EIGHTH ORDINARY MEETING. 



55 



HORNED CATTLE. 



Ontario . . . 

 Quebec . . 

 Dommon . 



To Britain. 



To United States. 



Ontario . . . 

 Quebec . . . 

 Dominion . 



$ 72,972 

 2,316,604 

 2,706,051 I 



SHEEP. 



$ 20,976 

 446,755 

 510, 152 



$ 374,858 



45,517 



423,807 



To All Countries. 



$ 449,590 

 2,363,296 

 3,256,330 



I 491,640 



606,050 



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 1S82 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 vears 1871-'81 amount to the 



* Sessional Papers Dom. Can. 1S83, App. XIV., p. 199, et seq. 



