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EXTRACTS FROM THE CENSUS OF THE CANADA8. 



[1853 



The County of Dromrnond, from 9,354 to 16,562, or 77.28 

 per cent., and 



The County of Sherbrooke, from 13,485 to 20,014, or 49.47 

 per cent 



The following table, which may be interesting for the purpose 

 of reference, is compiled from Weber's Almanac for 1853, pub- 

 lished at Leipsic, and gives the population of the largest cities of 

 Europe and North America. As the Germans are proverbially 

 accurate in their statistical statements, it is believed that it may 

 be relied upon as correct 



Agricultural Productions : 

 Brls. 



1. London 2,363,141 



2. Paris 1,053,262 



3. Constantinople . 786,990 



4. New York 522,766 



5. St Petersburg.. 478,437 



6. Vienna 477,846 



7. Berlin 441,931 



8. Naples 416,476 



9. Philadelphia .. 409,354 



10. Liverpool 384,263 



11. Glasgow 367,800 



J 2. Moscow 350,000 



13. Manchester ... 296,000 



14. Madrid. 260,000 



15. Dublin 254,000 



16. Lyons 249,325 



17. Lisbon 241,500 



18. Amsterdam 222,800 



19. Havana 200,000 



20. Marseilles 195,257 



21. Baltimore 189,054 



22. Palermo 180,000 



23. Rome... 172,382 



24. Warsaw 162,597 



25. Leeds 152,000 



26. Milan 151,438 



27. Hamburg 148,754 



28. Boston 136,788 



29. Brussels 136,208 



30. Turin 135,000 



31. Copenhagen .. . 133,000 



32. Bordeaux 130,927 



33. Venice 126,768 



34. Pesth 125,000 



35. Prague 124,181 



36. Barcelona 120,000 



37. Genoa 120,000 



38. Cincinnati 116,710 



39. New Orleans... 116,348 



40. Bristol 115,000 



41. Ghent... 112,410 



42. Munich 106,770 



43. Breslau 104,000 



44. Florence 102,154 



45. Rouen 100,265 



46. Belfast 98,660 



47. Cologne 92,244 



48. Dresden. 91,277 



49. Stockholm 90,823 



50. Rotterdam 90,000 



51. Antwerp 88,800 



52. Cork.. 86,485 



54. Liege 77,587 



54. Bologna 75,100 



55. Leghorn 74,530 



56. Trieste 70,846 



57. Konigsberg 70,198 



58. Sheffield 68,260 



59. The Hague 66,000 



60. Leipsic 65,370 



61. Oporto _ 62,000 



62. Malaga 60,000 



63. Dantzic 58,012 



64. Francfort 57,550 



65. Magdeburg 56,629 



66. Bremen 53,166 



The following is the rate of increase in the Population of 

 Upper Canada from the year 1811. 



In 1811 the population was 77,000 according to Bouchette. . 



1824 ditto 151,097 rate of inc. 7.40 p. et. p. an. 



1825 ditto 158,027 ditto 4.59 ditto 



1826 ditto 163,703 ditto 3.60 ditto 



1827 ditto 176,059 ditto 7.54 ditto 



1828 ditto 1S5,526 ditto 5.37 ditto 

 1832 ditto 261,060 ditto 10.18 ditto 



1834 ditto 320,697 ditto 11.42 ditto 



1835 ditto :<36,469 ditto 4.91 ditto 



1838 ditto 385,824 ditto -4.88 ditto 



1839 ditto 407,515 ditto 5.62 ditto 



In 1840 the population was 427,441 rate of inc. 4.88 p. ct.p. an. 



1841 ditto 465,357 ditto 8.77 ditto 



1842 ditto 486,055 ditto 4.45 ditto 

 1848 ditto 723,332 ditto 7.7 ditto 

 1851 ditto 952,004 ditto 10.54 ditto 



Total Export of Wheat in 1851,. 

 Total Export of Flour in 1851,. 



Bush. 

 933,756 

 668,623 

 or 3,343,115 

 Total Home consumption, allowing 5 

 bushels for each inhabitant, in a pop- 

 ulation of 1,842,265, 9,211,324 



Total Seed at l£ Bushels per acre : 



Upper Canada, 780,385 



Lower Canada, 335,926 



At l\ Bushels per acre. 



1,116,311 



1,674,466 



Total number of Bushels of Wheat on 



these calculations, 15,162,662 



Total returned by Census : Bush. 



Upper Province, 12,802,272 



Lower Province, about 3,400,000 



Total growth of Wheat ia all Canada, 

 calculating the Flour at 5 Bushels per 

 Barrel — the consumption at 5 Bush- 

 els per head — and the Seed at 1-J- 

 Bushels per acre, 



16,202,272 



15,182,662 



1,039,610 

 Leaving 1,039,610 Bushels to be accounted for in some other 

 way. 



The Home consumption is probably very nearly five and a- 

 half Bushels for each individual; the seed required in 1853 

 would be for the increased number of acres under Wheat in 1854. 



In the United States the Home consumption is calculated at 

 six bushels per head, — but there appears to be no ground for 

 such a calculation, especially as so much Indian Corn is used for 

 food — and in fact the whole growth of Wheat in 1850, as given 

 on page fifty-seven of the Abstract of the last Census of the 

 United States, divided into the population of the same year, 

 gives only 4y§ bushels for each inhabitant, whilst the Returns of 

 the Canada Census give more than double that amount, viz : 

 8ii bushels. 



It is true that the quantity of Indian Corn per individual is 

 much larger in the United States than in Canada, but it is well 

 worth observing, that, deducting the Exports of that year, 

 amounting to abont 12-J millions of bushels, (allowing five bush- 

 els to the barrel of Flour,) as appears in page fifty-seven of the 

 Abstract of their last Census, — and allowing 12J- millions for 

 seed at 1-J- bushels per acre, their individual consumption of 

 Wheat is little more than three bushels per head — whilst that of 

 Canada is 5^- — this may be accounted for by 7 the increased con- 

 sumption of Rice as well' as Indian Corn. 



In the United States the growth of Wheat has increased about 

 forty-eight per cent, during the last ten years, whilst in Canada, 

 during the same period, it has increased upwards of 400 per 

 cent ! J And taking the article of Indian Corn, which is the 

 production that compares most favorably for the United States, 

 the increase on it for the ten years between 1840 and 1850, has 

 been equal to 56 per cent viz: from 377£ millions of bushels to 

 592^- millions, — (see page 60 of Mr. Kennedy's Report,) — whilst 

 the increase in Canada for the last nine years has been 163 per 

 cent., the Census having been taken in 1842 and not in 1841. 

 During the same period also, the increase in the growth of Oats 



