COMPARISON WITH OTHER COUNTRIES. 69 

 produce of wheat is 28 bushels an acre, as returns at 



less cost. 



against 16 in France, 16 in Germany, 13 in 

 Russia, and 12 in the United States. We show a 

 similar advantage in live-stock, both in quantity 

 and quality. We have far more horses, cattle, 

 and sheep in proportion to acreage than any 

 other country, and in all these kinds there is a 

 general superiority. Our most famous breeders 

 of live-stock are the tenant-farmers. The best 

 examples of farming are found in the same 

 class. The improved breeds of cattle, the 

 Leicester and Southdown sheep, and the ex- 

 tended use of machinery, manures, and artificial 

 foods is chiefly due to them. And the neat- 

 ness of the cultivation, the straight furrow, and 

 the beautiful lines of drilled corn, the well-built 

 ricks and docile horses, exhibit at once the 

 strength and skill of the labourers. If that 

 mode of husbandry which lessens the exchange- 

 able value of bread and meat by an increase of 

 production and supply is the best for the 

 community, from whom a smaller proportion of 

 their labour is required for the purchase of their 

 food, then our system of subdivision of labour 



