514 REPORT OF THE COMMISSIONER OF AGRICULTURE. 



An unusually large quantity of dairy produce of superior quality is 

 generally reported. 



Wages in baying and harvest were decidedly lower than last year. 

 The slow ripening of the crops this season enabled the farmers to ex- 

 tend the harvest through a longer period, and this, together with the 

 introduction of many self binding reapers, reduced the demand for har- 

 vest bands. In Western and Central Ontario the average wages were 

 about $1.25 a day, or (for short engagements during the harvest) $25 to 

 $30 a month, with board. For the eastern end of the province the rates 

 were considerably lower, the average day- wages being stated at $1, and 

 the wages per month, with board, at $18 to $25. By the year, wages are 

 $167 this year j last year, $173 ; if not boarded, $257, instead of $264 

 last year. 



The following tables present the estimate of two years for the cereals 

 and leguminous crops : 



Crop. 



1884. 



1883. 





Acres. 

 864, 551 

 722, 410 

 701,435 

 1, 485, 620 

 104, 141 

 570, 628 

 174, 834 

 65, 921 

 24, 877 



Bushels. 

 18, 479, 207 

 13, 251, 137 

 17, 860, 777 

 53, 195, 805 



1, 621, 667 

 13, 253, 986 



Acres. 

 1, 096, 206 

 586, 410 

 757, 156 

 1, 418, 309 

 188, 111 

 542, 771 

 214, 237 

 67, 802 

 25, 907 



Bushels. 

 11, 644, 005 

 9, 726, 093 

 18,414, 337 



54, 573, 609 

 3, 012, 240 

 10, 673, 723 























552, 953 







Other crops are thus estimated for 1883 and 1884 : 



Description. 



Hay and clover 



Do 



Potatoes 



Mangel-wurzel 



Carrots 



Turnips — 



Pasture 



Butter 



Working horses 



Breeding mares 



Unbroken horses 



Working oxen 



Milch covrs 



Store cattle over two years 



Young and other cattle 



Coarse-wooled sheep 



Fine wooled sheep 



Pigs over one year 



Pigs under one year 



Turkeys 



Geese 



Other fowls 



Coarse wool 



Fine wool 



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2, 193, 369 



3, 014, 912 

 168. 8G2 

 18, 341 

 10, 980 

 104, 108 

 2, 794, 9S6 



"'303,' 474' 

 93, 910 

 138, 5G9 

 16, 703 

 710, 519 

 384, 453 

 813, 905 

 1, 590, 604 

 300, 129 

 257, 711 

 658, 447 

 445, 532 

 540, 130 

 5.251,944 

 5, 597, C43 

 921,275 



