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in the world better suited by nature for a manufacturing 

 country than the Dominion, and as soon as manufactures 

 arise, land and the produce of land will double in value, 

 not in the manufacturing districts alone, but all over 

 Ontario. , 



That good farming pays in Ontario has been proved 

 wherever it has been tried. The land is capable of pro- 

 ducing any crop that the climate will ripen, and the 

 climate, while suited to the growth of all the crops grown 

 in England, admits many others that are supposed to be 

 peculiar to hot climates. Thus wheat, oats, rye, barley, 

 potatoes, turnips, peas, beans, clover, and grass, grow 

 side by side with maize, grapes, peaches, pumpkins, &c. 

 Many other crops, such as flax, hemp, and tobacco, could 

 also be profitably grown, and probably will be grown 

 when the rise of manufactures creates a demand for 

 them. 



Highly bred cattle imported from England thrive 

 well in Ontario. The progeny of imported shorthorns, 

 Ayrshire cattle, and Leicester and Southdown sheep, so 

 far from deteriorating in quality, have decidedly im- 

 proved. The climate and soil of Ontario are both suited 

 to stock raising. Epidemics are as yet unknown. The 

 Englishman in the best settled districts will see as good 

 cattle as he has left behind him at home. Large quanti- 

 ties both of live stock and butcher's meat are sent from 

 Ontario to the New England States, where meat is almost 

 at famine price, also to the eastern provinces of the 

 Dominion, whose inhabitants are so much taken up with 

 lumbering, fishing, shipbuilding, and other pursuits, as to 

 neglect stock raising. 



