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ffirtiiity of the soil, particularly ia Upper Canada, and it 

 niust be expected that, with the rapid iucreaseuf the popula* 

 tion, the tide of British capital and luboor year after year 

 flowing thither and the impetus given by the Act of 1813, 

 the Canadians will be induced to raise much more Wheat 

 than hitherto. 



The accounts from Canada, last season, gave abundant 

 proofs of the increasing^ attention paid to the agriculture of 

 the country and of its success. 



"The Times of the Kith September, referring to the 

 Montreal Papers says " The Prospects of Agriculture 

 this year are stated to be very good. The Wheat raising 

 in the Lower Province had been particularly successful, 

 the crops havings suffered but little from the Fly, the 

 usual curse of the Canadian farmers, and hardly at all 

 from the rust. The accounts also from Upper Canada are 

 very flatterins:. "The Morinii(r Post of the same day 

 says" The Wheat crop>? throU!;!jout Eiist and West Canada 

 are most abundant and show the certainty of a lur;;er yield 

 than was ever before known in our North American 

 Colonies. The Editor of the F.umers' Majjazine, (for 

 August) observes " The accounts from Canada generally 

 describe the prospect in regard to the harvest as most 

 promising and a much greater breadth than usual under 

 Wheat." 



A Letter from Montreal, 0th November, says "The 

 quantity of produce for shipment next Spring must be large ; 

 ai present it remains principally in the hands of the farmers, 

 who are unwilling to accept the prices now offering." 



When we are taking into consideration the capability of 

 Canada for growing large quantities of Corn, we must not 

 forget that there are circumstances which give reason to 

 believe that the Agricultural produce of the country will 

 rapidly increase. At a recent Meeting of the Essex Agri- 

 cultural Protection Society at Chelmsford, Mr. Du Croz, a 

 gentleman intimately acquainted with Cannda, in pointing 

 out the mischievous en't;cts of the Corn Law of 1843, said, 

 " Look at the relative position of the farmers in Canada, 

 mid those of this country I The mother country pays the 

 greater part of the public expenditure of the Colony : — its 

 army, its navy, are principally paid by Great Britain. The 

 fee simple of the best land in Canada, except in some par- 

 ticular places, does not cost more than the rent of land in 

 this country, and the expense of transfer is next to nothing, 

 no stamps being necessary. There are no tithes, highway 

 rate, poor's rate, or county rate." 



With respect to the sale of land, we find that from the 

 year 1826 to 1836 the Canada company had sold 670,000 



