken of aa earing in a most laliafActory manner.
Noirember reports regarding corn varied with local conditions. In diflferent parts of the Province a portion of the crop waa caught by frost, aod conaequently some of that grown for fodder was injured in its feeding value. Frost did little damage to the ears, but in many instances these were hardly as plump or as fully matured as uauaK The large acreage and the good yield, however, will ensure an abundance of fodder both ai_ •tover and silage.
The following are extracts from remarks of correspondents :
Kbom thk Mat Rctubns.
1>iiiui« HaldimaQd : FarmerH are growiog morti enRllage com thun they uied to, and find it a vet [txrofiUblefood.
I Walpolo, Hmldimand : Feeding \itka been done econuaaically tbia eeiifian, with more of coro fodder and [ diopf^ frrAiM and letn of hay. I think the Mtuck have come* through better according to the food consumed * tluii "'. '' yeart*,
. Gr«y: Many farmers have learned the vatuable te«on that by chop pug straw and foddet 1 - "ith pulped roots, and feeding with the addition of some oraahed grain, cattle may be
^V- Cattle feerlors have in thi» way fed for the May and Jnoe marketfi, and the calUe ratter by any other eyfttem of feeding,
Bydi^nhiiai, Grey: More corn is all the talk for foider. Last wint&r haK taught faruiers a lesson. Tl»«y ni*v«tr ku^w how little an animal cotdd be fed on till last winter. They all kciow it now. Experlenoe ii ibt beit teacher of all.
Vwpra, Stmfv^ff : A strip of ooanfcty through the Georgian Bay region (mff^red severely from droakh ; n much an tha ! ^ere hard put to bring their f took through the winter. Thoae whn wiTd wise or
laivtnateentML t plenty cf corn were all right, and although many of the in ir** pnwprrous and
tirriftv farri.r r _.._ their stock through in gi>od ehaj^e, yet I di> not remember of ever Reding so many
p& iiroagh the country aa I see thi** year. It ba^ taught a I^j^oo to mauy^ however, that
^u no well in any other way, and that ii the im|)ortanoe of corn au a fodder crop for years
f : I y trequent cultivation it can be buccesafully grown even in seaions of severe drouth,
^l ' 1 i I L ray, Middlesex : Farmers generally cut their straw and fed it with chop or pulped roots* The «ln !■ not yet in general u»e, but ensilage li beyond doubte the most economic&l mode of feeding stock. Help IS io entcnii of demand*
^' ^ ??., Oxford : The feeding of the paat winter haa been princi{Mklly oom stalks and chopped ipr %Uka are put throuf?h a ripper, which tear4 them into nhavingH. tnaking them eawier for the
MS f^ w, and very little i^ left uoeaten. Th»* stalks in a great many inat&oces are brought in from
tie Uild ,tud cut during the winter, being mixed with about one-naif btraw to keep from beating, i think a Laa bad a gooij effect upon farmers, as the^^ have found it not necessary to stuff their animals with hay to make them c<ime otit thrifty in the spring.
Ani» Uasbtirg, Prince Edward : Feeding iii praeti8«?d in thii township as follows : The stock is housed, Nul grain, hiW^ com italks and straw are fed regularly with grain alternating. Very little corn is cured in tks siki, but tne farmers are begiuaing to agitate the question, &nd ere long this mode may be generally
-4ton, Frontenao : There has been a great change in agricultural working within the last few y^MH
1 the farmers have quit growing grain for foreign markets, but keep more live i^tock and feed
ju'ii'iv aU gftjwn on the farm Large quantities of com fodaer are now grown. A good number of farmers
ia«« hdilt rik^ii. Had it not be^n for the large quantity of com grown last year, one-h»lf of the cattlu would
IsTt hjuJ I'j be put away, a.'^ there waa not nearly enough other feed to iceep the large number of stock now
't tht^ .-(iTUTtry,
C.Ai^'Joota, Proaooti: The moat notable change in agricultural methods ta an enlarged area of oora, ' 'Afiloi for fodder porpoeei, together with better cultivation of the soil therefor.
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LftxIoDp Tictom : Thoiie who wero «o fortun^to «a to pf»nt fodder corn lajit eeaioo were looked ap«« M being "in lock ** by their oeighbori who b^l oot done »o. The oonBequence is thftt ther# will be *" oorD planted.
AMpbodeL,, FeCerborough : Huve found out tbia winter that we bftve heretofore been feeding our 4)prMa twice too much hay. For younft and dAiiv catile we will have to plant mere corn. There lehim tm hm a fair t.upp*y cf farm help, Atich aa they are, Tboy are but litole betttr than none, unleaa you work witli them*
Morriaou, Muakoka: The Hih) ia eiteuding bnt aIowIjt, and ect^^i^tiu for supplying the macufaoturiM and care of enailage are being taken advantage of, aa the low i ricea of all farm t(r(>duct«, and the additional ccst of im^ roved implem^fnta now in general me, make it bard to make both enaa meet.
FbOM TBK NoVJCMBEIt Rktubks.
Harwich, K^ut : There ta n< t much ensilage here. The corn for general uae in feeding r^tock ia i4*nted in rowa about tbiriy incbea apait, and gone over with hor«e oulttvator aa long ka it will t tan d ibt It ifl cut when matoring
Raleigh, Kent : Enailage ia not prat ttacd to any gr^ae eitent here. Th^re are a few ftiloa to be found, and they liave given good satiafaction*
EaNgh, Kent : Many new ailoe have gone up thit 5 ear.
Aldboruugh, £lgin : No ailoe are run here,
Dorche&te-r, Elgin : There are very few eiloa here* I have had one for three year^.
Dunwicb, Elgin ; Tbere are but two ailoa in this towniihip.
Yatiiiotith, Elgin: Corn baa not been thrown much for «ijLsil»ge, as aloni; Lake Kjie'a iihore we feuch heavy cropH of the gram (eared cotdj that it would nit pny to put rt into the ailo, when we have oo many hf«ga to feed the com gruin to,
Walaingbam S., Norfolk : En^i^age ia^not progr«a«ing, but rather retrograding in thia kM»lity.
Oanboro'f Ualdimand : We have an immenae crop of enatlage com grtwn thia ^ear, but there la ao nia in thit* IcjCHlity,
Mt^uH n, Haldimand ; A laige quantity of enailage corn ia grown, acd aome silra have been bnUt thii year.
Sherbrooke^ Haltlimand : I do not know of any ailo in thia townahip. Ensilage corn ia raia«d for greea fodder in the summer and tlrsed f ^r the winter,
Bosanquet, JLambton : Knailage ia adopted, but to a limited extent. Ct rn ia the cr<:ip grown for ailage. The ground ia well prepare:] for the com and murked both ways, and juat an aoon as it geta out of the ground we get at it with the MsuQler, and keep at it, firat one way and then acr^iaa. Unly shallow atirring ia neceaaary.
Colborne, Huron : Corn enailage ia coming iLto favtr, but the froat injured the crop greatly.
Gicy^ Huron : There are no ailoa here« Com ia mofitly cot and lefte to dry in the 6eld,
Hullett, Huron : A great deal of corn hoa been grown, and it ia a very heavy crop. Siloa are alowly •n the ineiea»e. No ciop but oorn ia raiaed for the silo. Yellow Dent i» grown in drilla about three feet foQr inchfa apat t and in bil1». It ia cut juat in the glazed atage,
Uit«rne, Huron : Enailage ia adopted only in a few caaea,
Wawanoah, E., Huron : There are ver^ few ailos. Corn liere la geierally cut aud atooked the aaaae ■• wheat, and ia either stortd in buildinga on ita end, or left in the i«ld and drawn in h* wanted.
Brant, Bruce : Of rn baa been got into the aile in good condition. The aeed ia put in by the com
Slanter ao aa to clean both waya. Learning and Lenaway ^eem to be the faToritea, Thoae who cut b€l#rtt eptember 23rd got it in in good condition.
Brant, Bn^ce : There ia an odd one here and there building ailoa. Many othera leave the com abocked in the Geld, and bring it in ai they need it during the winter. CarTi is the mainatay for ftidder, and la general it turned out welL Some wae left uncut a little too hng, and waa fronted, but not iufficient to materially damage.
Brant, Bruce : There have been quite a number of ailoa built in thia townahtp dQrui|f the past aeaaon, moetly circular onea. Fodder corn ia the only crop oted in them, A large percentage was uncut at tlw time of froal, and oonaequontly waa mueh damagod.
Elderalie, Bruce : There are about a doiten ailoa in this iownabip, and those who have them apeak well of tbem.
Bentinck, Grey : The iilo baa not been adopted in ^is locality. We generally low the Red Oob or Southf^rn Sweet with drilla, and dry on the field*
Kgrexnont, Grey : Only a very few have ailoa aa yet*
Glenelg, Grey : There are not many ailoa here, but all kinds of corn are grown to perfection*
St, Vincent, Qrey : Very little corn i«. ailoed. It ia mnatly fed dry, cut, with meaJ. Mammoth Southern, Compton's Early and Butler'a Early are the mott popular for dry feeding.
Matchf^daah, Simcoe : There in only one ailo in the towniahip. We consider Learning oorn the be«| for anatlage. It grnwa ten feet high, haa two ears on it, and comf a to the glazing stage in September.
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Ifftdoiate, Siincoe : EnMiUffe is ooinini;^ into more lue every year. 1
Oiford. W., Oxford : A good doibl o! the Eieex Dent has been pat into the iilo on the green ijde. 4
Zorm, E.( Oxford : Several nilos have beea baili. Com for ensilage was never anrpx^aed. '
fiuff r>fd, Branl : I am not into the silo baaineta myielf . The informabioQ I ean obtain hat not yet ' me to build a silo.
Onoiuiaga, Brant : There t4 only one ailo hereabuutSt and that was not filled this year. J
Blaaahardi Perth : A few have built siloa this ^ear. Cku-n was an excellent crop. ■
Ellice. Perth : The aito does not appenr to be ^owiDg^ in favor here, m
KttllM'ton. Perth : There arc three ailoa in the townthip, but I do not know much about them. ^
Ltitber. W., WeUiogton : There are no ailoe built yet, but fodder coro has been eiteoaively ^Qwn thia
Grtmsby 3.. Lincoln: There are no uLloa in this townahipi but a ffood deal of Southern Sweet corn m (nmn for f^diof^ purposes.
Beverley, Weutworth : There is only one eilo in this towoship.
daltilr%t, Wentworth ; Many fsrmeni here now raise fodder corn for winter, to take the place of the ^kiriaKe in hay, which lh becoming so general. There are not maoy siloa here.
Trafalgar, Hal ton : Silcm are not in gtmeral favor here. Most farmers prefer curing m the field, and tbra cutting and mixing with Btraw in wioter.
OhiAguacoosy, Peel : There are not many silos here, but quite a number grow corn for feed. .
Tiironlo Gore, Peel : About half the corn was injured by frost before cutting. f
Vanghan, York : Com is the only crop grown for ensilage. It grew well, but most of U got frosted Ware it waa cut, which will injure it conaiderablv for feed.)
Darlington, Durham i <juite a large Dumber sre uting enstlfige, but it has not turned on! as well aa lal thiti year.
Hope, Darham : One of our neighbor>i has a bilo, and is making converts^ I think there will be mora I ant year.
Haldimand, Northumberland : Most ^rmers raise an acre or more of enaiTage oorn, bul there i» not ive than ooe ntto to twenty farmere.
HiiDLltoD, Nortbamberland : There are several siloa in the t<iwnahip.
Sopbtaaburtr, Prince Edward : A number of farmers have gone into making enailage for their stock, and I tki fom crop was good.
Richmond, Lennox : There has been no iucreaae in the number of ^iloa.
Olarendon^ Frontenac : There are no silos in this towuship, but a very large amouDt of fodder com is '- which la dried in stcoks in the field.
Kingatoo, Frontenao : The practice of ensilage has been adopted more this year than previou^ily. It will '\ lued dnring the winter, as the hay crop ie ^hort.
Slorring^tno, Frontenac : Most of the wideawake farmers have silos. The principal crop grewn for ^ I them is com. The earlier Dent varieties are principally grown.
Lansdowne, Leeds : A few silos were Hllod, but the making of ensilage is not generally practised. Ownberlaod, Russell : No more ailoa were built thi^ year. Corn for the lilo turned out very wnll. We I Longfellow and Dent^ cutting before frost when corn is glazed. ,.^_^^^
Oi|goode» Carleton : Fodder is plentiful. There are a few ailoa, but they do not appear to be m&kuig ] h boMJIway* The crop of corn appears to be ynarly incraaaing. It ib cut greeu^ and stooked in tho held i Idrr. Some people leave it out all winter, bu^ thia methr>d does not «pem to be growing in favor, j n dnv it into their bams or other butldings, and pack it in standiit^ on end. Id thia way it appeaffl J
wmm iMl. The corn is now all sown in rows, from two and a half to three feet apart, and about threo ^
rfm incbea apau-t in tha rows.
?aab«<fek«, Renfrew : There are three or four silos io the township, and they are thought to be a graal Drumaoad, Lanark: Those are a good many silos in this township, and com is the only crop grown far
DniBBMOod, Lanark : A few siloa are in operation. Corn is the only crop used.
Kldoa, Victoria : One farmer in thia townahip has a silo.
I^xtan, Tictoria : Thei*e is oniy one silo in thia localit^y. Com has been grown extensively for fodder tks f rar, and will be More so in fature. Farmers are begtoning lo find out that it is the crop to depend t^B tor feed, ^ ^^^^^
^artpoea* Victoria: The tilo is gaining ground every year, several having been erected in this section. ' ''HI u Uit crop grown. .— ^^.^.^^
A«pbn<]«L Peterborongh : Several ailoa have been built in Ibis county. It waa generally got in in good | ^wditioe, alihough aoma was injured by frost.
Mtnnabeny Peterbofnugli : There are not many siloa in this township. I have one, filled with fn =^^^ I grew ft OB tod plowed under, and it yielded well
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Glamorgan, Halibnrton : There are no siloe, although all over the township corn ior ensilage niigfat \n grown snoceosfully. ,
Lutterworth, Haliborton : We have no silos in this township, but more com is grown for feed thai ever before. ,
Tyendinaga, Hastings : Ensilage is not generally adopted, but a large acreage of com is sown.
Morrison, Muskoka : One man only has a silo in this locality. He seems to like it. He grows a kifi kind>of com, cut when nearly ripe.
Watt, Muskoka : One more silo. has been built this season. Com is grown in this case ; in my owi oaae com and sunflower. Corn is not a good crop, and sunflower not a half crop. Compton's Early an^ Pearce's Early Prolific I find bettt adapted to this locality ; grown in drills three feet apart and seed aboal eight inches apart.
St. Joseph, Algoma : Two new silos were built and filled this season. Corn is the crop used.
BUCKWHEAT.
This is not a common crop, and reports are not nnanimons as to its oonditioiL What little was grown did fairly, except where the frost appeared while the grain wai filling. A Gleogarry correspondent reported that grasshoppers had damaged the crop.
The acreage and yield by county groups and for the Province are given in du following table :
Districts.
1896.
1895.
Yearly fifteen
average for the years, 1882-96.
Acres.
Bushels.
Acres.
Bushels^
ml
IE
Acres.
12,413
1,608 2,486 3.114
30,fJ65
31,026
9,^64
720
Busbela.
1^
Ijake Erie .... . ,
16,637 2.012
9,100
S,558
63.316
149.106
18J50
1K*7
284.801 36,786 175,612 13OJ00 868,364 80H,36G 280,315 18,846
18.0 18.0 13.3 19.9 16.3 20. 7^ 16.0 18.9
17. &
16,167 1,619
7J87
6,009
62,122
85.671
16,709
968
320,O7S 31,326
165J0(2 121,693 991,001 819,743 311,331 51,876
20.4 20.2 23.1 20.3 19.0 23.0 19. H 32,8
227,478 27,267
47,803
53,986
688,662
644J88
187,680
15,466
18.3
Ijiftke Huron .*.*,■,.,. .
18.1
Gftorgifta Bay, . * . . . , , . . Wc^&t Midland
19,2 1B.8
Lake Otitario
19.3
St. Lawrence and Ottawa East Midland. ,
20.8 18.8
Nortbem Districts ..... Totab......
21.6
146,806
3.603,669
135,262
2,791,749
20.6
91,82.^
J,798»028
19. e
Every group except the Lake Erie shows an increase in area, making a total increaai of 10,344 acres. The average yield per acre is 17.9 bushels, which is less than that o the preceding year, and also below the average for the fifteen years. The total yiel< does not equal that of 1895. The bulk of the crop is raised in the Lake Ontario ani the St. Lawrence and Ottawa districts.
BEANS.
According to August reports, the late rains in south-western Ontario injured th beans on low lands ; otherwise, the crop is in good condition, although it was then i little early to report definitely. The yield on well drained land promised to he extr good, the only poor reports being as to low lying fields.
ONTARIO BUREAU OF INDUSTRIES.
The November balletiti remarked : Rain at the lime of pl&nting hurt this crop on low linda, and wet weathf?r at harvestiog aleo did iDJury. Some Bectione, however, report good yielda, and the return per acre is about an average.
The following table gives the acreage and yield of beana by county groups and for the Province :
Difttricu
UbFn.
Ub HurMH
ti«er|f;an Hrtv, _ , .
W«t Mil uui ..,„
Ukn OQt»rio.
vSt L«wreoce And DtUWA
KiiiMidlwid .,
North€ni l^iAtrictf . .....
Total i
1896
1899
Yearly fivorage for the
Ultec^ti yeiirw. 1882-96.
Acrea.
BiisLi^tf).
iSi
Acrfi<
BusholB
1%
Acre*.
mi
Btiihe*fl. 'I ^
'Is
17.4
21J
ca - '
49,4frB
863,051
61»549
1,0S6J69
26.001
437.323
16 8
»,447
C2.175
18 0
8,517
70 G60
20 1
1 163
20,C98
17 a
1,062
21,014
19 8
1.43H
29,545
20 «
454
8.241
18.2
S.y32
72.035
18.3
4,491
9*,«^7
21 1
1,611
28,167
17.6
i.904;
7B.221
16.5
6,873
103.490
17.6 ,
2tm
49.044
17.5
S,913
77.181
10 7
8,904
75,799
19.4
?,372
68.074
20.5
l,fil5
24.061
15. !i
1850
31.223
la 9
798
18.233
16.7
126
1,807
14.3
-
17 6
1
127
1.799
14.2
101
1.7^
17,6
68,369
1,197.53&
72^747
1,494,179
20.6
36,301 j
637,660
17.3
Every district e^toept the Lake Ontario group shows a slight decrease in the acreage of beans. The yield per acre, while a little above the averat^e for the fifteen years, iibJ Uiree hoahels per acre leaa than in the precedmg year, and the result of the decreased? ireaand yield per acre is that the total yield per acre is 296,644 bushels short of that «l I89i>. Fully 72 per cent, of the total area of beaos is found in the Lake Erie diiinct
FIELD ROOTS.
August reports regarding root crops were somewhat contradictory even in the same itownshtps. The seed in many quarters failed to fully " catch," owing to drouth, but that [which came up was doing remarkably well where the grasshoppers were not attacking the I. Later reports showed that a most satisfactory yield was realized from all olasse^ > roots, and that these crops as a rule were housed under favorable circumstances.
Potatoes. The August bulletin said that while reports regarding potatoes did not
agree, it looked as if there would }ye a fair yield in most sectioDs. Early planted
» small in size owing to the drouth, but those put in later promised a better return.
[Rot was reported in low- lying places in the Lake Erie counties, but other districts
been comparatively free from it. The bug was reported as numerous by some
sdesta, while others stated that this pest was not nearly so bad as usual.
November reports were to the effect that potatoes had yielded well and were of good Jity. Rot -wma common on low-lying land?, more particularly in some of the Lake > comities. In the Georgian Bay group the potato crop was spoken of as an excellent
riau^yb
ONTARIO BUREAU OP INDUSTRIES.
The acreage and yield of potatoes are given by «x>imty group« in the following table :
Districti.
Loke Erie
Ltitka Hurnn , , Geur^iiui Hftv .
WeAtMidlami., .. .
Lake Ontario
St. LawrfDce a ad Ottawa. Eaat Midland ., ,,..,. Northern Diatricts
Totals
1896.
1895.
Yearlf fifteen
average for the
ye&rfl 1882-96.
AcrtiH.
BuiibelA.
-5 u
Aetm,
1 i
Bii*h6i«. II :
Acres,
Bufehelii.
102
i^
s^
16 48]
Ifi 818
1,947,627
ICO
19,667
2,622.4791 133
1.686,657
II ^^'M
1,773,993
126
14,ti>3
2,225 614 167
12,782
1,479.906
116
' ' . "' ■>
2.288,300
137
16.652
2,i>6tt,4«0
178
14,258
1,826,573
128
^:s,,;i3
4 318,^7
130
34,961
5,*t3l,M5
167
27,573
8.347.859
121
40,658
4,267,913,
lO'i
41,421
6,333,35s*
153
33,043
3J14.057
112
87,557
4,808,176
128
89,0(»3 fi,416,440
im
38.295
4.708,564
128
12,798
1,200.9W 94
13,783 2,182,007
158
12,317
1,483,220
r^o
4,782
b79,5fil
142 lli>
4,877 184,647
812,950
167 159
3,495 158,244
617.654
146 119
178,965
21,305,477
29,390,881
18.764,490
I
The area in potatoes is 5,6S2 acres lesa than in the preceding year, and every gronp except the Georgian Bay district shares in the decrease* The average yield per acre la 119 bushels, being exactly the same as that of the fifteen years, but is 40 bushels below that of 1895. As a consequence the total yield of the Province is more than eight mil- lion bushels less than that of the previous year.
Manobl-Wurzkls. The drouth at seeding time was not favorable, notwithstand* ing which the crop gave prospect as correspondents wrote in August of an encouraging yield. The November bulletin had the following : *' Ooi respondent « who grow mangeU speak well of the crop, and none of the other field roots have done as well. Had they come op evenly the yield would have been an enormous one, but the drouth at seeding told against a successful catch."
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The fol lowing table shows the acreage i
lad
yield of mangel- wurzels by county groups :
Districte.
1896.
1886.
Yearly average for the fifteen years 1882-96.
Acres.
2,974 5,2t5 1,874 12,017 8,042 3,751 2,524 204
Busheb.
6
Acres.
BoflhelH.
•° u
461 507 434 492 445 411 4J2 807
464
Acres.
Buahels.
4ie
46S 421 467 438 385 412 310
441
Lakp Erie.,.
Ltake Huron
Gec»rgian Baj
1,319,664 2,663,298
589,550 6,458,806 3,243,868 1,516,614
295,299 77*802
444
509 429 537 403 404 894 882
467
2,912 4,854 1,804 11,140 7,389 4,032 2.600
1,841,982 2,462,474 566,7*i5 5,479,101 3,284,928 1,058,173 1.12S.44il
1,654 2,980 1,049 7,328 5,624 2,134 1,608 101
22,478
688, 88€ 1,378,958
441,568 3,423,667 2,463.403
820,865
661,784 31 357
Weat Midland
Lake Ontario
St. Lawrence and Ottawa. . . £aat Midland
Northern DiBtriets . . . ► , * . * .
152 46,633
TotalB...,,
36,101
16,£49,40l
34,383
15,961,502
9,910,468
Every district except the St. Lawrence and Ottawa and East Midland eidiibita an increase in the area of mangels, the result being that there are 1,718 acres mnre than in the previous year. The average yield per acre is large, being 3 bushels more than in 1895, and 26 bushels more than the average for the fifteeen years. In the West Midland counties, where mangels appear to be most popular, the average yield is 537 bushels per acre, white in the Northern Districts, where but few of these roots are raised, the average yield was only 382 bushels per acre.
ONTABIO BUKEAU OP INDUSTRIES.
Cai
This
orop alfio failed to iDftke a good catob ai seeding owing to t dry weather prevailing, but it toon gave promiBe of a more than average yield* The November reports showed a divided opinion p some correspondents speaking of the crop as ft good one, and others saying it was poor. The average yield is a satisfactory one. As in the case of mangels, this crop was almost free from insect pests.
The acreage and yield of carrots are given in the following table by county groaps :
Diiiriets.
lAka Erie...
Iftkc HaroD , - . .
G«or|n&n Bay ..........
Wett Midland
IaIw Otiturio .......
Si Lftvretice and Ottawa
Sill Midland
Hottbem Uittricta
IVytak.....
1896,
Acre«.
787 2,761 2,112 2,632 1,185
Bugheb.
•Si
490,679 526,274 290,474 1,131,693 672,700 934,060 380,423 131,638
12,333 4,61S,44!
^ ^
e S
1895,
372 410
369 432 319
3m;
a35 330
374
Acres.
BusIkU.
1,461 '
516.702
l,l»9
427,287
1,016
34l»833
2,879
1,105,082
2.197
74S,iS3t>
2.581
915,339
' 306
420,619
363
105.675
13.003
4,581.373
13 3f £9 "
354 356 3S6 384 341
291
352
Yp»?3y mvetagm for the iiftpen yearn It^ 96.
Acre«.
843 1,024
1,062 2,247 2.517 1,850 916 316
B^fthfllf, -| ^
10,666
263.867 369.509, 380.^)24 846.858 924,001 &97,942i 306,902, 337 61,819 286
313
361 362 377 367 323
3,753,882!
352
There is a falling off in the acreage of carrots in the first five districts in the table, tod &l8o in the East Midland group, bat an increase in the area of the two remaining diflricU, compared with the figures for 1895^ the net result being a decrease of 669 acres. Tbe average yield of the Province is 374 bushels per acre, being 22 bnehels above both t^t of the preceding year and that for the fifteen years.
TuBM IPS, Thi9 crop made a bad start, owing to drouth at seeding, and it was attacked hj gra^hoppers in many parts of the Province, yet when correspondents wrote in August it WK promising better than mangels or carrote..
November reports wore to the efiect that while many regarded the crop as a good one others thought it the opposite. The turnips averaged a large yield, but were smaller in
nzethan usual.
The table following shows the acreage and yield of turnips by oonnty groups and for ths Province ;
Diitrictn.
Lak« Erie.
Ltke Huron., •,•««
Georgiaa B»t* , . , ■.
WflftMidUnd....... . .
I Li^ Ontario- ,..,..,... .
L Si. Law?«noe aiid Ottawa.
■ Imi iliilland
■ Korlbani LHstricti .......
a
To<a]
1806.
Acres.
3,374 16,701
18.516 45,750 43,849
7.102 10,760
3.182
148,234
BasheJe
1,230,899 7.925,800 8.740.532 24,afi6,436 18.941,817 3,171.355 4,430,594 1.087,408
69,814,841
365 475 472 531 442 447! 412 342
18^5.
Acres*
3,815 18,438 19.022 45,749 44,004
6,499 11,409
2,880
471 161,806
6i]«helB.
il
1,472.7*51 7,287.972 8,188,504 19,264,704 18,738.595 2,779,4r^ 4,740,832 1,023,870
63,496,702
386 395 430 421 42tl 428
4ia
356
418
Yearly average for the fifteen yetrs, 1882-96.
Acres.
3,644
14,243
14,496
S8,204
33,466
4,872
7»241
2,402
117,557
BuftbeK
955,»75
6,918,008
6,167.406
16,732,373
14,512,590
1,820,594
2,790,70^1
791,404
362 416 426 488 434 874 385 329
49,689,056 42i»
20
OXTAEIO BUREAU OF INDUSTRIES
Tbe area in this crop haa declined 3.572 acree compared with the previoaa year, although three of ilie districta do not share in the shrinkage. The average yield per acre is Urge, being 471 bnahelp, which brings the total yield up to nearly leventy million buehels, or over six million baiihe-s in excess of that of the previous year. The immense average yii-ld of 531 bushf^Is per acre in the West Midland group — the district which has the largest acreage in this crop — is the most striking feature of the table*
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HAY AND CLOVER
The May poor catch
bulletin has the following to say of clover . *' The in the ppring of 1895. The drouth of summer
rfd clover made a poor catcb in tne ppring of i»U.!>. ine droutti ot summer in the west was another B*rt back. Consequently it went iato the winter in rather poor toudition* There was considerable freezing out during the past winter and fpring, and the present reports are quite unfavorable. Bome say that it is becoming more and more ditBcultto grow red clover, and others go even as far aa to siy th^t the day of rei clover is past in Ontario. The worst reports are from tbe west. The reports from the St. Lawrence and Ottawa and Irom thf East Midlaod counties are, on tbe whole, quite favorable,"
The August returns were thua summarized : *' Tbe reports regarding red clover are, on the whole, not very favoruble. The drouth of the previous summer, and the freezing of the pait winter, were both destructive. Alsike is somewhat better, bat still hardly up to the average. Several speak y'^^ry favorably of Mammoth Red Olover. Timothy has turned out better than in 1895. In Essex and Kent the repurts are from one to two tons per acre- Elgin and Norfolk also bad fairly good crops. Haldimand and Welland had very light crops, in some townships a failure. Lambton was fair j Huron and Bruce were under the average. Grey was light, drouth and grasshoppers both being iDJurioaa. Simcoe rather liatht. Middlesex, Brant, Oxford, Wellington, Waterloo and Duflerin gave varying yields from one to two ton?. In tbe we^t the rainfall varied much as to time and quantity. As a rule old meadows were light through tbe lack of rain in the summer of 1695, Throughout the Niagara peninsula the crop was short. From York East along Lake Ontario the yield increased, and the crop was well saved Along the St. Lawrence the yield is very good, Carleton good, Presoott fair, Russell extra good. In Lanark and Victoria the yield is up to the average. In the northern districts the crop was fair. The Rainy River country has probably the Leaviest yield per acre in Ontario.*^
The November bulletin said : "Good fields of clover for seed have been the excep* tion. Tbe poor catch of last ye^r and the trying winter have combined to thin tbe stand, and while tbere has been a generous growth cf stalk owing to frequent rains since the first cutting, the heads as a rule did not fill out well. The midge bai been active, especi- ally in the western part of the Province. Alsike has done better than red clover."
The following table shows acreage and yield by county groups and for the Province
DiBtriote.
Iiftke Erie ....,..,...,
Luk^i Huron. ,
GtK^rgian B^y ,
WcMtMidUod
Luke Ontario ....... .
3t. Lnwrpnce & Ottawa.
EaBb Midliiad
Northern Dittiicta
Totals, ,,,....,.,..
1896.
1895.
9i
o 3
Acrei .
Tons.
H-
Acre*.
Tom.
£-» ^
*L
^a
274,650
840,112
>
1.34
281 J37
imjm M
260,154
24»,ti8V» m
264,40^
129,514 .49
203,037
164,71«' .81
3I5,8IH
117,8161 .55
409,771
440,184 107
426,S18
256,fi4Si .50
410/274
S04.407I ,74
433,771
268,7071 .02
624,178 1 170.M6
536,473: .BR 139 J 36 .82
a],59l lRl.gl7
717,704 1.08 109,845: ,60
74,123
86,22»lMB
72,938
53,88l| ,74
2,42S,7ll
2,260,340
.y3
3,537,674
1,849,914
.73
Yearly avera^^e for the fifteen ye»w» 1882'ye.
Acres.
281,010 251,861 303,069 418,990 418,847 591.456 164,062 62»619
2,381,903
Tom.
1»
39»i,276 3.*3,06H 254,337 61 S, 425 504.340 782^^3 190,793 64,&i0
3,304,072
1,41
1.26
1.48 I 35 1.32 1.10 1.23
1.36
ONTARIO BUREAU OF INDUSTRIES.
There were 2f 426,7 11 acres of hay and clover cut, beitig 110,963 acrei less than m the preTiouA year, a decrease in area occurring in every group except the Northern Diitricta. The average yield per acre is , 93 tona. which, although considerably larger tJiia the yield of 1895, ie only about two-thirda of the average yield for the fifteen years* The heaviest average yield for tbe year was in tbe Lake Krie district^ and the lightest in the Leike Ontario group.
OOMPARATIVE YIELD OF FIELD CROPS.
Aqobxqate Yield of Field Crops. The following table gives the toul yield of field crops for each of the past five years, and also tbe average of the fifteen
jmn 1882 96 -
Fi^d crops.
18%.
F«l« wheat , Spciag whe*t
Km.
IMtwheat fitittf, Pmatoei . .....
Msafsl-wtif sela , (knoU
CAra far buiicjiig
Com tea foddtif . fisf and dover.
buflhelft. 15,078,441
S,519»322 12»669,744 82,979,992
2»230.873 17,493,148
2,603.669
1,197,636 21,905,477 16,849,401
4.618,441
69,814,841
24,071,364
tona.
1,948,780
2,260,240
1896.
buahela . 14,165,282
3,472,543 12,090,507 84,697.566
1,900,117 15,668,103
2,791,749
1.494.179 29.390,884 15,961,&(K!
4,581.373 63,496,702 24,819,899
1.776.664 1,849,914
1894.
busheli . 16.612,106
3.367,854 10,980,401 70.172,516
1,386,006 14,022,888
2.631.335
827,514
17.163,130
11,532,127
8,716,140 61,694,487 16.275,352
tODIft,
1.049,765 3,675,200
1893.
boBheh,
17.645.248 4,186,063 9.806,068
58.584,529 994,771
14,168,956
2.380,456
664.310
12,911,212 8,582.568 2,971.4!,0
56,975.366
14.072,%! tana. 1,019,624 4,963,657
1892.
buibeU . 20,492,497
8,290.395 15,274.318 64,758,053
1,132,504 14.494,430
2,521,214
535,931
12,289,817
10,360,474
3,827,361 63,541,641 11,229,408
984,907 4,384,838
1882-96,
buthfllA. 17,625,061
7,444,411 16,754.905 63,019,912
1,631.799 14,8^273
1,796.028
627,660
18,764,490
9,910,468
3,763,882
49,689.036
•18,098,816
toni. •J. 354,627
3,201.072
* These figoreB »re tbt? averogeii for 6vfi yeara 1892*96.
ft is necessary to remeniberi in ^onsideiing the figures presented in the foregoto UUe, that both acreage and yield enter into itB compilation. Oat?, buckwheat, beans, potatoeR and husking corn are tbe crops failing to reach their respective figures for tb
I Jear 1895. Compared ^ith their averages for the fifteen years fall wheat, spring whea
' Wley iknd hay show lower total yields.
^2
ONTARIO BTTREAtT OF INDaSTEIES.
Average Yiblds pbr Acre. The table following pre^nU the aTeroge yield per acre for each of the leading field crops by county groups for 1896, and (or the Province for both 1894 and 189t>, together with the average for the fifteen years, except in the case of corn, which has been si^parated into two classes for only i^ve years :
1
3
s
cs i
1
1=
6
.1
3°
i
II
The Provltto©.
1896.
1895.
188S-96.
buflh.
bxish.
ba«h.
bash.
bush.
bash.
buiih.
bush.
bash-
bosh.
busb.
14.1
16.4
19.3
19 2
17 4
20 1
20.1
26.7
17.2
19.0
19.9
ILd
9.5
12 6
12.2
13 4
lr5.8
13.3
14.5
13.8
16.5
15 2
2& 5
28 5
28 2
29.1
27.0
26.2
25.0
24 0
27.4
25.3
25.6
32.9
34.4
31.0
37.7
34 4
84 2
30. r,
29 6 ,
34.2
35J
34.3
12.9
15 r,
17 3
l« 4
14 3
16 8
14.3
15.7
15.0
15.8
15-9
17.0
23 I
23 7
21.2
20 2
20.3
19.7
22.6
21.1
19.5
20.3
18.0
18 0
19. a
19.9
: 10 3
20.7
15.0
18.9
17.9
20.6
19.6
17.4
18 0
19 8
18 3
15 5
19.7
15.9
14 3
17.5
20.5
17.3
lOO
126
137
130
loa
128
91
142
119
158
119
444
503
429
537
403
404
394
382
467
464
441
872
440
369
432
319
366
335
330
374
353
352
365
475
472
631
442
447
412
S43
471
418
423
80.0
80-0
48 1
79 1
69.6
67.4
67.8
j 48.2
75 8
81 9
•70.3
tone.
toni.
tone.
ton*.
trtii»«.
tOD«.
tons.
tons.
to«».
tons.
tons.
8.88
11.05
12,37
10.87
10.20
12.31
9.40
9.93
10.89
11 85
•10.79
1.24
M
,81
1.07
.74
86
.82
1.16
.93
.73
1.86
Field crops.
Fall wheat.. .. Spiring wheat ... *
Barley ,,
Oato .*
Rye
Foaa
Buckwheat Beam
Potatoes
Mangel-wurzel* . .
Cw roU .....♦..,.
Turnipi
Corn for humking .
Corn for fodder (^een) Hay and clover..*
• The^e figures are the average for five yeard 1892-96.
Barley, peas, beans, mangels, carrots, turnips and com exceed their respective averages for the series of years^ while potatoes exactly equal the average record. The highest a vet age yields for 1895 are found in the following groups: Lake Erie, hay ; Lake Huron, carrots ; Georgian Bay, rye, peae, beans; West Midland, barley, oats, mangels, tnmips ; St. Lawrence and Ottawa, spring wheat, buckwheat ; Northern Districts* fall wheat, potatoes. Com for husking this year reached il;^ highest figare in both the Lake Erie and Lake Huron groupB, and green corn made its highest average yield in the Georgian Bay district.
Ratios of Aggrkgatk Cbops. The ratio of total yield of each crop in 1896 is given in the following table by county groupa and for the Province^ IDO repre- senting the average for the 6fteen years 1882-96 :
Dietrtcta.
L»k*? Erie
L»ke Huron »*.....♦,.,. Geui'ifi ftn Bay .•,,...., , , West Midland . ► . . ,
Lake Ontario » , ,
St. Lawrence and Ottawa
Eftst MidLiTjd.. ,
Northera DistricU
The Province ...
76 86 92 90 90
m
103 322
ll
1
i
4
i
1
i
1
1
i
i i
TC
pa
c
^ \
P^
^
pa
CM
S o
H
m
19
93 121
172
.S2
125
]!*7
115
192 186
129
86
24
86
U^\
3X18
130
135
300
120
192
142
134
75
41
106
130
235
145
367
266
125
134
76
142
66
44
92
138
843
110
222
256
130
168
141
145
71
43
63
127
142
133
148
1651 115
132
73
131
64
m
65
127
74
98
126
112
102
186
im
174
BS
47
61*
135
86
134
149
183
81
150
123
im
73
47
113
156
HI
156
12-a
102
131
248
213
187
133
47
76
132
137
122
145
191
114
170
138
141
71
As in the previous table the results are inflaeoced by both acreage and yield. Fall wheati spring wheat and barley are the only crops failing to reach 100 in the figures for the Province, spring wheat scoring only 47. Oats, buckwheat, beans, maugela and
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turnips went above 100 in every group of coantiea. The bighest figures in the table are 367. repreaenting the ratio of bockwheat in the we»t Georgian B^y district, and the lowest tigorea are given to spring wheat in the L%ke Erie group, which mark only 19.
Ratios of Yibld per Acre. The following table com parea the average yield^
per acre in 189<> with that of the fifteen years 1882*96, the latter being repreeented by 100:
LH^trieta.
i
Be
.1
m
i
tf
i
1
i
9
S I
o
if
d
2 U
i
^'
101 114
in
121
at
82 93 93
00
83 67
81
m
10"!
lOS
loy
105
o
101
PS
85 90
Cm
97 infi
98
99
101
CQ
104 101 109 106
m
109 107 107
107 110 102 llfi
119 122
102 115
86 73 65 72
Lftke Erie . .*..*»....*...
Tim^** Rnrnn ^ , , . ....
' Geargiua Bav
loo no
•hSi 101
W«4t Midland , _
L*ke Ontario
86
88
10t»
9^
98
103
84
81) 91
92
87
108
53
St Lawrence and Ottawa , .
t09
100
lOft
107
Pfl
106
100
9<r 104
105
110
120
n5i
i Kant Midland
101 121
95 83
103
97
93 83
104
100
80 88
95 81
78 96
96 123
99 115
1071 71 1
Northern Diatricti . . . .
104
94
The Province , . *
86
91
107
lOO
94
104
91
101
lOO
106
106
in
69
Fall wheat, spring wheat, rye, buckwheat and hay fail to reach 100 for the Province, •ltd Cits and potatoes exactly touch that fignre, while the other six cropa go alightly over tbe ftftndard. Turnips are the only crop showing three figures in every group, peas being Ui« Dext nearest in this respect.
FKUIT AND FRUIT TREES,
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The first reports of correspondents regarding vegetmtion were sent in under date of May Ist, and were to the following effect: **The remarkable earliness of the growing leftEon is al laded to by nearly every correspondent, some of whom say that they do not r«ni^Dber vegetation being so far forward on the last of April in thirty or forty years* The stage of growth is placed at from one to three weeks in advance of the a veiage season. In most localities cattle had been turned out to grass, forest trees were getting well into l«mf and wild plums were in blossom, while in orchards in di^erent sections peaches, ifiricoU, and even apples, were in bioom. In Felee Island peaches and plums were In flower on the 24th of April."
Tfa6 'ingnst bulletin had the following regarding fruit : ** Not for many years has U^re been so great a yield of apples as in the present season. Such terms aa * an extra- crdinary crop/ *an euormous yield/ and * largest ever knowD»' are frequent in our returns, tbcoe expressions applying more especially to sumo^er and fall sorts, The fruit is also ramarkably free fron worm and scab. Pears give a fair yield, but many trees are safier- ^ iftg from blight. Peaches are also abundant, and plums are up to the average, althougll^H in one or two sections a tendency to rot is reported/' ^^H
" The remarks in the August bulletin regarding the great yield of apples are verified by the reports just received/' ran the November bulletin. " The yield was enormous, the market i^ glutted, and in many counties, more eapecialiy In Western Ontario, thousands oi bureU of good apples are going to waste. The average price per barrel paid farmers ii from 40 to 60 cents ; extra choice bring slightly higher figures, and poorer sorts go lov«r. For these prices the grower is usually expected to pick the fruit, board the pack
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ers^ Iritif^ iti tbe empty barrels and carrj the filled ones to the fltation. Some avor that it pay« better to feed the fruit to live atock. The codling worm and the canker worta have been reported by a few correBpondents, but the bulk o! tbe statementa regarding tli4i quality of apples claim that the fruit is remarkably free from worms or other injury. Ice Btorms last winter, and the heavy bearing of this season have caused a good many limbt to break, but fruit trees generally are in good condition. Grape vines made a vigoroot growthi and the yield of fruit was abundant/'
The following table fahows theaiea in orchaid, garden and vineyard as est in from returns made direct to the Bureau. These figures are considerably in exc those taken from the assessors' rolls. Assessors apparently devote their attention mainlj to valaating propeity for taxation.
DIstiioti.
Lake Erie . . . . ,
L*ke Honm
Georffian Bay...... ,
West Midland
Itake OaUrio
Bt, Lawr'uceaad OtiawA
East Midland ,
Northern DiatricU ,.
Tb© Province....
Acred in orchiurd
frardtiD
and vinejard.
1H06,
61,496 34.614 24,234
31,066 16,744
2,660
330,122
1895,
^,141 33.210 22.729 55.442 91.863 30.454 16.813
312,787
No* of Apple Trees.
15 jreain and over. (Bearing Age.)
1896.
1,068,063
729,325
442.216
1.075,992
1,739,191
576,921
273,649
8,649
6,913,906
1895,
l,073J3ft
711.490
406,438
1,038.793
1,788,618
641,312
369,128
7,897
6,336,916
Under 16 yeari.
1896.
515,176 395.319 417»074 448,223 875.356 657,010 271,514 68,886
3,548,068
1896.
654,391 399,383 377,638 409,842 770,4aS 532,197 262,969 66,678
3^862,401
Yield of apples in 1896.
Bu«heb.
13,087,056 7,236.436 3,303.025 U.804,969 14,273,666 4,360,144 1,798,647 31,814
66,896,766
Boili per tree.
12 36 9 92 7 47
10.97 8.21 7.56 6.57 373
9.46
The result of the estimate from returns by farmers direct to the Bureau in 1896 hi been a proof of a similar estimate made in 1895, and shows a further increase of 7|33i acres in the area de?oted to orchard, garden and vineyard. The year 189G gave ai astonishing yield of apples. There were nearly six million treee of bearing age (15 y( and over) and these produced 55,895 Ja 5 bushek or about 9^ bushels par tree. Thi aorea(;e of fruit averagea 25. S per 1,000 acres of cleared land.
REMARKS OF CORKESPON DENTS.
FnoM THB Mat Retubns.
>I«rse«, Ksiex : Tba tetidencf thifl fiprin^ fieetm to be to go more into imit. Every fariD^r who i any pench land li Betting out pea^.b tree?.
Raleigh, K«:nt : A great boom han been started here in peaches, pltuna and berripH.^ Jiint oow tbey i beiDff set out by tbe thouenndp, e^peciAlly the two former. Farm help ic more plentiful this tpring URoaT, hut good men command the usual ^ages,
Medonte, Simcoe : The spring opened earlier than unual, and tbe vegetation haa been rftpid. bloom on apple treee is ready to burst, and oo the wild plum it in fully but to-day (Blay lit). This ie dayi earlier than I ever knew it, and I have Used here fur sixiy-four yean,
Clintoo, Lincoln : The winter wati a mild one on tbe whole. However, a few oold dayi badly afl the peach bad*.
^jji^ora. Lin{v»ln : There it no dnubt that the peacb rrop will be an almoet, if not a complete, failu ID thii diatrict, Plamii, irwara and oherries are bloaaoming all right.
Brighton, Northumberlund t TbiB is a good fruit s**^ctioii of the country. I think the proepect now th*t app'e trees w»U be well C( vered with bh^ssornHk, while i^ear treta will have an oflF year. A grfeat man fruit trees, prineipilly apple e, will be aet out in this vicinity this upring.
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Fbou THi August RffrcRya,
Orfon!^ Kent : Nenrly ftll the treea are Rone od ftccount of the black knot. PljiDptoD, L&mbton : There ia sometbing^ remarkable ia the fact that there are no womu in the ft[>plei •0^ tbw jear. even where eprayin^ boa uot been done.
ArbfieZd, Huron: Frait mil rt^und ia «n extra crop thts year. Sptftyiitg' wm little practiced, and yet \ Ibflfnui ii almost free from fuogi and wcirms. Thin ia umiAual, and spraying with proper tnixtnres should [ infi le dbregarded, for this exeDQptif>[i may not occur af^ain.
Tackei»initb. Hnmn ; A wondroiaa crop of apples, fre^r from ^cab than I have seen it for mimy y^uwfl And tbe quality of tbe fruit is very fine. Much la»s from breakage of limba.
Grmotbain, Lincotn : Apples are the finest crop in year«« The people will never find a nmrkob for all «rthem,
Lcmtb, Lincoln : Many apple trees are breaking dnwn with fine, clean applet.
Fbou the Notembkb Rrtcbks.
Coiloh<*ter» Eeaex t Apples are lying in the ortvhard roiting for want of a market by the tboiieandi» of
Goifield N , Kaaex i Thouaanda of basbela of applea and pears have been fed to oowa and hoga. We Muld not get enough for this fruit to pay for packing and marketing.
(rr8fi#*ld N., Ea ex : The apple crop wa*i V4^ry large and very cheap -from 40 to GO cents a barrel. Tboii^andt of bunhelB have ber^ti fed to cattle and hogs, aud thauuuida of bushels have rotted on the ground* lhttt\ %re a large number ofliand picked apples for which there h no sal(^ and the ground ia covered with vmdfaJla.
Maiden, Eatex : Th< usanda of boabela of fine apples are rotting, aa we ctnnot sell them, and there are teuTt than our animala can eat.
Camden^ Kent : There baa not been such a waste of apples for a long time aa there has been this year«
Howard, Kent : Tbe farmt^r cannot affor j to pick them, board the packers, and draw the^ an average dbtuoe of seven milea f* »r 35 to 40 centu a barrel, eo they lay and rot by thousands of barrels.
Dfxrobsatcr, Elgin : A few apples were bought early in the season, bat the buyera evidently lost money udqnit.
Yarmouth, Elgin : Some farmers never picked their apples, but let the hoga and cattle eat them. We Itad SOD barrels from an orchard of two acres.
CbartotttivilJe, Norfolk : Applaa are an over supply. There will be no sale for half of thssn, and thou^ ■adi of bushels will r^ t and freeze on the ground.
Canboro\ H&ldimand : There are thousnads of bunhels of Apples rotting on the ground for want of
Stamford, Welland t There was a inrplus of apples, peara, peoohes, pluma, etc. Thonsands of barrel lltpploa will never be picked or sold.
Boaanquet, Lambton : The quality of fruit has been excellent. Buyen« have not been able to band! . tti«'half the crop of apples. Tbouaanda of barreln have been fed to stock or left rotting in the orchard* ia tfaii township— firit cWs fruit, too.
PlymptoD, Lambton : The apple crop is the most prodigious we ever saw. Home Kin^ra sold at 40 and 40«nia a barrel. We have to pick the apples, board the packer>>, go for the empty banrels and take the fall unea to tbe station. Many applea are left to go to waste, acjd hundreds of buehc^b are being fed to cowt tad piga.
Godericb, Huron : There has been the greatest crop of applea I ever remember aeeing. Thousands of bsrrds have gone tu waste, the very choicest bringing 40 and 50 centsi a biirrel.
Howick. Huron : Applea were an abundant crop, eapeoiolly of early varietiei. Owing to light demand ud low (4vce« a great quantity was fed to cattle.
Stanley, Huron : An over aupply of app'ei^. Thousands of barrela of apples have gone to waste.
Otpopey, Grey : There ia not much fruit grown hf ra, A lot of the trees are crab apnies. Years sgoj .li^Mtt apple tree agi^nt^ came arouDd, and faruiera ordered tree*, they did not know wh%t they were getting* 1 Cbsof my neighburfi has either nine or «flevcn crab trees in liLs orchard*
Sydenham, llrey : Plums were a druK here ; some treea were never picked, the fruit being allowed to ^iiU and rrit. Apples the eame, only t^inty centH a barrel being given f - r the be^t aud choiceft The evapjra- W>*giTe from 12 to 15c. per 100 Ib^. for the rest, and a great quantity has been fed to live stock. Many QsQiiot ^U ;vt all
UoGillivray. Middlesex : Applea are an immense crop, and there is a large surplua, and large quae titles tfs being fed to live 8tr>ck.
Westminster, Middlesex : Apples were of fine quality and very abundant. Fully half the crop has bicnraten oy aiock or is rotting on the land*
/jOTtu E , Oxfi.>nl ; Apple trees were heavily loaded. The ithippMr^ take nothing but targe, clean on^ tbreby Iv-avii g the farmers hundreds of Saga to be fed to the stm k or to rot.
BrsTitfofd, BriDt : We have a hondrcd limes too many apples, Thouaands of bufehelii of good apples l^te bten wai»ted or fed to itoct^, as there has been no tale f^r them at ^ny price.
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Burford, Brant : Af»ples hive li>en Abundant. Ihcm&aRiiB of buBhels kre lyiof? on the ground, ibod Urfp
qaftatiiie« have been fed to etock. Th« ii»mpl« in fini^, perh»pR the beat ev«r known. I do not fancy ihej
*will winter well, lU they aeem to have, matured too early.
Dumfriea W.^ Waterlog : Pears wer^ abundant, and th^ apple crop is immense, htrndrtda of b»r?el going in wa«t6.
Waterloo, Waterloo j We ^ot Buch a bijr cn-i]> of appleR that the b**8t ones are tellinif at 30 cents a I and cider app!e> at 5 centa a bag The bo^a get many to eat, as there iii but little f<ale for thia fruit.
Beverly. Wentworth : Th«* supjily «f apples i« *<cnething enormotui. There is not a market for half ( thera, and they are a^ a rule of ^imd quality. The orchardtt are completely covered with theoi, and th4 hogs can make very tittle impressioa on them.
Glanford, Wentworth : A great many applea were K»ld to packers at 60 cents per barrel, and thoua of busbi^ls have been fed to pig^.
Percy, Northumberland : There id a surploa of apptea. From i|000 to 5,000 barrele of apples ha^« 1 exported from this township this year.
Sophiaaburg, Prince Edward ; There were plenty of applet of very fin© quality, but pears aod otb large fruits were a failure,
Hawkesbury E,, Prescott: In every place you hear farmeri talking of feeding so many apples to ilM hog».
Osgoode, Carleton ; The apple crop was entirely free from wormi even in orchards where no sprayiQj was done* Piutns took a blight a short time b&fore ripeniog.
Harv©y» Peterborough : A great ma»iy apples wore fed to sheep and cattle, an the market was nil.
F/RM SUPPLIES IN THE SPRINa
The May buJIet»D remarked : *' Except where farmers held on to their hay for faroin^ prices there ia a scarcity of that article, the efiect of which, however, haa been diacouiitec by the generous paaturagts already afforded by the advanced Btage of the growing eeaaon. There ia still an abundance of oata on hand, even t bough tbis ^rain was freely fed durici^, the winter owing to the low price oll'dred for it. Wheat ia aaid to be rather scarce^ althoagh some correspondents aver $1 a buahel would bring out a surprisingly large qaan tity. Fat cattle are to be found in much larger number than might be expected from the scarcity of fodder, and store cattle are sutlicient to meet the demand. The earlineas of the grass baa materially lessened the drain on the fodder supply, and owners of beev^a have thereby been relieved of much anxiety.**
FALL PLOWING.
In many sections fall plowing has been completed, but, taking the Province over, work in thia respect is hardly as far advanced as at the same time in previous years, Tlu immenao apple crop, and the increased area of corn, have kept farmers busier than ustii this fall, and in the Lake Erie coun^iies especially a good deal of fall plowing had yet to 1 done as reports came in. With the prospects of o|>en weather before them, correspoa dents were of opinion that more land than usual wooM be tamed undor this fall. Sotna complained thai the aoil was rather dry for the best work \ others claimed that every thiD;
favorable.
THRESHING A.ND MARKETING.
Threshing began parli*ir than ysnal this year, and at the time of reporting, a ver; lar«^e amount of it appears to have been finished. Very little marketing of grain " reported ; some wheat and a fair (|uantity of peas, but little elae. Farmers have a largi quantity of coarse grains on hand with slight demand. There appears to be a hesttatioi to sell at the prices olfe red at the beginning of November, but, as soma aay, something mi go as '* the taxes have to bo paid."
UoderdrainiDg with tile ia being carried on as extensively this fall A3 usueiI. In riome townships a very large amount in bein^ pat in, Eeaex and Kent as usaai taking the lead. There is no scarcity of tile. The work is done principally by the farmers them- idves, with here and there the help of an *' expert." Draining machines are not heard of. In the west the zig-zag fence is being replaced by various kinds of wire fence. There are several favorite kinds of the latter mentioned by correspondents. Considering the oa&y complain ta of the state of affAirs, there appears to bi more building going on than iroold be expected, but the most frequent remark is : " Raising barns and putting stone foondationa under for basement/'
THE ARMY WORM,
The following appeared in the August bulletin : Although the presence of the army
worm during July^ 189C, has created considerable interest in many parts of the Province^
and in some places alarm, it is not a new pest. We find it reported as present in the
township of Eldon, Victoria Co., in August, Id3t3| and common in many places through*
oiit Ontario in 1861. This is known as the ** army worm year " in the United StateaJ^
In July, 1894, it did considerable damage in some parts of Ontario, especially in the
cotinties of Victoria and Lambton. The first notice of its appearance in Ontario this
ruon was in a letter from Marsh ville, county of Welland^ dated Jnly 3rd. On July 9th
. it was reported in the vicinity of Fort Oolborne, in the same county, and throughout the
I month letters were daily received intimating its arrival at different places throughout the
' Ftorince of Ontario, On July 8th the worms were observed in an oat field at the Agri-
enltoral College ; by the 11 th they were very numerous, and reached their maximum about
the 1 6th. From that date a perceptible decrease was daily observed^ so that by the I Sth only
ifew remained. They began to pass into the pupa stage on the I4th» and the first moth
wtA obs^erved on the 29th.
Circulars were sent out with a view to learn something of the distribution of the army worm at this time, the damage done by it, the means employed to check its progress aad the length of time the caterpillars continued. About 450 replies were received from difbrsnt townships throughout the Province.
Tbo counties reported as attacked are as follows : Ess^x^ Kent^ Elgin, Norfolk, I/aldi- mand, WUland^ Lincoln, Halton, York, Ontario, Durham, Northumberland, Hastings, Leeds, Dundas, RusHell, Renfrew, Lambton, Huron, Bruce, Grey, Simcoe, Muskoka, Sliddleeex, Oxford, Perth, Wdlington, Waterloo, Dnfferin, Victoria, Peterboro*.
The counties in italics are referred to by observers as suffering considerable loss from the army worm. In many of the others the damage was slight, as the worms were too late in arriving to do much harm, owing to the advanced condition of the crops attacked.
Lit is evident that early sowing is favorable to escape disastrous results from an invasion
tttf this peat.
I It is evideJit that oats are especially attractive to the army worm. Some oboeryert
Inport a loss of 50 per cent, in oat fields, while in most of the other cases the damage done
Iwas comparatively slight,
I The food of this insect is chiefly confined to the grass family, (wheat, barley, rye, loats, com and timothy) and there is little fear of their feeding upon turnips, clover, peas, etc.
I Some report favorable results in checking the progress of the army worm from field llo iie^ld, by means of plowing a furrow between the grain to be protected and the advan* king worms ; as soon as many collected in the furrow they were destroyed. Others met blh considerable success by using Paris green upon cut oats placed before the moving ^nia in the form of a windrow. They fed upon this green food and wore poisoned in BrSit numbers. A few report the iiae of rollers where conditions were favorable and Blieoeedad in crushing many of the caterpillars.
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In most cases the attack did not continue longer than two weeks ; in several tt lasted but a few daya and very aeldoio went bejond three weeks.
Rkhasks of Cobbxsponi>ent8. <
Tilbury N., Eflsez: Oata and com wure attacked. Plowtog deep fanows ikod borioff poet holm wef»> tried with good effect. Hftd they arrived two wmIm c'arlier they would h&^e dune us a (icreatdettl more harm*
CbAthain, Kent : Th«y seemed to go in Beotiotiftj nod take nearly rU the oAt« in ft fi«ld and not touch a^ field ftoroes the fence. ^
UArwich, K«nt : In my own cane they attacked a fine field of oata, and d^atr^yed more than half the crop. They appeared to ^t in their work mostly tt night, and were, therefo««, Imn noticeable. They were all through the fit^Id before noticed. We out our oatift rather green on account of them. 800^*? tried plow- ing around the fieldt and some PaiiH green* Two farmere kept their rolkns going crushing them aa the| came.
Harwich, Kent: The army wnrui beffan its work in the wheat field, but aa that grain was nearly riper when they appeared no ap^mrent damage w«8 done to that crop. Some fields of b^r^y were ooosilerably damaged by tne awn« and leavee b^inj^ cut nJT. I think they destroyed thirty buaheli to tbe acre of my oabi. In iome places you could eihois^el them ojf the gruutid. They Jaated for about two or three week» after thwy were first noticed. My oat field that did ant join a wheat field eecaped the worms,
Raleigh, Kent : Tbe barley waa injured to some extent. In the caae of a few fields the injury amoQnl«d to fully nne^half cjf the crop. Uat« suffered severely, aome fields being a total loes. In some ca*es ctra fielda ore «aid to have been saved by fnrrowa having been plowed to prevent the worms trAvelling. In one fioldk Ihey commenced late in Junt*, and continued uutil the oats were cut, working in tbe sheaves,
Rikleigb, Kent : We did not observe their first appearance. We never ftaw them at work p but find them in the groond and in the pupa state. In deep, black, sandy «oil they did great damage to oat4^ barley and corn,
Znni% Kent: The army worms do not appear to moTe in one direction accurding to the different aecnuntM I have seen of them in book* und papers, but apjiear tf* eat the oat« in thi? low places the worst. I tbiuk the reason for that is because they are tbe greenest in low placefi, as the woriufl did not appear until: late io the i^eason. Th» moth wa« ])lenlirul last flummer and there are a number of them here now, but do not think they are any more plentiful iban last yean
MaUhide, Elgin : Some oats were «o stripped that they were cut for hay. Some plowed aroood tha fields and otbem sowed fait with little suooe»a
Windham, Norfolk : Some thirty-fire years ago the army worm appeared on my farm, two miles
of Port Bnrwell, in a v>iece of good oats and were slaying right and left when I discovered them. The gratii being nearly ri]>e I comraeno*-d hoatilitie^ at once an^l had the field ii^^arly all d«**n by night. The invad^' w% seem el to get alarmed, bivouaced, doing but little barm duriof? tbe night. I do not dread them aa* much Sk^ graishopi er^, from tbe fact that I cm pase a heavy roller over them and oool their ardor, I dig ditches and pits and fiaieb them, or 1 can poison them.
Ganboro\ Haldimand : A moth has appeared here to-day in thouaandd, which fully answers the tion. I never inw auytbiog like them before.
Wain fleet, Welland : A few nted ooat oil and some Paris gieen. Both seemed to be effective in 1 oose^ but not in others.
Mooie, Laiubton : Immense numbers of moths appeared last fall, but farmers, not being well versed m economic enUiioohgy, were not aware of the ihreateued danp[er to their crops, although uiaoy feared injury from them thid ynu in the larviil st ite. Wbele fieidd of oata have beeu di^troytd. The only means wfi- ployed V) check their depredations was euttinir down, which was only panially succeaeful. I natioed thai sDUKi uf them kept by boys in collar boxes, lu the pupa stagCi are emerging as moths for two wetka— a h each day. although all put in together
Sombra, Lambton : The illustration of the worm sent out bv tbe Departoifnt fs true to lifo. The underside of the worm is (rreen, with black stripes on the side. It nas grapples to hold on at the j ' ! also along under the body, it catcheii hold with it» bead part^ then bfini^M tU after part to its hi cuive. in ihij* way it traveU fast. It will iret out of a furrow very miijkly. It will crons u climbing over the (run rail* It croAsed the Erie Sl Huron trjick and got throuirh a corner of my iuroi.. saw them climb tile rail. I put a otop Ut them from my corn by using H»lt, making tbe brine strong enough to float a p«itato, atnl used a sprinkler. The brine penetrated iheir backs and killed them. 1 dare not tl»< Paris green fur fear the Cittle would eat the gra^s. Salt does* the work.
Warwick, Lambton t They have been very numerous and injurious to oats. No means were used U check them, except to cut the oats as 6i>on as [K>Mible, and on that account a good de^l of the oate wi cut rnther green. The? are yet to be seen tn the catrrpillwr 8tat*% but within tlie last tbrte o** four dayi they have hatched out in tbe moth state in millions^ and the ground In the fields is swarming with tbi larvae.
Bentinck, Grey : We have heard persons all aMe^e that the army worm ia doing damage to tnmip« oiii grain, but in coses that I have investigated it is uot the army worm but other caterinilars, which krtt v»p numeruns thi« year.
Veepra, Sintcoe : The army wonn has attacked the oat« principally, but a field of peas just acroi« Ihi road from nm ha« al-o Buffered. They apparently hatchfd out in the burtjerd of • «wampy ploof-, and pem were the firft f"'>d ftmnd. They did not do mocb harm to the peas, however Plowing furrowa he fieldd ha» V>een <^^|uite i^ucce'^^ful in some cades.
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I j&rm K, Oxford : TTure b&« bwn caDMiJerftbte low of tukU and barley— raoBtly oat«— froio th© anny I vonru Wtih barlev th<^y oaly cut ofF the leavef and awn^, not cutttng off the iriaizip. Various flchemi?fl I krt bMn triinl to ch«iek tbetrit such as pnwing air ulak*^ lime, or g-as lime, or eprayiDg ilipm, i>ut nona of
f '' ^ ^ - * ' - ^f^wfuJ. Many of the fields in which ihey appeared have been bghtly stirred
or harrow, atd inillionn ( f thmi turned out to scorch to death m the mn i'^ befor« notice wa>» taken of thtim.
. \i, Wellington : In nioft case« tliey mutt have been at work a week or more before they were 1 ^iLer which they c*»ntioned forfroio one to two weekM. ♦
I Lfftrlinffton, Durham : Plowing deep fnrrowi, land ffidfi next the crop, and digging holet a Uiot or I d^ht^en inches d^ep at intervalti in the furrowe and into which the wuiniA would Fall, were the principal
I t^ranttum, Lvnooln : They appeared on a farm near Fort Dalhoneie and took about two acree of corn. I Thef u«e«i r«rii» gr^en, and it ecmned to stop thenu
I Markham, Ytirk : What w»* Huppo^ed to be the army worm made ite appearanoe here and there in I thii Height ' ' * v ' ' /rain wan re^dy to cut, but its ravsgea have not been fenooit. I found I wt)«D cut^ fialf an acre where aome innect had (stripped the leavet* and about half
^^eata. i . ^ to be the work of Kran^hopperii had there been any in th« neighbor-
^^B^ but uow Uiiak the injury WAd canted by the army worm.
|^BBDarbon>\ York : There wai quite a number of army worcna in the barley fields and they did injury P Iqf Hkling off the leaves and bearda. A number of the head<i were eaten off where the barley wa^ heavy I aod f<^!g*d. I could aee some in the ij^jaa, but not any in the oats ; they do not seem to injure the peaH. ' Qua of my barl«>y fields was needed thii upring with timothy and cfoven^ and I aee they have devoured all d^ timothy and a good portion oF the clover. The caterpUlarii were to be aeen for about one mouth.
. Amherit laland, Lennox and Addington : They made their appearance for a little while. The oat I w»A the mo4t injured, but n<*t to any extent. There were no means ueedi to destroy them^ as there came f ^raiD and they di<<appeared.
Pittabnrgh, Frontenac: The army worm appeared about the middle of July, botcnly on a tew fanns W the wreiWrn boundary of the township. It did not do much domage, as it was late in cjming, and the oofM w*-t^ matured. It attacked oats, corn and gra«H. It was attacked by a beetle that eeemed to sting n^ sad it did not live long after it wa4 stung.
Leed'* ^ ' iowne. Leeds : On'-ti and bay were conaiderably Injured by the army worm. One man had a thir I of oats attacked, whu-h he cu*- to nave it. The eaterpillar» died, and tlie men could
Ii0t itand ■ ■ i when they tried to handle the crop, and m he luat hm field of oata and straiw'^ At the
height of th*j r*vikgr^ of the worms natural en^-miei proved a Wnetit by deatroying them»
XarelL, Carlton : It appeared for the finit tirte on my farm m a beaver meadow^ and destroyed abont twenty tona of hay* chiefly red top. The blackbirds were their chief destroyers
Manpoia, VicCiiria : The loss haa been alight, as the worm was late in making its appearance. Plowing aroood the fields was tried and found a benefit ; digging pit> in the fnrrowa aa traps was found benefician Ptric gtfMQ WM alao tried^ bat with unaatia factory re^ulta«
Aaphodel, Peterborough : I know of one caae where they have totally deatroyed a field of turnips. They have rednced the yield of my field of peaa folly one h*\f. There are thousands of them yet. Had they appeared two weeks earlier they would have destroyed all the orop<».
Thnrlaw, Haatingi : Com, barley and oata have suffered most from the worm» more eapecially corn* AooIutioQ of Paria green on corn was naed but to little effect. Others out their oats atd barley.
Carnarvon* IVlanitonlio : Oats have been nomcwhat injured in places by the army worm I have noticed •ome on the topa of the timothy and in the i't*lk«. They die on the timothy, giving it a rotten, fiahy smell. fnwiert arc letting the chickeni« feed on the worms.
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Ryerton, Parry Sound : The army worm baa appeared in this diatrict for the first time to my fayfwlfdg^, Thfiy appeared in great nnmbera on one farm, and did coaaiderable damage The oat* •Q0tr*5i thn u'linar of any crop, w hen the ihocks were ant the ground below was titeraiiy covered with They continued for about a week after being noticed*
EXTRACTS FROM REMARKS OF CORRESPONDENTS. Valuk of Govkrnmkkt Rhports.
f L.tmbton : Ontario farming, judging by Lambton, i*t improving. Thoae bulletins are be|rin- i and valued loMtituten are Hprt^ading valuable experiences. The Kxperimental Union is 'vork, and those invitations to vi«it the (Intaiio Agrictdtaral College unite farmers, and
Lth a df term J nation t*i imitate, while prejudice and ignorance are graduatly but surely sue-
the light of the present day.
Brants Bmco : I am now, and have bflen »ince this method of gathering information from farmera was
Jli*hH, one of your c»)rrespondent8, and I muat acknowledge that 1 have received very valuable infor-
^ you have dieaeminated brondcAii over tbi^ Pr<ivince. I consider that I am wetf repaid for
I consider it a rare treat to be in poase^sioo oF the annual report of the Agricultural Col-
.y and Creameries' Anaociation, Farmers' Institutes, etc*
ktnond, Lanark : The beneBt the fariiierc! have derived in the i)aat From the bulletins and reports putment^ and the lectures at Institute meetings, ia not to be valued in dollars and centa, but in the round million annually.
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Gotfield N,, Eaiez : Til© draining ia becomings more comir.on evtry year. There ere ]oti of tile ftttd plenty of labor.
Tilbury E , Knex : The p-e«t«Btt cbanfce in agricultural methods in this iection Ia thftt more tile drnoii^ ing ie done than in former ytare.
Camden, Kent : Some uoderdrftining batf been done. There ia pleniy of tile for the demand.
Haleigh, Kent : A tmall amount of underdraining has been done ; a alow but steady progress b bAiaf made.
Raleigb, Kent : Tile draicting in steadily growing in favor here, A few yeari ago it waa thoiighl impoB«ible to get sufficient fall to drain this AaI oountry, bat dovv theru are a large number nf famia thai are parttally nnderdrained and some that are thorutighly underdrained. The quantity of tile put in thia
Jfemt IB greater than ever before, but the itupply hat been equal to the demand, aa alko may be said of the abor neoeavary. Machinery b not as y^t told here for tbia work.
Aldborongh, Elgin : Underdraining haa iocrea**^ mach over what waa done laat year.
Dnnwich, Elgin : The farmers who have means are penevering with thorotigh tiling. There are two good tile and brick yards in thia townahip.
Bosanqiiet, Lambton : Fair prof^reea it being icade in tile draining, as the advantai^es of it are being realixedt and but for the low pricea of produce for several year^ back, much more would have been done ia- underdraining.
Sombra, Lambton : I do not see farmers in this locality underdraiaiDg,
Goderioh, Huron i There was lome anderdrainiog iiere. The mpply of tile was adequate,
StftDley. Huron : There has not been much underdraiuing done this year.
Brant, Bruce ; A little underdraining ia being done each year as the farmers 6nd time and capi' put into it.
Qsprey, Grey : Very little nnderdraining ban been done here, and it needs a lot of underdraiiiing U there is much swampy land.
Eaaa, Simooe : Some farmers have done quite a bib of tile draining.
Veapra, Simeoe ; Draining ia yearly being more prsctiaed.
Medonte, Simeoe : Underdraining has made but little prf^f^ress. When anything is done it ia gem dcme with atone and poles, and in such a shape that it falls in in a cample of ye^r^:, and is worse thad if il was never done at all. There are no iile drainiDg machines hero and very few tile.
Dorchester N«, MiddloBei. t A large amount of tile draining hs» been done, and ia still doing.
Oxford E., Oxford ; Tht^re has not been as much tile draining done this year as usual.
Pumfries N., Waterloo : I regret to aay that very little progresa haa been made in tile draining in townahip.
Eaquesing, Halton : Underdraining is becoming more generaL There is plenty of tile and ^kilNI labor,
Georgina, York : Very little tmderdraining has been done this seaaon, labor.
Mara, Ontario : A large quantity of underdraining has been put in this yt^ar.
Pickering, Ontario : An occasional farmer who has money to spare ia putting down drains, but many feel the pinch of hard timea that they cannot improve their land as they would wiek.
Hamilton, Northumberland: There is comparatively no nnderdrsimng done in our mumctpalityi except in the front of the same, and then It ii very pmall. The supply of tile is adequate.
Pittsburg, Frontenac : Underdraining is not carried on to the extent that it should be, but it is in some eectit ns, and wherever it was pio|)eily daiie it has shown its gi od sffeotsw
Hawkesbury, E., Prescott : I do not see that much ptogresi* has betm done in tile draining; 01 drains are more used, and scarcely enough of these.
March, Carlton : A good deal of underdraining has been done this year.
Otonabee, Peterlx^rough ; Evme underdraining ia being dune in thia township every year, and aboAat much aa usual ha« been dune.
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Colchester, Essex : Oedar post and wire feneicg ia taking the place of the rati and board feaoet.
GofiSeld, S., E«8ex ; Farmers are building only wire fences now.
Camde]^, Kent: The wire fence is the moHt fxspular, with a variety of opinions about the differ kinds.
Raleigh, Kent ; Wire fenoea and hedges are gradually auperaeding all othera.
Raleigh, Kent : There is steady progreaamadein erecting some form of wirefence— mostly woven 1
Dorchester S., Elgin : Wire netting is being used a good deal for fences.
Yarmouth, Elgin : A large amount of wire and picket fence is built.
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^m Bflrtae, WeUand : Gr«»t inoprovements ftre bein^ inftde in the erection of ffuicee tmd thrm buildia^.
H Bottfiquet, Lnmbtnn : Tha old rait Unoe u Uiit dinappeariog, aod it beiDfr f^pl&oed with fence wire bi.d H ttdupnmtu The hedge fence ia beinf^ extensively UAted. 9
H Jfoortf^ Liimbton : Some hi>ney loeuAia were pTauted about five y«tara dace. Farmers are tired of theis^
■ at they ooet too much.
■ 64ty« Huron : Quite » lot of bnildiitg and fenolnf baa beeu done througbout the township during the
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I Wawanoih E.. Haioo : All new fenoea are either atnufpht ra^I or wire, with a pole on top of p^atf. m
I Brant^ Bruc« : Wire fences a^e ■upurfleding all other ki^dit. It if high time board fenow of aU kiodii ■t^wnrdoiM away with, aa they make bqow blockades.
K SnUlvaa, Grey : There ha?e been Urge improvementii in fencing ; the w'tve fenos Ib taking the place <>f ■thermili.
■^ Wettminater, Middle#ex : A great many are puttiug up wire fences. Our council gir^s a bcinna of 15 Keata per rod for wire fences by road aide*, to prevent anow drifts.
■ Zonm K, Oxford ; Considerable wire fence has been erected, and abrml the usual amount of baOdipgM
■ Arthur, Wellington : There ia very noticeable improvement in buildings atid fences in many placets, I
Gtaelph, Wellini?ton : Fences are being imprnvo! 1 by removing them altogether, in m^ny cases makinH l^fger »Qd better 6elds, ^
Caiitor. Lincoln : A coni«)derabti^ ntimber of hedg plantH are being set out.
Grimsby 8., Lincoln : Farmers are building a good deal of straight rail fenci to replace the old snake
lianford, Welland r Some wire fencing and hedging haa been done, but not as much as in former years, 9I, Wenlworth : Fences are going ont of fasihion here ; a number of farma have no ntsA or line
ousy, Peel : Times are too hard U^ do tuticb iu improving binldinga or fences. J
Stobicoke, York : Nearly all the new fences are po^t and wire 01 post and rail, straight fencee. jl
^fara, Onturio: A large amount of fencintr hai* been dnne with wire, some of which hss been rather ip-fMive : oLher kiiid« of straight fenci^.^ have aliio b<;en put up.
Haldimand, Northumberland : There have beeu many crooked fencef taken down, and a flimsy patent light fesic« madp, which T call a poor ^^hift. Considerable good wire fence has also b«L-a built.
Richmrtnd, Lennox : There is a noticeable improvement in the matter ot fences and in farm buildings.
Hawkesbury £., Presoott : Wire fenc k i ng the place he old rail fenceet
March, Carleton : A grf at deal of wire ft^nciiig hw been dune in this vicinity this year.
Oi^oode; Carleton : Wire fences and straighl rail fences are taking the pla'e of the old crooked fences
Rfilph^ Buchanan and Wyli<^, Renfrew : I notice that in a good many caaes the farmers are putting wire fences in place of the rails and \ogB that were formfirly u«ed.
Drojumondk Lanark : A good many wir^ fences are b^^ing buil .
Cha^ey, Muakoka : A few farmers have put in cedar posts, and a stake fastened nt the top with ww with oedar rails in between.
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FaoM TM£ Mat Rkturnh,
':■-., ^.H>^\ ; Rather more wheat sown than there was for the past two years, farmers think- y to eighty cents for wheat i^ as good aa thirty cents for corn, or $4 50 for dre8<»ed pork, $6 r twenty cents for oats, etc.
kldbon, Elgin ; Preserve and utilize the manure^ and do not count it work lost, as it will prove to be et anchor that will hold the farm and farmer stcsdy in times of adversity, sh at prei»ent> Be content
'\ proffits and quick returns in hordes, cattle, sheep and ewinp, and with ticoiiomy there is no reasoaj lOntATlo fsrmers, even with »uvh dull pHcc^i and ]ioor demand, should not be the happiest and iuo«t| I yeomen on the earth.
i>', Elgin : A liLrge quantity of bean** remii,io in fanners* hands, the price being very low* This tdrawbackf as beans are the principal crop grown for t^ale.
Tarmouth, Elgin: This season his been a revelation to a great many farmers in this sectton of the latrv, Tt hfLA HDown them how little rough fred, properly cared for, mtock can be wintered upno. In.. * viir. , with the SAme care as given to feed and stock this winter* fanners could winter double th
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Middletoo, Korfolk ; Owinf? to failure of tlie clover ornp Iiuit season a goid d«ftl of attention piid ihia ^>nDgr to the growing of grt-en crof b for feeding, Buch an crimson clover, lucerup. millet, etc,» juisa ft g«od many farmers arc' buildinfr fik'». Farm hand* are plentiful, and Vftigeg are low. There b a tcarcitjr of domestics. All the joung women aeem lo piefer c»ty employment to work in tht? country-
Stanley, Huron : Great ecom^nty in feeding was observed during the psst winter, and cattle and Hoole generally seoined to come through the winter a? well an when there wat an abundance of fodder,
Wawanoab, E , Hnron : Straw i^ now mostly cut in a cutting-box before being fed to cattle Wind**
anilLi aiv rapidly becomitig the popular p<met tor grinding grain. Gutting straw and putptng roots. Farmera
JUlre cu)tivatiag the aotl more citrefully each iuccMsive year, and paying more aitentiori to keeping the fields
"elejin from noxious weedi.
Amabel^ Bruce ; Spring came in with a bound, very warm, and snow went off very rapidly, ftUboogli there were no floods. Vegetation commenced at once, and has made good progreA«. Gra«s haa made a good atart. The trees are green with leaves. Wild r>lum« are in bloom, and bo arw curr»nt« and iy< o^eberriea. Farm work is well advnnc^d^ and thingti in general are f»irly promising. Feeding fai cattle m only prac- ticed to a limited extent, mo«t of the farmerft not having conveoienceB for it yet» Still, I have seen aome of the Bnei^t fat cattle this spring I ever &aw,
Amabel, tiroce '. The past wiottr will long b© remembered by tn©Bt of the eettlera in the oouotiee of Grey and Bruf'e, a.-* I do not think everj' tenth nuui has feed enough to bring hiq Rtock throuifh. But the winter, though very long, was criuipurative'y miM. Winter commeuced abtnit the inth of October ; at leaat cattle had to be fed nearly all the time from that date. Spring proper commenced on Sunday, April 12th. The Aor w previout to that date had gone off the fields, but ttiU lay two or three feet deep on the roadi and along the fenoea. However, it wa<i cleared off by Tuesday evening the 14tb, and the foUowinjf week the gras^ waa ao that cattle could, and did in many instances, pick their own living. It baa beeo one of the best and mosb pleaaant sprinRft, aince that dnte, that I ever remember eeeiag. There were one or two light fro°rtH about the 22nd or 2'ird of April, but no enow haa fallen, tan^ the grass is aa far advanced now as it often it a month lat«r. Seeding, I ahould aay, is more than half done.
Brant, Biuce : It haa been altogether a new experience for farmers id the county of Bruce to be pellefl to l>uy importtd hay, straw and oat hulls to feed to stock, and it if further remftrkable to see aubatantial farmers ^oing to the saw-mill for isawduwt with which to bed their utock* In years away it was a eommou thing to ice the stnrdy pioneer browf-ing hi^ cattle while he wan chopping to clear hia land ; but tbst day in past and gone, and the fore«ta are beginniDg to get scarce, and farmers cannot afford to cut down their bush in that way now, ttiough in some instances it bas been done as an emorgenoy,
Artemesia, Grey : Feed was very scarce her*?, but that will, I believe, be a useful lesson to the fAimera^^ causing them to change nome of their preaent t^^stema of fettling stock. They have leamt that A mora iodiciou^ and careful manner of feeding will pay m the end,
Enphraaia, Grey : This haa been a very hard winter on fall wheat and clover. As last fall was a very favorable one there was a large quanlity uf wheat sown, and both it and clover made a splendid growth, the ground being completely covered before the snow fell. In fact, in many places it was too rank ; in »ueh caaea it appi^ars to have fared worst, and is now being plowed up. Some are aowing spring wheat oo the bare spots rather than plow it al! up.
Kepf^el, OreT : There was an immense amount uf grsin chopped and fed to ^tock, which heli>ed to eke out the i4traw . This winter's practice may induce fanners to feed more grain, and thus have their stotk in better condition in spring.
Biddulph, MiddleRcK : The grain crop 18 now in, except the peas, which will not be sown until the l&th or 20th of May. It has been found by ex|H^rience in tbin localiiy that r^^aa sown from the 15tb of May le the Iftt of June eacape the liug. A great many fanners prefer the Ist of June for sowing.
Do-chester N,, Mlddlesf^x : One of the greatest requirements for tbi^ part of the country is cheap and venient fencing. Kails aie now out of the question, and wire sec-ms to bo very s'ow in becoming adot»ted.
Ekfrid, Middlesex j My subject, theD, is ** Roads, ''and how tht>y can be improved, and the manage- ment of them be better and more wisely administered. I do not think, by what 1 notice in the dipcn^sioti of this question, that one of the most imi»ortant jwints of it has yet been touched. It has to do only with the roa^abed, its form or cro^s section, and its drainage, all of wntch seems very simple, und gemirally per- fectly understood by the ordinary patbma^ter ; but the gradient ot the surface of the land, anti the route necessary to be adopted to obtain an ea^y grade, by a detour or deviation from tho lines of the original mllowanr e for roads, where net-ded, is the great obstmction and impediment in purKuit of th*f end dewred. and is a [>oint that seems as yet to havf been total! v ignared, when this iwint, I claim, is one of vital impor- tance. Well, how are the«e deviation^ of route tt^ ix' obtained, and private property to be taken for tlubt pnrp38o? If it needs a petition to the townEihip council to obtain it, not a man will sign it, to invade iHa farm of a neighbour, and the council, too, will do nothing to aid the purpose desired ; and the consequei»ee ia that a matter of immense interest to the geoeril public it* blocked by the resistance of a few |)eop'e. I believe the only way to attain the desired end is to rnakw it the bosinew of the county council -a body of men gathered from the wider are* of a cotinty, less affecU?d by 1ck;»I influences, occupying a higher plaott, more independent, intpjligent and im partial, .ind with more progressive ideas; and with the aid of tho newly apijr>intei Commi^sionef^s sug/estion* and recsonimeniatious as to where certain alterations or improve mt^nts are necessary, there should be vested in some such body power and authority, auil whoahrmld also be zeiloualy disposed to use that power to carry these measurofi into effect. I respectfully submit that this is the essence of this question of better roads. The reduction of the aize of county counoila i»i no doubt, a great improvement, but of other parte of the Act I could not give an opinion, not having »een i1^
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NiMoun. E., Oxford : By the 5th of May aoeding' will be finished in this section, exoept peas, which will be held back for the purpose of escaping the bug.
Znrrra K. Oxford : Perhaps live stock of all klndi were neirer wintered in Canada on such a imall bulk Mf fodder. Straw will be mnch bettor lotiked aftor for eome time to comei and a much larger area of com ■ wiU be put fn. A lot of the old pastures w'ill i>e broken up and be sown witii something thst will yield snon* than the scanty bite they have atforded for the past two seasons.
Downie, Perth : It is s subject of common remark this spring that the land is much harder to get into profHsr tilth for the spring crope^ t<ikin^ on an average of lifty per c«nt. mor^ working than nsuat. This is thought to be the result of lack o( frost in the grcund. It ia imi>oB8ible,with any amount of work, especially earlier in the seanon, to make the soil into as good condition as it wan laiib )'ear. The thistles and all other Doxkms weeds and grasses have had extra chance to gain headway, and an increase in these may be expected ihsi year.
Downie, Perth : It has been demonstrated during the f>aat winter that it is poflsible to winter horsea much more cheaply than has been done in the pa^t. Hay wa^ not over a one- fourth crop in this locality Uftt vear, yet the horeaci are in as good, if not better, health than usual, being chiefly wint^^rcd on straw, whi^n was very good^ however^ and atlsge, which seems to be good hcrse feed while not working too hard. There is perhaps more hay on farmers* bands to-day than usual, notwithstanding light crop.
Elma, Perth : Farmers are tinding out that, if they are to prosper, aU the coarse grain and hay must bi? oonsitmed 4)u the farm.
Mono. Dnfferin : If it had not been for the esrly and favorable spring, fodder would not have carried «f«r uOfehalf of the stock. With thi^ careful fefniing and economy practiced by the farmers, the animals were brought through without much Iosh.
^ouo, Dnfferin : Some of our farmers are going into the growing of flax. A flax mill in being erected • few miles from here.
Trafalgar, Nelson : A great deal ^>f hardship and losses by farmers might easily havM been avoided by m little farethoUBfht. The glsring want of judgment among a class of fsrmeri 16 appallinp:. I know severiU OMCS where men were buying hay at $13 par too, and spending all their energies to do tnia and feed their ■lock nn hay and straw, when oats could nave been bought for twenty-five cents a bushel, and the stock kept in good condition on very muQh less than one -ha if the expense.
Trafalgar, Halton : Low prices of farm prodocta have much discouraged fsrmera, and were it not for the large crop of potatoes which has been used for feeding stock on account of the lownesa of price, and tb« diesbpoeaa of oats, half of the livi^ Htock would have been killed off.
Btobiooke, York : Owing to the great loss of fsll wheat there has been a good deal of Wild Qooce fpriilg whe*t »i>wn. There appears to be an excessive quantity of apple blossums^ but there will be no plains in this part of any account, which will be a great loss. A word about the destruction of wheat : If the ttiorw cvold have lain evenly over the surface the wheat would have bt^n all right, but owing to the waul of abeltttr it was blown into the road and along the fences. Ganxidianc* have been ruining the country. If thsf have a few acres of bush land they must have an auction sale ; then as a rule they mortgage the hgm, and we know the reault.
Searboro*, Y'ork : Only one month ago our roads and lanes were filled with snow, and now many of the farmers are all through sterling. I never remember seeing snow go away more quickly, and the laud dried in a few davs. In fact, during the last few days clay laud could scarcely be cultivated on aoeount of being m> dry and hard.
Mara, Ontario : Farmers have exercised great caution in feeding their live stock. There has be«^Q no iodder wasted, and very little straw has been used for budding. Most cf thcae who did not have silos had •ome com* which they cut and ft^, together with cot straw. On account of coarse grain being so chttap^ more thai) the usual quantity of chop haM been fed. Turnips and potatoes were both excellent crops in this townabips* and have been fed in large quantities during the past winter.
Scugog, Ontario ; I have been in this township forty -three years, and I do not remember that I have ifver teen faJl wheat look better at this time of the year. The fields were well covered with s&ow, which rcsaaioed till late. We have had very little frcst sinco spring opened.
Whitby, Ontario : Less barley is being sown than usual, and more oats. There ia also more seeding do&e aad less plowing.
darke^ Durham : I have taken notice that where the land was ridged up lu narrow strips, ^y three iriitls wjdev the fall wheat has come out safeat. Fat! wh«at aht^uld never be sown on wild Isudn, no matter •ciw dry the land may be. It is quite a common thing to see a crop of early peau taken off the land, which is tlwD prepared for fall wheat, 1 do not approve of putting in two orops of grain in one year. Land is
to have a rest and be well summer-f alio wed for fall wheat to ensure a gooi crop. One good oron of bB wheat h t>etter than two of spring grain. With well-tilled land and a proper rotation of orops^ aucxi as doveTg potatoes, wheat or barley, in succession, clover is a good land restt^rer.
Cavan, Durham : I am foity-nine years in Canada, and I do not remember the snow go off so nicely as it did this Tpear. We had a very heavy coat of snow, and the first thaw did nt>t affect the fall wheot, and we have had no frriet iiinct'.
Maovers, Durham : On the 12th of April the roads were nearly impasHahle with snow. The thaw hav- tiyawt in, <ine week later the snow was all off the roads, and the thermumeter was ranging from 70^ to 80^. It vas the grt'ateist change in one week I ever remember witnessing, the grass springing np as if by magic. I thiak aeeding will be well through the firet week in May. There is not m much demand for farm handa, mmt fmrmes^ doing with what help thsy have in their fainilit k.
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Kennebeo. Frontexiao : A pood m«Dy (myself included), wb«o t^e hay orop failed, i&wed o^tti. whidi helped to tirfe thf^m throufrh. I b&\e jurI finiehed feictding mine. Then my root* hetp«d. Plowing began about the 15th of ApriJ. I plowed on that day, and eoi«red eight biishek of oato and peas on the 23rf4, aitd «ix buahela on the 2'lth. So many want to work that there i% no lack of help,
Storrington^ Krontentc ; Many fanner* adopt tb6 improvement* introduced, and are taking advantage of all lecda and implemeDti tbey coniider it would he an advance and a beneBi to try.
Huntiopton, HastinifF: Sprint? hae op>ened up l>eaati fully, and will do much to lessen the bardena of thf>i over-weiAfhteii farmer. If we had an unuiinally late and backward spring mtny of the fanners in tbit vicinity would have loat their 6lo€k. Most of the Bcediog will have been fiuiBhed bi&fcire the first of May, The dull prf>&pect in the che^ie market^ together with the very low price for almost everything the farmer hat to sell, will prevent the hiring of any help that can be avoided.
Morrison, Mu«koka: Feeding was practised very economically, yet live (^tuck do not l^ok anv poorer than oena! at this lime. Fodder g^rowo in dry y«ar« seeme to contain more nutriment. I think that com will be prowD very mccewfully this year, as people here found it a great help in wintering cattle through last winter. The late big potatoe crop ^id good service in bringing oor cattk* through the winter So did oats, whichi being low in price, were largely osad for feed, I had 200 bunhels of oats chopped and fed Ut my cattle.
Carnarvon, Mutkoka : Hay sold at $20 a ton during the winter, present.
There is very little on band at
Ffom the Novell bib Rktchns.
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Colchester, Essex : 1 have grown a few sweet potatoes this eea»on, %nd believe it can be made % papnf crop if properly msnaged. Sorghum it grown a littte for private iise.
Qoftfield, N,t Essex : Another yar, and that not a very favorable oni^ has shown that northern sugar cane can be profitably grown as a field crop, provided a market could be found for our surplaR syrui\ aa there is more than will be used in Esnex thia vear, I operate a email factory where I made 2,000 gallons this fall. Many yields of from 1 DO to 200 gallons of first-class eymp came under my notice. I have a stock of 600 gallons on hand now. Owning to the uncertainty of Boding a market it is not grown or mattu- f acta red on a large scale.
Rochester, Esaex : Sorghum has been an exceptionally good crop thia year, and it ii being mnoh more extensively raised than formerly.
Raleigh, Kent : This year farmers looked to Iheir large crop of applee for some relief, but are dit- appointed, as there is no sale for them at any price. A niim1>er are ahippiog to Chicago tjpon a rather wildcat-looking cold storage syplern. la it not abnut time the Minister of Affriculture took some stiingent measure to enforce the law aarainnt noxious weeds, black knot or yellows, where the township couocib refu'9e to do so, as im the csm^ in this townshiii t
Ealeigh, Kent : Considerable attention is being given to growing lucerne, and thoald it givB good ' results when grown for winter fuedin^r it will come inti general use Three, and in some cases four, crops have been cut thifl sesson, yielding a large tinaotity of fodder for the amount of land under the crop, snd should it stsnd the test as a fosd for horses and cattle, no doubt a great acreage will be sown next spring.
Raleigh, Kent : Sor«;hum h grown in quarter acre patchei and taken to a factory and manufactured into syinip for the farmer's own u^e. The only drawback to the prosperity of the farmer this year in this lixiality ts the low price, especially for corn^ oatK, hogs and beans.
Yarmouth, Elgin : During the last six years there has been a great improvement inroad work, id building iron bridges instead of wood, in putting in iron and concrete pipes instead ot the wooden oulverllw making better drainage for the reads* and building embankments, bridges and culverts wider.
Charlotte ville, Norfolk : Millet is grown to quite an extent for hay. It can be sown after other OTOp* are taken off, and it yields a lot of hay, which is easily grown.
Canboro', Haldimand ' As soon as farmers in thia section get money enough they move to town Mid sell or rent their farmu.
Moore, Lambton : XTuder-dratning is wbat we want more of. We conld then grow better crope on the low ground, but the low prices for everything we have to sell keeps us from doing as much at we ought to.
riymptou, Lambton : Millet, or Hupgarian gra«>>, la being sown more largely of late on account of the failure of timothy and the uncertainty of a clever catch. Though said to be hard on land I rained this* year a most excellent crop {without manure), on land from which I could not get a decent crop of com*
Ashfield, Unron ; We will never be able to compete in the world's markets with other countnee until our freight rates are reduced one- third at least.
Colborne, Huron : Lucerne is growing in favor as a soiling crop, aa it yields three or fotir cuttingi on g(Hxl land. Crimson clover has been tried, but wai a complete failure.
Godericb, Huron : Flax was very good thie year. More of it was grown than common, and sold %o Clinton flax mill at from |8 to 110 per ton.
Hullet, Huron : Lucerne does well, and i» increasing in popularity. A large area of flax has been grownti, and thf> crop has been a heavy one. The advantages ef spraying fro it trees are slowly forcing thems€<'lves on the public mind, and are steadily mnkitig hesdway.
Stanley, Huron : The flax crop here is heavy, A large acreage was %own.
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WftWAACMh, £.« Hufon : There hu bMO hi if Mt bft^ of tie IaU wHemt sttibble of th(? luut jear lown with rftpe ftlt«r the wheat wma hixveated, and it f^rew well and Iim g:iveT) ftood fall feed. Tbii wm don^ w^J tlken was little grws, the grairahoppera hftvici|^ e«teD Qevly alJ, and the cattle were starviiig ; the nhpM batptd to keep both sheep and cattle. 1
Brant, Bruce : Cora is the inatniktBy for fodder and io generftl it turned out well. 8ome wae left aDCDt a little too loij^ and wav frogtedp but not sufficient ti» materially damage. Com is alJ the go.
Eldcnlie^ Bruoe : Owing to the failure of the hay crop, millet baa been sowa to a considi^rable exteot. Wbse ibe eotl was open and in good tilth a good yield was obtainedi but on poor, lumpy toil it did not tBODDt to much,
KiiUote, Brace : I think the government ought to regulate freight rates in aome way, as they are exceesi^e;
Artemesia, Grey : The past two years should tenich the farmers that it will not pay to follow the o j piin of eowing frrain upon land which has not been proi^terl^r cultivated. Thofte who have their land plowedlil tfl the fall and well manured and clean from weedd and 4^^ ^ have bad good cropi. Grain that waa flowo^ «ith the drill waa a long way the bent, A^ it was all overed and readied the nioiat aoi^, it came up even lodheld tt% own daring the dry spell after needing.
St. Vincent^ Gray : Millet 10 grown oanaiderably. having been introduced last year to auppty the •bortage in hay, and apparently baa come to atay.
PloBj Simeoe: We have no tilos in this neighborhood, but we plant the Hilage com (mostly Red Cob) mdrilLi three feet apart, and from mx inches to one foot io the drill. We plant from the 24th of May till themiddle of June. We cut it iibcmt the middle of S«ptember, before froat, and set it up in what we oaU j dlM!k% there being about eight nr ten hundrp^d weight in a ^tack, tie it ti^bt at the top and hjwer dowiH (omrdi the middle, and let it ntand there until wanted in the winter. \Ve ali^o feed this silage com toi c^tle when the paetnre i« brown or bare any time in the fall.
Gwillimbnry W., Simcoe : While farming m tolerably well don^ here, there ii etill too little under- draiQing done. I telieve the chief cause of this t« the present depreeaioii, which meana a scarcity of money. Id fsct the only drawback we have it the low price of farm produota.
Vi^jspra^ Simcoe: Farmers should grow more clover to increase fertility of the soil, or, rather, to pre- ^t it rrom exhaustion. Improvement is needed in the breedinj^ of cattle and eheep. There are far too BMiiiT scrubs in the country. Farmers are slow to learn the grent importance of this.
L)orche9t«r N., Middleaex : The feeding of turnips is condemned by factory men as taintinf^ the milk, ud consequently the ebeese or butter. To feed turnips immi^iat^ly after milking, so that eight or nine bflfan may elapee between the feeding and the next milkiug {in so far as simple experiment is concerned^ does on^ appear to taint the milk ; but for one farmer who attends to this strictly a dozen do not, and bnoe the complaints of tnmipy milk.
Weotminater,, Middlesex : Kape ia sown for imsturagef and those who follow the system appear to like it Millet U grown to supplement the hay crop and is ^nerally cut green and mixed with other fodder, keerne has done well, and many farmera are eowing it m the meadows. It would certainlj make a good nili&g crop, and for green manure must be equal to if not miperior to red clover. Flax is not so much (ffown as formerly.
Misaoori £., Oxford : There is a great deal of flax grawn, and it wa^^ a grand crop generaUy— the beet twvtrkaew,
Ztmik, W., Oxford : A large quantity of millet waa sown this year. It seems to be growing io favor Hi forage crop, «a being easier saved than com, and it is very much in favor as a food for milking cowb.
Guelph, Wellington : A very large area is annually sown to rape, and it is becoming annually larger ; (8 Hict tt ia found to be almost necessary aa a fall food to start and fatten stock, aa well aa to clean and improve the fertility of the land,
Marrborough, Wellington ; We want better and cheaper transportation f^itities, with a choice of itarketa for <mr prodnce.
Minto^ Wellington : Flax wai< grown to some extent, hut growers glutted the lociU market, and could M get it off ibnr hands at a paying prioe.
Kiebol, Wellington : There wae a large increase in the acreage of 6iix in the lection around here. Th» prioB was tow, to that it was a disappointment tj moit of the growers. The flax mill here tbreabed over LlOO iaxia at flax thia seaaon.
Waterloo, Waterloo : A good deal of flax in grown but it came down in price to $8 to $9 a ton, and IbiAdoea not p»y, a« $5 an acre rou^t be paid for pulling.
Mono* Dufferin : Some flax haa been grown thia year, A Kax mill hu been started about seven milea frooibers.
Cai»tor« Lincoln 1 Rape is mostly grown as a catch crop, by sowing in with the oat crop for fall pasture sfter the oats are harv4«ted. This year it did excf^llent service.
Grimjiby 3., Lincoln i Some farmers sowed millet when they saw that their ha^r crop wms going to I light. In moat caf«« it yielded welU There is u little lucerne f^rown in the t4>wnsdtp^ And it mJta yieldc »viQ. w>that I think more of it will be gViiwn hereafter. In t-bis part of Ontario we have had three dr, roers in suocesaion. so that the present condition of the farming industry b not very promising, Ithongh all are hopeful ; and ait the prices of grain have hitherto been so low ^uite a number are turning att3Dtion to the dairy indu»try.|
Grimaby S., Lincoln : The oldet*t inhabitants say that our section was never «o barren aa thia year. ^ A
failnre of ail the grain sown do^s not often occur— including the hay crop. We do not despair,
;h. Western counties last yetir suffered while we had gojd crops. Their turn came this year for an
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Bevdrley, Weotworth : I hftd » field of o&tfl tompletely deetioyed by the wire worm, I plowed il ni^ sad sowed rape on it. I theo boQfrht a lot of lanibi and, tof^etber with my own, turoed them on to tt, And they have been thrivmir wonderfully on it. I have eold them to be delivered next month for a dollar »nd^ a half a bead more than I paid fur them,
Marktiam, York : In vifitiofr stables and farm yards thia liMt year I ootiTd not help bub notice the ioi* of the liquid manure, owinf^ to absence of («traw or other abeorbeat. The Ioha to thf^ Province must have been milbona. Could not the Experimental Farm show in some of its biilietiDi the lf>n9i of liquid m&nure to fanners ? The amall quantity of Mtraw for maotire ehonld cause fanners to now rye, buckwheat, etc., for* green manure, as tbe ekuL musb have a certain amount of humuip for the growth of the plant,
Mai-a, Ontario i One or two farmers ex|x'rimetited on a rather large scale with sunflowers, but thi» enterprise did not prove a success.
HatdinaAiid,'rJorthumberlaiid ; Hogs and cheete hftve brought us more money than any or all others produce.
Bastard, Leeds : The eounty of Leeds is a dairy county, and the fanner who has not got a silo is ooo* sidered a back number. Corn is almost exclusively grown for *'n»ilage. There are several kinds grown— early, medium and late. For an early corn Longfellow holds fir»t place, and the Mammoth Southern Sweet vanetii:;^ for medium and late. The corn m planted in hills 3 to 3| feet apart each way. The idea of planting early and la&e varietiee is that they can begin to fill when the com is in the glazing "tage, and none will oe too rli>e or too green.
Winchester, Dund as : The farming industry is improving, and could be still further improved by a proper system of tile draining, very little of which has beon attempted »*« yet. But there has been much improvement by tif'o municipal drain*, which will bring into use much fine land heretofore almost uaeleas.
Hawkesbury E., Prescott : In travelling through this township I obser%*ed a larger quantity of flax sown this year than formerly ; but I have not heard of any use being made of the fibre, the whole aim being to raise the seed to feed to the cattle. Some of the farmers in this township, when they saw whM ravages the graaahoppent p^'rpet rated in the oats, cut the crop down in the green »tate, plowed up tbe ground snd sowed millet or fodder oum, and auccoedcd in having a very good late crop.
Cambiidge, Kuteell r fhere is a great improvement going on around an in the manner of farmioff. Since the growing of corn and roots for cattle enables the faimer to keep moie stock, there is more manure, and consequent improvement of the land.
Osgoode, Carle ton : There were no new cheese ftuotonem erected in the township this year. Some of the older onei were turned into skimming stations and the cream shipped to Monti eal by rail to be dis* posed of.
Drummond, Lanark: There ts a lack of education, both of an agricultural and business character. More farmers' insti^te meetings should be held, and more schools of agriculture are needed. There should be at leaiit one in every county. In order that the farming industry may be raised to its proper pli^oe M bead of all others, it is necessary that farmers think more of it themselves,
EldoD, Victoria : Rape is sown bv several for fall pasture, but the reason was this year so very dry that it did not sprout. Millet for fodder, and flax seed for calf feed are grown to a small extent.
Laxlon. Victoria : The quality t^t butter has imDroved a great deal the last few years. Since we wera visited by the Travelling Dairy great improvements have taken place in butter making.
Laxton^ Victoria : This year will be remembered by moat farmers in thia locality on account of the plague of graAe-ho|>ppra. Some lost their whole crop, and nearly all I'>&t a part on this account, and had it nol been that corn planting had generally been done by farmers, fodder would have been scarcer than last year. There leems to be an idea gaining that il will pay to gmw more fall wheat if it only be for tbe straw fodder.
Glamorgan, Haliburton * The cheapest addition to skim milk for calves is that which I have used for the past two years, namely, fins ground linseed cake at $1 t>er hundred. My calves have done well on it frem the start. It is merely scalded, and skim milk added and stirred.
Huntingdon, Hastings : Com for ensilage purposes baa been grown this ye*r to a far greater extent than in any previous jear, but as only a very tew bave ailoa the bulk still remains in the field, and there ia consequently a considerable wa^te. Mammoth Southern corn ia tbe variety most sown.
STATISTICS OF
THE WEATHER AND THE CROPS.
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THE WEATHER.
Tablk I. 3bowiiiR for each mooth the highest, lowest, meftn higheat, taeftQ lowest and mean tempem- tiire at the principal statiooB in Ontario in 1696; al«o the uonual mean for each station.
fBigheftt ....
I Lowe»t .........
. i Meiin hi((he«t . . . ] Mean lowest , . • ( Mimthty nte»n«,.
f Higbefl ..«..«.b». I Lowest. .;.......
M^an higb«««....
1 Mean lowest. .. ..
tMuntWy mean..,
f Highest
I Lfiweftt ,....-.-♦ -5 Mean highest . . .
I Mean loweht
^Monthly mai^ti..*
fHigheit,
I Lowest
Mean highest
I Mean lowest
t Monthly mean...
Nofembor
December . .
f HighcBt ,.,*.
J Lowest
. ^ Mean higheat
\ Mean lowest
^Monthly mean...
r Highest .♦......,
I Lowest *
-; Mean higbeet
J Mean lowest.
L Monthly mMa ....
f Highest
\ Lowest
J Meanhigheat
I Mean lowest . ... C Monthly mean..*.
f Highest
I Lowest , .
•{ Mean higbeat .*..
Meauloi L Monthly mean..
rHigheat ,
i Lowetpt
Mean highest. . .
Meanloweat. . .. IMonthly mean .
Highest .
Loweat ... . ..
Mean highest . . .
Mean loweat..,.
(.Monthly mean..
Annnal mean
36.0 -14.2 27 7 14, « 31.14
43 2 '20,7 2d. 8 13 2 20 &1
49. « -4,5 32 3 12.
3S 0 4 3 28. 3 19.0 23.6.5
45.6 U.7 28.5 16 2 22.35
58.7
0.8
31 4
17.8
20,16 24.60
7& 0 13.1 56 2 35.0 44 /.*9
S4A) 33.1 68 2 47.1 56 16
83 9 37 1 72.0 BL9 62.02
85 9 43,6 75 3 57. S) 65.83
91,4 43.1
75.7 57.5 61.87
79 0 28 1 €4.0 47 7 5t.II5.
70.0 23.1 53.3 35.8 42 01
64.0 17,1 45.8 31.1 37.89
50.2 3.6 33.4 22 0 27 07
43.11
84.7 19 5
mn
41.8 50 03
88 9 3S.0
74 0 51.7 62.85
86.2 87,4
75 1 5a. 4 64 25
y
43.2 79 G 600 69,80
93.0
42 & 77,0
57.9 67 45
83.7 34.6 66.2 60.1 58.13
71.0 23,8 .9 34i 9 44 90
63 7 12 0 45.1
at. 3
89.70
43 8
4.0 32.7 21.3 27.00
46.23'
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40,0 I 38.0 4 0 1 9.0
28.6 16.9 23.57
47.5 -17.0 29,3 15 1 23.35
60 5 '4.0 33.2 14.3 23.34
84 0
18,0 59.0 38 7 50 32
89.0 37.5 74 4 51.4 65,22
8<].0 38 0 77.9 I 53.3 68.89
89.0 42.0
80.1 59.0 71 82j
92 5 38.5 78,4 55.9 68 93
87 0 27 5 68.5 47.6 59.31
70.0 23.0 ' 54 4 i 34.2 44 93
61.0 15.6 47.2
31.3 89.48
61.5 10 3H 4 20 0 27,02
47.Sfi
27 2 14 2 21.92
44 5
23.5 27 9 12.6 02.00
55 0 '2.6 30.6 12.7
23.77
85.0 15.0 67,4 37,9 47 63
86. 2 37.0 72.6 49 0 61.16
86.2 39 0 77 1 52 0 6V33
88.0
45 0 79 5 57.4 68.95
91.0 36.0 77 6 51.1 66 15
86 0 25.0 66 2 4t 0 56 57
63.9 20.0 51.4 31.6 42.83
63.5 14 4 45 8 29 9 37,89
CO
39 0 -9.0 SO.l
17 4 24.02
52.0 44.0 31 8
18 4 24.84
62.0 2.0 34.9 lK.fi 26.61
91.0 20 0 57.2
39 4 47.34
93 0
40 0 71,8 51.1 61.79
92 0 41,0 76.6 65 4 66.92
91.0 47 0 85 0
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37,7
32.9
10.3
•21.0
28 2
2L9 :
15 0
5.6
22.18
14.31
48.9
44.0
-17.9
33 8
30 0
25.3
14 1
6 1
22 62
16 00
64,9 4.6 31.3 16.4 23.67
79.7 18.3 5ft 6 37,7 45 77
90 8 .^6.5 71.4 49.2
59. 7y;
86 3 41.9 76 9 53.9 64 75
91.3 47.2 80 0
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61 6
59,4
71,81
ns 72
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89,9 ;
43.0
43,3
81 8
79,2
60.2
r<6 6
71.77
67.49
92 0
86.3
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27.6
70,4
66 6
50.9
48 0
60.94
57.41
73 0
66 8
28,0
28.7
54 2
52 4
38.0
37.4
49 4 10 33 3 1^ 8 25.62
44.89 47.84
45 1M3
70 0 20 0 50 9 ^H5 5 43.17
55,0 -8,0 36 6 23 2 29.90
44.77
63 8 17.6 '47 2 31.9 39,45
48.9 1.1 33 8 21.3 27 84
4^ W
45.6 -5 1 28.6 8 3 18.26
81 6 10,6 56.2 35 5 45.01
87 6 H6.4 73.3 47.9 59.23
89,6 38.8 77.7 51 9
64 06
93.9 44 8 80.2 66.2 67 J2
95.6 38 2 8i.3 64.7 66.92
89.4 23.9 66.3 45.6 55.42
65 9 24 7 52.2 34 2
41.67
60.3 9 6 44,6 28 6 36 59
42,1 ■11.5 23,9 16.3 22.10
32.0 38.6
-36.0 -25.0
2L8 17,8
1.9 4.0 13.28 11.8i»
45,0 43-0
-36.0 -30.7
25.0 21.4
6.1 4.5
16.78 12.97
45.0 46 0
16.0 -9.2
28.1 28,0 50 9.4
17 31 18.69
78.2 82 8 U 0 13,0 54 6 64-5
34.1 83.1 44.83 43.81
81.0 90.5
33,0 37 1
70.2 70 7 45,6 47 6 58.59 59.15
87.0 87 4
38.0 42 5
76.1 75 2
51 4 62 9 64.89 64 OS
90.0 92.8
46.0 48 5
78 4 79,5
56 3 i 58,4
67.93 68,94
90 0 92.1 40.0 ' 41 0
78 4 78 6
53.9 55.4
66.61 66.99
84.0 I 89 0
24.0 30 0
65.2 6.^* 9 45.5 46,3 56.22 56. CS
66.0 6t.a
24.0 25 8
52 2 610
35.1 35 2 41.54 43 07
60.0 61.0
18 0 8 2
43 5 42,2
30.3 27.4 36,56 34.81
39.0 41.0
-13.8 16.0
29.4 24.7 13.9 9.2 21,61 16,99
42 28 43.18 41 46
32 0
-37,0 16 9 -1 8 759J
420 -37.0 22,6 L3 10,60
50,0 25,0 28,8 0.1 14.41
83,0 12.0 66 4 30.3 43.35
91 0 30.0^ 70.8 44 1 57.46
89,0 37.0 78,0 49 I 63,65
92.0 46.0 . 77*9 54 9
66.40
92.0
42 0 76 8 53.0 64, 9S
84.0 < 260 64 0
43 6 53.80
65.0 24.0 50,9 S3.1 41.50
51 0 2,0 39.3 25 d 32 5a
40.0 18.0 25.1 6 9 16.02
39 34
ONTARIO BUREAU OF INDUSTRIES.
THE WEATHER.
Tahig n. Showing for each mucith the ikDnual Average of the hrprlieat, lowest, mean highest, meiti tow- nt Aiid mean temperftture at the princtpftl fltfttioo^ in Ontario derived from the fifteen yeAin 1882-96 ; bIao the averftge AUDual meim at eiach Btntiott for the same period,
fHiffheat
t Lowest
Jibiury.. , . ^ Mean bighett. . .
Mean lowe4t. .. .
L Monthly meAo. .
fHigheit
* Loweit - . .
ifhn^rj , - -t Mean higheat. . . I Mean lowest - . . C Monthly mean .
r Higheat
I Loweat « .
f Ktrrh ^ Mean higbeil. . .
Mean lowest . . , L Monthly mean
I Hfgbeit ...
I tiowest , -
April ..,, . ^ Mean higheat , . , I Mean loweHt . . t Monthly mean
f Highest .......
i Lowe»t ........
VijT > Mean bigheat . .
Mean lowest . . L Monthly mean
( Highest
I Lowifftt .....*,
*7iii»e . [ Mean highett..
I Mean lo^eit , . (Monthly meian.
f Highest , . *
I Loweitt . >
'^^f* , . -j Mean highest.*
Mean lowivnt . .
( Mon hly mean.
rHigheat. .,...,
» L0W6J»t.,.-...,
Ai^Tiiit •! M«an highett , .
I Mean loweet . . I. Monthly mean.
fHigheat «,.....
J Lowest
^ptember. . { Mean highest . ( Mean low eat . i Monthly mean.
f Bigheat Loweat ........ -. Me&n highest. . I Mean lowest . . I Monthly mean.
rHigheat
i Loweat
■( Me^n htght}«t . . I Mean loweat . . t Monthly mean.
rBighett.......
I Lowest
i Mean bigheat . . i Mean lowest . . I, Monthly mean.
Annual mean
S
4t 6
-8 1 27 2
12 3
in 87
45 0 -1L2 28.0 11.3 11*17
51, R -4 7 33 3 16 1
28.87
74.0
13 6 49.4 d0,8
39.22
79.8 23 4 60.8 40.8 50.11
8^.4 37.4 71,3 50 1) 60 81
86 8
I 41 6
78 3
5i I
♦H 02
86 7 40 7 73.5 54.1 62.82
84 7 32.5
48.4 bt\.M
72.8 22 n 55.0 38.3 45 26
BL6 12.4 42 9 29.5 35.34
60 6 1.1
33 6 20.8 27.03
o 4.'5 fi 40 0 2ti I 18.4
o
46 0
9 5
27 7
13.1
l'.i.72 2l &0
47.1 -13.5 27.5 13 0 20.25
.'>6.0
34.1 18 7 26.07
77.8 111 2 52.8 33.3 43.05
83 4 2'*^ 5 »55.K 43.3 51.55
88.6 36.6 76 8 53.3 05 01
91.6 40.9 711.1" 50 6 67.76
91.1 39.8 77.0 5-1.1 65.33
86 9 32,5 70.6 49 4 60.07
75.1 23.2
55 « 38 8 47 31
63.7 12.2 42.6 30 3 36 43
49;7 -2,7 32 5 30,9 26.^
i^
46.3 -112 251.1 12,6 21.76
55.6 -3 9 35.3 18 2 27 67
7'
42 03 44 36
«.6 18 2 62 2 31-9 44-47
82.0 30.6 fi5.9 43,9 56.29
88.0 39.2 76.5 54-1 66.6a
90. S 43-7 79.1 56.3 69.52
89 6 39 7 76,8 53 8 66.76
85.4
31.8 70,4
49-2 60.34
73.3 23.5 65 8 37 3 47 0*
62 4 11.8 43 7 %\ 2 36.80
51.3 -2 9 3:1,9 20.3 27-82
45 66:
4H I 129
27 3 10 0
20.12
45 9 -12.4
28 9 10 4 21.20
51 8 -4 9 34 8 16.5 26 51
76.4 16 2 53.1
31 3 42 76
81 3 */!> I ti4 5 41 8 54.06
88.2 38.2 76 6
52 2 65.33
90.2 I 43.2 79.5 54 4 67.93
90,1 40.4 77.6 52.1
M
0
Ik
>ktl
«
t
C3 *"
0
-3
cQ
0
P
-A
b*
^
=
-
0
50 7
4 5
32.4
18 8
22 01
48.2 6 6 32.8 18.5 23. f5
67 4
4 2
88.7
24 0
2t),82
78,2 23 4 54 3 36 8 43 74
84 1
:^ 2
65 9 45 9 54.66
91 8 44.2
79 2
65.27
86,6 30 7 70 3 46 3 58,92
73 6 22 6 55.4 35 6 46 00
ti> 3 9.2 12 6 27.2 35.»j3
49.1
-1.3 32.7 17 9 26.26
44.16
58 1 ^ 66 61
94 7
49 2
82 5
60.0
70.60
92.9
4B 8
80 4
58 8
69.28
89 5 36 5
73 5 53.1 61,70
74 0 26 9 59 0 40 7 48.47
G5 7 16 5 46 7 32.5
44.0 8 1 27.9 13.1 2L09
44.2
-9.2
29 1 13,2 21,71
51,7 2,5 34 3 19.8 27,17
70 6 20,7 60 3
53 1 41.62
77 9 32 2
62 0 43.4 52 66
86 2 43 0 73 9
63 9 63 77
89 2 47 4 77 6
57 4 67.43
87.2 45.8 75,3 56 4 66.60,
82 5 I 36.6 I 68.2 49.8 I
58 97,
70 0 26.1
54 3 38 9 46 78
58 9 13 6 43.9
30 2
39.16 36.71
54
1.6 37.1 I 24 0 30.46!
I 47 6
1.8 33 8 20 9 27-78
46 67 44,27
11
41.1 -2J 8 23 3 6 5 14 75
42 6
18,7
26.8
5 6
16,05
43.6 .93 32.2 13.9 22.77
74 5 12.4 61.3 29 8 40.01
82,7 28 5 65 3 41.4 53.06
89.7 38.5 76.8 61 5 64 06
91.6 42.1 79 5 63.8 66.37
90.6 38,4 77.3 53.3 63 98
86.2 30.1 69,4 45.5 56.63
72 4 19.8 54 1 34,8 42 60
59.9 3 7 40 4 25 6 32.67
45 0 ' 14.0
39 3 13.6 21.96
41.82
41.7 •27.7 23,1
3 0 14 05
43 2 -24 8 2r).5
4 0 16,48
o
39 7 -22.6 18 8
0 6 10.26
40 0 -23.2 21,4
2,0 12.35
48.5 I 45.0 15.1 I -10.4
32.3 I 30.6 10.9 I 12.4
20.04 J21. 82
70. a 10 0
49 1 28.4
38 78,
81.6 27-7 63 5 41.6 52.41
88.2 37.2 76 4 51.8 63 66
89.1 48 0 77.8 54 9 66 33
88.5
39 6 75.7 53.1 63.80
83.3 31,1 68,6 46.4 r6.86
71 1
21 3 54.6 36 2 41 50
69.9 6.1
40 7 25.5 33. Od
45.3 -13 8 25 7 13.8
22 43
72.9
12 6 19 S 30 1 40 19
83.4 30.7 66 0 43.7 55.27
88.9 41.7 76.4
64 2
65 86
90 6 46.8 78,6 56 9 68.08
89 2 42,4 76 S 54.3 65 31
88 7 81 7
68 0 46 8 57.34
08 9 22.7 52.3
36.1 44,03.
58.1
4.5
38 6
24 9 32.10
42 5 -16,9
25 0 8 9
17-56
37 8
33 6
17 6 6-7 6.64
42.1 34.7
21.6 19 8.18
49 3
-24.6
31.5
4.8
18 31
73.8
4.T
49.9
25.4 37,04
85.9 24.8 66.4 38.3 61. 4S
90.8 S4.6 76 2 47 9
61.98
90 8 40 6 77.6 62,4 64 09
89.2 38,1 74 9,
50 6 , 60.8il
84.0 29 2
67 6 43.1 52.89
n 5
18 8 61,9 32.6 40 74
66-6^
1.0 86.9 21.8 2d 79
42 3 •24.S
24.8
6.3
14 73
^<
ONTA.BIO BTJREAtr OF INDUSTRIES.
THE WEATHER.
T A B L I ] IL Monthly vtimmAry of bright flmtibiDe ftt the prioctpal Bifttiooa in Ontario in 1896, »bowiDg> the Dumber of boure the son was above the horizon, the hours of regiBtered mmshiDef the totftl for tb« ycta, and the average derived from the fifteeu years 1882-96l
Station.
s
•-3
1
'l
t
»-5
i
<
1
1
1
i
1^
hrt.
h™.
hi«.
hr«.
hrs.
biB.
bm.
hri.
hn.
br».
hn.
bn.
hn.
Hourt of »un\ Othoi t horizon, j
3S5.7
302.6
369.9
406.4
461.1
466.7
470.9
434.5
376.3
840.2
286.9
274 3 4474.*
Wood*/ 1896 .. STOOK. 1882-96
87 4
98.3
159 4
141.1
273.9
262.0
24r>.9
232.3
159.6
146.5
75.7
69.711900.7
69,0
84.8
133 7
181.1
207.0
242.8
272.3
232 4
182 8
128,8
69.7
67.0;i851.4
TOBON-/I896 .. TO ... 1 1882-96
44.8
113.2
201.0
191.8
283.0
300.2
246.7
272 2
180.2
143.2
94.1
77.S214«.r
76.3
101. S
168 9
ltr7.2
221.2
261. »
280.8
249,8
214.0
143.4
79.6
60.7i2045,l
BAKRtE{}«^.^
84.7
103.4
188.0
156.4
218 0
329.7
220.6
272.1
161.6
145.0
51.6
87.81968. »
72.7
75 4
139.0
175.3
199.6
234.4
2M 3
219.5
164. S
110,3
48,5
42.5|l7S8.S
LiND- /1896 .. BAT 1 18«2'D6
63.3
103.0
206.3
1% 2i
276.1
310.4
209.3
259.4
154.4
121.9
63.2
79.4 2040.9
73.4
100.4
164-7
204.3
318.5
259.2
270.3
247.0
1»9.6
133,6
69.4
58 8 1998. &
81 4
103.1
186.7
217 1
261.7
308.4
266.3
276.0
184.3
120.9
64.4
K9.6 3169.8
71.5
103.3
163.3
196.6
219.6
250.6
269 4
246.8
196.2
133.0
76.7
71 .4 1998.a
^!;^;Ji896..
62.3
104.0
188.1
180.3 262.1
302.1
237.8
262,6
168.0
135.5
69.8
1 80.82043,4
73.0
110.2
179.6
196. ll 262.1
286.3
282.4
228.0
194.2
149.0
79.3
57.1 2036. S
70.6
93.0
lftl.9
190.9 213.2
249.8
269.8
239.1
m.5
129.8
68.8
&8.01i^.4
Tablk IV. Monthly iuinraary of incbes of rain and snow pr* d pita t ion in the eeveral diatricts of Ontario in 1896 ; alio the average derived from the fifteen yeara 1882-96.
Diatricta.
L
Wt4t and Southrc(4it! „ . 11896 ...
«*"" •**''*\1882-96 .
o fl8!16....
o^^ "'*' tl88296..
Northictti and North : ry . /1896 ....
^^^ tl882-96 ..
« 11896 ....
™*^ 'U882-&6 ..
Ctntrt: „ . /1896 ....
***"* ••' "(1882-96..
o J 1896 ....
°0*^ • ■ 1 1882 96 ..
East and Northeast : ^ . 11896 ....
*^^° 11882-96 ..
„ flP96 ....
S''*'* tl88:£-96 ..
Thf Province : ^ . /1896 ....
^'•'^ --' 1 1882-96 . .
°®®^ \1882W..
in.
0.69 1.14
10.5 16,48
0.23
0.87 24.4 28.16
1.54 1 24 13.9 18 59
0.25 0.89 19.7 22.16
0.65 1.03 17.1 21.35
m.
0 43
1.48 20.7 12.30
0.J9 0.D9 18 6 21.14
0,91 1.16 28 0 14. e5
0.32
0.67 30 6 18.78
0.46
o.ss!
24.5 16.69
m.
0.83 1 15
10.4 9.58
0.51
0.74 11 2 13 66 4
0.82 1 09 12.0 9.35
in. 1.1
s
2.39 3.45
1.80
4 2.84 0,06
1.95 2.56
22
40
8
00,0.44
90 1.98
6612.94
1
07i0 07
o'l.iaSa
0.89 12 0 13.00
2.88 3.14
2.17 2.72
1.74 2.91
3.95 2.50
3.65 2.64
4.49 2.
1.91 2.47
4.16 3.07
2.98 1 2.38 2.
46
0.80"1.12 2.08 2 77 2.31 1.3612.72 2.80 2.81 2.6 1
0.74 1 0.971 11.4 12 11.40 3
04 0.18
I
27 2.10 2,39
63 2 92 5 I • 49 0.19 I
2.89
2.79 3.54
.57 2.83
86
4 66 3.73
4.66 3.67
4.47 2.79
M
o
o
§
>
o
in.
1.46 2 72 0 2 0.30
2 07 2.83 4.6 2 00
1
2.35 1,4
0,57
1.85 3.20 2 3 0.72
1,76 2.53 2 1 0.90
2.59 2 40 3.0 6.76i
2 28i 2.01) 13.4 14 18
0.45
1.61
9 7
13.94
0.27
1.13
14.9
20.72
1i S
2 43
0 34
3.38
1.43
4.6
8.4
5,66
10 99
2.72
0.41
2.06
1.13
8.8
6.5
8.42
13.76
2.60
0.371
2.22
1.32
6.2
9.6
8.75
14.60
25.53 28.72 56.9 61, SS
90.84 23.24
91.8 104.80
21.29 24.6S 69.4 68.8S
21. 7d 23.0S 76.3
81. OS
22 86 24.41
78.4 77.87
I
^B fileiibeiln ^M ChMthmta
■ 0,mt,\
■ Port dtimley
■ KOKTOLK ;
B Port Dover
HHalddiand: H [leCewirille
■^ Thorotd
IaM0TON: Svnift TiMdfofd Birii»ni .. Wyomiog Huron ; ^ Godertcb»LwH
V BlPCX: p LuokQow . * I North Bruce
I Poiat GlArk
gMig^^eti
I Bopior
Sound DnrhMii Frcsque Isle 8010QK: Barrie Goldwftter Onilift
Colds tream London ......
Watofii Grove Oxf o*n : PfiacetoQ Woodjrtock
Parii
SL George PWH:
8t, M arji
SlAtford WiLUllOTON :
Mouol For«flt
OnageTille,
42
ONTARIO BUREAU OF INDUSTRIES.
Table V. THE WE AT HER.— Coneluded,
Observei.
Rain.
•
Snow.
Station.
1895.
1896.
1895.
i89
1
i
1
i
^H
1
a
WlNTWORTH :
Stony Creek
Halton:
Georgetown
York:
Aurora
C. F. Van Wagner .
J. Barber, jr
Rev. R. W. Amos . R. Martin
^.50
22.64
18.99 24.:81 22.80 22.53
23.67
18.95
20.30
24.37
20.66
19.00
9.13
22.96
17.26
19.40 20.18 22.77
22.81
22.11 1 80.76
20.12 19.87 20.66 16.76
17.79 17.83 24.61
18.03 21.71 16.64 20.17
21.27
84
120
79
95
98
101
88
45
113
98
87 91 16
59
87
48 72 90
84
62 100
79 77 97 62
96 69 81
89 47 92 39
79
27.52
20.64
19.04 21.01 21.37 21.77
20.50
13.09
20.20
20.94
20.71 22.11
79
101
67
91
78
104
• 77
43
88
78
76 87
68.7
74.7
64.9 48.2 40.0 64.8
74.8
103.6
67.3
804
92.0 89.2 46.7
43.3
102.6
60.0 71.2 77.5
73.8
129.8 71.6
123.6 151.6 110.3 113.6
203.6 136.0 168.0
<44.4 72.0 94.4 63.0
89.6
84
77
47 42 46 48
48
34
77
48
68 62 32
15
61
22
29 39
67
63 37
72 63 62
41
97 53 82
44
43
105
46
50
60.4 99.2 68.4
Soarborough :
Deer Park
68.2
J. Reeve
44.7
Toronto
Observatory
Wm. J: Dods
J. Lane
73.3
Pebl: Alton
73.6
Lkn'x k Addington: Denbigh
94 .-8
Fbontbnao :
Kingston
Oarletom :
Ottawa
A. P. Knight. M.A.
W. T. Ellis
A. Schultz
55.8 103.8
Renfrew : Clontarf
150.0
Rockliffe
0. Mclntyre
H.Wright
W.J. MpLean ....
Thomas Beall
J.N.Telford
T. Telford
H. A. Lempriere . .
0. R.Stewart
J. Cleak
J. Russell
99.6
Renfrew
Lanark:
Oliver's Ferr> .... Victoria :
Lindsay
Peterborough :
Ennismore
Peterborough
Lakefield
^.01
20 62
20.22 24.31 19.73
26.87
21.81 30.16
30.67 30.02 26.30 26.46
21.61 26 76 25.92
17.79 21.01 16.09 2*. 74
28.84
67
87
49 80 94
89
67 85
81 96 73 65
106
77 85
66 41 83 35
82
62.6
121.2 j
57.5 72.9 1 93.6 1
Halibcrton :
Haliburton
Hastings :
Bancroft
Deseronto
72.7 1
143.9 69.2
Muskoka : Bala
K. B. Sutton .... J. HoUingworth . . . T. M. Robinson . . . 0. A. Wattson ....
Rev. R.Mo8ely ....
A. Kirkam
P. Macdonald
W. P. Cook
Agent C. P. R
Agent C. P. R..... Thomas Baker
i Province
133.3
Beatrice
141.0
Oravenharst ....
Huntsville
Parrt Sound:
Parry Sound
Sprucedale
XJplandi
128.8 . 62.0
115.2
92.5
157 6
Algoma :
Port Arthur
Savanne
36.9 44.0
White River
Thompson
Average for th<
103.3 57.0
81.5
ONTARIO BUEEAU OF INDUSTRIES.
43
THE WEATHER.
Table VI. CompantiTe Heteorolo^c&l R^eter for the eeven years 18dO-9<S, ifl recorded at Toronto Obaerratory, m Lititude 4S<' 39.4' N., and Loogitude 5h. 17m. 34.65a. W.
^
-Averigp temperature
Differeooe from average (56 yaari) . Thsrmio aaomaly (lat. 43<' 40^) . . . «
Highest temperature
Loweet temperature ,..-,.
Honthlf and annual rangee
Average daily range .,«*.«.
(trealest daily range ,.,
-Aftragie height of bar at 32'=' Fah . . ,
Difference from average
Highest barometer ,
Umrtt barometer
Monthly and annual rangee .......
Averige humidity of the air
Differaofie from average
Af«i^ «laaticity of a(|uemiii vapour . ATenge lemperatnre of dew point .
^Vfnge of clondineai
Dt(f«r«nce from average ... .....
Bvoltant direction of wind ....«.«•*
" velocity of the wind .... . .
Afttige vekcity (miles per hour). . . *
I^ amonol of rain in iachee . »
Biffereiioe from average * , . . ,
Nunber of dayi of rain
Toilal amoont of i^now in iachee, ,..,.,
Diffefcnoe from average
Kombetf of dayi of «aow « ,
Annber of fair days .... —
Kmiber of days completely clouded
Xnmber of auroras obwrved . Poidble to 8«e aurora (No. of nights)
Ifumbet ol thunderetorme
If mnber of f oge
of haara of bright lunBhine
iber of tioarfl of poraible aunftbine . .
1896.
46.36 -f 1.16 — 5.66
ftl.3 -17,9
109 a
17 58 38.9
29.6389
+ .0186
30.422
28.734 1.688
76 _ 2
0.254 38,9
0.60 -.01
N
88W
0 75
8.44
21 770
- 5 552
104
73.3
+ 5.0 43
174 55
18 194
•2h 30
2146.7
4474.4
1895.
44.28 0.08
— 6 74 93.4
—21.2 114 6 17.26 36.9
29 6171
— 0026 30 210 28.74fl
1.494
75
— 2
0.263 41 3
0.57 -.04
; 78 w 1.36 5.60
22.531
- 4.791
IQl
54.8
-13.5
48
196 48
11 195
1894,
23
2150.7 4463.3
46.75
+ 2.55
-4.37
90.7
— 9.9 100, H
16.37 34 3
29.6216
4 .0050
30.516
29.035
1-481
76
- 1
0.277 42 9
0 60 — 01
N 78W 1.10 6-67
1893.
1892.
if
p
43.53
44.61
— 0.67
-h 0.41
*- 7.49
— 6.41
93 S
93.5
-17-8
—10 2
111 1
103.7
r7.15
15 58
36.3
88.6
29.5996
29,6325
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30.356
28.227
28.846
2 240
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1891.
1890.
45.87 + 1.67
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29 6385
77 0
0.263
41.5
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25.7861 31.146 25.285
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KURAL AREA.
Sbcminf? by County Mu£ktcip»litie» and ^r^ups of CountiM the Rural Area of ODiAtio 9M tfetUTDed by munioipftl AM«sflora for 1896.
Ta»li VIII.
CQoaiiettk
Acres of ftweesed land.
ToiAl^
I Frovioce
Eesident
\lJSa6
422,528
4S7.14«
393,354
278,912
325,^3
3,313,486
611.812
791,853
836,755
2,270,420
1,047,489
927,'>H3
1,976»072
750,163 470.954 2t3,d09| 513,908 626,351 301,@16 333^423 3,210,031
183,803 371,246
233,987 383,916 531,823 486,444 867,053 434,032 218,844 3,003,153
435,320 599,793 463,817 3G6,6€9 295,806 148,345 384,655 269.836, 237,839 565,631 017,438 647.503 5,143,050
536 819 539,940 551,674 911.517 3,539,980
480,221
470.048'
1,720.718
22.174,899 22,131,895
reAidcanb.
7,487 7,738
488
4,6[I2
1,400
2,6U
24,401
18,910
7.630
32,426
58,966
Total
oocupied*
430,015 563,915 437,634 398,046 280,312 227,1*64 2,337,886
660,722
7!>9,483
869,180
2,329,385
Acrei oloared«
1896.
256.561 367,501 309,947 249,809 224,4.55 171,980 1,580,266
370,400
604 937
499,330
1,474,676
11,616! 1,059,101 622,535 36,615 964,198 549,583; 48,230 2,023,302, 1,172,118
1895,
7,302
1,257 2,427
4,866
1,439
4.757
33,184
45,292
7,401
791
923
4,121
4,801
9J46
3,939
2.334
10,166
44,312
10,115
73,436
7,719
2,287
1,250
1,890
100
17,137
23,384
10,135
32,884
24,765
304,991
63,288 31,601 13,lfi2 92,408 180,449
44,580 48.798 73,737 26.759 197,095 a90,9«>9
997,509 981,420
757,534 472,211 2l6,0:^fi| 518,772; 637,790 306.373 35tn607 3,255,313
191,210 272.037 224,910 288,037 536,623 498,190 370,992 43G,366 229.000 3,047,365
435,435 673,237 471.036 368.966 237,066 260,136 284,756 286.973 351,123 665,756 950.322 672.268 5,317,041
590,107
561,5411
564,826
1.003,965
2,720,429;
524,801 518,846 242,712 207.361 617,977 2,111,687
33,172,408 23,113,315
568,414 363,931 176,623 400,104 462,443 245,738 228,793 2,446.036
160,339 210 290 169,746 349,543 423.441 857,386, 290,056 336,064 190.978 2,386,741
215,033 229,751 270,277 166,211 145,3341 129,278 170,631 169,192 86.646 303,843 910,663 310,449 3,497,197
263,041 241,219 34,916 370,683 909,858
57,011 67,730 IB, 648 88,868 33,713 201,969
12,671.851
Aerea
wciodlBnd*
246,736 348,458 308,706 242,205 214,234 174,042 1,533,381
352,305
691,97*1
493,419
1,439,700
615,244
634,371
1,149,616
555,090 362,708 179,913 402,334 458,388 243,237 213,733| 2,415,403
159.607 209,5951 IS8,423 246,312 421,860 350,096 288,653 330,563 187,253 3,362,366
216,865 236.943; 265.137 166,210 140,124 128,394 159,761 160,947 83.330, 304,068 289,975 300.988 2,430,732
259,629 233,456 34,635 370,069 897,789
55,923^ 55,683 19,227 35,633 31,661 198,016
12,426,992
Bwamp or iiuu-flh.
159,104 173,213 119,323 105,018 48,701 50,952 656,401
246,024
8^1,248 234,807 670,079
233,097 303.696 535,793
172,401 74,024 19,233 67,122 80,809 41,781 41,300
496,730
29,776 37,207 36,1^
23,015 60,608 62,954 44,137 66,096 20,537 369,343
109,067
361,689
130,023
40,227
45,454
100,707
97,227
118.477
154,623
163,126
464,372
190,855
1,799,766
142,250 216.323 484,834 436,781 1,269,187
367,731 381,545 176,732 119,474 521,386 1,5611,868
7,264,167 7.777,461
14,360
23,198
8,364
43,219
7,066
5,032
101,229
44,289
106,298 136.043 284,630
204,473
110.919, 315,391
16.709 31.266 2^1,180 61,646' 84,538 18,854 86,464 313,547
1.095 34.540 20,043 15,479 62,674 77,951 36,799 86,206 17.496 291,381
117,315
181J87
80,736
62,518
46.367
30,16(1
16,907
9,304l
9.856j
158,?88
175,387
170,9641
1,060,078.
184,816 104,000 46,077 207,491 541.384
100,069 79,571 47,333 49.009 63,879
339,850
3,336,290 3,908,873
59,7 65.2 70.8 63.8 80.1 75.4 67.6
56.1
75.7 67.4
58.8 57.0 67.9
76,0 77.0 81.8 77.1 73.7 80.3 64 3 75.1
83»9 77.3 76,5 86.6 7B.9 717 78.3 76.8 83.4 78.3
49.4 34.1 57.4 6L8 61. S 51-7 59.9 66.5 S4.5 53.7 83.7 46.3 46.7
44,6
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AREA AND PROD UOK-^ F A LL WHEAT.
T A B L I IX. Showing b^ County Miiiiici[>ft1iiiea and frrotipi of CountiM the mtem And prodace oIFj Whei^t in Ontario in the yemrs 18d5 »nd 1896, witb th« yeArly avenge for tha fifteen f aan 1^ alao the yield per acre.
Yearly Avtrmge for the fifteen yeikr* ISfiS-M.
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Ease jt , . . , ,
Kent ,
ElglD ,
Norfulk
Haldimand ...........
WelUnd ..,
TuUli
I^mbton
Huroni
Brnce
TotAla... ..
Grey
filmooe ^.... ....
Totals
Mtddlaseac
Oxford
6r»zit 4.
Perth .,w...
Wellington .A..^«....
Wftt**rloo^
Datferin ..--,,,,
Totals
Lincoln ,
Wentworth , ♦ . .
HaUou
Feel
York
Ontario
Durham *
Not tb u mberland
Prince Edward
Totals
L'ennox and Additigton
FronteoRc , .
Leeds
Gren viUe .....
Bunda» .,• ,
Stomaont
Glengarry
PreictJtt.
RuMell.
CarletoQ
Renfrew
Xianark
Totftli
Victoria. .,,,,.
Peterborougll
Haiiburton . ,
HaitingB
Totala
Muakoka ,
Parry Sound . ..... ..
KipiMing
Manitoulin
.Aigomm ,
Totali ,
ThePpovmoe ...-
1896.
Acres.
Buabela.
30.267 68.67? 44,4ai 84,690 28,096 17,089 223,2ia
48,878
58,588
81,864
184,825
24,487
51,685 70,122
76,080 89»666 27,456 86,650 14.248 37,473 7,611 239,078
17,492
25,710 23,781 26.064 83,978 12,8dl 10,397 16,778 245 167,336
2.253
218
3,495
354
631
30t
106
40
50
26
360
3,2J7
11,077
6,456
11,022
177
7.008 24,662
33
30
31
803
252
1,189
Bnfih per
475,192, l,181,l4ll 577.21? 586,261 199,496 138.421 3,167,724
992.122
857,408
366,877
2,206,407
344,562 1,126,73.^
1,415,088 757,621 447,533 771,205 386,111 693,251' 162,875
4,583,684
204,650 336,801 411,411
445,694 631,991 293,915 232,893 850,660 3,014 2,911,035
29,064
3.314
76,541
6,938
11,610
6,080
2,420
920
1,250
520
6,166
77,364
22*i,177
147,174
257,915
3,469
B8,30!
496,859
620 875 420
21,620 6,326
29,260
876^955 15,078,441
18B6.
16.7 17.2 13.0 16.9 7.1 8.1 14.1
20.3 16.0
11. a
16.4
14.1 21.8 19.3
18.6 19.1 16.3 21.1 23.6 18.5 21.4 19.2
11.7 13.1 17 3 17*1 18.6 22.8 23.4 20.9 12.3 17.4,
12.9 15.2 21.9 19.6 18.4 30.0 22 2 23.0 26.0 20.O 17.1 23.9 20,1
22. B 23.4 19.6 12.6 20.1
18,9 12.5 20.0 26.6
25 1
26 7
17.2
Acree.
Bushela.
24,522 53,736 36^425 82,777 83,994 17,392 197,846
38,172
42,619
27.400
108,191
18,663 43,731 62,294
61,269 36,857 22,700 84,501
11,878
34.34(;
4.833
206,384
16,334
28,525
22,2b7
21,731
26.349
7,729
5,651
10,146
3,274
142,016
2,677
592
2,020
28
22fi
2U\
60
23
24
163
285
1,729
8,066
3,785
G,I3B
113
7,712
17,748
17 38 19
} 5811
605|
Bnah. per
566,649 1,038,899 644,723 337,603 499,712 245,227 3,822,813
790,160
971,713
615,120
2,276,993
356,410 1,246,334 1,002,744
1,347,918 589,712 261,050 755,572 210,241 618.626 99,077 1
3,782,195 I 280,773 439,285 398,937 388,985 566,504 168,492i 115,846 212,051 66,462
2,637,335
51,398
l3,^67
44,642
660
6.298
4,920
1,554
587
679
3,557
6,810
43,744
177,306
84,781
113,653
2.147
141,901
342,385
255 733 380
12,143 13,511
743,19g| 14,155,282
22 7 19.7 17.7 10.3 14 7 14 1 16 8
2D. 7 23.8 18.8 21.0'
20.6 19.0
Acrea.
33.034 60,688 43.385 34,121
33,400
21,391
324,964
37,671
tl0.0S4
41,260
138,955
19.2 23,<
28 5^ 25.7
23.0 16.0 11.5
21 9 17,71 16.1 20.5, 18.3
17.2 15.4 17 9 17.9
21.6 21.8 30 6 20.9 20.3 18.6
19.2 22.9 22.1 20,0 27.5 20.0 25.9 25.5 28.3 .23.4 20.7 25.3 22.0
23.4
18.5 19.0 18.4 19.3
15.0
19.3 20.0
30.9
Bufthels.
887,306
52.657. 76,448
71,618| 39,547 28.343 41.028 20.306 38,326 8,149 247,217
20,634
29,226
21,699
24,945
34,210
• 8,6#j9
4,670
12,735|
.%238
160,056
2,643 1,252
j 4,087
790
433
880
57
139
962
679
2,627
14,049
6.247
9,068
128
9,435
24,878
49
56
7
526
638
615,807 1,208,936 855,841 631,068 542.349 340,435 4,184,436
742..'m
1,226,934
7S'S,531
2,767,558
463,123 1,128.947 1,592,070
1,470,532
826,448 543,615 862.286 418,407 805,711 161,569 5,087.658
370.937 652.604 433,319 527.7961 751 ,91 F 191.212
fJ7.031 254.080
57,666 3,^36,512
47,993
23,467
76,279
14.939 8,016 6,894
805 2,521
15.216
12.436
62,087
260,153
126,875
178,833
3,099
176.749 483,565
833 893 123
ll,343i
13,189
17,626,061
197
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AREA AND PRODUCE-SPRING WHEAT.
r4»t.i X . Showing by County Municipalities ftod grmips of Oountiea the ir«A ftod produce of Sprin Wbeftt ID OhUrio in the yean 1895 and 1896, with bhe yearly averuge for the fifteen years ISSl-QOl lAm the yield per acre.
Countiee.
Ittt.
IVtala
Totals
Owy .... ' timet.)? . , . Total*.
HjddlM
[Off Old .
1896
Acre^.
WtlliortoQ
^ Ddferin
ToUl-
nliarlMid Edward..
Totals
and AddiogtoD
thoAm ...
SktBMIOt..
Eeafrerv Uaafk
T-uJs
T^efeona
F cianiQcoQ^ii BalftKtrtoo . . Riitingft TvlaJx
fmrrf Boand
llaaltoitir A^inna
TmUI-
TbtPnviac«
BuaheU*
977 40 74
661
141 2,19>H
. 962
3^940
5,381
10,283
13,310 15,266 28,676
615
505
3.626
17»130
1,013
13,469
37,106
284
597
884
5,937
12,700
31,390
12,686
12.848
3,081
70,307
3,620
5,712
4,606
1.654
1,893
1»858
4,339
3,910
1,273
10.950
32,055
3,834
70,004
13.267 11,465
759
6,531
33.022
473
339
389
2,025
1,039
4,265
255,361
Buab, per acre.
I
3, no
13,0t»2
530
592
7,007
1J91
26,112
9,128 38,612 50.043 98.083
143,748 216,777 360.525
7,319
8,904,
4,798
39,841 1
191,86*1
12.764'
188,566
454,061
2,857
5,433
10,620
86.880
185,420
27ti,770
161,112
170,878
40,977
940.147
62,490
79,397
68,942
26,803
34,642
31,772
78,329
69,207
23.932
210,240
363,908
120,142
1,153,803
188,391
141,020
9,639
85,556!
424,606
6,338 4.00U 7,686 27,135 16,936 61,995
3p519,322
10.4 13.4 11.3
8 0
10 6 12.7
11 9
9.8 y.8
9 3 9.5
1895.
Acref.
1L9,
10 5 9.5
11 3 11.2, 12.6 14.0
12 2
8 3 9.1 11.9, 14.61 14 6 13,0 12.7 13.3 13.3
13 4
14 6 13.9
15.3 15,6
18.3 17 1
16.9
17 7!
18 8
19 2 16.5! 13.6
16 3
I
14 2 13,3 12.7 13.1 13.3,
13.4 11 8 19,5 IS 4 16.3 14.5
300
713
92
20
41»
142
1,6
1,072 2,630 4,166' 7,868
Bttfehela.
10 B\ 11,191 14.21 11,7h3 12.6; 31i.974
59B
963
94
2,495
15,001
445
11,661
31. 198
414
707 4,604
12.897 20,833r 10,796 9,918 1,547 61,612
3.489 4,623 3,852 1,690 2,093 l,49ri 3.828 3.677 745 9.612
20,660 9,27B
65,016
11.519
ll,OHl
866
6.242
29.707
476 300 358
- 2,732
3,866
p«r tcre.
5,250 11,978
1,334 2 m
4,ttl9l
1J86' 24,763
14,686 42,343
68,321 125.351
Yearly average for the fifteen yean 1882'96w ^
Aorei,
17.5 16.8 14 5
12 3 115
8 0 11
13 7 16.1 16.4 15.9
9, 433
14,252
1.053
50.399
249.017
7.743
211.0<H
542,961
7,162
4,356
8,655
72 S
189,674
285,412
152,224
1?0.918|
20,420
871.004
48.148
73,506
fiO,09l
28 054
-13,1161
30.430
66,607
67,667
13,783
171,094'
338,824
148,448
1,089;768|
167.026
115.242
10,380
86,140
378,788
6,474 4,230 7,375
13 8 223.957
14,532 62,611
173,4611 15,5 203,846 17.3 377>307| 16.4
Bufheh.
17 6
14.8 11.2
20,2 16.6 17-4
18 1 17 4
17.3
11 0
12 1 16.7 15 3 13. 14.1 13.2 13.2 14.1
13.8
15.9 15.6 16.6 30.61 20.8 17.4 18.4; 18.6;
17.8! 16.4 16. Oi 16.8'
uJ
10,4 12.0
13 8 12.8
13 6 14.1 20,6
16.3
16-2
1.305 2,899 1.179
648 2.766
964 9.761
4,866 13,046 11.573 29,484'
30,839 29,848 60.68T
7.227!
6,524,
1,016!
9,81 0| 20,290,
3,816 18,997 07,680
1,678
2,298
8.642
12,458
22,818
41,850
29,841
23,446
5,253
142,679
6.002
7,860
} 11.187
3,991
3.921
7,083
7,398
3,866
20.052
24,269
13.525
107,699
28,216
22,788'
1,810
12,223
64.537
1.114
1.114
167
5,2<Jfl
7,661:
3.472,543, 15, 6| 490,\8ft\ IM^.KW
19,2»9 44,f64
18,331
9,103
35.107
13.143
139,497
Boah. ptr
aero*
14.8 15.4 15.5 14 0
12 7
13 6
14 3
69,903 14.4
188.7811 14 1
163,841' 14 1
416,625 14 1
484.181 14.1
460,402 15.1
881,583, 14 6
109,578< 104,798
13.868 148.266 307,435
67,086
280,690
1,021, P20
23,277
33,373
51.126
199.803
374.504
665,192
457,510
811,781
70,327
2.186,892
72,598 117,980
176,264
74,381
68,514
114,f^68
117.134
,'i6,251
356,007
399,368
207,108
1,769,223
409,304 296,026 16,886 180.763 902,968
16.460
17,11^7.1 2,ttl7
96.639
133,103
15,2 IS. I 13,6 15 1
15 2 16.0 14 8 16,1
13.9
14.6 14.4
16 0 16-4
16 1 153 JSK 13.4 15.3
14 3 15.0
15.8
18.6
17 5 16.2 15.8 16.7 17.7 16.5 16 3 16 3
14 5 13.0 12.9 14 8 14 0
14 8
15 4
16 9
18.4
17 4
48
ONTARIO BUREAU OF INDUSTRIES.
AREA AND PRODUCE-BARLEY.
ShawtDg by County Manicipjilittefi And groups of Cotintieft the ares and prodnca
Tablk XI „ _
in UQtAno in the ye^rs 189) and 1896, with the yearly average for the fifteeo yearB 1883-96 ; yield |>er acre-
I
fit iinti*»«.
'Em6X
Kent
Elgin ......
Norfolk ....
Haldim&nd.
Wei land ...
Totals..
LambtoD .
Unrou . . , ,
Bruce . ♦ . ,
ToUU.
Grey
Sim CO A , . ToUIb
Middldiez ...<
Oxford
Brant... ....,
Perth
Wellington .......
Waterloo ,\,
Dufferin ,
Totals.. <
Lincoln ,
Wentworfch
Halton
Peel
York
Ontario ......,,.
Durham
North nmber land .
Prinoe Edward . .
Totala
Lennox and Addington Frontenac _,..........
Leedi..
Orenville
Dnndas
Stormont *
Qlenfrarry
Pretcott
RuBsell
Garleton
Renfrew
Lanark
Totali
Victoria.
Peter b«jroo(;fh.
Haltburton ,.
Ha«tm^ . . . .
Totals....
Mui^koka . . . . Parry Sound . Nipiraing ,... Manitoulin .,
Algoma . .
Totala...-
The' Province
1896.
Atrei.
4,741 10.8fi4 7*076, 2,843 5.173 « (9?d
11,728 20,626 10.6»2 42,936
15.063 S3. 627 48,500
IHJIG 12.781 9,851 17,688 26,203 14.524 l(H,S6fJ 10B.718
972
4.945 d,lS4 96,a08 31^332 82,459 3&,682 ll»96l 14,422 144,265
13,179
3,859 4.510 2,877 2,611 2.202 2,522 2,60ll 1.B60 7.637 916 2,666 47.035
18,172
4,902
221
14,248
37,543
677 630 156 284 626 2,373
Bushels.
134,614 317.229 155,672
09,085 110J86
13,068 79^.883
320.174
612,592
288,869
1,321,655
372.066
999,105
1,371.161
5T0.947 377.040 242,191 581,936 743,614 412,482 290,230 3,158,429
17.204
129.569 1545,466 678,746 918.028 660,295 757.619 372.711 299,978 3,890,696
303,117 89.629
115,907 83,8.'>8' 60.580 60,775 65.320 71.267 43,378
324.538
20.885
75.884
1.234,128
472,472 123,040 6,260 336,263 937,026
1,S,743 H,317 4,165 6,617 16.026 5n,8tt8
462.792 12J»6P,r44
Bnth. p.r acre.
28,4 29.2 22.0 24 S
21 3 20 5 25.5
27.3 29.7 27. S 28.5
24 7
29.8 28.2
27.3 29.5 25.9 32 9 29.4 28.4 28.0 39.1
17.7 26.2 25.8
26 8 29,3 29.4 29,5
22 8 20.8 27.0
23.0'
23 3 25.7 28.8 30,9 27.6 25.9 27.4
27 7 29.4 23.8 29.7 26.2
26.0 35,1 28.8 23 C' 25,0
20 3 26 9 26 7 23.3 25.6 24.0
27.4
1895.
AcTfB.
3.821 8.870 7,139 2,789 4,780 611 28.013
11.274 23,321 11.789 45,38i
16.476
37,536 63,013
20,276 12.578 10.999 17,161 28,696 14,634 13,140 116,374
779
5,063
6,611
26,923
32,424
23,785
25,002
11.576
16.301
148.463
12,871
3.723 4.431 3.806 3,198 2.442 2,801 2,365 1.530' 7.639 1,060 3.697i 46.062
18,911
6,646
196
13,710
38,362
766 654 134
} 833
2,386
478,046
Bnsheli.
Bui^h per acre.
29.1
32.9 28.9 21.9 21.3 21 4 28.1
113.426 391,823
206,317
61,07t» 101,814'
13.0751 786,534|
351,749! 31.2
622,756 27.9
297,083| 25 2
1,271,588 28.0
366,3.'*4 23.6 1,171,123 31.2 1.686,367, 29.0
613,473 369,793
200,183! 665,692 709,181 358,633 304,714 3.120,568
18, 151 120.767 158,003 676.162 768.449 573,219 542,543 324,556 327,650 3,309,489|
287.023 82,661
100,141 63,112 61,101 63.004 61,897 65,038 48,601
315.430
33.6«4
73.898
1.144,473.
SO 7 29.4 18 3 32.4 24.8 24.5 26.1 26.8
23.3
23,9 23.9 21.4
23.3 22.2 22.6 33.5 27,8 25.8 26.9 27 5 31.7 28.2 21.4 27.4 24.8
Yearly average for t fifteen years 18H24
Acres.
Bnabelt.
47<K667 106,483 4,154 278,813 866,607
25 2
19.2! 21.3 20.3 22.6
16,622
16,107
3,296
21.7 23.1
24.6
20,966
26.2
55,991
23.5
12.090.607
25.3
3.647 7.354 5,267 4,952
11,100 3,029
35,349
13.392 24,460 16.054 53,896
19,296 31.139 60,434
15,119 16,114 16,279 16,252 32,203 16,343 11,460 122,770
3.434
11,082 10,718 31.434 48,861 83,383 40.028' 34,611 31,333 244,879
29,066 12,903
j^ 9.595
6,5 2,416 3,259 3,173 1,682 8.096 1,876 2,886 78,703
25,924 10,210 245 29,490 66.869
629
710
82
96,210 203,61$; 137,201 122,271
236,428
68,987
862,704
339,441
671.019
418.619
1,429,079
475,633;
836.996
1,802.629
401,432 440,f65 417,717 481,f*06 899,048 482,f57 ^,196 3,418,830
81,273 391,351
286,558 837,462
1.374,232 912,324
1.031,864 766.116 643,107
6,214,196
687,941 293,088
149.658 64.761 53,410 81,071 41,219i 231,140 32.000 74,485 1,890,889
676,53b
240,876
6,679
663,156
1,686,886
13,189
16,071
1,892
19,361
50,408
752
2,175
655,073, 16,754,8061
d
ONTARIO BUREAU OF INDUSTRIES.
4^
AREA AND P K O D U C E-0 A T S.
TiBLi XII. Showiiif; by CocQty MuaioipaJitiea and groaps of Comities the ki«a and produce of 0»ts in Oiudo in Um jemn 1^95 aad 18^6, with the yearly averftge fof the fifteen yetrv 1682-96; t]j.o tbo
f ' mntiei.
I««
Kn,t ..^
49,40.1 45,770 41,432 »2,635 32,tf47 24,141 326,228
71.167 126.4415 100,866 300«47d
*
Tutab.lj .».•«..**«•..
Uisbton . , .
H8^*n ......,,.
Broc*
Tot*l«
toUli
18%.
Acres.
Btubelft.
p FtOirtri :
144,58-\
l€o.7«i
2&0,352
97,412 72,81^5 25.021 93,5H7 123.151 &5.«<i8 62.&5a
BuAh
per
1,600.657 1» 675, 182 1.416,974
1.0a7,%5
7HH,7!5
7.438J63
2,661,616
4,482,766
3jy7,4^^»2
10.341,863
4,13^.131 3.617.231 7.762,363
3.643,20S« 2,893.932 0?8.27» 3,872,^33 4.273,340 2,0:^9.182 2.320,939
630,443, 19,971.313
^1
21. 967 1 36,.^i84l 36.C97| 47.761 97.170 7:i,773 48,607 46.013 19,80/ 415,L69
33,0«3! 39,f»62 46,556 83,890 33.126 20.797
aM*o
S&.590 2l,.H47|
7tnmH
53,9'J2
4%U3
482.441
67.328
47,814
6.018
ft8.^07
179,997
11,758|
12.193
3,731
5,430
6,4H5
39,595
623,863 1.204,310
926,444 1,666.233 3,607.837 2,A97,1K*6 1,861,648 1,899,904
612.036 14,300,271
879.476 1.064;218 1,699,291 1,216 H5I 1,228.975
85<j.460 1.170,162 ljHa383
817,690
3,08'i,:^«
1.70*1,147
1,576.491
16,196,205
2,073.702
1,616,113
lfil,80fi
6,605.858
338.486 334,088 1X209 174,846 1^,738 1.173.367
32.4
36 6 34.2 29
31.6 SO 6
32 9
37 4 S4 9 8U7 34.4
28 6 3t 2 31.0
37.4
39 7 37.1 41.4 34 7 36,5 37 1 37.7
28.4 33.1 35.6 32.8
35.7 38.3 31 A 30.9 34.4
26.6 26 9 36 6 36 9 37.1
33 2 33 3 33 7 38.3 38.9
31 6 34.9 34.2
3n.8
33.8 25 1 28 8 SO 6
28 8 27.4 33 8
32 2 .SO. 8 29.6
1895.
Acret.
Bnaheli.
48,316 4B,IH)3| 42,069
:^0,33yl
28,985
23.322
218,934
2.203,210
1,964.618
1,560,760
9^2,306
991,287
839,592
8,481.803
Bui»h p«r
ftcre.
70,133 3,085,853 129,998! 6,04,921
97.7611 3,352.Hf.9 297.882 11,573,632
139,155 107.778 246.933
96,768' 71.625 22,897 95,6ol
122,641 54,813 61.286
625,580
21,934 34.813 26,195! 46,734 95,516 75,160 48,68 44,792 16 530 410.255
30.733 37,820 40, nil 33 J 40 ' 31, 1451 ^4.680 33.383 .'*2 475 21,907 76 12i 51,355 43,573 462,314
66,744
47,939
5Sf0
55 295
176.318
10,764
11,640
3,203
I 10,4r>6
36.063
4,411,214 4,461,231 8^602,445
4,141,670
2,953.983 718,966 4,246,901 4.341.491 1,836.236, 2,053.048' 30,292,298
701,888 L270.675
901*, y67 l,5riO.Hl6 3,514,989 2.750, 8.S6 1.685,761 1,312,406
46*,4il3 14,170,951,
808,278 1,070 306 1,175,831
9(11.4(8 l,0n,38H
8IH514 1,148,:^75 1,117.140
865,327 3.778.45.H 1.603,276
14.904,138
2.429.482 1,227,238
14\782 1,487.436 5.289,9d8|
337,676 335,23'i 108,261
341,192
1,122,361
46.6 42,8 37 1 30.4 34.2 86.0 38.7
44.0
39,5 34.3 38.9
31
41,3
35.9
Yearly i^veri^ce for .. fifteen yet^n 1882*96.
Acreii.
35.830 36,412 34,316i 37,510 24,923 30.403 178,8gfi
48.061
89.728
70,811
208,590
Botbak.
7 103,2f0
75.94^
179,198
2,436a07 82.979 997 34.2 2,373.309 81.697,666
42.8 41 3
81.4 44.4
35.4 83.5 335 38.6
82 0 36 6 34.7 33 4 36 8 36 6 34.7 29 3 28.1 34.5
26 3 28.3
25 5 27 31 33 34 34
39.6 36 5 31,2 36 5 32.2
36 4|
26 6
37 3
26.9 30.2
31.4
2.S 8 33.8
32.6
31.1
35. 7'
78,940 57.612 19.5.^>7| 66,695 83,862 41.399 88.649' 886,714
18,858 29,884 21,108 34.417| 72,639 66.271 3H.258 33,374 14,683, 319,793
34,522
30.6t$7
} 69,771
30,6'^7 24,K;43 3U506 28,542 19 235 64,149 43,824 40.242 407.808
46,729
34,6.H8
5,269
46 771
132,407
9,698 7.177 1,331
6,581
24,687
1,298,033 1.420,442
I, '^3?*, 249 1 837,380 763.692 609,608
6.167,804
1.721.837 3,313.001 2.328.661 7,303,489
3,301,653 2,1.61.879 5,»<>3,532
2,923.372 2,208 618 671.282 2,702.6*9 3,t 54,183 1.510,926 1,352.230 14,426. 190.
689,415' 1,034,273
736.152 1,261.525 2.821.460 2,083,461 1,333.261
993,271
405.029 11,250,846
683..^82 867,298
2,157. 7;{1
l,07l,5U
828,074
9L»3,03<v
873 4^9
6:8,:^ 96
2,244.956
1,391.400
1,287,9;<2
13.017,195
1,647,915 1,<6:<,320; 140..3,S0 1,327,61*4 4,079,259
2^1,1301
209,642
38.817
222,508
752,097
per J
1.838.089 63.019,912
36.7 39 0 i<6 1 30.4 SO 6 29.^ 34 5
36.8 36.9 32.9 35.3
32.0 3%.0 33.3
37 0
38 3 34.6 40.5 36.4 3H.6
37.3
81. a 34.6 34.9
36.6
88.8
37 0
34.8
29,4
37 8.
S6.J
27.flr'
28.8
30.9
34.9 33.6 31 6 .^,6 32.1 360 31. 7i 32. Hi 31,111
33 1
30.7 26.6
yj 0 SO. ay
29.3 31.5
33.8
80.6
M.I
ijixa-^>
^0
ONTARIO BUREAU OF INDUSTRIES.
AREA AND PRODUCE-RYE.
Table XIII. Showing by County MnniciiMlitiM and nonps of Countiea the Mrea and prcdim d ' Rye in Ontario in the yean 1895 and 1896, with the yearly average for the fifteen yean 188S-96 : ako
the yield per acre.
Counties.
Eaaex
Kent
Elgin
Norfolk ... Haldimand Welland ... Totals..
Lambton .
Hnron . .
Brace —
Totals
Grey .... 8imco4^ . . . ToUU.
Middlesex . Oxford ...
Brant
Perth
Wellington Waterloo ..
Dafferin
Totals..
Lincoln
Wentworth
fialton
Peel
York
Ontario
Durham
Northumberland .
Prince Eklward .
Totals
189G.
Acres .
BusheU.
Lennox and Addington.
Frontenac
.Leeds
Grenville
Dundan
Stormont
Glengarry
Presoott
Russell
Carleton
Renfrew
Lanark
Totals
Victoria
Peterborough . Haliburton . .
Hasting^
Totals ..
Moskoka
Pany Sound ,
Nipissing
Manitiulin . .
Algoma
Totals....
The ProFinoe
2,855 2,688 4,276
1S,3I4 1,196 2,607
26,466
1,248
1,606 1,798 4,652
1,748 5,753 7,601
4.022 5.634
878
4.441
3,204
4,807
a6,2^4
1,553 9,134 1,441 2,335 2,336 8,504 8,803
12,174 6,807
46,176
Bush.
per
acrci.
37,916 44,352! 62.002
146,784 14,830 36,237
342,121
20,966 25,535 26,231 72,752
1895.
Acres. | Bushels.
16.1 16.5 14.5;
no; 12.4
13.9 12.9
16.8 15.9 14.6 15.6
29,541 16.9 100,102; 17 4 129,6431 17.3
52,108, 60,330
L^916 2,212
i,un
3,584
1,37H
675
8
89
2,307
4,617
2.124
21,799
2,192
4,721
853
7.665
14,931'
19,316| 75,4971 54,468' 76,4311 430,548
22.194
47,637
21,039
35,259
34,106
145,239
128.524
168,001
60,893
662,392'
36,158 .35,392 35.545: 63,796" 31,098 10,125' 120
15.8 15.0 16.4 22.0 17.0 17.0 15.9 16.4
14.3 15.2 14.6 16.1 14.6 16.9 14.0 13 8 10.4 14. 3i
12.4 16.0 18.6 17.9 22.6 15.01 15.0;
2,496' 2,186: 3,786
12.196
960
1.597
23.'i2l!
1,070 697 788
3,5B5
2,879 3,409
3,102 3,253 4,352 914 2,74S 2,279 3,298 20,006
1.271 2,383 1,13<>; l»543i 1,563' 5.689, 8,466
10,6151 6,351
39,010
2.970
1.525;
1,130'
2,882:
967i
347)
15
165" 89 272 177 871
1,851
40,834
73,872
87,807
366.598
29,811
71.287
7.766
104,244
213,108
3,534 2,279 780 8,808 8,310 18,711
20.8 17. 7| 16.0 17.8 16.8'
112
2.024
4209
2.039
18,220
148,680 2,280,878
18.6
1.472|
15.1
3,534
22.0
325|
13.6
7,995
14.3
13.326
15 5
156
14.7
102
20.0
77
14.0
18.7
1 26S
15.7
608
15 0
120.860
Bush.
per
acre.
Yearly average for tks fifteen yean 1882-96.
Acres.
50,419 43.2831 69.662
152,450 13,440 25,073
354,327
7,685 60,095 57,780
61,843 58,024 65.715 21,479 42,869 38,5151 66,949 349,894
22,624 43,371 19,519 21,911 28,447 93,869 117.664 141,180 95,900
584,515
43,065 25,620 18,193 44,095 22.04S 4,164
2,408
34,813
74,078
36,702
305,681
18.2.'>3
50,1831
4,648,
115,128,
188,212
2.855 1,703 1,117
5.950
11,626
1,900,117
20.2 19.8 18.4 12.5 14.0 15.7 15.3
23.112 21.6
12,476: 17.9
12,692, 15.9
48,180 18.9
14.5 17.4 16.9
19.4 16 3 15.1 23.5 15.6 16 9 20.3 17.5
17.8 18.2 17.3 14.2 18.2 16.6 13.9 18.3 15.1 15.0
,4.5
16.8 16.1 15.3 22.8 12.0 26.5
21.6 17.2 17.6 18.0 16.8
12 4 14.2 14.3 14.4 14.1
18.3 16.7
14.61
22.2. 19.8
Bushels.
Bok.
pet
1,068
1,029
l,80(i
7.678
816
828
18,215
379
432
560
1,861
672 2,528 3,195
1,517 1,673
300 1,254
867 1,094 7,487
658 1,189 640 1,227 1.517 3,016 4.9
11.029 7,698
31,796
3.992 3,172
4,834
1,129
891
56
189
259
4,526
6,344
3,464
28,356
1,253
3,540
244
11,162
16,199
312
283
88
282
865
16.8 102,478
20,171 30,216 80,665
102,744 12,489 18,106
199,211
6,729 7,569
9,r-
28,696
11,827 48.940 56,267
16.757 24,106 24,098 5,609 21,546 15.168 19,246 126,698
8,806
19,869,
10,896
22,062,
25,169
51,659
72,928
146,964
107.698
465,540
58,625 50,676
83^140
25,184
7,612
927
3,887
6,003
81.234
117,856
64,070
497,802
20,214
63,813
4,110
170,982
248,619
5,692
6,784
648
4,217
16,836
19.1 19.S 16.» 13.4 151 lfi.8 15.1
J7.« 17.1 16.» 17.8
16.9 17.4 17.1
17.T U.9 15J 19.0 IM IT.T 17.9 16J
158 19.T 19.1 W.9 19 9 17.1 14.9 11.9 14.9 14.9 \
14.T -^
16.0 :
17.3
31.8
19.3 16.1 17.3 19.3 . 18.0 '
18:0
18.5 17.5
16.1 16.1 16.8 16.3 15.3
16.3 30.4 16.9
16.3
16.9
1,631.736| 16.9
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51
AREA AND PRODUCE-PEAS.
Tablk XIV. Showing by County Municipalities and Kroupn nf Counties the area and prtxlace oT Peas in Ontario in the years 1895 and 1896, with the yearly average for the fifteen years 1882-90 ; also the yield per acre.
Connties.
&MZ
Kent
Elgin
Norfolk ... Haldimsnd ^'elland . . . Touli. .
I^mbton .
Huron
Brace
Totab.
1896.
1895.
Acres.
BtisHeli«.
Orey
&Dcoe ... Totals.
MiddleMx.. Oxford .. .
Braot
Psrth
WeUington Waterloo .. Dofferin.... Totals..
liiieoln
Weotworth
Halton
P^I
York
Ontario
Durham
Northamberlond .
Prince Edward . .
ToUls
Lennox and Addington .
VhKiteaac
Leeds
Greoville
Dundaii
Stonnont
fflengarry
Freecott
RweU
Carleton
Renfrew
I^nark
Totals
Victoria
Peterborongh . Ha'iburton . .
Hasting*
Totals
Miukoka ... Parry Sound
Nipiaainv
IfanitonliD ..
Algoina
Totals...
Tbe rioyioce
2.682] 3,904
^m\
12.6CKJ
16,6iMj
fi;U6
50, OSS
10,204
45.443
53,486
1(B,133
56,597 69,124
115, 7£l
18;7&1 16,310 12,S^NT 29,4Gf» 37,S99
L"0,021 151J&Q
7,137 14,253 13,6^ir> 21,328 41,117 31,225 34,46^; 36J15 36,242 235,181
12,230
11,149
4,063
1,635]
1,507
1,5951
2,776
2,854
1.712
9,136
23,7<'4
10,667
83,028
24,059 21,794 2.328 26,210 74,391
3.797 3,874 1632 5,833 2,769 17,904
829,601
BuHh. iwr acre.
47,203
74,17ri
13*19S7
273,814
0<^4flii
a53,TK4
lfi<i,l2l
l?95,202
l,374/»90
2,525/Jia
1,284,752 1,460,303 3,745,116
315,689 340,879 347,920 701.267 B41,35H 397,0r 428,449 3,272,58*'.
101,200 263,tim 280,768 420J62
7U,J»30 789,317 eS4,^9H 464,483 4,B4l,73;i
207,910
186,188.
81,666
83,191
34,812
31,741
59,962
57,365;
40,746
204.646
509,6S6|
237.874
1.685,737
505,239
468,57
44,233
445,570
1,463,612
78,218 84,841 41,942
187,635 62,026
404,662
17,493,148
Acres. Burhelp.
17.6
19.0
16.8
18.0
16.4
15
17.0
15.3 21.9 25.7 28 1
22.7 24.7 23 7
16.8 20.9 20.0 23. H 22.2 20.6 21.4 21.2
14. e'
18.5 20.5 19,
20 5 22 « 22.9 18,6 17.7 20.3
17,0 16.7 20.1 20.3 23,1 19.9 2M} 20.1 23,3 22.4
21 5
22 :i 20-3
21.0 21.5 19.0 17 0 19.7
Bush, ppr
3,570
2,731;
7.277, 10,801) 15.489
5,724 45,592
9,340
42.311
49.715
101.366
53,331
58,274
111,*K)5
13,212 14.356 12,530 27,286 37,562 18,928 19,382 143,256
6.343 18,788 12,415J
20.154 40,276 32,fi4j& 36, 4H 37,155 34,169 223,102,
11,030
n,iyti
3.11161 1,^-25 1,275
2,860
2,415
1,684
C*,2T0
34,255
12,310
83,606
24,191 22,768 2,035 25,457 74,454
20.6 3.616 21.9 3,977. 25.71 1.432J
i:S \ ^M
22.0 16,982
81.3961 51,616, 136,8081 16<;,335' 247.824 95,018, 778,99"
177,4(M)
994,309
1,128,531
2.300,300
1.029,288 1,846,129 2,375,417
310,482 325,881 187,950 750.365; 852,657; 406,059 858,567 3,190,961,
111,003; 239,911' 263,2831 380,911! 89S,155; 538,973, 614,4311 505,308 845,473 3,897,448
181,995
176.941
6,3,423
27,298
29.070
38,357;
54,224,
49,2«><»
a5.701
208,575,
414,761;
221,688
1,501,302;
401,620,
311,922
31,543|
404,766
1,149,851 !
I
73,043.
84,312;
31.074^
21.1
185,398 373,827
799,963j 15,668,103
Yearly average for the fifteen years 1882-96.
Acres.
22.8 18.9 18.8! 15.4' 16.01 16.6:
17.1;
19.0, 23.5; 22.71
22 7
19.3 23.1
21 3
23 5
22. 7i 15.0 27. 5i 22.71 21.4 18.6
22 3
17.5 17.4 21.2 18.9 22. 3|
16 5, 17.01 13. 6| 14.3
17 TV
16. &! 15. e 16.2 17- 9 22..^ 20.7
18 9 20,4 21.2 22.5
17 1
18 D 18 0
16 «>
13 7
15.a 15. ^* 15.4
20 2 21.2 21.7
23.3
22.0
19.5
Buthelfi.
3,344 7,820 12,164 16,209 14,815 4.659 59.011
9,1471 36,892i
41,7871 87,8261
48.600' 39,120, 87,620
20,612 16,313 10,617 25,aS9; 37,6211 16, 297 i 14,276 40,805
5,459 11,816 11,200 16,441 32,417 29,088 26,1851 24,566, 17,108 174,230
9,653 10,651
1,493
2,219
4,811
6.674
3,124
11,821
21.569
11.482
89,433
I
18.319 17,047, 1,855 20,275 57,496
3,210
2,310
556
5,347
11,423
707.844
Bush, per acre.
63,007 147,247 216,472 290,226 247,836
76,755 1,041,543
165,243!
822.917'
952,828!
1,940,988
1,028,462 865,433
393,080 835,013 197,005 561„359i 822,779! 857,041 295,619 2,961,896
94,105 225.910 228,042 328.294 695,330 588,034 512,849 433,369 307,716 3,413,649
172,685 188,532
5.936 111,581
31,943,
43,475'
82.858
109,283
58.704
248,759
434„395
237,718
1,719,883
367,368
327,831
33,075
363.056
1,091,330
!
66,185
48,865
11,583
133,456
259.089
14333,273
18.8 18.8 17.8 17.9 16.7 16.6 17.6
18.1 23.8 22.8 22.1
21.2 22.1 21.6
19.1 20.6 18.6 22.4 21.9 21.9 20.7 21.0
17.2 19.1 20.4 20.0 21.4 20.2 19.6 17.6 18.0 19.6
17.9 17.7 18.8
21.4 19.6 17.2 16.4 18.8 21.0 20.1 20.7 19.2
20.1 19.2 17.8 IT 9 19.0
20.3 21.2 20 8
25.0
22.7
20.2
52
ONTARIO BUREAU OP INDUSTRIES.
AREA AND PRODUCE— CORN.
Tabli XV. Showing by County Mnnicipalities and R-roajusi of Ontiiiti«« the u«a, prodoce and yu per ftcre of Com for husking and for biIo and fodder in Dtitiu-io fcit- th« year 1^; alio the (a acreage for 1895 and 1896, with the yearly average for the MIq^b year* 1882 Ofi.
Oouaiiefl.
Eeaez
Kenb
EUin
Norfolk
BaldimAnd
Wel]and
Totals
Lambton
Huron
Bruce
Totals
Grey
Bimooe
Totals
Middlesex
•Oxford
Brant
Perth
WellinRton
Waterloo
Dufferin
Totals
Lincoln
Wentworth
H«lton
Peel
York
Ontario
'Durham
Northumberland
Prince Edward
Totals
Lennox and Addington
Frontenao
Leeds
Grenyille
Dundas
Stormont
Glengarry
Pre*<Gott
Russell
Carleton
Renfrew ,
Lanark '
Totals
Victoria
Peterborough
Haliburton
Hastings
Totals
Muskoka
Parry Sound
NipiMing
ManitouTin
Alguma
Totals
The Province
For hoikiiig.
Acres,
64.165 40,349 24,431 20,985 3,633 10,030 163,688
20,200
2,916
846
23,961
1,289 2,463 3,762
23,289
12.119
6.M4
1,064
629
1.986
191
46.791
8,603 4,W*3 1,384 668 1.841 3.146 2.963 5,942 8,448 87,467
4,647 3.434 9,187 5.207 4.849 3,870 2,160
1,098
1.979
862
1,748,
41,336
6641
687
212
9,767
11,220
265
132
61
62
37
667
Buebels.
Bnih. per
4,066,210
8,564,747
2.044,>'75
1,690.663
266.299
769,301
12,28^095
1.704.880
173,502
39,462
1,917,844
56,974 123.643 180,617
1,926.000
945,282
628.937
66,830
25.160
125.264
7,640
3,623,603
674,288
384,614
102,416
39 480|
90.7611
182,0961
167.113
367,216
697,274
2,605.168
229,169 222,523 6S0,757 894,691 360 281 230,171 135.000 206,256
65.441 114,584
48.013
100,S00
2,786,746
26.790
86.243
12,720
678,712
648,466
13.436 6.600 2,440 2.825 2.035
26,886
74.9 88.1 83.7 76.8 73 8 76.7 80.0
84.4 69.6 46.7 80.0
44.2 60.2 48.1
82.7 78.0 81.2 61.4 40.0 63.1 40.0 79.1
79.8 83.9 74.0 60.0 49.8 67.9 66.% 61.8 70.7 69.6
60.4
64.8 74.1 75.8 74.8 68.3 62.5 70.9 59 6 57.9 65.7 67.7 67.4
47.5 61.3 60.0 68.8 67.8
60.7 50.0 40 0 87.6 66.0 48.2
For silo and fodder.
Ao^ee.
2,154 2,820 3,546 4,084 8.261 2,019 17,874
4,343
7,161
6.07^
17.679
8,007
8.606
11,612
7.939 8.728 3,639 6,866 6,>68 8,191 903 86,988
2,461 6,286 3,960 3,651 7.060 4,620 8.107 t.l28 3.674 88,936
8 877 4.719 5,9.»4 8,648 4,619 2,^62 4 475 1,4«2 1,800 6.258 1,^30 4,404 48,688,
1.616
2,.S2S
82
7.903
11,929
195 139
65 102
70 661
Tons.
Tons per
11,265 22,447 33.581 89.b60 83,778 17,868 168,799
41.846
81850
71,017
194,212
98,806
44,846
148,662
82.968 98,452 84,207 77 712 66.4^6 83,218 8,606 401.644
22,149' 63.220 46,265 82,092 70.882 48 094 28,771 57,2- 8" 88.357 397,048.
88,365l 60.f46, 73.161' 45.?a5 67,075 29,463 60.^6 I 16,r64 13.195' 64 0- 5 2i<..'<33 ^8.925
6.5,8 6
I
16.827
21,571'
«15
71.1271
112 140.
1.923 1.3IH)
4<*5 l.Ofil
700 6,669
Total area.
1H06
Acres.
817,667 24,071,864 75.8 178,962 1,948,780 10.89
6.23 7.96 9.47 9.76 10.89 8.85 8.88
9.62 11.48 11.69 11.06
12.84 12.44 12.87
10.46' 11.28
9.40 11.32 11.78 10.41
9.42 10.87
9.00 10.07| 11 71
8.79, 10.04 10.4l|
9.26 11 16 10.44 10.20
9.88 12. K8 12.35 12.40 12.68 11. '0 13.00
11 33 10.15 12.19 12.75 13.20
12 81
9.80 10.56 7 50 9.00 9.40
9.86 10. CO
9 (0 10.40 10.00
9.98
1895 Acres,
66,809 43,169 27,977 26,069 6,884 12,049 171,467
34,548
10,077
6,920
41,640
9,296
6,068
15,364
81.228
20.847
10,163
7,929
6.297
6,176
1,094
82,724
10,964
9.868
6.884
4,309
8,901
7,7t'6
6,070
11.070
12.122
76,403
7,924 8.158
16.1111 8.866' 9,: 68 6.9;^2 6 635 4,367 2,31*8 7.237 2 692 6.2 2
84,874
2,179
8,016
294
17,660
23,149
4«0 271 116 164 ) li>7 f
68,618 41,607 28,602 25,462 6,142 10,819 166,140
83 807 8,821 5,240
87,868
6,706
4,978
10,678
81,009
20,.'^93
9.2^6
7.146
6,050
S,J*92
677
77,802
9.667
9.416
4,262,
8.V68
7.843
6.6ii6
6.641'
10. 91'
10,193
66,637.
7.578 6,431
13.3^» 7.8a 7.978 5 194 6.9.*3 4,'i^72 2.242 6.1'19 2.524 6. 63
74,879
1,607
2,:P8
248
15.98-*
19,638
mt
Acn
aa
17 16 2
. 7 110
11 I
1 U
5
5 i
1( 11
I S ] 1
}"
1,118 496,629
828
232
68
1?8
786
J
468,^)8 85
ONTARIO BUREAU OF INDUSTRIES.
53
AREA AND P RODUOE-BUOK W H B AT.
tti-E XVI, 8howii]j^ by County Manicipntitiea and ktou{>» of Coaoties the lire* and produce o\ Htickwhf-nt in ( 'utAriii in the ye^rii LS95 and 18l>U, with the yearly averAge for the Efteen years liS82 9^t ;
Counties.
I99ff.
Acre*.
BonhelR
1,132 1,014
S.270
815
15,837
659
7^
650
2.042
7.162 9»100
1,237 1,447 1.343
564 850 144 y53 6,558
676 1,172
404
658
3,966
7.027
9,872
18,714
12,227
53,216
6,301
2*447 8.061 4,899 2.093 2,408 1,526 1,884 1,364 6^194 2,377 4,552 89.106
6,423
4,656
644
8.027
18.750
301 279 113 153 148 997
22,414 16.731 44,786
141.417 14,426 45,027
284,801
13 1B0 11,581 12.025 SC,786
35,853 139,869 175,512
28,451 28,606 18,131 13,023 18,700 2,923 20,966 130 JOO
12,371
13,126
6,060
9,870
62,583
127,891
160,261
273,224
202,968
868.354
112.158 46,004 71.321
118,55r> 43,953 45,752 26,400 39,752 30,281
141,223 48,737 89,219
808,356
85,683
55.400
13.202
126,024
280,315
per
VkCTO.
19 8
16 5 19-6 17.1
17 7 19.4 18,0
20 0
15 8
18.5 18.0
18.5 19.6 19.3
23 0
13,5 22,3 220 20.3 22.0 19.9
18.3 11,2 15.0
16 0
21 I 18.2 17
14 6 16,6 16.3
17, a' 18.8 23, 3i
24 2 21,0 19.0 17.3 2L1 22.2 22.8
18 4 19.6 20.7
15.8; 11.9 20.5 16.7 15.0
6,019 19 8
4,GS7 1.978 2.831 3,330 18,845,
1895.
Acre«.
Btx»helfl.
Buab
per
acre.
16.8 17.6 18,5 22.5 18 9
796 1,0:* 4 2,f»9t 8,461
741
2,531
16,157
845
353'
351
1,549[
1,501
5,686 7,187
1,493
1,331
1,728
190
509
46
717
6,009
388
1.031
343
208
2,325
6.764
9. Him
20,^599
10.2711
52,122
5.145 1,648 2,727 5,085 1.824 2,243 1,625 1,749 1,391 5,456| 2,785' 3,893 35,571
3,653 4,04S 660 7,349 15,709
27H 259 157
> 264
16,716 20,783 53,634
171,819 17,784 48,342
329,078
16.647 , 7J31
7.547 31.825
28,669 137,033 165,702
32,846
27,818
2-i,639
3,800
13,998
667
17,925
121,693
7,527
17.051
6.840
4,784
58,823
156,248
216,733
363,613
160,352
991,001
112,161 32,i:iU 62.994
110,853 41,952 63.832 42,600 39,178 *S6,027
132,035 57,093 98,883
819 J43
79,248
83.794
13,332
134,957
311,331
5,894 6,579 3.674
5,729
21,876
Teirly average for the tifteon ye&rs 1882*96.
Acres,
145.606 2,608.669^ 17.9] I86.a6a| 2.791.749^
21.0 20,1 20
20 3 24.0 19.1 20.4
19 7
20 3 31.5 20.2
19,1
24.1 23,1
22.0 20.9 14*3 20.0 27.5 14,5 26,0 20.3
10,4 16.7 20.0 23,0 25. S 23.1 2L8 17.4 15,6 19.0
21,8 19 6 23.1 21,8 23.0 24.0 25,6 22,4 25.9 24,2 20.5 25,4 23.0
21.7 20.7 20.2 18.5 19 8
21,2 25 4 23 4
21.7
22,8
20.6
Bushelf.
989 1,143 1.784 B,.'i8ll
771
2,145
12,413
661 395 453
1.608
695 1,790 3.485
781 787 162 263 146 239 3,144
747
918
220
289
783
2,508
4,883
10,777
9,361
30,565
4,318 1,966
^ 5.944
1,732 2,222 l,a-.. 1,664 1,061 4,029 1.662 5,218 31.026
2.260 1,857 357 5,600 9,964
336 161 59
161
720
91,825
Biiah . l»er
19,905 31,870 34,748 99 937 12.987 38.041 227,478
11,878 7.3*20 8,063
27.267
12,361 35,442 47,803
16,339
13,983
13,254
3,395
6,710
2J71
4.833
58,986
14,219
17,118
3,719
4,748
16,978
52.&26
97,477
205.007
17a, 670
688,662
86,530 41,289'
121,298
41.405 49.506 26,401 32.113 28,599 84,341 33,264 10^,042 644.788
39.766
33,331
6,416
108.037
187,680i
7,644 3.101 1.189
8.631
16,465
1.798,036
20 1 19.1
19 5 17.9 16 8 17.7 18.3
18,0 18 5 17.8 18 1
17,8 19.8 19.8
20.0 17,9 16.8 21.0 21.7 16.9 20,2 18.8
19.0
18.6 16.9 16 4 21,7 20.3
20 0 19.0 18.9 19.S
20.6 21.0
20,4
33.9 23 3 20.0 19.8 23 4 30.9 20,0
20 1 20.8
17.7 17.9
18.1 19.6 18.8
22 8
19.8 20.3
21 5 21,5
19.6
54
ONTARIO BUREAU OF INDUSTRIES.
AREA AND PRODUCE-BP: A NS.
Table XVII. Sliowin^ by O^uoty Municipalities and groii(.8 of Counties the area aud p udiK Beans in Ontirio in the years 1895 and 1896, with the yearly average for the tifteeo years 1882-93; the yield per acr^.
CountiCH.
ESMCX
Kent
FAgin
Norfolk
Haldimand
Welland
Totals....
Lambton
Huron
Bruce
Totals
Grey
SiniQoe
Totals
Middlesex
Oxford
Brant
Perth
Wellini(ton
Waterloo
Dafferin
Totals
Lincoln
Wentworth
HaltoQ
Peel
York
Ontario
Durham
Northumberland
Prince Edward
Totals
Lennox and Addington
Frontenac
Leeds
Grenville
Dundas
Stormont
Glengarry
Prescott
Russell
Oarleton
Renfrew
Lanark
Totals
Victoria
Peterborough
Haliburton
Hastings
Totals
Muskoka
Parry Sound
Nipi4iiing
Bianitoulin
Algoma
Totals
The Province
1896.
Acreo. Bushels
847:
3S,750
6,802
1,137
354
1.578
49,468
2,829! 369 249
3,447
449
613
1,062
I
2,780
312
440;
138
64'
98
105
3,932
216 211 77 228 487 565 746
1,547 829
4,906
270 394 221 22i 274 232 203 411 170 729 576, 2051 3,913|
380' 224!
61!
* 850!
1,615
I
38 15 20 10 126
68,869
Bush.
12,S74
K78.1:5 124.177
19.784' 5.»;99
22,0:»2 S63,a5l|
50,ir22' 6.273' 4,9S0
62,175'
lO.lOV 10,911! 21,014
51,703 5.304 7.920 2,070 1,440 1,860 1,733
72.035
• 2,808
4.093
1.165
3.420
9.740
6,893
10,742
23.360
14,010
76,221
4,779
8,668
4,044
2,391
5,179
3.480
4.060
7.193
3.604;
17.642
12 0381
4,100'
77,181|
6,080
2,083!
1.098
14,793
24,051
387, 570 J-OO 400 150 1,807:
Acres.
15.2 17 5 18.3 17.4i 16.1! 14.0
17. 4i
I
18. o!
17.0,
20. o;
18. 0|
22. 5I
17.81 19.8'
I
18.6* 17.0 18.0 15.0 22.5: 20.0 16.5 18.3
13.0, 19.4 15.0 16.0
1895.
Bushels.
20 0' 12.2 14.4 15.1' 16.9, 15.6' I
17. 7i 22.0 18.3, 10.5 18.9 15.0 20.0 17.6' 21.2! 24.2 20.9 20 0 19 7
16.0
9.3
18.0
17.4
15.9
I
9.0
15 0
20.0
20.0
16.0
14.3
1.197,535 17.6
548
888
1.436
3,439 289 338
235 32, 95 63;
4,491
320 127 116 45 665 639, 759 2,293 914
5,873
I
30ll 273. 271' 248 304, 191 2771 370 179! 719 620, IM' 3,904!
658
282'
63
947
1,850
38 39 10
40
127
72,747
i p©r
I acre.
761
40.801)
7.3.<S
849
291 i
1,501
51,649,
3,020! 2411 266 1
3,517
n,611
S77.39;*;
150.429'
15,791"
3,929
24 616
1,086,769
i
61,30(i 4,627: 4.736
70,669|
10,631 18,914 29.f:45,
75,314 5.347! 6,171' 4,700, 720 2,375 1,260
91.887
6,088 2,540 2.320 1.125;
10 939:
12,333i 14,421 44.122' 10,602 ias,490
7.625 3,a59 4.265 3.670 6,414 4,011 6.125 7.104' 4,475i
I
16.106
10,044
3.111'
75.799
I
7,7CO
2,V6l,
86:^
19,698"
31.222
800^ 1.798!
Yearly averaj^e f«.)r t fifteen years IfcSj-y
19.2 21.6 20.5 18.6 13.5 16.4 21.1
20 3 19.2 18.5' 20. 1| I 19.4! •21.3. 20.6)
21.9
18 6 15.3 20.0 2>.6 25.0 20.0 21.1
15.9 20.0 20.0 25.0 16 7 19.3 19.0 19.2 11.6 17.6
25.0 14.6 15.7 14 8 21.1 21.0 18.5 19.2 25.0 22 4 16 2 20.6
19 4
13.8 10.6' 13 7| 20.8 16.9
Acre «.
BuKhels. ^
j
753
13.72ti'
20,922
351.141
2,472
46.118
671
9,822
230
:^569
953
12.947
26,001
437,32:<
380 10.0 468 12.0 150 15.0
20.0 14 2
1.494,179 20 6
892}
144
127
1,163
219 235 454
804 261 360
66 43 44 33 1,611
181
146
45
57
217
336
449
880
496
2,806
219 261
239 168 195 465 209 484 512 221 3.372
168
167
34
434
46 23
22 101
36.301
15,348 3,078 2.272
20,698
.3,940; 4,301
.S24l!
14.714;
5,091'
4.876-
1.357'
7341
779!
616
28,167;
3,073, 2,648 758' 1,137 4,489 6,547 7.498
15.068, 8.831 1
49,044
4,441 5,646
7,374
5,142 3,809 3.566
10.050 3,965
10,223;
10,261 4.6O7'
69,074
2,671
2.247,
577,
7.7381
1.3.233
744' 393; 214.
429
1.780]
627,560}
0J^ITAR10 BUREAU OF INDUSTRIES.
5S
AREA AND PRODUCK-HAY AND CLOVER.
Table XVIII. Showing by County Municipalities and gruniit uf Counties the an^A and produce of Hay and Clover in Ontario m the years 18{^> and 1896, w;ih the yearly average for the tiftt>eu vearH 1882-96 alw the vieM per acre.
CiiUDtiee .
Eupx
Kent
Elgin
Norfolk . . . . Haldimand WeUand ... ToUls..
Lunbton .
Huron
Bnice
Totals
Grey
Simcoe ... Total! .
Middlesex OxfoRi ....
Brant
Forth
Wellington Waterloo .. Dnfferin . . . Totala . .
Lincoln
Wentworth
HalcoD
Peel
York
Ontario
Durham
NorthumberlaDd .
Prince Edward . .
Totala
Lflonoz and Addington
Frontenac
Leeda
Grenville
Diuidaa
Stonnoot
Glengarry
Prafcott
Enwell
Carletftn
Renfrew
Lanark
Totals
Victoria
Peterborough Haliburton . .
Hastings
Totals ...
Mnukoka . . . . Parry Sound , Nipisaing — Uanitoolin ..
Algnma
ToUls....
Ar»re^.
39.«82 60, W7 5->,r>82 32.8.-0 4l>0i3 r>0.315 274,659
TbeProvinoe
63.9>f> 102,:^9
93.S10 260.161
117.371
8.^6(>(i
203,037
87,903; 60.434 27,900 74,762 86,928 38,176 33,679 409,771
3'<,867 38,636 30.319 38.856 73.718 59,996 48,690 57,0h8 29.106 410,274
53.778 63,414 »;,521 41,611 36.288 35,524 43,508 46,914 24,564| 72,81K) 73,7261 65.5401 624,178
43,939 39,806 11,516 75,255 170.515
23,389 20.728
7,022i 12,986'
9,999 74.1231
1K96.
T«»nH.
aero.
60.621' «2.:)12 H6,234 36,464' ;<3 82i;, 40 755! 340.412'
KL»..">4l' 91.100 75.048
24 S, 689
I
83,3;^;V,
S1.3K3i 164.716|
i:i0,096 78,564 27,063 68,772 79,104 28,631 27.964
440.184
2,3.709 24,727 17.282 19,636 50,865 58.195 62.01»8 45,670 12,225 301,407
40,871 36.146 50.556 36.580 34,111 26.643 60.034 45.607 25,792 72,890. 65.616| 51,777 536,473
47,894. 35,825| 7,254 4K,163 139,136
23 389 16.168 9,690 l-.»,478 17,498 86.223
1.52 1.65 I 64 1.11 69 .81 1.24
1.29 .«9 .80 .96
.7l! 95 8l!
1.48 1.30, .97 .92 .91 .76 .83 1.07
.61 64 .57 .58 .69 .97 1.07 .80 .42 .74
.76 .57 .76
.88
.94
.76
1 15
.97
1.05
1.00
.89
79
86|
1.09J .90 .68 .64
.82
1 00
Acn'H.
41,:.1S 50.707 4'.),}S15 33.412 53.:i5r.' 52,929 281,737
61,472; 103, o<n'
96,S45 264,408
127. 86«'
8S.02n'
215.S94J
90,222 (>0,500 2S,5«0 77,406 94,194 39.060 36.656 426.618
41.397 40,383 31.881 37.595 80.813 61,205 48,215 58.368 32.914 432,771
60,445 67.247 68.354 41.770 39.797 88.828 46.118 48,926 26,537 77,314 75,852 70,403 661,591
48.91o! 40,.553! 12.400' 79,954l 181,817|
1.S95.
Ton-*.
Ytf-arly averaj^e for the fifteen yett^.^ 1882 9'>
Tons I)er
, 24,177 7S| 20,782
1.381 1.50 ) 1.75| f
2.426.711 J 2,260.34(
6,125; 21.864| 16: 72,938
.93 2.537.674
44,424 1 07 4M.i:2 yo 2*J,S'?9 11,694, 21,010 37..>0, 195,7<!9
.60
.45 .71 .69
43,196, .67
50,515 1 .49
:i">,.s:«' .37
l-J1),544j .49
44.754| .35
73,062' .83
117.816 .55
64,058 .71
43.5«)0 .72
10 860 .38
45,670 .59
55,574, .59
17.186: .44
19.7401 .64
256,648| .(K)
25,666* .62 18.172; .45 16.259, .61 15.790* .42 .72 .80 .72 .67 .36 .62
,58.1S5 48,964 34.715 39.107 11.849 288.707
32.036 53 49.090! .73 41,696 .61) 32.163; .77) ,58,104 1.46 60.865 1.31 65.488; 1.42 61.647,1.26 46,644 1.72
115,971 1 50 91, 7M; 1.21 73,219|1 04
717,704:1 08
38,()39,
16,221
7,812
47,173;
109,«45,
17,649! 12.054
.79 .40 .63 .59 .60
.73 .58
7.350 1 20
16,82iJ; .53.8KI'
1.849.914
.77 .74
Acrc3.
' ;{Kl.S4 ."»2,343l 5 1,2s.*) 40,113|
. 50,*^J^8!
I 4S,237I
I 281,0101
i 59,154:
: 101.714'
90.993'
I 251,861 ;
i I
; 121,2961
I 8J.763i
; 203;059
I ;
91,686'
62,538
31,232,
70,384
86,2561
41,9761
34,968
418,990
40.873 44,524 33,366 38,416 76,019 .55,001 44.446 54,9(J6 31,249 418,847
53,339 64,244
112,226
36,467 33,872 39,101 37,959 20,204 63,83;^ 66,244 ■ 63,966 591,455
41,046
39,620
10.825
72.571
164,062;
I
21.597.
13,949;
2.612|
14,461:
52,619,'
Tonn.
Tons
per
, aTe.
59,0(J1 H0,213 76 .•>02 .53,592 ♦)2,69S 64,210 .V.)6,276,
S4,,177i 138.110 llO.fiSlI
:m,06^<,
146.716 107.611
254,327;
I
139.(J12J 96,650. 4.5,240,
103,iK)l|
125.(;35l 61,620, 4.5,767
618,426
64.180 62.936 44.741 53,527
104,313 77,633 60.612 67.6341 38,8<*»5
564,,S40;
64,296 77,781
141.974
55,535 49,143 59,332 .\5.143 29 019 89.183 75,209! 8.5.5>i8! 782.203!
49,546 43.954 10,936 86,357 190,793
26,082
15.630
3,691
19.437*
64,640*
.55
.5;^
.49 34 .23 .33 .41
43
.M 22 !32
.21 .82 .26
.52 .56 .45 .45 .46 .47 81 .48
.33 .41 .84 .89 .87 .41 .36 .28 24 85
.21
.21
27
.62 .45 .52 .46 .44 .40 .14 .34 .32
.21 .11 .01 19 .16
.21 .11 .37
1.34
.23
2.381.908, 8,204,072| 1.85
1^6
ONTARIO BUREAU OP INDUSTRIES.
AREA AND PRO DUG E-POT A TO JSS.
Table XIX. Showing by County Municipalities and (nronps of Counties the area and produo PoUtoes in Ontario in the years 1895 and 1896, with the yearly average for the fifteen years 1882 also the yield per acre.
1896.
lh96.
Yearly
Cotintiee*
Acres.
3,890 8,730 8,482 8.813 1,447 2,956 18,818
3,977
5,221
4,896
14,094
7,439
9,276
16,715
7,880 8,411 2,748 4.196 7,896 3,881 5,083 88,648
2,689 4,889 1,886 4,760 9,780 6,102 8,647 6,072 2,148 40,658
2,805 8.751 3.510 8,414 2.426 1.882 2,279 2,854 1,896 6,021 4,488 8.231 37,557
8,220
3,319
728
5,531
12,798
1,379
1.875
650
680
698
4,782
178,965
Boehels.
BuBh.
per acre.
97 110 119
99 100
92 100
101 140 131 126
148 128 187
120 126 127 156 183 123 126 180
81 186
98 106
98 108 102 101 100 106
99 109 131 113 126 107 127 163 181 185 142 144 128
96 91 184 89 94
127 148 160 150 136 142
119
Acres.
Bushels.
Bubh. per acre.
Acres.
Bushels.
B
1
a
Essex
Kent
828,830 410,300 414,358 877,487 144.700 2 71,952 1,947,627
401,677
730,940
641,376
1,778,993
1,100,972 1,187.828 2.288.800
885.600 426.876 348.996 664,420 988,686 416.868 634.168 4.848.947
206.669 658.104 184.828 508.600 968 440 669,016 861,794 512,272 214,800 4,267.918
277.696 408,859 459.810 385,782 303,250 201.374 289.488 883.702 182.876 812,835 637.296 465,264 4.808,176
309.120
302.029
7.552
492,259
1. 200.960
175,133 203.500 104,000 102.000 94.928 679,561
21.805,477
3,370 3,746 8,984 8,938 1.434 3,195 19,667
8,800
5,260
6,138
14,198
6,914
9,788
16.652
7,621 8,608 2,601 4,881 7.824 8,684 6,447 84,961
2,716 4,489 1,911 4,176 9,929 6,587 8,884 6,378 2,853 41,421
3,114 8,968 8,815 8.717 2,442 1,884 2,312 2,616 1,467 6,139 4,484 8,290 39,093
3,288
8,693
798
6.054
13,783
1,403
1,443
715
I 1,316
4,877
184,647
394,290 546,916 585,648 527,692 174.948 892,985 2,622,479
592,800
873,160
759,684
2,225,644
1.057.842 1.908.648 2,966,490
1,883,675 565,671 827,728 818,669
1,384,848 561,804 849 782
6,881,515
889,876
665,614
286,650
697,025
1,787,576
1,166,899
618,672
747,542
280.007
6,338.869
467,100 531,042 637,105 743,400 446.886 293.904 360,672 467,976 268.461 920.850 647.364 631.680 6,416,440
599,030 601,959 151,6i0 829.398 2.182.007
200,629 268,398 129,415
214,608
812,950
29.890,884
117 146 147 184 122 123 188
156 166 148 167
168 196 178
175 167 126 189 177 166 166 167
126 126 160 143 175 177 168 189 119 168
160 134 167 200 188 156 166 186 188 150 146 192 164
186 163 190 137 158
148 186 181
163
167
159
2,932 8,336 2,958 8,354 1,411 2.490 16.481
8,181
6,012
4.639
12.782
6,787
7,471
14,268
6,742 8,246 2,278 .8,787 6,087 2,983 8,607 27,673
1,940 8,762 1,626 8,267 7,768 4,641 8,260 4.4e6 2,313 88,048
8,148 3,911
} 7,282
2,864 1,976 2,859 2,415 1,461 5,999 3,957 3,488 88,296
8,181
2,870
688
6,628
12,817
1.836 971 260
928
3.496
168.244
276.299 388.429
Elgin
807,980
Norfolk
Haldimand
836.048
142,950
235,006
1,686,667
308,897
624,532
646,477
1,479.906
855,705
Welland
Totals
flnron
Bruce
Totals
Orey
49imcoe
ToUU
970,868 1,826.673
Middlesex
Oxford
Brant
688,788 868,146 254,811;
Perth
460,8771
Wellington
Waterloo'
780,136
861,854
484,247
8,847,869
189.054 440.882 180,257
Duff erin
Totals
Linooln
Wentworth
Halton
Peel
847,021
York
Ontario
858,757 680,268 405,086 497,686 216,762
Dqrham . .
Northumberland
Prince Edwaid
ToUls
Lennox and Addington . Frontenac
8,714.057
849,281 407,565
Leeds
GrenviUe
862,185
318,710 222,458 269,902 811,693
Dnndas
Stormont
Glengarry
Presoott
Russell
Carleton
161,436
Renfrew
5«9,000
485,005
4,708,564
400,248
842,003
93,010
647,969
1,483,220
177,712
147,369
89,591
162,982
617,654
18,764,490
Lanark
Totals
Victoria
Peterborough
Haliburton
Hastings
Totals
Muskoka
Parry Sound
Nipissinff
Manitoniif* , - r
Algoma
Totals
The Province
—
ONTARIO BUREAU OF INDUSTRIES.
AREA AND PRO D ITC E- M A NGB L-W UR Z ELS,
Tas^I XX. Showing by County MaDicit}«l)tie« tufi ^uupt of G(jDxitieA the ^ttm. Mid produce of llADfrel'Wurzeli ir Ontuio m the years 1896 mud 1896, with the ynarly Average for tb« fifteen yeMt ]S82'9« : Abo the yield per acr«.
CoUtltJM.
1890.
Kent. Hjrm . . . .
N«rf*ak . . . Haidiituui4
Wot J and Totals
AeiiM.
Bushelfl.
Bath per
204, 750;
27.^ '*'<h ■..■••. t ■
1,31!>,W4
621,170
1.684. fHRi
447.480
307,30» 2S2.a47
1.453.060
1.121,0M
364,000
1.9SB,840
1,127,777
340.972
107,«a5
e, 453,306
109,472
imjM
83K,30l 328,284 912.072 540.760 241J8,B 2I1*.475 84,57U| 8,243,868
43,200
130.570
137.270
82,218,
104,97fi
&!J.5nO
70.126
tJ2.424
178,304
380,8^4
1)2,444
144,420
1,516,514
636,2f^ 140.805 10.780 208,453 996.8»9
18,880 8,260, 5.800 80,250 14,722i 77.9021
1896,
Acre«
*Biwh BuAhelfl. per
375 462 539 429 341 S80 444
494,
536 440
mi
431 4271 429
5;I5<
590 560 511 431 615 537
352
498 384 396 366 440 404 42.^)
403
300
345|
37J
386
426
4^
275
46»
467
427j
382
498
404
443 S16 246
348 394
296 3751
200! 550 433|
631 H37 423
2ao
147 2,1)12
976' 3.032
846
4.854:
635
669
1,304
2.707
1,848,
679
3.343
1.863,
628
178
11,140
280 760 837 800
2,312 961 588 538 313
7.389|
196 354 396
178 263 201 261 132 583 926 257 286 4,032
1,284 517
35
764
2.600
40 23 19
70
162
16.849,401 467 34,383 15,961,502
272,002 305,404 405,108 217.422
80.»i00
61,446
1.341,11(82
637.776 I,l7»,t508
361,0SK) 2,462,474
211.300 324,465 665,766
1,426.689 924.000 233.916
1,71K616
849,528
240,714|
93,738
5,479,101
121,240
394,440 348,192 373600 J>84,912 449.748 248,724 288,872 125.200 3,284,928
67.228 127.086 169,455
73.692 128,061
77,1*88 135. 198
52,273 228.536 353.732 108,197 136.708 1,658,173
586,788
210,419
11,235
314^004
1,122,446
11.760 6,900 6,973
21,000
46.633
Yearly avdrage for the fifteen yrar» 1882 96.
Aerea,
443
484 484 614 810 418 461
651 519 416
507
380 486 434
627 500 404 512 456 387 521 492
433
519 416 467 426 468 433 444 400 445 I
843 369 429 414
487 388 518 396 392 383 421 478 411
457 407 321 411 432
294
300 367
300
307
464
JBuiih. Bushels. |>rr
307 362 396 2f^S 189 142 1,654
5381 1,914
628 2,980
480,
619'
1,(^9
1,622
1,371
406
2,056
1,206
582
136
7,328
249
619 509 526
1,826 807 625 604 165
6,624
181 1 204
\ 812
133
69
105
90 153 616 197 184 2,134
763
349
12
494
1,608
51
14
4
32
101
22,478
405 433 458 415 327 400 416
2aO,7t6 429
922,818; 481
226.924' 429
1.378,9681 46i
124.221
lf^j,279 lHJ,42f»| 107.070 61,786 58»103
181.574 259.994 441»568
735.147
665,364 208,166
976,917
562,103
281,986
58,984
3.423.667
249,807 227,133 212,831 806.169 366.604 232,814 217,996 51,490 2.463,403
4l,6f6 73,329
123,946
57.295 26,302 38.951 33.504 62.169
232,10S 62,094 76.621
820,865
350,042
180.8571
8,889
176 996
661,784
I
14.066
4.862
1,216
11,223
31,367 9,910,468
422 420 421
453 485 500 475 456 436 437 467
396 487 446 405 441 454 443 433 812 438
340
359
397
431
381 371 372 406 377 380 416 385
466 376 324 358 412
276 347 304
351
310
441
58
ONTARIO BUREAU OF INDUSTRIES.
AREA AND PRODUCE — CARROTS.
Tablk XXI. Showing by County Municipalities and groups of Counties the area and produca Carrots in Ontario in the years 1895 and 1896, with the yearly average for the fifteen years 1882-1 also the yield per acre.
Counties.
Etfsex
Kent
Elgin
Norfolk ....
Haldimand .
Welland ...
ToUls..
Acr0B,
189fi,
OughHN, . per acre.
Lambton..
Huron
Bruce
Totals.
Grey
Siincoe. .. Totals
Middlesex . . Oxford ....
Brant
Perth
Wellington .
Waterloo...
Dufferin . . .
Totals..
Lincoln
Wentworth
Halton
Peel
York
Ontario
Durham
Northumberland .
Prince Edward..
Totals
Lennox and Addington
Fronteoac
Leeds
Grenville
Dundas
Stormont
Glengarry
Prescott
Russell
Garleton
Renfrew
Lanark
Totals
Victoria
Peterborough Haliburton . .
Hastings
Totals....
Muskoka
Parry Sound Nipissing . . . , ManitouJin ..
Algoma
Totals....
The Province.
2r»4 \bh
3T1
3(0
Ub
65
l,3i0
476
386
336
1,197
313 474
787
1,016 349 197 341 355i S65i 188
2.761
208 252
77 365 483 105 221 311
90 2,112
83 218 199 204 280 207 249 156 233 398 170 225 2,622
236
382
65
462
1,135
144 112 22 66 55 399
12,883
100,3:^0
74.000
14-1.31**
108, IK»
4L0a5,
:*2,S95j
4ti),r>r9
246,01»2 150,150 l30,aS2' • 526,2741 I 124,574' 165,900 290,474,
432,8161 165,775"
87.468! 155,155! 141,6451 151,840'
56,994! 1,191,693
59.280
113,148.
18,865
96,725
152,145
33,4^5
76.687
97,9(>5
24,SiK)
(572,700
23,655
70. (»2
64,078
67,932
91,840
86,940
87,l^0
56,940
115,102'
134,12(»
49,640|
8<;.fi25
934,660;
97,704 122,240
11,715 148,764 380.423
42.7 37,632 4,950 27,258 19,030 131,638
4,618,441
395' 400 3R9 363 283 343 372
517 390 387 440
1895.
Yearly a^^xmge for tli fifie<*n yean IgS^-Sff,
350 369
426 475 444 455 399 416 413 432
285 449 245 265 315 319 347 315 271 319
285 324 322 333 328 420 350 S65 94 337 292 385 356
414 320 213 322 335
297 336 225 413 346 380
374
tS2
L>4ti 423 328 149 W.H 1,461
392|
409
398
1,199
401
615
1 016
972 372 231 329 442 364 169 2,879|
218, 198
480 140 230 388 115 2,197
111 169 199 205 283 199 265 127 253 375 184 211 2,581
227
:«4
90
645
1,306
119
108
18
1181
^^/>^0 116,924
112,832 35.909 28,459
516.702:
123,.'j08 218.325 341,833
424,764 136.152
82,929 114,163 155,142 141,233
50,700 1,105,082
56,898 78,408 2'4,150
124,932
167,520 51,240 86,710
118,728 40,250
748,836
28,860 43,771 70,844 70,110
112,351 63,083
108,120 46.101
109,043
123.000 r»0,720 79,336
915,339
72,867 131,752
22,500 193,500 420,619
33,677
30,f(^
4.500
36,934
106,675
13,002, 4,581,873
394
376 344, 241 ' 343: 354|
170,520 435
IM.IO3: 867
106.664 268
427,287 356
308 355 336
437 366 359 847 351 388 300 384
261 396 350 348 349 866 377 306 3f0 341
260 259 356 342 897 317 408 363 431 328 330 376 365
321 383 250 300 322
283 283 250
313
291
170 205 186 93 60 843
249
467
308
1,024
492
560
1,052
572 335 191 871 316 323 139 2,247
130 218 107 299 604 396 410 285 68 2,517
66 171 239
128
86
100
71
168
611
138
172
1.860
873
916
99
58
7
53
216
10,665
82,006, 53.655 7.H.487I 56, Of^ 24,299 ^3,464^
2»>;i,S67 85.185'
179,013* 105.371 369,569
177.210 2as,708: 380,924'
200,344 135.390
78,600 142.284 110,830 132.845
47,066 846,858
39.643
83,946
40,691
99,906
23t),652,
152,570
155,383
96.017
16,293
924,C01
18,768 47,125
77,009
48.628 27,177i 31,149] 21,613{ 59,759
ia5,051 42,: 95 59,274
597,942
104,358
127,594
7,6S8
69.267
308,902
28,460
16,936
1,647
14,776
61,819
8,758,882
ONTARIO BUREAU OF INDUSTRIES.
5&
AREA AND PRODUCE-TURNIPS.
Table XXII. Showinj? bv County Municipalitie-H ani groiip>« of Counties the area and i»rof1u«:e of Taraipi in Ontario in the yoirs 189r» and 1S1H>, with the yearly average for the fifOeen ymrs 18f<2-l>6 ;
a'flo the yield per acre.
18%.
18IO.
I Year'.y average f«r the fifteen yeaii, lS8i?-iMi.
C«'un'.i»'8.
Acrea. | PiUsheU.
liush.
Acrt's.
ji«heJ«.
UuBh . ; i
I \n:r I Acres. | HuHlitiV.
Km^x
Kiiut
Hpn .... >oif'>'k . . HtldiDnnd Wciland TotAh.
L^mbton
Huron
Bruce
Total?
Grey
Simc K)
Tot»lrt
Middlesex
Oxford
Brant
Perth
Wellington
Waterloj
Dofferm
Totals
Liac«>lQ
Wentwortb
Halton
P»l
York
Ontario
Durham
Northombcrland
Prince Edward
TotaU
L^nuoi and AddingcOii Fruotenac ....
Leeda
Grenville ....
Dunlaa
Storm on t
Glent^arrv . . .
Pt^-Citt.'
Rn^i]
Ctfleton . . . Renfrew . ...
Lanirk
Totals...
Victiiria ... . Petfiburoiigii Haliburtoa . . Ha»*.in;;?« Totals ...
MnHkok i
Parry Sound .
MipiMinff
Manitoulin . .
Alguma
Totals .
The ProTinoe.
: 397
2A7
362
36 i
1 VJi
424
3i*r.
1,28I»
293
134
331
197
380
2,644
11,056
7.480
18,.')16
2,775 8,113 4,485 5,612
14,445 5,865 4,455,
45,750,
I
468; 3,826 2.54)i 2,338 7,130 13.413| 7,237 5,653;
42,841)1
16:l|
577
6(i5;
18!>.
165
125
221
2.") 4
4511
2,l67i
1,140
9S;")
7.102
r).l.")6.
2,901 1
325
2,378
10.76):
82r) 1,233
20(;
383
5341 3,182 I
5,374.:.32 3,306,000 8,740..532
1,443,<>00 4,421,58;-, 2,566,420 2 9'i3,136 7,496,955, 2 914,905 2,481,435 24,286,436
142.272, 2,031.606, 1,045.995 1,031,0.18; 2.773.570, 5,901,720 3,329,020 2,606.033 80.613 I8,94l,«l7i
44.173'
225, 876 1
2(i i.OOO
82,7Si
♦W,030.
47.5' »0
80,665:
10\410,
225,.')00;
1.011,t»89;
5l4,l40i
506 21 >0
3,171, 3fM!
2,119,116
l,2l2,6is
100.100
91 H, 7 60
4,430.591
261.016
469.773
43,h78
141,:s27.
171.411;
1.087,408
I
244.150, 3.6s2.6l4| 3.3til,208' 7,287,972,
487; 11,80S| 4,681.504| !50 7,214' 3,607,000 472 19,022 8,188.504'
520; 515 572 528 519 497 557 531
304 531 411 441 389 440 460 461 337: 442;
27.1 'ASH 400' \?.H 3>i2 3S0I 'M'u) 415 500
467:
4M' 514:
447|
ni
418 30^, 420 412:
1 316
.S8r
213 36'» 321, 312
2,599 8,363 4.546 5,423
14,975 5.708 4.136
45,749:
482 4.036 2,625' 2.347 7,049 1.3,6:56
7,r,<K)
5,822
317.
•I4,00»:
202 399 6 5;> 2.50; 132
161 ;
I8I!
265:
381 1
1.916
985
992
6.49l»
I
.■),543
3 on
425
2,410
11,4(k:),
7^5! I.IIO"
no
845! 2.880.
1,099,3771 3,905,5211 1.8-22,946 2,429,504 6,094,825 1,923,596 1,98S,935 19,264,704
153,758 1,642,652
989,625
880,125' 2,875,992 5,918,024| 3,745.0:50 2,398,664
134.725* 18,738,595
4.s,«84J l:59.»v)0, 262,890; 10t;,250 6\:^J0' 51,520;
9?.:no
l47,H70i 162.ii87 749.ir>6, 475,755' 477,152 2,779. 4'>4;
2.161.770; l,:{54.8.^7! 108,375! 1.115.8:50, 4.740..S32.
2159,425'
411.810
49,000
:52.5,635'
l,023.870l
475
407
403
7,804
:<83
6,5:H2
395
14,243
388
9.948
500
4,647
430
14,495
I
423 467
40l| 4481 407, 337 4811 421
319 407 377 375
408 434 487 412; 425! 426; I 242 3,50 414 423 495 320
5io;
558 427
:s9i
483 481 428 I :590 447. 255, 463 416
371' 360
:^83J
3i6
1,980 6.164 3,230 5.064! 13,634 6.329 2,903.
L
r.»),889, 125 6:16 i 16i,216i 496.:^93i 39.4881 66,3.)8 955,975'
140,721 i 3,021, 202| 2,756.C85 6,918,008
4,160.830 2,016,576 6,167.405
784.080 2,821,581 1,518.415 2,101,527, 6,017.491. 2,218,909 . 1,2:2:570
Bu^h.
• ft.
282 346 380 385 295 337
38.204 16.732,373
282
2.846 1.933 1.623| 4.359
12,652
5,760
3,866
1.S6
33,456
164 423
409 [
92
95
1011
169;
412
1.7041
689
614
4.872
.3,928
1,769
317
1,227,
7,241
924;
799,
82
97,469
1,335,168
846,423
657,161
1,80S148
5,fi03,964'
2,(}14,.573]
1,610,305;
39,379
14,512,.51K),
40.985! 133,1131
33,643 27,864; 41,9.39 65 OIK) 179,845
646,922|
2r.0 884.
246, 4<W
1,820,594
1..558.0.S3I
708,iH)7
<K).085l
48:5,681 i
2,790,706
I
2<»5,r6l{
257.492,
26,410'
148,234, 69,814,841, 471 151.806j 63.49«,702|
597j 211.941 2,402 791.404 I I
418, 117.557 49.689.055
:546 414 422 416
418 441 425
396 468 460 416 446
tie
438 488
316 469 438 406 416 436 464 417 292 434
250 316
15:5,8411 376
3W; 293 416 386 437 380 364 401
:h7I 397
401 284 3.53 386
320 322 322
366
329
423
60
ONTARIO BUREAU OP IND STRIES.
pATIO OF AVERAGE PRODUCTION.
Table X.XIII. Showing by Goimty Municipalities and groups of Counties the percent. rAtioB of total yields in 1896 to average of total yields for the fifteen years 1882-96.
OountieB,
Bvsex ,.,,,...,,.,»
Kent*... ,,,.
iEiffio *■■ -
Norffllk, ,....,....
Hal dim and.,...
WelUnd
Group . . . , ......
Iiunbton
Huron f .. .1 .. 1 ....,,,.., ,
Brace .........
Group..... ......
Grfly ..
Sirocoe ...,.,..,,.,.,.,. Group . ,
Middlesex
Oxford .. ,..
Bruit ....... ....
Perth ,......,.....,.,..
Wellington ........
Waterloo
Dttffm in
Group , .
Lincoln
Wentworth . . . . , . . . .
Halton...
Peel....
¥ork
OntHTto .....*,.,.......,
Durham ....... . , ,
NoHhumbeirknd ....... ,
Prinoe Edward . .......
Group ,
Lennox and Addiogton . ,
Frontenao
Leeds and GrenviUe . , . . . Dnndai ........... . . . . .
Storraoot
Glengarry .,....,
Prsf cott ,
Runsell .............
Carlpitnu .......
Renfrew ..........
Lanark . ,
G roup ..............
Victoria...
Feterbarnugh
Haliburton . . , ,
Haatinf^
Group.......
Miiikoka
Party Sound ...........
Ntpisaing
Algoma, l^Ianltonlin, etc Group. . . > ,
The Province ..........
,3. ^
77 9S 67
94 37 41 75
194 70
4& SO
74
100 93
96 92 82 89 80 B'j 100 90
&a
61
95
M
84
164
240
138
&
61 14
109 78 76 B8
114
m
3
m
149 85
117 141
16^
50
103
76
42
344
urn
222
16 39 ^3 7 20 14 19
13 i) SI 24
33
4t
7
e
35 2T 62 22 67 44
10
16 21
m\
42. 35| 56 58 4H
72 117 54 47 46 G4 69 43
m
01
f]8 66
46 48 57 47 47
39 23 269 46 47
47
141 157 113 57 47 W 93
94
91 69
m
78 121 105
127
86 58 131 83 85 98 92
21 44
55 81 67 72 73 36 47 63
48 31
85 54 94
125 B8
105 97 65
102 65
70 51 93 51 59
104 103 220 118
lis
76
^1^
123 188
us; 219
114! 203
116, 143
136 119
121
12]
155
270 173
S13
331 250 384
135 337 137 282 140 WB
125 136 130
126 13!
138 143 140 135 172 138
106 116 126 12f> 124 135 140 141 151 127
129 123 135 !1B
la^
118 137 132 137 123 122 137
134 152 108 125 135
120
%m
325 168 156
132
76
50, 63'
113
77 1
78 142
llOi 111
126' 118
82, 125
94; 111 121] 158 H4l 149 ISOJ 135
2G1 125' 290 228, 169 S94 235 145 36'.)
80 185 102 204 126, 137
339 125' 384
360 359 397 343
252
240 203 160 136 281 176 114 56 142
62 70 119 123 135 . 13
37 50 63
m
74
102 111 145
no
111' 117|
S27 lis 434
87 77 123 163 128 2r8, 121 3691 121' 242 154 164
153 151 133
120
99
103
109
73
72
69
82
117
100
98
147 134 190
61,
S6 134
1381 143 134
m
62, 120 .^11 174
121
169!
84
137
362 150 156
132
133,
115 146 !
130 111 157 106
0^ 100 124 128 167 131
B% 125
215 166 205 117 149
79 151 IFiS 174 122
145
m
94 193 270: 201 160 171 197
332 204 219 300
256 254 255
351 104 162 153 196 239 2J*1 256
119 106 135 112
101 116 115
.nil
165
178
249:
1
188
120| _
192 1861
S13 138 198
191
169
95
m ^26
117 183
117 198
120 192
129 122 125
139 116 137 142 126 116 131 130
91 109
155! 149 152 103 301; 145 2r7| 112 124 114 143 155 159 155
108 164
87 101
ai
114 73
91 173 117
89 112
228 9.H
lao
191 182
52 145 140 128 102
103
99
115
80
iro m
91 lU 123
lis
107 112
m
102
77
106 76 81
99 138
129 131
191f 114
34
77
144
142
167 116 129
103 103 113
m
54 63 86
2891
84 1
123
142
^
137 96
131 137 IM
70 129
8lJ 168 76 1421
216 184
IS2I 167
111; 170
109 141 128 125 1151 13t 121 195 141 145
169 109 134
198 168 174 199 204 151 182 186
Ul 176 149 164 113 148 104 114 164 132
97 164 177 183
379 3S0;
180 280|
186 2&<
287 193^
164, m
177 117
188 146
185 156
160
136
46
97
64
?2
49i
102,
150;
78:
126, I6O' 1711
18a'
124 157
155 107 127 162 206 131
B27 187 170 193
125
156 206 205
174
181. 94 im
n^ 96i m
277; 152 HI
118 2161 330
150' 123 159
1S4' 150, m 170; 222' 182^ 104
4771 soil 166
401 313 148
248 3131 137
ITOi mi 141
66
76
5T 76
98 81 60 66 43 4S 61 71
1461 44 152 39
39 ST 49 76 86 68 31 54
108 «4 168 47
61 61 54 114
16S 88
89 87
m
i7 83 66 66
73
270, 190 133
^^^^^^^ ONTARIO BURKAU OF IND^^^ffil^^^^^^^^^^ff
RATIOS OF AVERAGE YIELDS PER ACRE.
Tauli XXIV. Showing by Oounty Municipalities and groi]p8 of Countiefl the per eenb. ration of average jrields per acre in 18!^ to the average ^ielda ptr acre for fifteen years 1883-90.
Oikontiea.
i
83 86 66
44
51 76
lOS 78 58 82
73 101
m
91 85
too
115 88
108 9S
65
69
87
81
85
lOS
108
lOi
60
m
71 81
116 97
108
n
70 87 73 67 83 93 83
68 70 66 67
77 94 86
78 65 70 75 74 84 95 81
60 63
'i
loe
106 86 98
100
no
105
108 108 105 108
lOO 112 109
103 101 101 111 105
lOil 105
76 100
o
88 94
95
98
103
102
95
104
95 96 97
89
m
93
101 104 108 102 95 100 106 101
91
96
102
go
93
97
110
106
HI
98
96 95 117 106 99 106 IK' 119 HI 100 1011 107
93 110 91 98 99
9^ 94 107 93 97
lOO
84 84
86 82 82 88 85
91 91 86 90
100 100 100
89
{M
107
im
99 96 90 98
91; 9k 90 84 88 99 99 104 74 98
84 100 106
101 78 90
108 98 86 96 96
8i
100
131
89
93
8fi 72 118 87 83
94
1
101
i
El
99
84 104
98 119 104 103 104
1IV>
79
112
101
12.^1
97
109
102 87
133 73
132
113 88
105
76 106 8f 76 97 74
1
103
95
114
99 99 98 98
102 112 111 103
117
98
107
108 111 113 128 103 102 91 107
84 116
88 9P 88 88
|f
93 107 118 103 104
93 107
116
111 103 110
102 102 102
118 115 118 UN 112 99 118 116
89 102 86 98 83 97 9l! 98 IIG 92
88
m
95 99 114
;4
123 1(5 113 Ihl 120 105
95 81 76 97 96
107 10K
m
144
123
ifw;
e 134
i
1^
ie'3
a
98 108 110 83 66 61 86
90 66 66 78
69 72 65
97 84 67 69 68 .61 03 72
46 46 4S 42
60 69 79 65 34 66
68 47 64 62 6S 7fi 67 73 71 78 69 66
9a
81 62 64
n
69
70
101
120
94
imjL ..•.••......
K«tii .:
127 no
109 118 1181 ^'^
Mftm ,
Nr.ffolk ,. _,
94 loi!
101 ^ 96
Ualdtmand . . , *........
WaJlaod
Groop, .,*....... . * , , .
lambton , . , . ,
HarcFD , ,
Bmee ••*....i.* ,•.,..
98 95 97
86
98
113
105
10-;
112
lio
102i 108 106 101 94 103 101
B%
97
100
99 96 119 117 106 98 103
96
94
107
108 102 126 123 127 107 107 108
10^ 110 98
111 85
101 99
104
98
101
ll^ 110 80 106 101 12fi 109 10<i
m &
89 91 97 9fi 86 77 88 81
87
90
117
f8 86 87
101* 99
1(9 92
108 117 119
151 102 113 122
111
96
102
122
100 100
101
107 116 114 114
117 102 111
1«1
Grottp
Grey ... , , .
BJaieoe
Group... ,
IGd-iliMx
Oif.fd .<...,
HSl 119 108 192
Br%Qt , , , . .
iVrth .,
Wrlhr^U ,..»....
18 114 101 122 116
93
117 64 79 79 83 92 93
113 87
100 117
14 2
127 117
119 127 121
68
lis
94
109 94 101 101
111 115 102
108 123 109
Waterloo ,,,..,,,,,..,.,....
pQ^^io ..,..,,, ,
GfouD. • •
UmAx^
«a»u«i
82 94 91 97
89 104 81 ! 108
83 114 100' 106
99, 101 88l 106
Pe-»
Tork
Ontario
Ihifh'BQ ..*..*•.••*••*.,*. *....«.
86 m
Ki^ hum her land .........................
Pnoc* Edward i.. ...*.. ...*..
8^ 95
87
102
77
88
SB
110
81
112
115
lOA
96
96
101
65
urn
98 95
55
91
108
94
89
106
103
63
96
115 im 119 106 99 101 104
76 76 99 77 78
95 97 105 87 96
100
GroQD *•« ........
IiSif nnx and Addington ».....•*.«,*,.*,..«
101
inn
FruteiiAc ,
L cT. a.wJ Hfenville
9S' 102 97| 111 98 108
96 104
l?3 li>9 li3 88 120 108 i:9 1'4 104 123
95 124 112 128
10 120
112 104 M 104 77 108
108 119 99, 107
103 S»
115 118
96 66 135 96
116 104
\Mii \\\
■1' j^ .' ly ,,*....,,
rr*c»»tt .,„•..
131J 104 112 163 112| 107 138) 1131 113
Rq..^I]
C»r1#'tan
127
93
121
109
113 119 li!0 67 104
in
78 115
lOH, 103
100 ' 98
89 1J6
100' 109
98 104 95 10*. 98 103 89 ion 95 106
91 97
77 115
llfi llfi
E^nfo-w ,
LmimK <
Group ., ,*.........
lOe 100
Yitti^rn%
104 U2 107
9V 104
101
103
124
93
m m
113 80
so
87 87 87
Hai^o«s . .•,.«...•.....•
itrOtlp .. .a...... *.,',,-,,-...,-...,.
i Mttikoka
P,ff V Hr.und
■ AlfCima- lifanitoulm. etc.
122j 78 07
124 83 103
86 91 107
1
a^R, %A
^1 GmtiT)
ICO 88 101 91
81
im
^H 1^0 Province .......,..*........«......«.
I
1 \
\ \ \^ \ 1
62
ONTARIO BUREAU OF INDUSTRIES.
ACREAGE UNDER CROP: ALSO PASTURE AND ORCHARD.
Table XXV. Showing by County Municipalities and groups of Counties in Ontario, the total under crop enomeratedin tables IX-XXU hir the yeam 1896 and 1896, with the yearly avertf the fifteen years 1882-96 ; also the area n Pacture i^d in Orchard and Garden for the same perio<
Aci 1896.
-es under w 1893.
op.
Pasture.
Orchard i Garden
Coonties.
1882-93.
1896.
1895.
1896.
1
Bmot
192.316 270,586 200,238 169.939 14:».903 120.453 1,097.436
242,228 384,261 319,719 946,198
404,295 888.522 792,817
351.947 243,444 128,229 278,659 340,697 186,366 164.498 1,692.840
103.653 144.710 113.606 l77.aV) 324.590 265.433 217.123 234.531 126.593 1.707,294
138.729
142.016
154 699
103 487
1*2,285
78.971
99.770
101.461
56.995
205.822
191.055
153.800
1.519.090
193.440 156.46i> 23.552 831,231 604.«'>92
43.570 41.279 14,144 29.152 2t.»SS 151.078
8,51U444
184,135 252,127 190,98^ 163,991 146,224 120,266 1,057J30
228,887 370,921 809.454 909,262
393,626 379,790 773,416
335.288 236,231 121,405 276,401 3^13,815 178,7r.6 HiO,441 1.651,847
103,422 145,388 111,392 170,486 319,431 2t;2.459 211,441 228,183 125,660 1.676,762
140.862 139.966 151.214 101.364 90.9Z'S 79,868 99.448 99.312 59,a^-i
2a\^S3
li59.4r»5
156.121
1,511,493
191.644 151.872 23.592 229.919 597,027
42.953 40,707 12.475
1' 47.601
143.636
8,3?l.in
157.111 224.960 175,114 158,446 144,204 112,774 972,609
190,132 344.99^ 287,60( 822,621
368.628 33C,835 698,863
313.032 222.728 121,661 243,366 304,976 170,354 134,838 1,510,854
10a|144 144.176 108,706 166,799 307,118 251.939 206.422 221,855 130.574 l.li39.733
131»,823 140.911
I 243.062
87.958
75.053
91,671
91.146
52,531
190,117
172.506
150.701
1.435,479
180.106 14.\314 21.455 223.412 570.286
39.665
27,725
5.143
a\068
107.596
7.758,048
31.273 49.616 65.146 36.846 34.607 27,294 247,681
80,676 148.840 126,828 366,243
149,763
82,386
232,149
166,225 81.595 27,150 84,412 81,999 29,616 35,025
50^052
24.582 34.339 31.860 36.268 51,973 56.678 46.352 64.546 36.889 383.382
51.016
66,677
1 *i7,234
1 50.439
37.424
39.616
48,706
39,594
20.047
79,2-25
73,725
113,047
706,650
44,697
54.678
7,901
97,655
204,931
9,925
10834
2,604
1 5.446
\ 4,M7
; 88,666
8,6691744
86,368 53,950 68,924 40,606 34,952 26,481 261,181
86,137 164,769 132.166 373,061
166,008
79,694
235,602
167,710 86,040 27,328 84,716 84,649 31,398 36,554
518,394
25,192 35,063 33.921 39.889 .^3.231 67,777 46,112 62.626 38,566 391,876
51.897 69.314 89,317 50.605 38.324 88.072 47,760 39.056 19.600 79.620 70.820 110,990 705,175
47.279
53,843
7,884
100.853
209.859
10.946 10.196 2,680
} 9.846
88.507
2,788,6K^
10,484 14,998 9,841 9,962 6.340 9,871 61,496
10,554
14.042
9,918
34,614
13,520 10,704 24,824
16.038 10,820 5,984 7.497 7,451 5.698 2.894 C6,382
18,408 13,230
Kent
Elgin
Norfo'k
Haldimand
Welland
Totals
Lamhton
(
Brace
Totiklt .
,
Grey
Simooe
Totals
Middlesex
i
Oxfocd
Bimat
Perth
WeUington
Watatloo
Dnfferin
ToUU
Lincoln
Wentworth
■ *
] ]
Halton
Peel
Yerk
Ontarfo
Durham ,
9,050 5,489l 11,867: 1 7,666 7.201.
Northumberland
Prince Edward
TiTtala
18,0771 1 8,058, 94,036 S
Lennox and Addington
PRmteoac
Lae«1«....
Gfenrille
iXindas
4,135; 3,749' 3,716 2,380. 2.747'
Slofuoat
2.025;
Glenfrarrr
PrBK?ott
RoneU
CarlMoo
Renfr;?w
Lanark
Tocai*
Victina
Haliborton
Hatting
TotaU
UmkokM
F^rrySouid
1,916 1,298 S87 3,539 2,202 2.473 31.066
3,5C3
3,316
396
8.629
15,744
963 593
3
1
NipisBn«
168,
Haoitoolin
Algma
^/Totals
The:Provaee
i 668
\ 880 8.660
8ao.us
.81
APPLES.
Tadlk XXVI. Shomn^ by Comity Muntctpftlitiea ftnd jirroup) of Countiea in Oatftrio, the number of Apple Tn&a m ll>95 and 1896 ; Also the e«ttiu&ted yield in boeliela for 1896.
ONTARIO BUREAU OF INDUSTRIES,
Apple Trees.
16 years Mid over.
1896.
I8d5.
!
147.081
184,407 15»>,0L4
134,3^1
1HT60
i,068,04]3
I
203, HB3
206,ft65 729,526
266,453 175,7631 442,216
814,3(}5; 902,281 103.435 l45J0r< 148,9H* 117.113 44, U2 1,076,092
yQ2.913 16fS,420 1674631 110,273 2S6,064 167,772 1B2,7«»* 331,907 1(»3,443 1.739,191
84,799 07,364 72,188 59,096 71.478 63,223 86,606 27,970 7.tVI6 44,928
l^247
37.817 576,921
56 54il
66,199,
2,265'
149,624
:273.B49
:^,8S7 1,379 428 t629 1,356 8,649
Under 16 years.
139,922 363,0:44 184,1»>8 164,976 134,831 20ti,K09 1,073J39
187,141 318,611 205,738 7U,490
262,694 162,744 406,438
306,852 192,203
96,605 142.8161 144,007 111,892'
44,619 1,038,793
218,299 184,6891 301,187 99,e3«J 229,299 162,601 163,969 322,968 206,780 1,788,618
76,271 55,461 72.660 53.323
66,097 54,433 31.898 28.547 8,181 41,17S 16.382 37.976 641,312
51,493
57,767
2,221
157,648
2^9,128
3,307
1,265
422
] 2,413
7,397
6^913,906 5,835,916
115,518 179,623 96,111' 60,232 36,969 36,763 515,176
145,733 140,067 109,619 :<95,319
235,641 181.630 417,074
145,690 44.315 42,652 54,613 77,974 38,249 4<930
443,!^
41,149
68,687
78,207
48,630
104,473
1 U.OOH
9l,022i
231,642
109,937
875,356
71,606 61,166 63,388 30,031 39,171 39,573 36.078 31,271 23,167 70,411 42,994 48.269
r>67,010
57.144
54,974
11,269
148,127
271,614
25.219 13.671 3.087 13.297 13.113 68,386
1895.
107,174!
226,776 94,860 63,004 36,876 36,702
554,391
Buabels,
1,619.837 3.040,514 2.413,^88 2,04S,464 1,532,603 2.53l.7:>0 I3,as7,0fi(i
li26,834 2,285,629
I5l,fi!9 3,309,599
120,930 1,641.207
399,383 7,236,435
208,516 169,022
877,638
139.161 43.467 32,398 52,500 56,269 43,802 43,265
409p842
41,760 47.996 69,728 43.353 95,989 91,528 75,639
209.984 94,438
770,403
64,021 66,135 56,921 32,062 38,960 34,419 34,204 30,322 20,il29 <i5,602 41,391! 46,351 632, '97
56,564
59.792
12,19^
136.418
262,969
20,424 12,886 3,433
16,936
56,678
3,518,058 3,362,401 56,895.755 9.45
1,875,829 1,427,196 3*303,025
4,105,607 2,4Hfi.l48, 1,226.739 1.492,040 1,057.325 1.132,483 i?94,62" 11,804,969
2,66(n039 1,694,156 1,419,836 823,7,S9 1,909,758 1.046,028 l,02il.656 2,432,878 1.251,576 14,273,665
779,303 ,>50,9fHi 5H8.586 400,664 636,085 372,540 261,014 175,073 49,017 313,250 128,237 266,.^9 4,360,144
273,755
436,181
8,426
1,080.285
1,798,647
16,582
4,482
1,281
/ 5,85<j
\ 4,610
Sl.BH
18J
18.;
10.24
7 10 9 67 6.67
10.97
11.96
10.18
8.17
7.47„.
8 ( 6,6
6 74"
7 33
6 47 8.21
9 19
8.18 7.43
6.78
7 50
7 00 7.33 6,42 6.44 6.96
8 41 6.78 7.66
4 84 6 69 3.72
7.22 6 67
4.04 3 25 3 00 8 83 3.40 3.71
ONTARIO BUREAU OF INDUSTRIES.
ONTARIO vs. AMBRIOAN STATES.
T A B L K XXVI. A oompwriaoQ of the *V8rag« yield per acre of oereiUs id Ootiirio »od Ihe pribcipftl gmu-gtowinff fltatea of the American Union and of M&aitoba ie preaeated in the foUowiog Ubl« for th&- tcB yf^n 18^2-96. tof7eth«r with th« miduaI average for the fourteen ye^n 1882-96 :
Fall »hml. Ontario - ..
I New York..,.
FtaTiBylvama ......
' Ob'o
^ Micfaifran ..........
I lodiaaa .
lUiiiob . . * liiaeonri ,,,.,......
I CiiifomLa
Sprtnff wfuai,
Ontaria
Wiiociiistii.«.,,« ....
MumMotA..
Iowa ..,..,,.,
Hebraika
DkkoU
Harlftf,
Ootario
\ lt«l||t<ihA
Ne* Vof k
Lit* .
CUifofniti
Ootario
I MiBiioIja
I BsrwVork-.,
?tsA«ytvani» ..••••»
uh ••
1896.
1696,
1894
Boflh.
BlltlL
Both.
17 0
19.0
31.3
6.(1
18 I
U«8
14.0
16. t>
15 0
9-0
13.3
19.0
12.8
13.2
15.8
9.0
9.2
IB. 4
147
ll.O
18.2
UJ
12.0
15 8
10.6
7.7
10.4
14,6
13.0
11.3
13.8
15.5
li.e
14.3
27.8
17.0
13.3
IB. 6
nh
14.2
23.0
13.5
16.0
19.5
14 8
14,0
12.0
7,0
11.5
lti.7
9.4
"ZlA
25.3
33.«
st.a
36.7
94.9
23,2
23.9
17.6
27,4
29.8
28 JJ
27,2
36.0
23.5
2«.:^
28.0
15,5
19.9
28.4
57
21.6
20.3
16-2
34.!2
35.t
30.0
28.3
46.7
26.8
33>0
31 7
22 1
31.0
31.7
22 3
Hl.O
SCO
31 7 23.9
30.3 26 1
29.0
22.9
32 3
28 0
24.4
36.1
35.0
33 8
32.3
S3.0
39.9
28.1
27 5
46 2
25.6
18.0
27.7
23.3
13,0
17.9
17.9
190
23.8
12.6
18921.
Both.
19.3
14.5 14.0 14.5 13.2 14.1 11.5 1).5 8.4
ia.3
U.7
15.6
13.3
9.6
11.5
8.7
9.1
31.0
22.1
20.3 24.0
22! e 12.0 22 5
30.3
25.3
24 0
26.8 28.6 26.0 27.5 27.2 27.6 24.8 24 8 23.4 18.4 16.0
1893.
Buah.
31.3
16.2 34 6
13.6 14.7 14 7 16 2
12.5 17.4 130
I3.T
16.5
11.6
11.6 11.5 12.5 12,8
34.tfi
29.0
22,2 25 5 24.9 21.1
22.2 24.0
34.8
35.0
28.0 26.2 26.3 28 7 26.5 26.3 30.2 27.3 25.4 20 0 28.5 26.7
1891.
1890.
16.6 15.6 17.1 18.8 18.1 18.0 186 15.6 13 0
31.0
25.3
13.5 17 6
15 3 15.0
16 8
3tf.3
35.6
23.3 26.6 27 3 27 8 27.2 23.7
40.8
48,3
31.5 27 2
31.3 32 5 23.5 36.2 31* 3 36.5 36.7 23.8 30.0 35.5
1889.
BuBh Baih. Bnih. 35.7 i 1U.8 < 15.8
14 5
12.0 12,5 13.5 11.2
11.0 13.7 12.0
13.8
21.1
12.2 12.2 11 3 10.8 9.6
13.8 12,3 14.6 14.7 14.7 16 0 13.0 18.4 13.3
14.3 12.4
14.2
14,6
18.1
12.0
9.4
i8ea
16.7
22.7 22 5 22.6 17,3
22.3
38.0
41.8
17.8 17.2 18.0 26.6 17.5 21 0 2«,0 25 6 25. H 17.4 24,0 21.3
21 1 24 5 25.6 22.4 22.7 30 3
33 5
16,8
24.6 26.2
32.3 33.7 27.7 37.5 35.5 28.0
34 5 26.5 31.6 31.6
Bunk.
ie-7
14.1
18.6 10.8 14.6 10.4 13.7 130 16.2 19 I
1T.5
11.5 9.0 9.8 9.3 9J
33.3.36.7 I 36. 32.1 1S.6
21.8 22.5 18.5 21,0 22.5 ^ 0
35.4
28.1 36.6 31.8 33,2 26.5 35 8 29 4 28.7 26.3 25.2 25.3 25.8
1887.
Bush.
16.1
16.2 9.7
18.1 IS.S 13.5 16.2 16.2 0.6 ll.O
11.6
27 7
10.3 U 6
10,0 10. 1 14.3
33.3
86.3
0 3 18.6 19.0 19.0 21.0 20.6
39.6 46,2
23 6
26 5 30.0 29.6 27.0 29.6 24.2 30.0 30.6 39.3 26.6 37.6
Averae»^ 1882^..
Btifih.
10 9
15.2 13,8 18.6
16.0
18.!
18.1
13
13.1
12,
15.3
19.8
13.0
13.6 12.6 11.6 12.6 .
35.6
37.6
21.8 24.4 24.1 22,6
20.7 20.5
34.3^
34.1
971
36.1
30.61
30.;
36.1
31.5^
30.0
31 6
31.5^
21. iJ
26,3"
€6
ONTARIO BUREAU OF INDUSTRIES,
THE WORLD'S WHEAT CROP.
Id one or two cams oF obvioi3« erron in the Amencftti &nd lodian official retortiR, eommerciikl etiiottl 4kr« given m pi*ferenoe (in buabeU). (Cam Tradf Xfcvatt August 17| 18^7).
EstiniAtM ftr« gi^ea ia Imperial buabek (2218 19 cmbic inohee.)
fllBOPK:
FrftDCe ,,....,
HusBia proper
PoUnd
CaucMia
UnngAry , . ,
Austria
'CroAtlft uid Sclftvonia. . .
Herzogovina md BosnU
lUkly ...
Qermaktiy . . ...
Spam . /. , . . .
Portugal
Roumania
Bulgaria ...
Eaatern RoQiu^lia ....
Servia . . . , , ,
Turkey in- Europe
Greece
Uoited Kingdom
Belgium - » . . . , .
Holkod
Sw itserlancl , . . . . «..,»..
Sweden ,
Denmark . .
Norway
Cyprus, Malta, etc . . . . ,
Total Europe
Amkrica :
U.S. A... .
OMkAda
Hexioo . .
Argentina
Chili.....
Uruguay
Total Ajnerica , . . Asia:
•India — ...........
Turkey -in -Asia
Persia , ,
Japan
Total Asia . _ . . , Africa :
Algeria
Tonifl
ij^ypj
TheCane
Total Africa .....
AuSTRALAfilA :
Victoria
South Australia.
New Zealand
New t?outh Wales ......
Tasmania
We«t Australia
Qnet-nsland ....
Total Australasia .
World's toUl bushels .
1696
1895
340,000,000
•3O0.000.000
19,(i00,000
46,ooaooo
139,600,000 41,600,000
6,800,000
3,^00.000
184,000,000
110,000,000
7ts000,000
6,000,000 80,000,000 40,000,000
S,O0O,O0O I 14,400,000 I 23,000,000
4,800,000 5«,500,000
19,200, mo
6,400,000 4,000,000 4,56u,«00 5,000,000 400,000 2,400,000 l,483,&60,000
t4 70,000,000 38,100,000 1&, 000,000 25,000,000 18,000,000 3,000,000 564,100,000
3Cti,000,000 40,000,000 20,000,000 , 14,000,OOC I
280,000,000
17,000,000 5,600.000 I 7,300,000 J 2,000,000 32,400.000 I I 6,700,000 3.700,000 6,800,000 7,400.000 900,000 200, OtO 250,000 24,950,000
2,384.300,000
1894
340.000,000 •291,000,0011 17,000.000 66,800,000 143.600,000 40,000.000 6,100,000 2,000,000 I 114,000,000 . 103,000,000 I 100,000,000
7,000»000 ! 66,400,000 I 30,400.000 . 4JiOO,000 11,200,000 18,000,000 3.600,000 88,300,000 17,600,000
r», 600,000
6.000,COO 3^tXX),000 4,400,000 350,000 2,200,000 1,442,150,000
t490,000.00O 53,200.000 14,000.000 44.000,000 15,000,000 5,OM),000 621,200,000
256,000.000 45,000,000 2J, 000,000 16,000,000
330,00Op000
24,000,000 7,200.000 8,000,000 2,500.000
41J00.00O
6,669,000
5,929,000
6,843,000
6,195,000
1,164,000
188,000
123,000
25.111,000
2,469,161,000
342.800,000
''340,000.000
17,000,000
59,000,000
146,000,000
47.000,000
7,000.000
2,000,000
112,000.000
111,000,000
104,000.000
10,000.000
44,000,000
25,000,000
2,000,000
7,200,000
16,000,000
5.0O0.000
61.000,000
19,000.000
5,200,000
5,000,000
4,300,000
4,000,000
400,000
2.000,000
1,497,900.000
t525,000,000 42,000,000 20.000,000 6O,OCO,O0O 15,000.000 8,800,000 670.800,000
t232, 000.000
43.000,000
22,00'i,000
16,000,000
312,000,000
28,000,000
10,000.000
7,600,000
5,000.000
50,600,000
11,446,000
7,500,000
3,613.000
7,044,178
872,000
550,000
tJOO,000
'il, 624,178
2,562,924,178
1893
378,000,000
•360.000,000
20,000,000
66,000,000
150.000,000
42.000,000
6,800,000
2.000,000
131, WO, 000
110.000,000
86,000,000
6.000,000
58,000,000
29,000.000
3,000,000
10.000,000
16,000,000
7,000,000
51,000,000
17.000,000
5,500,000
2,400.000
3.900,4X10
4.8tO.OO0
400.000
2,000,000
1,467,8(0,000
t475,O00,O0O 42,800,000 17,000^000 90,000,000 15,000.000 5,600,000 f^44,8OO.O0O
t240,000.0O0 45,000,000
19.000,000
16.000,000
319,000.000
20.000,€00 6,000.000 8.000.000 4,800,000
38,800.000
15,256.000
13,618,000
4,891,000
6,502,000
833,000
520,000
413.000
42,032,000
2,512,432,000
1893
301,600.001
338,600,000
23,400.000
68,800,000
141,600,000
46,400.001
6,400.00©
.2. 000.001
112,200,000
116.400,000
74,000,00(1
6.400.000
58,400,000
39.000«00»
4,800,001!
9,000,00i
16,OCO.O00
7,500,000
60.900.CO&
30,000,C0t
6.200.000
4.000,000
3.200,000
4.aD0,<
2,000.001 1,368,900,000
f580,COO,00» 47,700.000 15,^
18,41
719J0O,000
206.400.000 40.010,000 17,500,000 15,000,000
278,900,000
24,000,000 8,000,000 6,700,000 4.000,000
42,700,000
14,81 4;000 9,240,000
8,S7r ^'
3,441J
N,B.— The crope aretboe« harvested prior to the lit September in the year? mentioned, exceDtinff li the cases of Auatralia, Argentina, Uruguay, the Gape and Ohili, which are those of the Nov, -Feb, foilowiQO
* The 1893 cenaus of area take© from thiji date. atficiaL
t Commercial t^stimates taken in preference to 1
ONTARIO BUREAU OF INDUSTRIBS.
THE WORLD'S WHEAT CROP.
R#l»irl of the StottBtieiMi of the Depfertmeot of Agrioullmre, WMhitigtoii, U.S.A. EatinifttM Are giveo in Wincbeater buihels (3150.42 cubic iDchea),
Ocmolry.
AjiiiytM !
QkMdA
Mexico , . , , . . . A7)|vtitiua . . VrufUMY
Tot*l^
Aottrm
UEtnipry
llMiieirri>
DIA . .
r io Europe . . .
SfMUO ,
Beiffiufjt ,,
KfthrrUod* ....
iin*t BriUiii.....
If«Uti(I ,.,...-.,. Df Dm&rk ......».,
8»«d«Q , . . . , , ,
Kt.rway
EoflUA io &iur«ipe .
Tot»U
Amu; RoHitA in Ania ... Brititli India AjiAtic Turkey...
Pwma .
J«|i«a
Tot*].
Af IH-A ;
Tmiia -.
Aic^* C#c«- C.iJooy
.'Ji Wftlet
> Jet* n 1 ... , . , K^Ath AuAtrftLim . . Wiisti^m Aunlraltft
T*«i3i»nt» ......
*■' w ^eiAl^kod , , ,
TutAb
Om»d touU
I8«U.
1895,
BnafaeU.
437,684.000
40,ft09,000 «O0O,O0O
4a«OD0,0O0 6,000.000;
13,000.000 542J9S,000
43,^91,000
150.6GO.0O0I
t«,O0O,OCM>
2,050 000
2'20,0(X>
9.SOO;000
6V,2O0.OG0
24,000,000
40 600,000
4.800,000
192,000,000
63,0iO,000
5.600.000
837,823,000
4,800,000
106,140.0001
17,2l(;,€O0
5,400,000
&8.85l,000
1,191,000
4,S40,000
4,671,000
300,000
365,H8,000
U484,.WU000
76,000.000
181.997,000
44,000,OQO{
20 000,0001
16,000,000
2,400.000
839.397,0001
ia.0f)OO00' 5,600,000'
i7,eoo,ooo|
8,200,000 88.400,000
6,36»,000 6,848.000 6,ll»vOOO
194 000 1,203.000 7,a59.000
128,000 26,906.000
2,430.497,000
467,10,1,000 67,460,000 14,000.000 60,000,000 10.000 000, 16,000,000!
6S3.568.000
1894,
I
41,767,000!
146,000.000
6,200.0)0
2,00*1,0001
220,000
9.4O0,0O(
68.603,000
21,600,0001
37,000.0001
4,000,000;
106,181,000
92.000 0001
7,000,000 1
389,129,000
5,000,000
iO3.1%9.0O0
18,000.000
5,000.000
38,348,000
1,109.000
4,601,000
3,7li8 000
990.000
376.886 0001
1,487,050,000
83,499.000
234.3:9,000
46,000.000
22.000,000
16,500 0.10
•i, 200,000
40 4,578, COa
14,000,000 7,600,000
24,800.000 2,542.000
48,842,000
7,368,000
11,807,000
8,027,000
176.000
899,000
3.727,000
662 000
32,461,000
3,546,494,000
Buxheli.
460,267,000 44,683,000
18.000,000
80,000,000
8,915,000
16,000,000
627.765,000
48,190,000
141,a'>8,000
8,7K6.000
2.000,000
250,000
7,f>00.000
43,587,000
30,000,000
30,600.000
6,500,000
liJl,595,000
105,600,000
9,000,000
347.587,000
4,500,000
110,681,000
19,^00,000
4,846,000
61,088,000
1,632.0CO
4,162.000
4.467,000
276,000
418,226,000
1,621,029,000
87,608,000
252;784,000
4^,006,000
22,000.000
90,310,000
2,000,000
429,702,000
12 000,000
10,700, noo
28,900,000
3,195.000,
51,795,000
6.708,000 15,736.000
14,047.000
fiM7,000
860.000
6,016,000
426,000
43.360,000;
1893,
Baflhdi.
396,132,000 42.6f)aO0O 15,000,060 57,000,000 5,703,000, 19.000,000
536,486,000
43,660,000
158,425.000
8,2i8,000
2,000.000
250,000
8,651,000
60,115,000
20,000,000
3.^,987,000
6,600,000
135,227,000
93,484,000
5,500,000
277,509,000
3,300,000;
110,O4O,Ou0'
17,300.000
4,971,000
50,800,000
1,66^.000
4,e>61p000
3,693,000
275,000
461,861.000
1,&14,2<)8.000
76.997,0*0
268.539.000
4i^,O00,CO0|
20,000,0001
16,848,000
2,000,ODO|
432,384,000
10.000,0001 4,000,000
20,274,000 4,014.000
3St. 288,000
7,032,000
15,282,000 9,681,000
443,000
1,051.0001
8,642.0001
477,000|
42,458,0001
1892.
515,949.00O
49,701,00i 14.000, OOt 36.000.000 3.292.000 16,500.000 635.442,000
60,174.000
142.5fW,O0O
7,071,000
2,00<>,00f>
250.000
10,000.000
63,942,0 '
20.000,0
40,44t,0n0
4,500,000
116,686,000
82,288,000
6,000,000
310,836,000
4.000,000
116.215,000
19,600,0
5,880,0
60,407,0
2,214,0001
4,964,1001
4,843,000
260,000
837.670,000
1.410,588.000
72,000,000 206,840.000
44.000.000.
18.567,0001
15,741,0001 2,000.000 368,948,000
8,262,000 8.000,000
19,979.000 8,600,000
39,731,000
4,089 000 14,110.0001
6,R,'t9,0 "
805f
9«7.0 10.58 LOOOi
405,1 00 " 37.096,000
2,676. r,.M,COO{ 9,562,913,000 2,481,805,000
68
ONTARIO BUREAU OP INDUSTRIES.
FBINOXPAli CROPS OF THE UNITSD STATES IN 1896.
Maine
New Hampihire.
Venncnt
liMiaohaiette .. Rhode UlAiid ...
Caanectieat
NewTork
New Jeney
PemMyWania . . .
Delaware
BCaryland
Virginia ,
North Carolina . , Sooth Carolina . ,
Geoma ,
Floriaa
MissiiiBippi ...
Looisiana
Texas
Aricanaas
Tenneasee
West Virginia.
KentQoky
Ohio
Michigan
Indiana
IlliDoii
Wisooosin. ...
Minnesota
Iowa
MiBsoori ..
Kansas
Nebraska .... Sonth Dakota . North Dakota
Montana
Wvomiog
Colorado
New Mexico . . .
Arizona
Utah
Nevada
Idaho
Washington . . .
Ore^n
California
Oklahoma
Total, 1896 ....
Wheat, i Com.
Bushels. 170,940 5l,S87 205,972
6.849,968 1.556,260 17,787,286 1,758.816 7,878,769 5J24,91di 4,021,922 967,902 1,699,872
S94.1&4 87.927;
4,62i»,210.
1,260,7201
6,628,462;
4,056.611
6,976,861 21,800,016i 16,719,898j 20,647.4401 28,668,146,
8,898 960! 46.599,061 11,473.152 16,694,478 80,794.452 19,300.602 27,588,4tO 29,848,5011
1,201.240 224,126!
2,797,182 818,097. 883,600
2,803,768: 180,030. .
2.404.1121.
8,358.192, 10,247.141 45.097,195
2,001.755
427,684,846
1895 ; 467,102,947
1894 : 460.267,4161
1898 1 896.131,7251
Bu «help.
646.860
1,161,720
1,994.322
1,845,660
. 800,882
1,778,004
17,892.788
9,826,888
52,476,000
4.938.676
19,986,128
88.067.986
29,604.148
16,781,874:
82.829.654i
4,860,940!
82,445.076
27,978,890
16.665,080
32 828,617
29,728,864
71,898,446
21,689.160
80,932,848
128,691,967
40,041,980
188,468 265
284,572,764
38.890,071
84,446,974
321,719,641!
176,768,619
247.734,004
298.599,638
31,i:S6,950
974,640
34,(K)6
62,075
2.862,928
388,160
216,250;
95.452'
297.638,
2,2012,673
2,283,875,165! 2,15l,138,5«o| 1,212,770,052} 1,619,496,131!
Oats.
Bushels.
6,869,880
1,160,668
4,716,906
649,864
112.960
641.016
49,916,064
8.620,490
36.086.821
648,071
2,040,192
8,492,296
6,777,266
2,964,798
6,085.288
649,782
4,464,870
1,699,273
845,450
12,668,860
6,076.466
7,205.418
8,847,872
10,516,981
82,663,689
80,079,260
34,438,237
84,681,962
85,267,675
66,766,836
105,641,856
19,850,490
23,808,759
34,092,631
17,957.446
11.238.788
3,050,770
417,:n2
2,600,724
221,157
'"" 058,132 .
'"'l,'302',168! 3.017,772 3,854,319 1,827,1711
707,346,404! 824,443 537 W)2,03<).9*^; 638,854,850;
Barley.
Bushels.
878,068
166,816
603,735
66,170
11,049
4,984,966 176J8i7
Potatoes.
27,902
27,291
649,879
1,283,700
110,616
409,820
8,944,046
11.880,860
10,246,664'
13.983!
86,659
907.778
3,308.736
3,791,872
142,626
257,220
23,579
1721519
102.272
1,042.444
674,841
19,837,094
69,(J95,223 87.072,744 01,400,465 69,869,495
Bushels.
8,108,100
2,228,604
8,499,186
2,900,282
684,890
2,680,782
84,868,911
4,824,470
21,181,098
896,708
2,164,240
8,691,474
1,446,411
281,920
808,820
98,100
488,976
412,020
511,655
671,008
1,468,274
2,180,268
8,661,342
8,940,006
17,405,286
18,837,628
8,855,640
16,800,788
12,610,844
10,076.220
20,060,640
7.857,642
7,465.938
11,888,020
6,048,884
3,810,206
841,840
460,586
2,^46,360
58,424
863,660
256,310
629,856
1,781,250
1,299,.S45
1.772,640
252,234,540 297,237,370 170,787,338 183,034,203
4; 54
According to the eleventh census of the United States (1890) the average n of acres per 1,000 acres of cleared land, devoted to wheat was 93.9 ; com, 201. G 79.2 ; barley, 9.0 ; hay, 148.1 ; and cotton, 56.2.
ONTABIO BUREAU OP INDUSTRIES,
PRODUCTION AND EXPORTS OF CORN IN THE UNITED STATES SINCE 1880.
Uver-
Aver-
Aver^
'^
Yeftfs-
of crop.
Total pr€»d ac- tion.
TotAl vftlue of crop.
value
yield
vjilue
£x porta (or Haoal years br^'atiinfr
(Shelled com
,. P*J ,
IMJr
per
July
1,
bushel
aor«.
acre.
P. et. of
Acrf s.
Buahela.
$
Centa-
Bu*h.
$
BtMbeJii,
^'^1.5
\m
' -',:'17,H12
1,717,4^,543
H7i>,714,499
39 6
27 6
lO/Jl
93,648,147
m
'iJ0"25
l,lVit,9[t>,tX)0
7511, 48i. 170
»13 6
18 6
n.m
14,:i40,(J83
8.T
IBKl
■.',".l'
TV' 7 vMOO
7^3,867,176
48.5
24 G
11.94
41,656,658
26
j».
.^i.sy5
658.0.>l,48f»
42 1
22 7
9.63
40,258.606
3.0
U»t
,000
B40,7;^,'>,6(K>
86 7
25.8
9.19
52,870.456
29
m.
...COfJ
3H5.G74 fiiiO
32.8
26.5
8.69
64»829,G17
8.8
im
,000
610.311,000
SO 6
32.0
8 06
41,368.684
3.6
"* "■?
1 Mm
«4fi,imi.770
44 4
20,1
8 03
25,.S(J0,869
1.7
^(m
♦^77,or,L,580
Ml
36.3
SM
70,841,(173
8.6
,'.000
597,918.829
28.3
27.0
7.63
103,418,709
4 9
7UW(.^r*>;i
1,48U»U70,1 00
7i>4,43^,451
50 6
20.0
10.48
32,041,52'J
2.2
■ fc (1
76,201,515
2,000,154 000
H36,43!>,22K
40. tf
37.0
10.98
76,602,286
8 7
isi'j
70.6'ifi,a58
1 *W.4f;j,0O0
ti42,14<Ka:^0
H9 4
23.1
0 09
47 '■"' "•'*
2.9
»&<' ,
72,03H.-(no
l,(ill*,4"J»3,l,^l
6'.il.*iJ5,iii7
36 5
32 5
8.21
i,' >
4.1
VB\ .'
62, 582,261*
l,2riJ70,06'i
55t,7l1M62
4ri.7
19.4
8.86
2,-. , .11
2 4
\»:
82.075,S30
2,151,138,580
54»,98^534
25. S
26,2
6.^1
101.100,37.>
U>
81.027,166
2,283,875, lti6
I9l,00«,%7
21 5
38.2
G.Oti
Awige from 1S70 to
m
im
43J41,33l
1,IM4. 480,9154
504,571,048
42. (>
27.1
11 64
66,077,828
€M
AtRvgv from isao to
1#9 .
70»6ia,«7
1,703,413,054
603,943,370
89.3
24.1
9.48
58,469,000
34
AvnjM trooi 1^90 to
78,7*9.094
1,777,981,133
6^,765,238
».5
24.1
8.&5
•68,666,836
*3.6
*A?erage from 1890 to 1895. FRODUCTION AND EXPORTS OF WHEAT IN THE UNITED STATES SINCE 1860.
y««r.
Total of crop
Total produc- tion.
Acrei. 87,986,717
87,709,020 37,067,194 36.455,593 39,47.5.885 84,189.246 86,806.184 37,641,7ax 87,336,138 88.128,859 96.087,164 89.916,897 88,664.430 84,629,416 34,882.436 84,047,332 34,618,646
25,187.414 57,279.162 86,106,186
Bushels. 498,549,868 383,280,0*40 504,185,470 421,086,160 612,760.000 a57,112,000 457,218,000 456,329,000 415,868,000 490.560,000 399,2G2,0OO 611,780,000 516,949.000 396,131.726 4»j0.267,41G 467,102,947 427,681,346
312,152.738 449,696»359 468,311,062
Aver-
Totfcl value of crop.
value P«*r
boahel
$
CeDta
474,301, a50
95.1
4D8. 880,427
119.2
444,602,125
88.2
383,649.372
91.1
3:^0,862.260
64.6
275.820,390
77. 1
314,226,020
68.7
310,612,960
68.1
365,348,030
93.6
342,491,707
69.8
3,H 773.678
83.8
513,472,711
83.9
322,111.881
62.4
213,171,381
63.8
22.5,902,025
49.1
237,938,998
60 9
310,602,539
72.6
327,407.358
104.6
871.809..5OI
82.7
306,281,888
66 8
Aver- Aver-
B4te I ABE
yield j value per per acre, I acre.
Bush. 13. t 10.2 13 6l ILfi 13.0| 10.4|
12 41 12.1| U.ll 12. 9i il.l 16.3 13,4' 11.41
13 2S 13. 7 12 4
f
12.481
12,12;
11.99}
10.62|
8.88
8.05
8.54
8. 26
to 32
8.98
9,28.
12.86
8.85
6.16
6.46
6.99
8.97
12.4 13.00
12.1
9.97
13,0 8.54
Exporta (ot Hiicat
yeani beffinDinr
July 1.
BuehelB.
186,321,514
121,892,889
147.811,316
111,534.182
132,670,367
94,666.794; 168, 804.970, 119,626,3441
88,600.748| 109,430,467 106.181,3161 235,666,8121 191,912,636 161,^3.1891 144,812.718; 136^443,968
P» Ct of crop. 87.4 31 8 29 8 36.5 35,9 26.6 88.6 26.9 31.8 23.3 26 Q 86.9 37.1 41.6 81.6 27.1
84.593,977 136,616,709
'159,888,363
^ATeraire from 1890 lo 1895,
27.1 28 2
•88.7
M
70
ONTARIO BUREAU OF INDUSTRIES.
In the tables of production and exports of com and wheat, the fisoal years to whio the figures on exports relate are those beginning on July 1 in the years indicated. Tbui the exports set opposite the year 1895 are not for the calendar year 1895, nor for th fiscal year ending June 30, 1895, but for the fiscal year beginning July 1, 1895, and enc iog June 30, 1896. In this way the exports are placed on the same line with the cro out of which they are mainly drawn. As the fiscal year beginning July 1, 1896, i incomplete, the corresponding space in the volume of exports is necessarily left blank.
WORLD'S BARLEY CROP. (From Com Trade New;)
Countries.
Algeria
Tunis
Austria- Hungary
Belgium
Bulgaria
Canada
Denmark
France
Germany
Holland
Italy
Roumania
^Russia
Hwfden
United*Kingdom United 8tates . . . .
1896.
Total!. .
tQuartera.
8,700,000
500,000
13,300,000
400,000
2,500.000
2,000,000
3,000,000
6,000,000
14,500,000
650,000
1,000,000
.3,800,000
20.HOO,000
1.700 000
9/)00.000
8,700,000
91,650,000
1895.
Quarters.
4,200.000
1,000,000
13,30U,000
480.000
2,000,000
2,i00,000
2,700,000
5,900,000
13,800,000
600 000
900 000
2,700.000
2i,:^oo,ooo i,a')0,ooo
9,400,000 10,800,000
92,680,000
1894.
Quarters. 4,500,000 1,100,000
14,700,000 460,000 1,500,000 1,750,000 2,700.000 5.900.000
13,381,000
570,000
1.000,000
2,100,000
24,000.000 1,800 000 9,K00.000 7.700,000
92,961,000
1893.
Quarters.
3,952,000
900,000
14,800,000
400,000
2,000,000
1,500.000
2.200 000
4,200.000
13,800.000
620.000
890,0C0
4,300,000
28,000 000
1,600 000
8.200,000
8,700,000
95,562,000
1892.
Quarters.
4,200.000
900,000
13,900.000
470,000
1,680,000
1.860.000
3,400.000
5.76O.0O0
13,300,000
670,000
890.00Q
S.600,000
19,670,000
1,800,000
9,»^00,000
9,000,000
89,590,000
* Sixty Governments, according to Agricultural Ministry. t A quarter contains 8 bushels.
WORLD'S OATS CROP. (From Corn Trade News.)
Countries.
1896.
1895.
1894.
1893.
1893.
Algeria
Austria* Hungary
+ Quarters. 600,000
19,600,000
2,800,000
700.000
12,000,000 4,800,000
31.700,000
39.000.000 1 2,0* K) 000 2,700,000 1.800,000
67,400,000 6,800.000
20.4(0,000
88,400.000
800,700,000
Quarters.
700.000
20.500.000
3,500,000
800,000
13,400.000
4,600,000
32.900,000
37,800.000
1.900,000
2.300,000
1.260,000
72,000.000
8,500.000
21,800.000
103,000,000
824,960,000
Quarters. 566.000
20,400.000
3,600,000
SOO.OOO
10,200 000 4.510.000
31.700.000
37.800,000 1,600,000 2,100 000 1,200.000
88,000,000 8.600,000
23.800.000
82,700.000
317,465,000
Quarters.
313,000
17.700.000
2.400.000
600.000
8,600 000
3.250,000
21,600,000
31,000,000
1,6&\000
2,200.000
1,800.000
84,,S12,000
6,900,000
21,100,000
80,000,000
283,460,000
Quartera.
800.000
19,60a000
31,100,000
900,000
9.500,000
4.M)0,000
28,250,000
34,100,000
1,500.000
Belgium
Bulgaria and E. Roumelia. .
Canada
Denmark
France
Germany
Hollabd
Italy
Roumania
•RuHsia
Sweden
2100.000 1.41.\000
66,roaooo
7,100 000
United Kingdom
21,000 000
United States
82,600,000
Totals
* Sixty Govemmenta, according te Agrieultnral Ministry. f A quarter repreaenta 80i Iba.
PART !!•
LIVE STOCK, THE DAIRY, AND THE APIARY.
LIVE STOCK.
OoDsidertng the prospecU when correspon dents wrote in November the oonditioa of live stock in the spring was a cause for congratulation. The animals were put into winter quarters i»ith very limited stoies^ ai the bay crop had been a comparative failure ; yet with wise and careful feeding the bulk of live stock got on the early grass in fair oondi- lion of iieallb, although as a rule thinner than usual. In some localities hay wa9 Imported from Quebec, and from the more favored portions of our own Province, but the ftoiarks of correspoDdents kad to the conclusion that the larger use of straw, corn, grain i&d roots as a supplement to^ and in some instances as a substitute for» hay, has tau£;ht fmuers a valuable lesson in the economy of the manger* Horses came through the winter pethaps better than any other class of live stock, although in certain localities some suf- fered from starvation, or aa some correspondents term it, *^ fodder hunger " In many sec* lions straw and oats were their general fare^ hay being at a premium and bedding verj letroe. Horned cattle were not in as poor condition in the spring as might hive been eipectcd, and with the exception of a few minor cases of aickaess, and some cases '^laiDpy jaw '* in the townships of Keppel, Sulliva^i Sydenham and Amaranth, they were remarkably free from disease. In some quarters, but more especially in the counties of Bruce aod Grey, many cattle had barely enough to support life, and there was hardly toough bedding to keep them comfortable and clean, hut taking the Province as a wholo^ the general condition of both dairy and beefing stock was most encouraging. Sheep were in a good state of health generally, only a few cases of liver disease and grub in the hea briog reported, and the ewes generally dropped fine lambs. Swine were freer from du Ihsn usual, although a few cases of paralysis were spoken of. The low price of pork, however, was moit discouraging to hog raisers. Regarding the supply of hay for live itoek during the winter, and the tendency ol farmers to hold for arise in price, some cor-
Irsipcindc^nis, writing in May, stated that a few of their neighbors who refused to beU haj tt |12 and (14 a ton in the winter were now willing to dispose of it at $S or $9 a toa« The August bulletin bad the following : ** Between the drouth of June and gr luppdrs, pastures were rather brown and bare until the more showery weather of the i t enabled the fields to pick up. Live stock generally are in a healthy condition, i perhaps a little on tbe lean side. But little disease has been reported, and aotiiiiig of an epidenic nature. The horn ily has not yet disapp ^ared^ but, except in Perth uul a few other western counties, it has caused but small annoyance this summer. The iiilk supply has fallen off greatly, and a number of factories have closed up for lack of patraoage, while the low price of cheese ha^ had a depressing effect upon patrons. Hay vUJ be ac&rce, but such supplementary fodder as corn and straw will be abundant, and Hri^ flock, from present appearances, can be easily carried through tbe winter."
-^ The following summary of the returns of correspondents was given in the November Klttll«tm: "As the drouth of last summer was very irregular in its distribution tho ^UMrta as io pastures are varied. In a few townships of the west the grass was ahoct
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even after the fall rains ; in other townships the reportR are that fall pasture was neTer better. In the east it has been good to eKcellent. On the whole there has been plenty of good pasture. Stock are io good condition, no trouble of any consequence being reported from any quarter. There appears to be plenty of fodder for winter feeding, aa improvement on a year ago. Tho reports indicate that market supplies will be fairly abundant, but the universat complaint of low pricej^ is again met with here. The lowest record is l|c- per pound for cattle, live weight (Renfrew Co ), Apples have been freely fed to stock, to hogs especially ; millet and rape have turned out well as supplementary crops ;
rbut mention is made principally of com ae the most welcome addition to fodders. Thfl pfiect of instruction is most apparent ; farmers are growing their corn in drills in plaoe of broadcast, and are growing the varieties recommended by the officers of the Ontario Experimental Farm and others who are making special study of corn growing. Thfi vari «tiea are numerous : Mammoth Southern Bweet> Rtd Cob Ensilage, Compton s Early, Longfellow, etc., are frequently mentioned* Some stock it in the field for winter use others dry and stand it on end in the barn, and many others store it in the silo^ In some sections silos are increasing in number, in others they are being discarded — opinions differ as to ensilage being more profitable than dry curing. Ths acreage of corn is certainly increasing more rapidly than the construction of silop/'
H 0 R 6 B K . The following table gives the number of horses by classes lor 1895 mnd 1896 by county groups and by the Province ; also the number of horses in each district mud in the Province for each of the five years 1882-96 ;
Horftee.
Working hor»ea | ^^^ Breeding mares. | ^g^
Unbroken horse*
18%
mm
Total* . .
fl896 1S95
L1892
*
E
S 1
■a
I'
0
89,776
t-4 V £ '
03 go
•is
tiO,t»33
i3M2
38,419
84,«185
79.778
29,755
7,076
ri8.097
43,973
37,483
84,009
87,335
77,908
28,735
6,143
8,3^
8.883
6,432
14,104
12,514
11,011
4,063
1,546
8,787
8,810
6,699
15,243
14,367
11,795
4.738
1,727
17.601
14,076
10.515
26,389
25,961
18,504
8,169
2,267
2l»82T
17,221 j
12 JOG
32,341
32,058
23,774
9.755
2.14^
86,669
66,926
55,366
125,478
128,251
109,293
41,987
10,8ft9
88.711
70,004
&6.888
131,593
133,760
113,477
43,218
10,065
93.416
72,938
59.460
135,239
139.!M>2
118,463
45,760
9,539
9H,O0l
73,860
60,065
136,597
14a,04H
120,2S5t
47,844
9,340
1
74,437
59,5<*2
135,355
142,423
122,411
48.565
9,046
J
434,384
4a3,673_
l3i
6H749 647.686 674.7n 686^187,
There has heen an increase in the number of working horses, but the decrease in ih^ number of breeding mares and unbroken horses has been greater, the result being t there are now^ 62 4, 749 horses of all classes in the Province, or 22,947 less than in preceding year. The Lake Huron group was the only district which failed to make m increaee in the number of working horses, while it was also the only district which hM an increase in the number of breeding mare®. Every group> excepting the Northern Di» tricts, fall below the figures of 1895 in the number of unbroken horses. The L%kt Ontario district has the largest number of horses, although it has not so many breedinj mares or unbroken horses as the West Midland group.
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HorhkdI Cattle. The following table ahowa hj classeB the ntimber o! cattle {ml895 md 1896 by county groups and for the Province, together with the total number [ia eaeh of the five jtara 1892-96 :
H Oftlile.
0
0
1
d
6
5
a 0
«4
-6
*
1.1
3
3
587
$ ^
2
154
539
0 -i 5=;
If
m 1 • / 1896
367
371
213
383
797
3.4U
386
440
«2«
262
267
665
643
98a
4,270
ICWiecr^.....{}||g
93.110 H{jm
66.449
174,614
146,808
263,619
77.679
16,369
920.346
88,101
7n,sii
65,025
170,996
139,596
265,779
74,65fi
H264
888.228
3toi«e»tUeov«r /1SII6 iyt^n... IIHII5
S8,7r>5
(♦5,772
41J14
84.700
^1,19«
58,936
S2.B45
7.382
370,409
86,8CMi
66,1164
42,687
85/276
49,849
54,867
22.866
6,840
5i65,644
Toon? And fl8!HI
in.023
123,399
90 819
186,941
135.581
173,395
«3,IS0
23,504
887,792
other cikttle U895
80,K>2
123,959
1
94,587
I8*!,74n
136.960
171.880
64.601
21,836
891.961
(IBm
223.265
271.510
198.969
44fi,4fifi
333.239
496.718
163,737
48.052
2.181,958
18J»5
214.7^5
271,183
202 925
145,280
320.663
482,681
I*i2,«i55
43,922
2.150,103
ToUin J 1S94
215,611
268J13
201.32^)
438.413
310,767
4^1.882
161,014
41,572
2,099,»01
1893 U892
218.320
265.366
194,0«5
433,118
300,0<t7
446,4:13
160.165
40.348
2.057.882
221,512
268,067
191.654
424,747
296,462
487.172
166,096
33.440
2,029.140
\ Thete has been a considerable increase in the number of milch cows, and also a gftin n
I die number of store cattle, but working oxen and young and other cattle are fewer n
Inftmber than 1695. The net result is a gain of 31.855 in the total number of cattle,
nhioh now reaches 2,131,958. The Georgiati Bay group is the onJy district which doe
not nhow an inci-^ase in the total number of cattle. Working oien are faat decreasing
m Dumbers in every district, while the opposite is the case in the matter of milch cows ;
bat the increase or decrease in the other two classes is variable when taken by districts,
[Tbftgreatest number of store and young cattle are in the West Midland district, the
{lir|«it number of milch cows are in the St Lawrence and Ottawa counties, which also
I (^edited with the largest total number of cattle.
Ho OS. In the following table the total number of swine are given by county' fnmps and for the Province for each of the five years 1892-96, and for 1895 and 1896 by 1 of ov^ and under one year :
Hogi.
N
9
rlyear.
/1896' 44.804 20,743 U896t 44.930,1 20,501
5^*^ -t 1896
Tot»fai
201,385 200,179
246,189 245.109 212.536 188,004 182.853
100.869 100.478
121.612
190.977 99,443 87,737 87,878
8
21,631 22,039
T3
S
o
1
S
O
«a
e
1
3
43,494
37.768
42,142
38,817
I
90
61.441
50.670
90,474 225,499' 196,699 139,078 9t,672 233,933 303.608 142.936
113,106
116.711
106,648
94.857
96.312
368.99H 276,075
231,534 203.816 200,400
234.467 242.425
211.781 185,726 183.309
190.621
193,505 182,698 168,885 159,716
I
18,611 20,218
67,580 63^993
P
tx
6.363 4,968
14,291 15.091
76.091 19,653 1.269.631
84,211 20,069 1,299,073
79.368 18.826 1.14S;m
7i,a59 16,1881 i,ois,oa
70,7371 16,iaol ^fife^^V
I
>
248,766 344,180
1,036,876
1,064,887
16,1881 1.0lS.Oi
\
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There has been a dr crease (vf 429 in the number of hogs over one yeftr, and also a falling off of 29,012 in the number under one year, the total number of swine in the Province being I,269;G31, compared with 1,299,072 in 1895, There ia, however, an increase in the total number of hogs in two of the western groups, namely, the L^ke Erie and Lake Huron di&lrictB. The Weet Midland group has the greatest total number of these aoioiaU*
SuBEF. The table following gives by daaecB the number of sheep in 1895 and 1896 by county groups and for the Province, together with the total number in each
of the five years 1892-6 :
I
P
'
Sheep,
i
»
1 s
1
i
i
1
it
'J
ii
s
2
a)
©
£P
•g
4)
^1
-1
B<
(lam
■ 1895
J
-a
V
1
3
CO
1
SS
^
^
Over 1 year.,.
106, 68i
134J72
128,521
172,449
157,079
194,124
66,438
34,149
91*5,616
121,853
149,080
149,637
190.502
168,8!J3
213,791
70,191
32,118
1,095,995
UDti<?r 1 yejir .
/1806 • \J8n5
9^955
131,716
107,772
156,670
130,637
155.350
60.611
26,010
863,733
107,411
142,364
117,977
171,620
139,018
170,432
53,701
24,222
926,740
ri8%
204,639
265,887
236,293
329,125
287,716
349,474
117,049
59,165
LM9,848
1895
329.264
29U44I
267,614
362,122
307,836
384,223
123.892
56.340
2>2'>,735
ToUlt ...
,^ 1894
22%0h2
294,759
266,689
3*}0.188
296,900
383.740
la^772
50,705
2,0in,b06
1893
214,008
289,683
239,715
3fi3,928
284.3L4
370,288
139,093
44,909
1,936,938
11892
310,713
279,092
232,185
340,228
268,9"^5
357.7G6
124,815
41,719
1,850,478
There are 1,849,348 sheep in the Province, which is 173,387 lees than in 1895, both claasea a baring in the decl-ne in number None of the groups exhibit an increase in either of the classes except the Northern Districts, which has an increase in sheep both under and over a year old. The greatest number of sheep are found in the St. Lawrence and Ottawa district, although the Midland counties have the larf^tat number under one yean
Tax* Wool Clip. The following table gives the total number of fleeces, with total and averac^e weights, by county groups and for the Province for 1895 and 1696, and tha average of the Province for the fifteen years, 1882-96 :
Di&triot» .
Lalce Erie.
Lake Huron , ,
Gei^rgiati B»y'
Wertt Midliitid
Lak<^ UatftTto
St. LtAwrence and Ottawa
Etkf-i Midland
Northern DiHtrictB. .....
The Province ...-
1896.
Fleeces
107,551
134,875 121J,^0 17I,B9H 156,717 19^A20I! 65,487 33,901
991,3V1,
Fouad§ .
I-
635.0ri5;5.81 775,907 5 76 730,157|5 fi5 1,001. 499|5, 84 934,599 5.06 982,4915.11 3d2. 381 15.38 179,29815 29
1895.
Fleeoee.
Pounda .
6.681,387
123,0081 151,87B l&3,2ir; 192,518 171,491 1 214,6fi6i 70,776 32,540
702,4(j5|5 71 877,0118 5.78 855,048 5.62
ia;-<0.283
1,013, ft6l
l,e90,(>38
372 292
173,326
5.63 1,109,140 6,214,811
5 87 5.91 5.08 5.26 5
1893'96.
Fleeces .
108,7761 129,8001 121,883 187,905 168.016 314.020 67,930 17,899
Pounds »
5.60] 1,006,258
616,177 5 66 760,970 5.79 684.363 5.61 1,090,219 5,80
942,296
1,064,069
368.455
99,159
5,605,607
5 96
5 6,54]
6.5'
The average weight per fleece for the season of 1896 it 5.63 poonds, which ia .S pound more than the preceding year, and .6 pound mora than the average for the fifteeo^ years. The numher of fieeoea, however, is only 99 1,37 1» or 17,769 lees than ia the pre-
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Tioos year, the re«ult being that the total weight of the clip is 633^424 pounds ahort of that of 1895, In the Lake Ontario counties the fleeces have the high average of 5,96 ponncU both in 1896 and for the fifteen yeara^ while in the St. Lawrence and Ottawa group the a%*erftge weight of but 5,11 la reported for this eeaaon, and only^4»09 for the fifteen years,
PouLTEY. The following table gives by county groups and for the} Province the namber of poultry, by olasBes, for the years 1895 and 1896, and also thejtotal^number for each of the live years, 1892-6 :
Poal*ry
tor / 1896 byi.ll^J'S
I 189S
92,079 83,723
43.9U
4a,(Hi
993.470
965,488
t,Vi8,4B0 1,0112,252
921, 4 1:^ 893,995
«
81,915! 71,41}0
I
9 I
0
61.787 46,336
is S
49,831 39.880
61,486 43,454
i
742,29S 510,898
739,016] 517*163
877»044I W!,992|
776,690!
632,645 (m.942 651,343 622,lfi4 623,988
140,131 141,020
75,300 76,66'J
1,337,730 1.319,541
1,658,161 1,537,230 L498,649J 1,424,418] 1,418,000
130,766, 142,872
71.357 82,240
1,288.327 1,334.780
1,490,340 I.a'>9,842| 1.501,417 l,388,00f» 1,360.2481
it ^
154,176 153.3891
78,326 84,583]
^0
G
«B
^^
t3
£g
S
^s
a
IS
N
K
49.285
12.341
49,350
9,484
2S.020
6.022
32,413
Mhwm
0,136 1 107. 004
1
2
715,770 696,604
891,647 420,023
6,626,860 1,179,65«| 436,337 114.282| 6.636,314
1.403,926| l,4l7,/^80i 1,420.990 1.31^fi,37I 1,409,098
523,304 518,100 498, OHO 480.717 482.721
125.3671 129,902! 127.159 116,786
ii4,a
7.734,107 7.762,840 7,ri52,662 7,114.436 7,078,973
There ia an increase of 19,166 in the norober of torkeys in the Province, but this lAcrea^ is not shared in by the West Midland, Lake Ontario and East Midland districtF. Every group shows a falling oB in the number of geese, and the total number of other Ibvls in the Province is smaller than in the previous years. There are 7,734,166 fowls of ftll classes in the Province, or 18,673 less than in 1805. The St, Lawrence counties htv€ Che most turkeja and geese, but the greatest number of other fowls are credited to the West Midland gronp.
REMARKS OF 0ORRESPOXDENT3,
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Cntcb'Niter. Es^ex : Poultry are he<hy, hut are not pushed for all that ii in them. Each farmer k* from 100 to 200, but the old system is followed.
QrM6pl«l N., Gfl*ex : My wife rained twenty turkeya and a lot of chickens. They pioked our cherries,
It' ' -'4 and apples, and now are huakinfif and BhelUuK a email field of corn.
v.. Ea^C' : PoultT]^ f re all rif^ht in Esi^e-x* I j?iiesfi ther*> must b^ gr^nae profit in growing thiQ kmif wy u^'aiiy every farmer raises a ooosiderable number and sells them io the hucksterti who take them lRDe4roil.
x;ik,.-^ W _ Essex : Poultry haye done well where pr*ip«rly handled, and pay as wtH, if not better til .- oo the farm in the matter of both eggs and flesh,
. Kent: I believe the hen ia the moat ptyiog fowl we have on the farm. Erk^ are a« good aa
mntmy any time, and you have not to wait till fall to gti your teturiu, and you can always tell a good •bicken at a got»d price,
Harwich* Rent: Poultry are in a healthy and thrifty condition here, T think they are as profitable »* »nythNn< kept on a farm, a^ they give a rej^ular supply for the market and the table all the year round, ad saf » many dollar* for home supplies.
Barvioh« Kfldi : Poultry raising is profitable if properly attended to and the old stock are killed off.
» of my oiiiirhbors keep old henn and wonder why they do Qt>t get more eggs than they do.
H^nrard. Kent : I know all about them. I feed them night and morning, and the girls have httm r them aod selling them at Ridgetowa for fiire cents a poutd. Il doeaa't pay.
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Orford, Kent : Best t>ayiDf? iDduRtry on the farm.
Raleigh, Kent : No complaints of any disease. There are lar«:e fliKslu of chick ?nt and tnrkeyi in almoat every farmyard. A great improvt^ment is taking place in the different breeds.
Raleigh, Kent : Hens promise to he the most profitable feature of farming.
Dunwich, Klgin : The few who give attention to this industry claim that it pays equal to any other on the farm. It certainly deserves all the attention given it by those who take an interest m it ; while farmers who fail to give a fair share of attention to it miss a table luxury and market profit greater than they are aware of.
Malahide, Elgin : The prices of efrg^ have ruled very low this yei^r. There have been more fowls kept by farmers which gave a greater export tr«\do with. I think, a good profit to the shipper8.
Yarmouth, Klgin : There \h an increase in the (quantity of poultry raised. Many farmers who have built good quarters fur them find them the moHt pn)htalil<' ritoek un the farm.
Canboro', HaMi:i ar. 1 : Poultry are on the increase. Conditions :ind profits are ahead nt anything else on the farm.
Canboro', Haldimaad : Hens and turkeys, when well taken care of, seem to be giving best returns.
Cayuga S., Haldimand : Poultry ha» paid better thia year than last. The demand has been rather above the Hupply. Their condition h go«id.
Seneca, Haldimand: The poultry' induktr>' is in a Kocd condition. Although the prices of eggs and poultry are not hifzh, they have paid as well or better thiH year than any other part of farm industry.
Stamford, Welland : Poultry are in fine condition,' and the industry has taken an npward tendency. More farmers are going into p?mltry raJHing.
Plympton, Lambton : The old man has often declared chat he will buy a shot gtm the next time he goes to town and shoot every " blamed " hen »een scratching, but the old lady persists in keeping them, •■ she knows there is profit in poultry.
Ashtield, Huron : Almost all farmers keep a Hock of hens for the use of the family, which they regard as ousting them very little. The good wife diHpo^es of (piite a few dtzen of eggs in themmmer, but the low price of this commodity is not to her liking. When tlie poultry is hupported on what would be other- wise wasted their keeping is regarded as profitable, but, if their food i.s to be bought and paid for, their keeping is regarded as a doubtful investment.
Howick, Huron : Poultry are io a healthy condition. I am very doubtful if there is any profit in a large quantity of poultry on a farm. A limited numU-r will pay very well, afi they can be fed on much that would go to waste if one had none.
Hullett, Huron: Poultry are in good condition. Hens are not so profitable on account of the low price of eggs. Geese and turkeys are plentiful but not many are sold yet.
Morris, Huron : There is more [irofit from hens than from cowti. My wife has got $37 for the egga from thirty-four hens this reason. On many farms hens are troubled with lice ; there ar(> none on onn or in our hen houAn.
Tuckersmith, Huron : All kinds of poultry seem healthy, but in regard to profits— no one keepimr it debtor and credit account— it would be only a piece of guesswork to give an opinion. Nomeroiu trials have been made in small yards, but the general opinion of those who nave tried this plan is that fowls become unhealthy with long confinement and do not pi^y for their keep and care. When fowls are allowed to range in an orcliard or barnyard the birds do well and the eggs are (^f better quality— not so watery.
Wawanosh R, Huron : Poultry are in fair condition, but profits have been light. Eggs were eight cents per dozen, and for some monttis in summer seven cents per dozen.
Wawanosh E., Huron : Poultry pay as well as anything about the farm. Their produce is a cash article every time.
Brant, Bruce : Speaking of our experience, we would say that poultry are the most profitable thinff on the farm. We had sixty hc^ns laying, and they averaged twenty-one dozen egffs per week. We sold about an average of |2 worth per week from the first of April to about the middle of October.
Culro9 Bruce : There is littU' or no profit in poultry. Eggs at Heven cents per dozen during summer will not i>ay.
Elderslie, Bruce : I consider the common hen to be the best feather in the farmer's cap at the preeent time.
Artemesia, Grey : Thev will pay if properly cared for, but the rail fence or orchard does not make a very successful or comfortable poultry house.
Bentinck, Grey : Turkeys are fat this fall. We had any amount of feed in the shape of grasshoppera, but, all things considered, it was very expensive feed— no profit in it.
Bentinck, Grey : Ponltry are in good condition ; never did better than this year. Eggs cheap, bot they paid as well as anything on the farm.
Glenelg, Grey : Poultry are all right if you do not have too many. Keep enough to eat up all tbe i grain and reifuse on the farm.
Glenelg, Grey : Poultry are given more attention than formerly. Improved breeds are being intro- duced, altlK>ugh the great majority are of mongrel breed.
Sullivan, Grey : It is generally conceded that a large number of poultry on the farm are nnprofitabla ; they do not receive the care necessary for profit.
Essa, Simroe : Poultry are meeting with more care than ufual and form a verv prodnotiTe btMMli of the farm. I never remember seeing fowls so plentiful or so many varieties of biroa, or a greater intr manifested in raising poultry.
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IdbdonU, Simcxje : Poultry on & farm ^re at a rule re^^kooed deadheftds. They tiroducA a lot of eg, Hi they t€*r up and dtttroy more than you could buy the eggs for. On ibe whole tL«y are a nuiukoce*
Sunnidale, Simcue : We thiak there it a good (irotit in keepiiifr bens for e^g& for th« market ; but wo do not think there ia much profit in raidDg geeae or turkeys.
V«!«1jra, Simoo« : Where properly oared for fowli are proHtable-io fact, speaking frcm perional axperi- fK% they are the moat profitable anim&lB on the farm.
Nuamiri W«, Middleaei: Poultry, with the exception of turkeyB, have done well, and they a^e at [rtStable aa aoythiofr on the farm if properly taken care of.
Zonrn W., Oitford : Hem have done well in production o! eggs, but very low prices prevailed in the Mclier pftrt of the tteaaon. They were not a» profitable as 1a«t year.
Brantford, Brant : The condition of poultry in Rood, and if giveu the ■anie care o» otiier live stock an tin farm there wonld be tnore profit in theiu than fr'>m the way they are now cared for on moat farms.
Diim£neft S., firant ; The hen pays about equal to anything on the farm, and, tn fact, better.
Oakland, Brant : I hibve always found poultry fairly profitable. Barred Plymouth B«jck ta the variety wkeep. They are good winter layers and mature early tor market.
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F^iUartoii, Peith: I have not made a spfcialty of poi:dtry, but I think that well-kept hens pay bat» and with the least bother and truuble.
Arthtir, WeUington : Poultr|', especially hens* are healthy in appearance, and as to profit I oon^l __ tlim )M no animal on the farm will pay nearly to well as hens if fed and cared for properly and anoonraged toky to winter when fresh eggs are in paying pricea,
Lotber W,, Wellingtoa ; Poultry ha\e done welL Grasshoppers are most abundant. Eggs are plenti- iBlsod there are magnifioent Socks of tarkeys everywhere.
Waterloo. Waterloo : Poultry have done nicely and have paid as well a^ anything else, although eggs Mie csbeap. It ia no use talking of ** profit " ; if there be any it is small at prr-eent.
Beverly, Wentworth : The women have charge of that department, and it is hard to find out from tbttn what money they get for [>oultry or egg9. Certainly when they go to town to dispoae of butter and <t|ii they seldom bring any money baok.
Gla&ford, Weatworth : The interest in poultry raising steadily increatiee. Mostly every farm now prid<M itself on some specialty — some for eggs and others for fine ohickenH. Striotly fresh eggs and fancy pnoltiy always bring remunerative pricea^ a fact that has never been bo keenly realtjted as during the |n«wDt hsrd time^.
f Hallon : Poultry, as usual, have been the best paying investment on the farm to those
bsv- branch proper attention. That farmer i* very uofortuaate indeed who cannot apprecial
Iki v^u^ ^i wi»tf hen itn the farm and give her proper attention.
Chinguaoooay, Peel : This han been a good year for poultry. Turkeys and chickens pay very well*
Toronto Gore, Peel : It baa been a good year for poultry, as. dry years are always favorable. We think I tby pay aUtoai the best of anything on the farm.
Etobiooke, York : A very large number of all kiudH of fowl are kept here. The raising of turkeys [ fipi«i^y appetam to l>e largely on the increase, and at the low price of gram ia a BQOceas.
Georgina, York : Poultry are neglected by most farmers, and are allowed to abift in almost any kind tfiplaci^ However, a ft>w are beginning to nali^e that the hens are a source of profit when properly I itt**oded t«j, Slid we Ipok for oonsiderabie improvement in this line.
Mirkham, York : Poultry pay if proper attention is paid them. They require aa much attention m «• and cattle (proportionately), which they havfr- nut been getting. sUabita, diaeaaea and feed have idl I IA bt studied as well as varieties,
Iktara, Ontario ; Mens have been pacing letter this vear than last. Egga have kept a better price. Fvffien to a great extent have quit raising turkeys and geeaa^ as they have not paid for their feed and JiMoWe.
ilaldimssd, Northumberland : Some of the best cared for flocks have died from what is oommoiily I&V1 eholera* t think that in many cases too much hard grain has been fed.
i^mden, Addington : A good deal of poultry lias been raieed thin year. No farmer appeara to keep a ' of the coAt of the foad. Chickens bring from 30 Uf 36 cent« a |*air,
itlaburg, Frontt«nac: Poultry are in good oouditton, and are considered generally as one of the 1 I laying factors in the farm economy at the present time.
g*r,«.„.^» .., y. .^^^r^.^Q. All kinds of poultry are in good conditbn, it being a dry season. Tnrkeji « , thrive be«t in dry weather there are great ciuantities of them Geene and ducks
> and in good condition.
Hawkevbury, Pre«cott : Poultry, I consider, have been profitable this seasoii. Eggs were a fair price, I the ** Bitltliea " performed their share of the contract.
FiUirey, Carleton : There is not mnch profit in poultry when egga are sold all seaaoo at nine or ten all Iter dozen.
Oigoode. Cjirleton : I consider that poultry are the most profitable thing on the farm, except sheep I yotj take Into account the small Hmouut of labir that is required in attending to them.
EftaiieaelU Renfrew : Poultry is the only thing money can be matle bv at preaent, aa there is always a" irkel for turkeya and chickens. EggH fetch but n small price from eig^t to ten centi a doisen.
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^'' DrummoDdt Lduiuk: There is no pro&t in the way the average fftrtner K^eps hit p^jultry* It i buaine^A methodn were i^lopted with regard to their feeding iknd manaf^ment a (^re^t deil better return would be reftlixed.
Camden, Victuria : The condition of poultry ia good^ and there it better profit from them thfto from BuythiDg elre raised on the farm,
La%ton, Victoria t More atteutian han been paid to poultry durin<T the iMt two years than befor«i Turkeys are beiog raised for ahipment to the Biitiah market Those who have tried it aay it paya
LaxtoDf Victoria : Ponltry sre the bfiit acavengi'rfl a faimer can empioy. The^ will allow nothing r^t to waste arouod a biunyard. ' Their condition on the whole is good. Late ckucks Deed more care i^ feeding And she ter,
Tyeodinagaf Uastinps : The raiding of poultty is growiog In favor yearly. Farmers are realifiiig ibi profits that may be obtained by psyirg a little special tttention to the ptmltry department, and jearll comroodicms hep. hauaea are being erected.
Monek, Muftkoka : Wife says there are twenty Kena, D^hile I can count fifty. She say a that it takes tbey get for eg^ to buy tobacco for me, I think onr hens eat nearly as many oats as five horses.
Moir'aoD, Mnnkoka : There are about the usual number of poultry. Foxes, skunks* h*wki and otbd vermiD decimate them.
StephfnioD, Mnskoka : The poultry biiaineai ia greatly on the increase and compares favorably witii any other branch of the farm indnatry^
St Joeeph, Algoma : ?ei>ple are just awaking to the fact that there ia money in taking care of potlHry^ I would put the profit of 100 ht^as at |50 a year, besides our own supply for private use.
Live Stock Sold. The uble following *howB the number of eewsh cla Btoek gold in 1895 and IS9G, by countj grotipa and for the Province :
of H
Live stock sold.
Horws .
[1896 1895
^•^^- {\Z
Sheep
Hogs
Poultry . . ,
I 1896 ! 1895
C4
5,59S 6.107
45,842 44,911
80.814
1896 231,26a 1895 199,762
1896 1895
465.9^.5 894.743,
6,6S3 6»!595
71,366 70,730
O
4,263 4,040
45.832 40,347
119.668 92,969 102.532 81,237
137, 1&8 119,161
247,184 233.530
108,?43 100,2H
201,295
177»590
1
■1
s
M
1 1
J5 1
9,079 8.047
8,698 8,282
6,364
6,32T
2.961
2.16P
859
790
10L529 107.892
70,109 68,477
62,303
57,134
24,455' 21,103
9,116 7,537
142,241 133,430
127,444
116,092
133,644 122,727
41,989 82,056
16,453 ia,*S7
S21,935 2ii2,439
2«18,930 241,041
144,108 132.214
76,229 70,080
17,493
16,081
510,028 455,641
617,461 551,444
468,944 407.872
157,588 134,512
43,316 37,126
I
44.458 40^6
436,451 418.131
766,80S 68331^
1,901,369 1,159.998
2,711,771 3,992.458
In eveiy district an increa&e has taken placo in the numher of horses, aheep, bogs and poultry sold ; while in cattle the West Midland distr ct is the only group showing % decrease in the number of animals dia posed of by salf.
THE APIARY
The following cheerfol report regarding bees and their produce appeared in the Augnst bulletin : " Not for many years have bee-keepers had so mnch to encourage them There has heen an abundance tf nectar, and the iow of honey has been liberal. While i few oorreapondents mention only ten or twenty pounds of homey per hive, a number speak of extracting; fully one hundred pounds. The average yield ia about fifty-five pounds, aud' this will likely be augmented, a^ buckwheat was in bloom aa correspondents wroteu Colonies have been about doubled by swarming, and no disease is complained of/'
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November returcs were also favorable, the crop being regarded as an average one, tad the b^es b^iijg reported in very fair condition.
Bbks. The table following gives by connty groaps and for the Province the nnmber
of hives of bees kept in the township tiiQnicipalities during each of the five years 1892 6, together with their v%iue (inclnding outfit) in each of the four years 1893 6 :
I
Bm.
3
0
-a
1
.a
1
1
m
94
i
13
i 1
Northern DLvtrictt.
1
>
No.
No.
No.
No,
No.
No.
No,
No.
No.
ri896
23,107
HH06
9,r447
90,195
S9.425
48.551
13,924
1,121
160.076
181)5
27»264
18,S68
11,708
23»615
86,028
43,880
11,013
1.292
173,173
No. of hives . \
1884
36.019
S5J&9
14,641
S9J46
39,541
46,2311
8,094
1,267
200,094
,
1893
37,816
27,786
14,011»
31.244
88,594
46,382
8.161
1,166
205.168
11892
36,191
38,934
12,030
28,201
38,072
43,730
7,064
1,010
196,82a
i
f
•
i
$
f
i
$
$
120,266
80,435
52,400
119,940
162.125
211,521
70,967
6J6I
8.'^4.408
148.386
104,990
60^630
140,489
198,604
217.098
60,884
7,677
938,658
tod outfit . llF9t
11393
179,126
lS9,fid5
78,575
167.578
207,983
226,867
44,867
6,903
1,051.574
301.856
186,265
72,663
209,213
222,466
220.962
42,569
6,963
1,162,945
In every group, excepting the St. Lawrence and Ottawa and East hfti been a decrease in the number of hives, and the total nomber 160^076, which means a falling ofif of 13,097 from the previous year, md outfits amounts to (854,408, or $84,250 leas than the figures
Midland districts, there now in the Province is The total value of bees for 1896.
REMARKS OF OORRESPON DENTS,
From the Auoost Returns.
Tilbuiy N,. £«sex : Been went crasry and could hftFdly be controlled. They increftied 100 per cent, and unmld have doubled tb»t if they had oot been controlltid, AUike was kini? for nectar here. Basflwood waa b«avily loaded with blof>m, but did not laat long, but they have been workinff^ on alsike from May Qntil aow.
ICalahide, Elgin : Nearly all colonieH have more than donblcN] this nemon.
Zorra E., Oxford: Swarma doubled. BaB^wood and white clover were good And plenty. Bees are id food ooDdUion and with plenty of honey .
Trafalgar, Halton : Bees havt^ done wf^ll, and there haa been a large tncrease by iwarmiog, as well aa an abundant yield i^f hooey.
Galedon, Peel : Bees have been moot pr<jLitic. I bad fifteen colon ie« in the aprtng and have aixty now. Some «warni©d twice. Nectar waa not very abundant in thii locality.
Kingiton, Frontenac : Bees Bwarmed early and often. Nectar was scarce in the field, but there wa so extra yield from baaawood.
i 04oiiabe«, Peterborough : All the old hi vojt put oat two a warm r and made a good share of hon^f and , the ffsme* are filled again for winter use.
Rawdon, Haatuaga : Early in the seu^m honey came in fast enough to keep the queena laying gnod, eausuig lotB of swarming. Baaswood lasted over thre^ weeks and gav<^ much aurplus boDvy.
FaOJI THR NOVEMBSB Ektdbns. Gosfield N.» Easex : A good summer for been ; plenty of iwarma ; no dif^ease.
Tilbtuy N., £«eex : Beea did not do »o well here ai we expected they would in the fore t«rt of the -, as It turoed oat too wet. The rain washed the nectar out of the floweis, and with the exception of I they gpt it very slowly, although thoy were getting some the whole season, The yield was about tffey pounds spnng count.
Orford, Kent : Bees wintered well. Thev did not build very fast until the basswood b^gan to bloom. Those colonies that were strong then gathered h good surplus and the others built up strong. There was •ery little to be had after that, which wap a great surprise to me.
Vannonthf Elgin : Bees did well right from the early spring. Swarming was excessive^ Clover failed > yield, but basswood and thistle yield^ well. The net result waa about eighty pjunds spring count and 'cduobled.
Canboro'f HAlditcftnd : Bees did r«in«rkAbly w«U. A neighbor of mine had About half m too of boesk' wbcftt hoDay.
Moore* LambtoD : It wam m poor Btj^aon. I got eotne hooey in July but'^no i»U hooey. There w«i9 plenty of &lsike, do?er bloeiom^ golden rod ^ud aweet clover, but the weaiher was tort cold to fvodaoe honey.
Goderioh, Hiun>o : The beginning of the ■eiiaon wiw good, then!! being quite a flow of nectar, but later has been vory liitte. I find been are not profitable. I have lo«t uitne every seaion, and ao I will quit them.
Huron, Bruce t Beet had a hard time last winter and a great many died, bat they did better thia summer than for years.
Glenelg, Grey : Th]» has been a good eeaaon for bees and the yield of honey hiM been large.
Sydenham^ Grey : Beei have done well* Oafw are full of honey. I do not know the amount im th» beee ooold not be worked with while the apple neaaon wm& in progress.
Oxford E., Oxford : Very few beea were left alive laat spring, but what were have done very well*
Zorra E,, Oxford t The preient year has been very good for both beea and honey. Mine averag«d eighty pounds to the colony* spring count,
Braotfordf Brant : The crop wa^ |r<^od, being over 125 pouuda, t^pring count,'and the beee doubled. Fotil brood ia not prevalent, but exiHta to «omt' extent. Beea are in good condition for winter unlesa tt tuma very warm jind the bees work on applea and gather the juice*
Burford, Brant : Bee swarming commenced earl v— on the 11th of May— and it was kept up through the aeaaoo. I had three colonies in spring and now i have sixteen, all in good shape. The honey flow waa Ibe Urgeat 1 ever saw.
Mulmur, Dufferin : The jrield of honey has been large, with the usual tncreaae of oolonies.
Traffklear, Halton : The past has been the best season for beekeepers for seTermI yearr. The aupply of honey has been large and of prime quality.
Etobicoke, York : Swarming moderate ; about thirty pounds per colony of surplus honey.
Soott, Ontario : Nearly all [the fArmers hereaboat keep bees. Honey is in good supply and selling at ■eyen to eight cents a pound for best grades, poorer grades lower.
Darlington, Durham : Beea did not do very well this season. The hooey crop haa been light.
Seymour, North lunbertaod i Where bees have been skilfully man^f^ed there has been some honey dueed, but generally the >ie!d is ftmall, the excefsive drouth making the pastures very bare.
Barrie, Fronteoac: The yield or honey this year does not amciuut to much. The grasshoppen mtm most of the supply of flowers. I did not ipee ft licg'e head of white clover, and even the thiatlf>s allowed to blossom by these pests. I think mont of the c^tlonies of bees have enough honey to carry through the winter.
Bedford, Frontenac : Bees did a lot of swarming, but did nob make much tturpjus honey*
Klizabethtown, Leeds: What bees came through the winter and spring did well. A great harvest of honey has been gathered.
Brndenell and Lyndoch, Renfrew ; Bees have done exceedingly well, but moet are kept in old faah- ioned box hivea and badly managed. I had nearly 1^ tons of honey from 29 hives, spring oouikt.
Ijaxton, Victoria : Bees have been very productive in gathering, and have done well where cared for and attended to right.
Harvey, Peterborough t I do not think there are a dczi^n hives of bees in this township. Sofnetimea the settlers find a bee tree, and try in save them, but the swarms dwindle and give out very i^oon.
Glamorgan, Haliburtoo : A few hmt begun the keeping of bees. Honey wa» exhibited at our agricul- tural Mhow this year for the tir*t time.
Glamorgran, Haliburton < The bee industry is gradually incremsing. Honey has been a good yield, but a little dark in color.
Rawdoo, HastingH : Beee swarmed fairly well. There waa a fair crop of white eloTer, but no bock* wheat.
Lash, Rainy River : I do not know of any bees being kept in the. whole district except my own. I obtained two colonies last spriiift from the President of the Ontario Beekeepers^ Association. I now bave- four, and they are in extra fine cundition. I obtainad a good Quantity of honey in August. They are now stored in the cellar in tb<ir winter quarterK, and the hives are full*
THE DAIRY.
August reports were to the effect thai the milk supply had fallen oflf greatly, and that a number of cheese factories had to close for lack of patronage, while the low price of cheese had a depressing effect tipon patrons :
The November bulletin said : ** Dairying began in the spring of the present year nnder rather depressing conditions ; prices were low. In addition many western distriota suffered from short pastures, and the low prices and reduced output of cheese factoriea
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e&aaed % ** blae mm ^ feeling amoDg many who had bitberto felt that dair jiog roust ilir»ya boom. Batter prodnctioa suffered has than cheese. The eastern producers appe to have been, on the whole, more generally satisfied with results. However, d^iry price0^ eepeoiallj in cheese, took an upward movement in the Tall, and the tone at time of report- ing, wms much more confident. Owing to increased prices — over ten centa a poand — many factortes wt^re kept open longer than usual. Reports as to the success of butter makinfj; Tary with different townships, much depending upon the local market Some speak of better prices in 1806 than in 1^95 ; others of lower. On the whole there appears to have been an improvement in the quality of butter. As usuai, corref^pondents differ as to the belt dairy cows. The good old Canadian caw, Darham grades and Ayrshire grades appear to be the favorites. One man says the scrub must surely be the favorite in his towoshif Terj many have strong recommendations for both Jerse^rs and Holsteins. As for fodde one man sums it up by saying : Oom is our mainstay ; corn is all the go."
The proprietors of a cheese factory apj>end to their annual report forwarded to this, Department the following note : *^ Got a btid dose of rape and roots la^t sale, which ftooounts for the low price. The annual meeting passed a resolution prohibiting the feed- tag of any rape or turnips while milk is going to the factory.''
REMARKS OF OOERKSPONDENTa
Faou THX Mat RcruaNS.
YArmouthf Elgin : There ts an iticreftfta In growing beiktui And corn. Not many siloe [have^ot be«Q boilt, M w« r&iae %o much oora for the gr&in tbat we oonBider the stloK would oob pfty.
I Harwioh, Rent : I think farmers in thin section will have to commence dairying, a« their farmi are
G'9% to run (lowb by raiding ao much beima and wheat. It aeema to be very hard to gel them at the dairy tiiien. They don't like to puU teata.
I Brant, Bmce : Od the whole, methods of farming are well up to the timee. Nearly all are either doing I nms (UiryiDg or feeding Rtock, either by ttall feeding or grasiog, and are trying to get the beat breeds for I uenptirpQeea.
I McCtillivray. Middlesex : Our farmera adhere tenaciouely— I think blindly— to raiaing ealvea and mak< I iif \ynoT butt^ff which aella from 6ve to ten centa per poood leia tbau creamery butter. Thouaanda of I iollan are loat every year on poor butter,
■ Downie, Perth : Winter datryin^c is on the iDcreaa^ in thi« township, two factories having^ bad a very
■ hgft OQtput durioK' the past winter, and one of th^m ><till running till middle of May. Prepare tiooa axe
■ Itn^made /or the buiMing of many Bil(« thiH iunimen It will be ran? after thU year to find a farmer
■ vithoQl one. Com in thia locality will aaaume about the ratio of ten to forty •£ other cereal crope.
■ Wallace. Pfrth : Preparationa for chee^e-miikiiig' are aa active tm ever* notwithatanding the repeated I ««niin|r* of the Dairymen 'is Associationii fur factorial not to commence before the firat oC June. Factoriae I Abobt ljer«!< will generally commence Monday, May -tth.
I Lancaster, Glengarry : Thia section ia fast coming to the dairy syatem, and that meana oom, cowa and
I pig«, »iih any amount of labor and very few to do it. A domeatio aervant would be a curioaity here.
I Oi^oode, Carleton : Farm help ia plenty. Wages are lower than formerly. Butter*makiogia receiving
■ mat attention, but cheeae will bn made on a large scat*). No new factoritia are going tip this year, but five
■ •«&» erected within a radiui* of hve miltfa laeit year.
Wat^MuBkokar Farmera are Koing more into etock and dairying. Away from the lakea a cheeae
la running aticoeaafully, and at and around the lalie rn-gion the tounat trade creates a good OMh
tket tifr freah butter^ egga and lambe. By all accounts farming prospects are aa good here aa elae where.
Fbom thb Aur.tJBT Rktuhss.
' Bamia, Lambton : Live atock are tormented with the born fly bo that they do not thrive aa they might,
Witw^noah £., Huron : The supply of dairy produce ia not more than half of what it would have been L d |iaature had been equal to other yeara of good growing ahowera.
I Klooardioe, Bruce : As for fodder, there will be plenty of straw and oom. Last year tamtht farmeri 1 %wrrTn IfVKi'n, and this year they have gone extenaivdy into growing corn,
T rey : In Jane, panturea were completc^ly burnt, and eaten by graa«hoppera. There haa been vlaru. riince the middle of June and paaturea are improving There will probably be plenty of
raed iut «^ioc«r nae. There hai been a shortage in dairy product, but it ia improving.
I VcMpra, Slmooe i Paaturei are very bare owing to drttuth and graaahoppera. There will be plenty of fatd for winter thia year, aa more fodder oropa are aowo than in former yeara, to aupplement the hay— I chkliy Ci*tii, bnt alio millet, etc,
I WeatJijin*t«r, Middlesex : Live stock are not doing any too well, aa the horn fly ia very bad, but tb«i|| I k fliBly (jf food for winter keep. Not so much cheeae is being made this season aa uaail, trf the faoton' f Im ikcvl been ao fully supplied a% Ln pi
L previoua years, many patrona stopping entirely*
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Domfri^ N,, Waterloo : Live etock are improvini?, bafe having auch a hard winter th«y are hardly up to good coaditioQ yet. Provpecta for winter keop are not as good aa we would wiah, yet if roots t!im out "well farirere will get through.
Nelion, HaltoB : The tif^ht rafnit have improved paatu^ei, but they are ihort. It will be mn awM aqtiec'ze to gel through the winter.
Cartwright, Duiham : Live itock are in good eondition ; fojder m pkntifu!, except hay. The ropply of dairy produce i» about the average ; the low pncea for cheeee and butter have di»oouragea the indoAtry.
Hamilton, Northumberland : Paat4>re is very dry, but live utock are in a fair condilion. There are poor proaprets for loll pa^tun^ but wicter feed will be ample. The dairy produce waa good aa tuual, bnt there are gr^&t oc>mpliiint8 as to prict^B.
Percy, Ncrthumberland : Panturi^a art* poor, owing to dry weather ; farmerii are holding live stock np with green corn. There jb a large fatiiag off in the product of milk -probably of one third.
Kingston, Frontenac : Paaturea have been poor until the late rains, which have improved th<»m. Live etock are in good condition, and although the hay crop i8 short theie is abundance of food, snch as cora, atraw* graitif root«, c c. The snpply of dairy praductn is miidling.
Yonge and Ksoott Rear« L«eda: Paature* are poor I think there will be p'euty of feed, at there ii a large area of com planted. Theie ia an abundandb of dairy products^ but pricei are low.
Kenynn, GUnjranry : Pa^-tiiitsfl are perfr»ctly dried up. so that we arf* feediog green fodder and ahnrta. Live »tock are thin, and (o^d will be »hort, except with tho^e who have gone into corn. The supply of dairy products exceed* the demand.
Hawkeaibory E., Proscott : P«Btnree«re pretty bare at preaent, but live stock are in fair oonditioii. There iti pl<-nty of straw, bat the hay crop is short. A gocd many are plowing their hay fields and eowiaf corn or millet.
Drummond, Lanark . Pastures are poor. Some cattle are being fed com, of which a Urge acreage ia sown. There will be sufficient fodder for winter use. Cheese Is the chief dairy product tere, and it is low in price,
Douro» PetfirboTongh : Pastures are dried up» but live ^tock are in fair condition, and the prospeeta itm fall and wiuter keep are satisfactory. Dairy produce ie falling off, owing to poor pasture.
Dysart, Haliburton : Pastures are bad, as want of rain has largely damaged ihf'm. Live stock are ia fair condition. The prcspect is that winter fodder will be Bcaroe. Dairy { roduoe has fallen off owing to drouth.
Watt, Mu«koka : Pastures are ^retting bare, but fctock are hi fair condition. The prospect for wintflr feed is good. There is more than enough of dairy produce.
Fbom thk NovEUB£R HETURKa.
Raleigh, Kent : Cheese making is on the increase.
Dorche^te^, S., Elgin : There is a chea^ factory here, and the proprietor put in a butter plant tJirea years ago, and now makes butter alt winter^ beginning aboub December 1st.
Sberbrooke, Ha^dimand : In this township th^re k no creamery or cheese factory. Farmers mtkm their own butter and boy their cheese. Th« butttjr ia sold chieily tD summer resorts.
InntnkiHen, Lambtoo : Interest in oheeee it growing. Many aru givirtg ap private butter making and are sending th^ir milk to the factory. Cheese was low in price in the early part of the season, but later it paid better than butter.
Warwick, Lambton : The dairy industry has been gocwi in regard to cheese, but butter haa been low in prioe.
Grey, Huron : The cheese tndastry baa been good this year, and the factoriee are still running.
Brant, Bruce : Dairying is not booming^ but in somewhat better than last year. Considerably more obeeae is made than butter,
Egremont, Giey : Butter has taken the lead here this wesson. It has sold at from IS to IS} oeat* nearly all summer, while cheese was 8 and 9' cents ; but lately factories have sold at 10^ cents.
Matchedaah, Simcoe : We have a factory in this neighborhood, but it did not work this season. The owner offered a ba^f cent a pound fur the rnilk^ and farmers would not Hell at that Egure.
Orillia, Simooe : The cheese factory wa& shut up tbia seaEon. Bntter production was not very good, aa prices were very low.
McGillivray, Middlesex : The dairy industry is not in a satisfactory ccndition. The farmers of this township will not patroriixti^ either creamery or cheene factory. One factory, after languiiihiQg during the tfummer, shut down, aud another factory in the towni^hip also atands idle.
WpBtmi[>ster, Middlesex : There is evidently itrong faith in tba cheese industry, and cows are ta demand. The cre^imtry or butter buainess is not on the same solid be sis, seemingly depending upon cold atorage. It ie a football tu be kicked by Bteamship compaoitn, politicians, railway companies and Q<Mft* miaaion men. It is also lu bad odor owing to it» past record . I
Zorra E., Oxford : About the usual quantity of cheese made ; very little butter made here.
Brantford, Brant : Dairying is in a very good state now. Cheese ruled very low in the early pari jI the season. Butter is made for local uee, and during the aummer ooly.
Fullarton, Perth : Butter has been about two centa lower than last year, but cheese, during the latter part of the season, has been nearly aa high as last year, although low early in the season.
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Odffiftbf 3,, Lineoln - The dairy iDdoBtry is growinpf in tfai'ii towxtuhip. More butter 11 mAQUf^tur^ I thiQ che«'fe, bat during the pant eeftaon ohec-fls has paid the better of the two.
Beverly, Wentworth : The dairy bu^ineBi^, as regards cheeee^ hai been a poor one this BUmmer^ bub it hu \ye*>n looking np a little lately. Butter baa paid bettor^ but if any great number were to go iotio it it v>atii be AH bu 1 or worse than oheese«
GUnford. Wentworth : Batter making and city inilk conatitute almoit eiolowTely the UnM of dairying followed.
E-qui?«mg, Halton : The dairy mduMtry baa never had the ftttantioa it deeorvee m this locabty, aa it iiBOtwtnkf*d on the cooperative plan. There i 6 but ou*; small cheese factory, working on the eaBtem buindary uf the towozibip.
ChinguacouAy, Halton : The dairy indnitry ban been greatly advanced of late yawn. Although ther» ire DO buiti^r or che^tie factorioi here, a good deal of butter ib roads oa the farms for the Toronto market.
llaniitinp, Northurab*»rland : The dairy intereat in our tovnabip ia principally in cb* eae. I flhould tbiak fuly 75 per cent uf the milk i« made into checae. We have no cra&merieB. Our cows are diiefiy
P«<tcy, Northtunberland : There are four cheeRfl faet'^rte^ in the township and four other factories in tbt adjoining townahip. There id only one butter factory, and that ie run only in the fj^U and winter.
Snymoiir, Northumberland : There are two creanienea near bere^ but cheese ia altogether the moat lap&rtaot brmnch of the dairy industry.
milier. Prince Edw«rd : The dairy rndostry la in about the aame atate aa during the paat three or four imn ; aVrnt aix oowjs are kept to the I(K) acre^. Obepae is paying the beet here this year.
Eichmond« Lennox : In point of production cheese leadn, and is likely bo continue to do ao, aa there ti a batter demand and greater prmfita for a longer period of production.
Htorrini^toii, Fronti^nac: The dairy induatry ia booming. No butter ia made for sale here during the i makiog «L*;iBon.
Bastard, L«*«'dB ; The intention waa to a tart the oreamerieB on the lat of November, but to long aa deMuN holda aa firm aa it is now tbeoheeae fact:riea will continue to run.
tanadawne, Leeds ; Two creameries have been built in thia townahip this seaaon, aod wiU atart aboai IbtStK of November^
Hawkefebury Kj Pre^cott: More than three- fourtha of farmers send milk to the cheeaa factoriea ; Iben are no or^amenea in thi« township.
Plantagenet N.^ Pre^cott : There ia very little butter made in thia townahip. In fact, until the ofai bctoriat cloae we cannot get enough of it to fat.
Fttxroy, Carleton : The dairy businea? is being carried on pretty eJitensively ; the greater part of oilk i> made into oheeee.
Glcrureat^r, Carleton : All summer dairying was very diaoouraging ; so far aa profitt are concerned out ra* jaat at bad aa the other, until lately. They both sell pretty well now, when we have no milk to<' tuke tliem.
March, Carbton : The dairy industry at preaent is very encouraging, aa pricee are good for both batter iadeheeae.
Beekwith, Lanark : Gheeae ii all the rage in this aectlon ; every person sends milk to the taotory, ihen i» no butter factory in this rfectionl
Drninmond, Lanark : The dairy business is alive with cheese factories all around. There are bo OMQ]»<rac!a yet*
Etdon, Victoria: We have in th^s townahip two oheeae factonea, and consequently butter ia oot made to lh« aame extent aa years ago.
V»rulam, Victoria : The condition of the dairy industry ia aatiafaotory now. The first and middle of ^ i»«aon was p>or. Owing to bare pasture the milk wis deBcienb both in quantity and qualtity, and the pvict of ehe»»te waa low. Not much butter ia made in the aummer.
Harrey, Peterbororigh : Butter has improved much in quality since the travelling dairy visited ua. Clkaaie it a*ao gaininf? in quality. If proptrly ukeo care of there is very little odds as between butter and fbtrne 9fi far a^ profits are concerned.
Watt, Mn"koka* I saw the report foi^uur cheese factory tO'day^ in which the supply of milk per cow trua the different patrons varied frr>m les^ than 1,000 to 3,000 Iba, per oow. If this does not let daylight (Kb tom*; fjf their pates I do nob krnuw what will do it.
McK««llar, Parry Sound : The productinn n| butter i« not so large aa usual, owing to the dry ieaaoo, m<:(uaiity ia improving since the visit cif the travelling dairy.
Campbell and Camarvon, Algoma : Thankn lo the travelling dairy, butter-making haa beea wonder-
i
84
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Cheese Factobies. — The following table gives the statistics of 1,147 factories operated in Ontario in 1896. These figures are given by groups of c( Oomparative figures are given for the Province for fourteen years :
DiitricU.
Ltkelri.., {1^1
1896 1696
Lftke HurdD. . I
WettMidUndl J^
Lake Ontario. {J^
Si Lftwrenoe / 1^^% uid UtUw»tlB95
EutMidUnd,{|^
KortbflTD /ia96
BifitrJotst LS9&
The Province :
less
1KI4 ....
1803 ._.
18M
iBfll
1«M.
18§9
1888 ,....,.
1887..
1886...
188B. ,
1S84
ISSS
75 82
63 63
ao
37
145
150
ICB 105
51^1 572
150
4
5
Qoftiitity of —
Millc uiied.
81,586,648
52,742469 68,165,651
13,576J04 17»688,586
230,S00312 320J7l,57fl
100.317,494 107|49J,761
491,687.286 534,670,0&3
184,160,389 140,902,089
786,933 624, 2B5
1,147 t,10e 124,669 l,lH4 1,174.008,593
Mil 897 856 8;iH 817 784 737 7S7 770 752 751 635
850
1,037,577,831 fill,79l,*-iOI 9'*4*3&6,44l 865,45».574 8;'6,387.516 7 60,1 46, .W e86,JJ0tt,0]3 691 9i4,579 6.MJ0:^,243 733.437,354 6Mfi^9♦^^ 7/7 539,690.197
I 832,853.654
lb
7,879,H66 7,894,602
4,883,466 5,383«936
1,356,056 1,603,5^1
2K380.432 20,842.037
9,29ri,847: 9,836,600
46,983,415 60,702,830
]2,642,8:;h 18,lb6,60»
74.576 80,145
104,3aS.fl«^
109,330. B40
97,281,^4^
86.106.711^ 93. 8 48.9 1^ 81,939,04 79,.16l.7i3 72 592, « 4
66.2yH ira
66.6:tt<,6.i*^ 83,72 1,62 k 71, £09. 71^^ 66,flS9,573 6:-*,5l3,03:
79.366,07*^
II
642,466 597J1K)
405,991
426^059
103,610 12&,2D»
1,773 431 1,665,304
773 827 766,030
3,915,322 3,997,7^8
1,028,159 1,033,391
6,029
6,408
8,646,736 8,fi07,389 9.44L247 8,:-J38 Ton i*,9Vj,t«^9 7,656.484 7,1^9,967 6 7R7,(»19 6,aHl 170 6,918 91 '^ 5.W9S,^1& 5,781,569 6,S<9S.889 5,589,339
7,345,86:4
I'
5 g c
6,520 6,643
4,30t
5,4Be
1,382
10 660 13,164
6,684 7,451
22,397 24,901
6J17 6,771
74
110]
57,a'l5 65J.:6! 64 8:i9 50.87(1 48,(^01 45,ti6fi 44,8as 4%nh 4:^,065
42.5 J 37.66.^ 44,20*?
38.6 if 3i,6^6
46,318
10,73 10 99
10 80 ll.Oi
10.81
10.97
10.77 ILO-i
10 79 10.93
10 47
10.56
10 61 10 69
10.55 10.28
^8
$ e.
8 15 T 76
S 83
8 06
8 17
7 81
8 29
7 94
8 St2
7 7^
8 33 7 88
S IS
7 84
8 08 7 £9
AmoQDt
10 63 10 75
10.56 10.58 10.49 10 56
10.54 10 47 10.51 10.54 10.27 10 30 10.2-^ 10.08 I
ID 46 10 45
10.49 9 26
TotAl.
499,12 462,6£
305 5k
3^ec
7S,8S 88,47
1,435,2S 1,332,14
G10,6£ £84,47
3,264,8S 3,2t97,8E
848.04' 840,7^
3,8C
4M
8 28
7 88
9 70 9 68 .
9 661, 9 m\ 9 06 . 9 851. 9 24| 10 54 . 9 25
8 U\.
7,0*0,9? 6,92i^9f 7,931, 0£
7,298,3t
* Average for three years.
The number of cheese factories operated in Ontario in 1896 was 1,147, a slight fa] from the previous season, owing to two successive dry seiisoDs. Nearly five pounds less of cheese was manufactured than in 1895, although the make of 1( considerably more than in any other year. Better prices pre\ ailed to the extex cents per 100 lb., while the patrons realized 63.5 cents per 100 lb. of milk as co with 59 cents in 1895.
In table vii. (page 1 1 6) will be found the full estimated output of cheese I county for 1896. Oxford stands first in the order of production with 9,649,849 in 44 factories to its credit HaRtings comes second with 8,838,636 poundi factories, and Leeds third with 7,840,423 pounds in 82 factories.
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lfo?rTaLY Statistics of Ohsebk FAOToaiss. The folIowiDg table has been spiled from returns of cbeeae tactoriee whtcb give full monthly statUtica :
I
■
Milk required to mftke OQo tb. of
Grofa 7Aloe of
GroiB value of pro- dact of 100 )b.
Per cant, of oheeee
1
i
cheeoe.
ohee«6 per pound.
of tnifk.
made lo month «
1
1 MoDtka.
1
1
189^-
1»»;^
IK!<3-
1893.
1
L
1896.
1896.
1896
1896.
1895
1896,
1896.
1896.
1896^
189i.
1895.
1896.
1
m
lb
tb
lb
oil.
Ctn.
ct«.
Cti.
cU.
ou
■■a
11.28
11 3*5
11,11
7.05
7-07
857
62 5
62.3
77 4
.8
22
1.6
7^ .............
10.86
10 90
10.76
6.71
7 I'i
8.15
61.8
65.8
75.9
12.7
16 4
13.9
/ine
11.12
U,20
11. CO
6.87
8.0G
8.27
61.8
73.0
75.4
19 0
21.3
21.2
/
Julf ,.,
11. 4G 11.13
11 39 10 99
11 28 10.98
7.20
8.84
7.64 7.63
8.37 9.18
62.8 79 4
67.1 69.4
74.4
83 6
16 6 15.4
18.3 16.0
18.7
15.8
AOffTttt.. ....,...,.
September
10.21
10,5"i
10 26
10.05
8 47
9,8.5
98 1
80 5
96.1
16.2
13.2
13.9
O^tolw
9.fi0
9.47
9 51
9 8%
8.75
9.87
103 9
93.4
103 8
14 2
10.6
11.9
Norember ........
9.61
9.40
9, .^2
8 83
8.77
MJil
92.7
9!* 2
103.6:
4.9
1.9
2.9
DaOMnber
».53
9.31
8.88 8.49
831
9.22
89.1
89.5
102.0
2
.1
.8
Tbft iattott *....
1071
10.84
10 68 8 25
788
8,89
77.1
72.7
83.3
100
100
100
It will be seen from the average for four jeara th&t milk is poore^it in July and
behest in December, 11 23 piund^ hein^ requtml to m^ike a p>and ot cheese in July
mod bat 8.88 poandi in December. The percentage of cheese made in December i^ very
am< Jane prodacea the largest amount of cheese, July comins; second, August third,
^hile May and September tie for fourth place* October gives the best financial results.
Cbba MSEiBS. The following table gives the statistics furnished by 59 public cream- I for 1896, showing the quantity and va