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We let Ontario farmers sing

About the joys the woods do bring,

But we in regions of Northwest

Do think prairie farms the best,

For those poor men who swing the axe

On their strength ’tis a heavy tax,

For several years they naught can grow

While from the first we plow and sow,

And while we plow we don’t get thumps

By running it against the stumps,

And where wild Buffalo now doth feed

There very soon they’ll sow the seed,

Where Indian wigwams now do stand

Will be the site of cities grand,

And where the deer and wolf doth roam

Millions will build each happy home,

So quick as if by magic wand

They will arise o’er the whole land,

But this one fact we won’t deny

Ontario she can supply,

For so skilfully she doth invent

Each agricultural implement.