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not satisfied with bare facts, and his indications must follow the other's 

 every day lessons, which are so varied by climate, soil, plants and manage- 

 ment, that the association of science and practice must continue one of 

 unending interest and practical value. 



\V- do not agree with those who denounce the multiplication of agri- 

 cultural exhibitions. Were they made less sectional than they are now, 

 the under-average fanner would be the longer in rising, and the country 

 correspondingly kept back. Exhibition lessons are not necessarily imme- 

 diate in their effect, nor are they always remunerative for the time being, 

 icational work otherwise for the farm is precisely of the same character 

 with exhibitions, and nobody will deny that the school, the college, tin- 

 press, and books, are too plentiful. Exhibitions are a peculiar feature of 

 Canadian agriculture, and it is well we should think twice ere denouncing 

 their multiplication. 



The sequence of the preceding paragraph should be first class agricultu- 

 ral literature as another mark of the times, but it is not so, and the reason 

 is not far to seek. We are too young, not wealthy enough, and still too 

 busy, to employ the best talent in agricultural literature. The Americans 

 are far ahead of us in this respect, as they are actually of Britain in some 

 lines of the profession. 



Neither are we on a par with our neighbours in associations for diffu- 

 sion of agricultural 'knowledge. The origination of Societies, Clubs, and 

 Associations i- peculiarly American in its diffuseness, but when the day 



take the lesson, let us add continuance to the virtue. 

 And aifain, one of the great agricultural phenomena of to-day with us, 

 atriarchal grazing of cattle. Under all the irregular and overheated 

 speculation of the pioneers in this trade, our North- West ranches will come 

 .nd well marked. If winter conditions are unfavourable to 

 'ccupation, the summer by itself will suffice to make rich, and 

 ,nL, r and goin^ that may be necessary will add to employment 

 t'-m of jurisdiction, in which we are of opinion mutton 

 and wool will take a lance pi. 



lly, in those coniiiK'd not---, tlit; prominent agriculture of tn-.hv 



in N making more promioenl the unappivhcn.l.-.l resources 



of th > count ry. Not only in araM- cultuiv, but certainly in actual let- 



ne of natuiv - ifift- in the t'.nn f grass, aiv we lo,^m_: our^-lves: 



'i Manitol.a, is it not BO in the Eastern provinces, and 



hmild take at our own doors in Ontario ? The 



'1 for lan 1 is w.-ll in .f domination, but unwise as regards stern 



worth ;-.n-l solidity. 



