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power in North America goes far to corroborate what 
Lord BEACONSFIELD said at an agricultural meeting in 
England, that supremacy as a grain growing country- 
would soon be attained by Canada, and that with this 
expectation thousands of persons from the States were 
hastening to change their homes to the other side of the 
boundary line. 
It may be objected that I am placing Canada before 
you too much in the light of a land of promise ; — as a 
corrective I will give you some fa6ts and figures of solid 
progress. In 1881 the export of agricultural produce 
alone reached to about $60,000,000. The same year 
goods were imported to the value of $105,330,724 ; whilst 
the exports for the same period showed a balance of trade 
in favour of the Dominion to the extent of nearly 
$8,000,000. Nor must it be forgotten that Canada her- 
self is now a manufacturing country, and her people are 
buying largely every year as well as exporting fine pianos, 
organs, carriages, boots and shoes, paper, tweeds, 
sugars, besides other articles manufactured cheaply and 
well in their own country. The ability of the people to 
buy such articles can be estimated from the fact that 
they annually deposit in chartered Government and 
other banks, and savings banks and building societies 
$100,000,000 and that the annual exports of the whole 
country are keeping pace with imports, thanks to super- 
abundant harvests and a steady foreign demand for the 
products of the land and sea. 
The cattle trade of the Dominion is thus alluded to in 
the Colonies and India for 6th June, 1884, "The Cana- 
dian Minister of Agriculture in his annual report refers 
as follows to the remarkable growth of the cattle trade 
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