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Excerpt from The Canadian Monthly and National Review, Vol. 5: January to June In 1870 there were 189 millions of acres of improved, and two hundred and eighteen millions of acres of unimproved, farming lands in the United States the average size of the farms being 153 acres. The total value of these farms is estimated at nine thousand millions of dollars and the farm implements and machinery at $3 The increase in the value of this department of real estate Since 1850 has been nearly 300 per cent. In 1870 there were in the United States 28 million sheep, yielding 100 million pounds of wool, 8 million horses, and 28 million neat cattle. The total value of farm productions was estimated at$2,447, 5 The grain production was about 300 million bushels of wheat, 17'million bushels of rye, 761 million bushels of Indian com, 282 million bushels of oats, and 40 million bushels of barley and buckwheat. The above is an estimate of the produc tions, or rather the principal productions, of the farm. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

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Excerpt from Rose-Belford's Canadian Monthly and National Review, Vol. 5 The people of Canada are being instructed and perhaps enlightened by a series of letters from a gentleman in the United States, Mr. Wharton Barker, of Philadelphia, addressed to certain men of prominence here and in his own country, who do not appear, however, to honour them with much attention. The object of these letters, we may venture to say, would seem to be the wish to instil into the minds of the Canadian people a feeling of dissatisfaction with existing institutions, and thus to induce them to 'look to Washington' for a happy escape from the ills they are supposed to be suffering from. The writer of the letters is variously described as 'one of the Executive of the International League of the United States, ' and as 'Secretary to the Industrial League' in that country, and the latter appellation may remove from our minds the apprehension that it is a Nihilist or Socialist who ventures to become the prophet of this new school of economy. What the International League may be, or why Mr. Wharton Barker should be our guide, counseller and friend, we are left to imagine; perhaps it is not necessary we should be informed. These letters have, however, served our purpose, to draw attention to an important question for Canada, since several of our prominent journals have published and commented upon the question of which they treat, though they are given to the world evidently not by their recipients, but by Mr. Barker himself. The propositions these letters deal with are mainly three: 1. That our commercial relations with the United States are of an unsatisfactory character; 2. That this state of affairs cannot be permanently bettered by a Reciprocity Treaty liable to constant variation upon changes of government; 3. That Canada belongs to the American 'system, ' and that she should not be isolated commercially from the continent to which she belongs. It is gratuitously asserted, moreover, that the Dominion of Canada is purely artificial union effected for selfish purposes by England, and independently of the desire of the people of Canada themselves. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

The Canadian monthly and national review - Vol. V by Rose Belford. This book is a reproduction of the original book published in 1880 and may have some imperfections such as marks or hand-written notes.