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an aggregate of $7,413,297.00, or $564.00 in the year for an average farm, which is 24.36 per cent of the investment.

The rent value of leased farms is ninety-five cents per acre, and the rate of wages for farm labour is $3.68 per week, including board.

The value of field crops on farms is 62.45 per cent of the year’s production ; fruit and vegetable and nursery stock, 1.82 per cent; live stock sold, 9.1 1 per cent; meats and products of animals slaughtered on the farm, 7.52 per cent; dairy products, 14.68 per cent; wool,1 . 14 per cent; and eggs, honey and sugar, 3.28 per cent.

The average value of horses on farms, per head, is $63.64; milch cows, $22.04; other horned cattle, $10.63; sheep, $3.06; and swine, $7.40; the average value of horses, per farm, is $161.45; milch cows, $93.33; other horned cattle, $45.36; sheep, $29.17; swine, $26.78; and poultry and bees, $10.98.

Milk and cream sold to cheese and butter factories amounted to $464,032.00.

The animal products for the census year were as follows: killed or sold for slaughter or exporteecattle. 19,497; sheep, 54,394; swine, 46,104; poultry, 161,808; fine wool, 153,133 pounds; coarse wool, 267,305 pounds; butter (home—made), 1,398,1 12 pounds; honey, 2,177 pounds; eggs, 2,426,251 dozen, valued at nearly a quarter of a million dollars.

Field Crops—The aggregate area of land under crops in 1900 was 448,737 acres, the chief crops being hay, oats, wheat and potatoes. These four crops occupied 94.30 per cent of the whole area-—-—hay, 40.65; oats, 36.74; wheat, 9.45; and potatoes, 7.46 per cent. Next in importance are roots, mixed grains, and barley. Hay, wheat, oats and potatoes yield largely, supplying the home consumption as well as furnishing considerable for export to provincial and foreign markets. But, since the great development of the dairying industry and the introduction of new farming methods, the yields and export of the three last named products have