The Commercial Products of the Vegetable Kingdom / Considered in Their Various Uses to Man and in Their Relation to the Arts and Manufactures; Forming a Practical Treatise & Handbook of Reference for the Colonist, Manufacturer, Merchant, and Consumer, on the Cultivation, Preparation for Shipment, and Commercial Value, &c. of the Various Substances Obtained From Trees and Plants, Entering into the Husbandry of Tropical and Sub-tropical Regions, &c.

by P. L. Simmonds

Or 18.49 per cent. in ten years.

Upper Canada,	1841	3,221,991	bushels
Upper Canada,	1851	12,692,825	bushels
		9,470,861

Or nearly quadrupling itself in ten years.

		Bushels.	Population.	Bush. per head.
Pr. Ed. Island	1847	219,787	62,678	3.50
Newfoundland	1850	297,157	276,117	1.08
New Brunswick	1850	206,635	193,800	1.06

The Eastern States in 1849 raised 1,090,896 bushels. Population 2,668,106, or 0.41 each.

The population of Upper Canada is 952,904, and allowing five bushels for each, 4,760,020 bushels; and for seed at one and a half bushels per acre 1,173,173 bushels = 5,933,193; leaves for export 6,761,668 bushels. More than sufficient to supply the consumption of the whole of the Eastern States.

"Were the population of Lower Canada to consume flour at the given rate, it would require—

	Bushels.
890,261 at five bushels each	4,451,305
Seed	640,000
	5,091,305
Grown	3,075,868
	2,015,437

Leaving a surplus of wheat in Canada 4,746,231 bushels, or at four and a half bushels for each, equal to 1,054,718 barrels of flour.

Professor Johnston in his report on New Brunswick, furnishes some valuable information as to the produce there.