Canadian Agriculture. 435 
Land. 
Acres. 
Occupied 5,396,382 
Improved 1,880,644 
Under Crop and Pasture 1,859,020 
Orchards and Gardens 21,624 
Number of Live Stock. 
Horses 46,044 
Colts 11,123 
Working Oxen 33,275 
Milch Cows 137,639 
Other Horned Cattle 154,689 
Sheep 337,801 
Swine 47,256 
Wool sold 1,142,440 lbs. 
Field Products. 
Bushels. 
Wheat 529,257 
Barley 228,748 
Oats 1,873,113 
Peas and Beans 37,220 
Buckwheat 339,718 
Indian Corn 13,532 
Potatoes 7,378,387 
Turnips 1,006,711 
Other Boots 326,143 
Clover Seed 8,128 
Eye 47,567 
Hay 597,731 tons. 
The average yields of crops in the western counties are, in 
bushels per acre : — 
Wheat 18 
Barley 35 
Oats 34 
Eye 21 
Maize 42 
Buckwheat 33 
Beans 22 
Turnips 420 
Potatoes 250 
Mangolds 500 
The average yield of hay is 2 tons, but as much as 4 tons 
per acre of timothy grass and clover have been secured in some 
districts, and followed by a fair aftermath. The Canadian ton. 
it must be remembered, is only 2000 lbs. In Hants and King's 
counties, and in the counties of Annapolis and Cumberland, 
enormous yields of cultivated grass and of salt grass have been 
taken off the dyke lands and marshes. 
Nova Scotia is pre-eminently a grazing country ; and though 
