ONTARIO. 



this season is wonderfully rapid. This is one reason why 

 roots such as turnips, mangolds, and other crops, to which 

 a quick start is essential, do so well in Canada. 



In great measure owing to the instrumentality of these 

 Agricultural Societies, cheese factories have been largely 

 established in Ontario. This is a doubly valuable industry. 

 In the first place, the export of cheese from Ontario 

 amounts to some $2,000,000 per annum ; and in the second 

 place, the process of converting milk into cheese saves the 

 farmer an infinity of labour. Butter making has to be 

 carried on at that season of the year when other farm 

 work is at its height, and labour not always abundant. 

 Therefore, some years ago, Canadian farmers laid their 

 heads together and formed joint-stock companies for the 

 manufacture of cheese. The factories are in central situ- 

 ations, each member is paid so much a gallon for the 

 milk he sends in, and at stated times over and above this 

 amount he gets the profits that have arisen by the sale of 

 cheese on the shares of the company which he holds. 



Another joint-stock association worthy of notice is the 

 Grangers Society of Ontario. The grain growers of the 

 province, thinking that the merchants and shippers de- 

 rived too large a profit from the grain which passed 

 through their hands, formed themselves into an association 

 with the above name, which, under good management, 

 secures to each member the entire profit that can be 

 made on each bushel of grain grown on his land and 

 shipped from Montreal to European markets. 



Ontario is as well adapted for the culture of a great 

 variety of fruits as any part of the world. Its climate 

 closely resembles that of the grape-growing provinces of 



