510. Value of total exports from Canada of wheat, flour and other breadstuffs, 1868-1895 :—

511. Quantities of total imports into and exports from Canada of wheat, flour and other breadstuffs, 1868-95:

*Amount entered for consumption only as regards New Brunswick. Not separated from other grain. Rye flour included in imports of flour to 1876, inclusive.

QUANTITIES of total imports into and exports from Canada, &c.—Concluded.

1876......

1877.
1878.....

9,248,390 419,936 11,348,070 +10,168,176 2,047,040 5,119,295
3,559,095 276,439 4,941,290 6,587,180 4,083,174 5,968,688

14,752,213

8,817,361

8,509,243 479,245 10,905,468 7,543,342 3,987,600 5,380,529

38,200,102

1883
1884.
1885....

6,433,533 10,733,535

508,120 8,974,133 11,588,446 2,229,900 9,235,442

17,096,649

1886

526,340 13,365,255 8,817,216 819,605 4,704,899 17,661,368 3,021,188 284,504 4,443,708 7,780,262 3,806,474 4,736,319 20,354,942 5,423,805 161,054 6,229,075 9,067,395 2,007,674 5,619,799 22,127,128 5,705,874 415,397 7,782,859 8,554,302 2,667,401 7,851,134

1

29,624,279

1887

9,127,045 531,152 11,782,805 9,456,964 3,373,764 6,415,208
7,299,694 355,883 9,079,109 9,370,158 1,203,195 2,816,353
1,785,349 156,360 2,428,605 9,948,217 4,386,259, 2,775,403

23,289,317

12,386,668

26,493,108

1888.. 1889 1890..... 2,580,801 149,959 3,255,616 9,975,911 6,624,746 4,313,537 34,520,737 1891..... 4,539,363 313,280 5,949,123 4,892,334 3,554,255 3,884,737, 22,938,201 399,118 15,455,051 5,202,768 2,050,656 14,712,513 44,091.571 431,116 14,948,051 2,044,235 2,839,209 11,902,648

512. The steady fall in price of wheat of late years with the slight upward tendency in 1895 is shown in the following table, which gives the average price per bushel in London and the average export price per bushel in New York in each year since 1871:—

513. The average yields per acre of wheat, barley and oats in some of the principal British possessions and foreign countries are given below, the figures, with the exception of those for Canada and the United States, having been taken from the "Victorian Year-Book," 1892-93.

AVERAGE YIELD PER ACRE IN BRITISH AND FOREIGN COUNTRIES, OF WHEAT, BARLEY AND OATS.

514. Considerable attention has been directed in recent years to the cultivation of the sugar beet, and for the purpose of encouraging the industry, the Government by statute is required to pay a bounty on all beet sugar produced, the statute limiting the time to the 30th June, 1895. In 1895 Parliament extended the period to 1st July, 1897. The amount authorized to be paid being 75 cents per 100 pounds, and an additional 1 cent per 100 pounds for each degree or fraction of a degree over 70 degrees, such bounty in no case to exceed in the aggregate $1 per 100 pounds. The previous arrangement was $1 per 100 pounds, and an additional 33 cents for every 100 pounds testing over 70 degrees.

515. Mr. Licht's monthly circular gives the following as the actual output of beet-root sugar, in the years and for the countries named:

In the last forty years the production of cane sugar increased 1 times. The increase in the production of beet sugar has been twenty-two times.

516. Viticulture in Canada has made considerable progress. There are at least 6,000 acres of land planted in vines capable of producing one million and a half gallons of wine.

Ontario has an area suitable for grape culture at least equal to half the present area of vineyards in France.

There are about 2,000 persons directly and indirectly interested in grape growing and wine-making.

In 1892 there were, in Ontario, 2,174,133 vines of bearing age, and 950,659 of non-bearing age. In 1893 there were 2,223,282 vines of bearing age, and 783,430 of non-bearing age.