Excerpt from Emigration to Canada: The Province of Ontario; Its Soil, Climate, Resources, Institutions, Free Grant Lands, &C., &C., For the Information of Intending Emigrants (Classic Reprint)
The soil of the Province of Ontario is, as a whole, not to be surpassed in fertility by any part of the world indeed, it is its very fertility that has been its worst enemy inducing neglect of good and scientific farming, and it is= the want of good and scientific farming to which is to be attributed the exodus which is always taking place throughout America from front to back settlements.