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HORNED CATTLE. 
PROVINCE. To Britarn. To UNITED StaTEs. }To ALL CouNTRIES, 
Seen... $ 72,972 $ 374,858 | § 449,590 
ie 2,316, 604 45,517 | 2,363,296 
Womiion)...0'. 6.5... 2,706,051 423,807 3, 256, 330 
SHEEP, 
JS SPV 2OFGTG) i: lik Sa oeeeeeerc ee | $ 491,640 
nel. :F 4G. jO0-. || 2 ease econ 606,050 
PO OMAIMIOM clef acts +s SUOMI E20 |: eraenetera eta 1,228, 957 
Beef to the value of $49,798 was exported from the Dominion in 
1882, of which $25,095 went to Britain. 
The falling-off in the numbers of cattle in 1882 is due to the in- 
creased number exported to the States, and also to the large ship- 
ments made in the prior three years, when all the marketable cattle 
were sent to Britain, and thousands of beasts left this Province 
which ought to have been kept here. 
The total returns of cattle exports in 1882 are in excess of those 
of other years. 
The improvement in quality is becoming more marked every year 
by the use of Shorthorn, Hereford and Angus bulls, which must in 
a few years greatly increase the value of Canadian cattle. Mr. 
Dyke, the Dominion Agent in Liverpool writes, that our cattle can 
compare favourably in points of breeding and quality with those bred 
in the best districts of Great Britain, and that this is specially 
noticeable in sheep.* 
In all agricultural statistics relating to the Province of Ontario, 
the Province of Quebec has to be joined as the ports of shipment. 
Montreal and Quebec are in the latter, and exports are given from 
that Province far in excess of its legitimate trade, and belittling to 
our Province. The question is taken up in the last report of the 
Bureau of Industries, and ably treated by the energetic head of the 
department. He places the proportion for Ontario at 75 per cent. 
of the total exports. Prior to 1876 fully 80 per cent. of our exports 
went to the States, since that year the returns show a considerable 
increase in the shipments to Great Britain. 
The total value of agricultural products sent to Great Britain 
from the two Provinces during the years 1871-81 amount to the 
* Sessional Papers Dom. Can. 1883, App. XIV., p. 199, et seq. 
