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Table IV. — Showing tho Increase in Occupied Land, in Hobses, 
Oxen and Cows, Sheep and Swine, from tho Year 1842 to 1871, 
inclusive, in the Dominion of Canada. 
Year. 
Lands. 
a „,„„ Acres 
Cult.vation. 
Total 
Occupied 
Acres. 
Horses. 
Cows 
and Oxen. 
Sheep. 
Swlnp. 
1842 
1,751,528 
4,461,198 
6,212,726 
113,647 
504,963 
575,7::0 
394,366 
1848 
2,546,925 
5,866,666 
8,413,591 
151, 3S9 
565,845 
833,807 
484,241 
1852 
3,705,523 
6,123,132 
9,828,655 
201,670 
744,264 
967,168 
571,496 
1S61 
6,051,C09 
7,303,287 
13,354,896 
377,681 
1,015,278 
1,170,225 
776,001 
1S71 
8,833,026 
7,329,050 
16,162,676 
489,001 
1,403,174 
1,514,914 
874,664 
rison between the agricultural progress of the Province of 
Ontario and that of the United States : — 
" Taking as the basis of calculation the official volume which contains 
the agricultural results of the last census of the United States, and the 
similar census returns for Canada, referring to nearly the same period, it 
can be demonstrated that Canada, and Ontario especially, instead of lagging 
behind the United States in every element of progress, as some people are 
constantly telling us, can put the tabular statements of her products and 
her progress side by side with those of the Great Republic on her borders, 
and not suffer one whit from the comparison, but that, on the contrary, 
she is shown to be considerably ahead of the United States in many 
important indications of a skilled and productive agriculture, and a rapid 
general advancement. The following is a summary of the results obtained 
by a comparison of the official statistics above mentioned, as regards 
Ontario. 
" In nine years she added 46 - 65 per cent, to her population, while the United 
States in ten years added only 35'58 per cent, to theirs. She maintained a 
decennial rate of increase greater by one-half than that of the whole of the 
United States and territories ; more than double that of all the United States, 
excluding the Western States, and only falling short of the increase in the 
Western States and territories by 7 per cent. In nine years she added nearly 
sixty-four cultivated acres to every hundred acres in cultivation in 1851, 
while the United States and territories in ten years added only a little over 
forty-four acres to every hundred acres under cultivation at the date of the 
previous census. She subdued her wild lands more rapidly than even the 
growth of her population, and at a rate almost double that in the United 
States ; the proportion being as 17*10 to 8*72. The cash value of farms in 
1860, per head of the population, was greater in Ontario than iu the United 
States, being $211-42 in Ontario, and $211*33 in the United States. Their 
value per acre was greater in Ontario than in the United States by nearly $6, 
being $22*10 per acre in Ontario, and $16*32 per acre in the United States. 
The capital invested in agricultural implements was greater in Ontario than 
in the United States in proportion to the breadth of land cultivated, being 
$180 for every hundred acres of cultivated land in Ontario, and $150 for every 
hundred acres of cultivated land in the United States. She grew more wheat 
