AGRICULTURAL PROGRESS OF ONTARIO.

Waikato Times, Volume XX, Issue 1655, 13 February 1883, Page 4

AGRICULTURAL PROGRESS OF ONTARIO.

The Xovember report of the Ontario Bureau of Inclustiies, brings out a great number of interesting facts. It is proved that the production of wheat per acre in Ontaiio is greater than the production in any one of the best American wlieatgrowing .States ; and the Ontario figures are not mere estimates, but give the actual yield of the crop as reported by threshers. The average crop of fall wheat per acre in Ontario in JSS2 was 563 bushels. The official estimates of the crops in the six principal fall-wheat growing (States, as given by the Washington Department of Agriculture, are :—: — Ohio, IG"7 bushels; Michigan, 17*8; Indiana, ]57; Illinois, 160; Missouri, 14*6 ; Kansas, 10*5. The year ISB2, to ■\\ Inch thc«o figures relate, is admitted by the American Department to have been an extraordinary good year. In spring wheat Ontario would likewise have been nt the head of the list had it not been that rust struck the crop in the principal spring wheat sections. As it is, Ontario's spring wheat crop this year was 165 bushels per acre. Only one Ameiicau State or Territory comes anywhere near this iigiuc : that one is Dakota, with a ciop ot 16"7 bushels. Next is Minnesota with 1.3*3 bushels, and lowa with 11 bushels. The total number of farms in the Province is 801,760, etnbiacing an area of 17,602,357 acres, of which 10,211,900 acres are cleared. The value of farm land is set down at 651,552,030 dols., and the total of land, buildings, implements, and live stock at 552,023,300 dols. The area under giain crops this year was ,'5,002,007 acres, or 4S per cent, of all the cleared land. The acreage and production of each croj are given as follows :— Fall wheat, ], 188, 520 acres, 41,253,402 bushels ; spring wheat, 580,817 acres, 9,063,999 bushels ; barley, 848,017 acres, 24,254,407 bushels ; oats, 1,375,41.") acres, 50,097,997 bushels ; rye, 189,031 acres, 3,. "549,898 bushels; pease, 5.>7,157 acres, 10.943.3W bushels; corn, 200,924 acres, 1 3,420, 954 bushels (m the ear) ; buckwheat, 49,586 acres, 1,247,943 bushels. The total of spring and fall wheat is 1,775,337 acres, yielding 40,921,401 bushels, or anaverago of 230."> bushels per acre. The total produce of beans is computed to be 409,910 bushels ; of potatoes, 18,432,143 bushels : of mangold-wurzels, 7,711,420 bushels; of carrots, 4,009,957 bushels; and of turnips, 35,359,331 bushels. The area under meadow and clover was 1 ,825, 890 acres, and the produce, 2, 090, 626 tons, beingan average of only I*l4 tons per acre. The damage done to clover by winter exposure and spring frosts accounts for this poor result. Orchard and garden embrace an area of 213,846 acres, and vineyard 209S acres. The -returns' for the latter are doubtless imperfect. I The tables of live stock sho\v that the number of firm horses in the province on' the 3lst of May was 503,604 ; of cattle,' 1,586,312 ; of sheep, 1,915,303 ; of hogs, 850,226 ; and'of poultry, 5,352,120. The number of milch cows was, 665,382, and of thoroughbred cattle, 23,620 ; the returns of the latter, however, were incomplete. Of sheep one year and over 933, 143 were returned as coarse-woolled, and 178,299 as fine-woolled : the average weight per fleece of coarse 'w661 Was 519 lbs, and of fine wool 5*13 lbs. Tlfeihuin r ber of hogs ' one year ' and' 'over was 2.32,415, and, under one year, , 507,81 Ji The number of turkeys was 310,058 ; of geese, 533,357 ; and of ofhfer fdwls, 4,308, 705 i i • (',.,..

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