. On the present condition of United Canada [microform] : containing plans for the advancement of its agriculture, commerce and future prosperity, with strictures on the eventful question of responsible government, and the present crisis of the province. Agriculture; Agriculture. 31 exertions of the British farmers to increase the production of their soils, seem to preclude all expectations of remunerating prices for Canada wheat and flour, even though the duty were all taken off, in Great Britain. It is not possible therefore to conceive, that if this subject be fully and fairly stated to the
. On the present condition of United Canada [microform] : containing plans for the advancement of its agriculture, commerce and future prosperity, with strictures on the eventful question of responsible government, and the present crisis of the province. Agriculture; Agriculture. 31 exertions of the British farmers to increase the production of their soils, seem to preclude all expectations of remunerating prices for Canada wheat and flour, even though the duty were all taken off, in Great Britain. It is not possible therefore to conceive, that if this subject be fully and fairly stated to the British Government or to the Imperial Parliament, that it will not be productive of redress. If we are to be precluded by existing circumstances, by the alterations in the ICnglish Corn Laws from shipping our wheat or flour home to Great Britain, is it to be endured that the markets in our own settlements are to be shut against us by foreign nations, when we can prove our competence to supply those ^siarkets with every barrel of flour they Want? We have proved this competence by our shipments home last year, as I have shewn above. The Americans and Oiher foreign nations can do no more than furnish those Islands with the required annual su[)ply, because the planters and dealers in the West Indies will buy no more than they annually consume, as flour will not keep sweet there. The West India in- terests, it is clear, therefore, will not be deteri- orated by this tsansfer of the trade of supply from foreign nations to the Mother Country and the British North American Colonies. The markets there will regulate themselves as they do every where else, by the known laws of supply and demand, and if the supply be only equal to the demand, the prices for the reasons I have mentioned, will generally be equal Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations m
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