RURAL AREA.

TABLE VIII. Showing by County Municipalities and groups of Counties the Rural Area of Ontario as returned by municipal assessors for 1898.

*Including Thunder Bay and Rainy River in this and succeeding tables.

3.213,321 55.0

60,030 382,710 61,131 59,653 412,54! 22,018 21,090 217,9038,226 37,003 104,10% 37,599 39,203 585,844 217,732 216,985 1.703,119 7.198,905 12.853,081 7.291.026

93,483 11.0

99,406 10.7

49,638 7.6

69,219 18 1

32,902 5.7

344,648 9.6

3,200,065 55.5

AREA AND PRODUCE-FALL WHEAT.

TABLE IX. Showing by County Municipalities and groups of Counties the area and produce of Fall Wheat in Ontario in the years 1897 and 1898, with the yearly average for the seventeen years 1882-98; also the yield per acre.

AREA AND PRODUCE-SPRING WHEAT.

TABLE X. Showing by County Municipalities and groups of Counties the area and produce of Spring Wheat in Ontario in the years 1897 and 1898, with the yearly average for the seventeen years 1882-98; also the yield per acre.

389,205 6,873,785

670

11,055

16.5

493

8,282

16.8

216

3,623 16.8

1,950

35,685

18.3 1,906,

24,778 13.0

1,951

36,874

18.9 1,509

6,163

110,731

18.0 5,012

26,257 17.4
74,277 14.8
7,417
15.1 474,432 7,259,297 15.3

17 7 323,305' 4,868,101

5,077

92,540 18.2

128,326

17.3

AREA AND PRODUCE-BARLEY.

TABLE XI. Showing by County Municipalities and groups of Counties the area and produce of Barley in Ontario in the years 1897 and 1898, with the yearly average for the seventeen years 1882-98, also the yield per acre.

AREA AND PRODUCE.-OATS.

TABLE XII. Showing by County Municipalities and groups of Counties the area and produce of Oats in Ontario in the years 1897 and 1898, with the yearly average for the seventeen years 1882-98; also the yield per acre.

Yearly average for the seventeen years 1882-98.

Counties.

Bush

Bush

Bush

per acre.

Essex

44,864 1,606, 131

35 8

47,000

1,677,900 35.7

Kent.

46,063 1,879,370

40 8

44.826

1,685,458 37.6

37,474 1,463,027

39.0

Elgin

40,728 1,584,319

38.9

41,394

1,428,093 34.5

35,109 1,269,774

36.2

Norfolk

30,541

873,473

28.6

33,043

915,291 27.7

28,014

844,086

30.1

Haldimand.

30,635 1,004,828

32.8

33,860

971,782 28.7

25,785

790,028

30.6

Welland

24,257

868,401

35.8

23,581

650,836 27.6

20,817

627,257 30.1

Totals.

183,776

6,332,673 34.5

Lambton.

Huron

124,646 4,898,588

39.3

126.134

5,032,747 39 9

93,923 3,507,432

37.3

Bruce

101,236 3,867,215

38.2

102,952

3,706,272 36.0

74,491 2,500,191

33.6

Totals.

218,674 7.814,584 35.7

Grey.

144,109

5,231,157 36.3

Simcoe..

96,391 3,344,768

34.7

100,025

3,490,873 34.9

78,566 2,750,814

35.0

Totals

Middlesex

94,784

3,668,141 38.7

Oxford

69,545 2,816,573

40 5

72,809

Brant

23,063 740,322

32 1

25 580

Perth

88.538 3,957,649

44.7

87,436

Wellington.

127,189 5,062,122

39.8

124,183

2,839,551 39.0
762,284 29.8
3,628,594 41.5
4,843,137 39.0

59,207 2,281,433
20,117
69,201 2,830,940

38.5

683,343

34.0

40.9

88,783 3.277,530

36.9

Waterloo..

54,759 2,102,746

38.4

55,797

2,120 286 38 0

43,032 1,581,584

36.8

Dufferin

62,138 2,162,402

34.8

63,383

2,490,952 39.3

41,486 1,466,870'

35.4

Totals.

523,972

20,352,945 38 8

Lincoln

Wentworth.

22,364

34 6

36 164

1,247,658 34.5

30,588 1,058,394

34.6

Halton

25,797

884,837

34.3

25,961

898,251 34.6

21,670

754,433

34 8

Peel

44,636 1,651,532

37.0

47,563

1,845,444 38 8

York.

84.425 3,410,770

40.4'

94,595

3,916.233 41.4

Ontario

68,844 2,595,419

37 7

71,752

2,661,999 37.1

35,791 1,312,639

74,623 2,920,524 39.1

57,922 2,147,608 37.1

36.7

Durham

43,633 1,514,065

34.7

46,551

1,675,836 36.0

39,062 1,364,048

34.9

Northumberland.

45,001 1,413,031

31.4

46.023

1,495,748 32.5

Prince Edward

18,116 512,683

28 5

20,752

616,334 29.7

35,155 1,047,520
15,154

29.8

423,791 28.0

Totals.....

388,307 13,968,525

15,028,423 36.5

Lennox & Add..

Frontenac

Leeds

34,136

1,024,080 30 0

25,643

29.9

43 620

1,203,912 27.6

32,164

723,763
911,448 28.3

28.2

33.3

48,438

1,550,016 32.0

Grenville.

34,831 1,245,950

35.8

35,355

1,177.322 33.3)

Dundas

38,188 1,432,050

37 5

36,929

1,347,909 36.5

Stormont.

29,480 1,161,512

39.4

28,038

939,273 33 5

25.118

854,229

34.0

Glengarry

38,175 1,385,753

36 3

37,696

1,372,134 36.4

32,262

1,038,437

32.2

Prescott..

36,605 1,354,385

37 0

37, 134

1,340,537 36 1

29,522

929,251

31.5

Russell.

23,191

874.301

37.7

22,183

Carleton

78,907 3,164,171

40.1

79,460

Renfrew

55,459 1,935,519

34.9

56 901

Lanark..

48,900 1,765,290

36.1

47,782

Totals..

507,672

Victoria...

66 043

Peterborough.

44,277 1,337.165

30.2

47,055

1,430,472 30.4

35,935

1,101,025

30.6

Haliburton..

7,393 169,300

22.9

7,436

164,336 22 1

5,521

143,447 26.0

Hastings,

59,446 1,795, 269

30.2

60,404

1,963,130 32.5

47,437

1,392,577

29.4

Totals..

171,650 5,426,477

5,823,213 32.2

292,344

Parry Sound

14,302

376,143

26.3

13,479

411,110 30.5

7,966

231,288 29.0

Nipissing.

3,916 148,808

38.0

4,073

110,786 27.2

1,556

Manitoulin

Algoma

Totala....

The Province..

4,564 152.438
271,360
8,480
43,443 1,241,093
2,376.360 86,858,293

33.4

5,396

141,915 26 3

32.0

7,763

259,284 33.4)

28.6 43,178

1,254,717 29.1

36.6 2,432,491

86,318,128 35.5 1,904,717 65,792,653

34.5