WHEAT.—­UPPER  CANADA. 
Bushels.       To each inhabitant. 
Wheat crop of 1841 was     3,221,991  or          6.60
Do.     1847         7,558,773  "          10.45
Do.     1849         9,706,082  "          12.08
Do.     1851        12,692,852  "          13.33

The quantity of land under wheat in “Upper Canada was 782,115 acres, showing a yield of about sixteen and three quarter bushels to the acre.  The wheat produced in 1852 was valued at nearly two million pounds sterling.

LOWER CANADA. 
Minots. 
Wheat crop in 1843 was                  942,835  or  1.36
Do.     1851                    3,075,868  "   3.46

UNITED STATES. 
Bushels. 
Wheat crop in 1839 was               84,832,272  or  4.96
Estimated by patent office 1847     114,245,500  "   5.50
Crop of wheat 1849                  100,684,627  "   4.33

In order, however, to institute a fairer comparison, I will divide the States into three classes, viz.:—­1st.  States growing over six million bushels.

Bushels.       Population.      Bush, per head. 
Pennsylvania     15,367,691      2,311,736           6.65
Ohio             14,487,351      1,980,408           7.32
New York         13,131,498      4,148,182           3.16
Virginia         11,232,616      1,421,661           7.90
Illinois          9,414,575        851,471          11.06
Indiana           6,214,458        988,416           6.28
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Total            69,847,189     11,701,924           5.97

2nd.  States growing over one million and less than six million bushels.

Bushels.       Population.      Bush, per head. 
Michigan         4,925,889         397,654           12.39
Wisconsin        4,286,131         305,191           14.04
Maryland         4,494,681         583,031            7.71
Missouri         2,981,652         682,043            4.38
Kentucky         2,140,822         982,405            2.15
North Carolina   2,130,102         868,903            2.45
Tennessee        1,619,381       1,002,525            1.61
New Jersey       1,601,190         481,555            3.27
Iowa             1,530,581         192,214            7.96
Georgia          1,088,534         905,999            1.21
South Carolina   1,066,277         668,507            1.60
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Total           27,865,240       7,078,131            3.93

3rd.  The remaining States and territories.

2,791,470 4,466,246 0.63

Total wheat crop in the United States, 100,503,899 bushels.  Population, 23,246,301.  Bushels per head, 4.33.

Increase:—­U.  States, 1839 84,823,272 bushels
" 1849 100,503,896 "
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15,680,627

Or 18.49 per cent. in ten years.

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

Or nearly quadrupling itself in ten years.