The Dominion of Canada; Containing a Historical Sketch of the Preliminaries and Organization of Confederation; Also the Vast Improvements Made (Paperback)

Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: CHAPTER IV. AGRICULTURAL PRODUCTIONS. WHEAT. Among farm products, wheat takes the first rank in the husbandry of Upper Canada. Formerly it occupied an equally prominent position in Lower Canada, but for many years this cereal has not been successfully cultivated in the eastern part of the province, in consequence of the Hessian- fly, wheat midge, and an exhausting system of culture; it is now, however, slowly regaining its position in Lower Canada. The following table shows the amount of wheat produced in Lower and Upper Canada in different years: I.cnviR Canada. Year. Buihels oMVheit. 1827, 2,931,240 1831, 3,404,756 1844, 942,835 1851, 3,045,600 Upper Canada. Tctr. Buihels o 1842, 3,221,991 1848, 7,668,773 1851 12,674,503 1861 34,620,425 Long before Upper Canada was invaded by the whites, Lower Canada was a wheat exporting country; but the returns show a gradual falling off from about the year 1819. In 1790 the valley of the Richelieu produced 40 bushels to the acre EXTOKTS OF BREADSTTJFFS FROM THE PORT OF QUEBEC, FBOH 1793 TO 180], AND FROM 1816 TO 1822, INCLUSIVB. Tmi. Vli.:nt. Flour?(bbb.) 1193, 487,000 10,900 1794, 414,000 13,700 1795, , 395,000....,.,.. 18,000 1796 3,106... 4,300 1797, ;... 81,000 14,000 1798, 92,000 9,500 1799, 129,000 14,400 It is probable that a considerable portion of the exports from Quebe between 1816 and 1822 came from Upper Canada. Yeiir. Wht. Flour-(bbk.) 1800, 217,000 20,000 1801 473,000 38,000 1802, 1,010,033 28,300 1816,..!!........ 1,137 1817, 1818, 646,500 69,100 1819 37,800 12,100 1820 320,000 45,000 1821, 318,400 22,600 f 1822, 146,000 47,700 An inspection of the foregoing table will show that the cultivation of wheat in Lower Can...