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Gazette. Among the writers in that country is Mr. T. Dyke Ackland, who has- 

 recently issued a pamphlet, containing letters addressed to the president of the 

 Royal Agricultural Society of England, on the subject of the kind of education 

 proper to the agriculturist. This pamphlet we have not yet received, but the 

 editor of the Grazette, in noticing it, thus comments on its general character : 



" It seems to us that agricultural education and the education of agricultur- 

 ists are two altogether different things. The former relates to the profession, 

 the latter to the whole human nature of the individual. It is the object of the 

 latter to place the body, intellect, and soul of man in cordial and intelligent re- 

 lationship to the Avhole world of moral, spiritual, and material truth ; it is the 

 object of the former to teach only such applications of the truths thus conveyed 

 as will tell upon the relationship of farmers to each other, to their landlords, 

 their laborers, and their land. 



"Agricultural education, in Mr. Ackland's pamphlet, means physics, chemistry, 

 physiology, meteorology, the laws of heat, geology, botany, animal pathology, 

 political economy, (fee, &c. — a medley of all the sciences. It is to quicken 

 powers of observation, to confer alert vitality and wakefulness, to create habitual 

 though tfulness, to strengthen resolution, to foster religious feelings and convic- 

 tion. In the words of his correspondent, whom he quotes, it seems as if he 

 would rather forget that his pupils are to be farmers, remembering only that 

 they are to be men. And a very great service indeed he will have rendered 

 if his pages being generally read by agriculturists, they shall be induced by 

 them to seek such an education for their sons as shall implant these, which are 

 the essential elements of ultimate character, the firm foundation of ultimate po- 

 sition, whatever occupation or profession they may afterwards adopt as their 

 source of maintenance and livelihood. 



" Nor do we say that there is not much in these pages relating more directly 

 to the merely professional aspect of a good agricultural education. Although 

 the pamphlet might be as properly addressed, let us say, to the medical as to 

 the agricultural profession, yet there is much in it of assertion, argument and 

 advice, from which the future farmer especially may benefit. We do not pur- 

 pose to-day to offer here any analysis of its pages, but content ourselves with 

 a cordial recommendation of them to those alone of the agricultural world to 

 whom, as we believe, they have any business to be addressed — the young farm- 

 ers and agricultural students of the country." 



THE KIND OF WOOL MOST IX DEMAND. 



To give direction to the agricultural industry of the country, by laying be- 

 fore it such focts as will serve to guide the farmer, is a duty of this department. 

 In the report for January, Ave referred to the fact that Canadian wool under 

 the miscalled reciprocity treaty is admitted free of duty, and thai it is combing 

 wool, produced by the Cotswold and Leicester sheep. The necessities of the 

 country caused by the want of cotton have occasioned a greater demand 

 for the cheap wools than for other kinds, and the urgencies of the war have 

 increased the demand for combing wools. These demands must continue some 

 time yet ; and as they abate, the fact that Canadian wool will not be admitted 

 as now, will serve to keep up the demand for home-groAvn combing wools. The 

 next report from this department will exhibit a great reduction in meat-pro- 

 ducing stock, serving, by its reduction, to keep up the prices of fresh and salted 

 meats. This fact will increase the demand for mutton, and as the Cotswold 



