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ders ; by the softness of his hair, mane and skin ; by the fullness of his 

 breast ; by the large size of his joints, and by the dryness of his extremi- 

 ties. But by tradition, we learn from our ancestors, that we must discover 

 his nobility more by moral indications than by his physical properties. 



The horse has no malice in him. He loves his master, and usually will 

 not suffer another to mount him. He will not do the prompted necessaries 

 while his master is on his back ; he will not eat the food left by another 

 horse. He loves to splash limpid water whenever he meets it. By his 

 smell, sight and hearing, and by his intelligence and address, he preserves 

 his master from a thousand accidents in the chase or in battle. He will 

 fight for his master, and make common cause with him in everything. — 

 Ikatehiia-Rakehhon. 



You will now comprehend the Immense love which an Arab has for his 

 horse. It is said that when Mohammed went out of his tent to received the 

 noble horses sent to him, he caressed them with his hands and said, " May 

 you be blessed, oh daughters of the wind." Now I pray God to grant to 

 you happiness which can never pass away ; keep your friendship for me, 

 for the wise Arabs have said, " lliches can be lost, honors dissipate like 

 shadows, but a true friend is a treasure which ever remains." He who has 

 written these lines, with a hand which death must one day dry up, is your 

 friend, though poor before God. 



Sid-el-Hadj, ABD-EL-KADER, Ben-Mahhyeddin. 



End of Deul-Kada, 1274. End of August, 1857. 



PLANTING WHEAT IN DRILLS. 



Messrs. Fowler & Wells, of New York, in their " Life Illustrated," of 

 September 4, 1858, recommend it by showing very superior crops raised 

 by Mr. Brackett, of Rochester. He planted in rows two feet wide, and 

 hills two feet apart. He planted four grains of wheat in each ; these pro- 

 duced thirty stalks on each square foot ; the yield nearly 116 bushels on 

 one acre. Five pounds weight of wheat seeds an acre of hills. 



Agricultural addresses have teemed with lessons for breeding and taking 

 care of all our stock except the most precious — that of our children and 

 selves. The Atlantic cable sinks to insignificance compared with the 

 "Science of the developement of men." 



We exhibit beautiful animal stock, and deformed, erisypelatory, rickety, 

 narrow-chested, dyspeptic, teeth-rotten, flabby-muscle, scrofulous, diseased- 

 liver, kidneys, bad nerves, crooked-backed, bad-jointed, &c., &c., girls and 

 boys. Let all our agricultural orators open their mouths against these 

 terrible evils of the land. 



The Secretary said he took very great pleasure in reading to the Club 

 the following deeply interesting paper on a probable remedy for the terri- 

 ble enemy of our bread. It is from the Hon. Samuel Cheever, late Pre- 

 sident of our State Agricultural Society. 



THE WHEAT MIDGE. 



Editors Country Gentleman — From reading an essay upon the wheat 

 midge, written by Prof. Hinds, of Trinity College, Toronto, to which was 



