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farming at Willow Park, Halifax, to advance the science of 

 his chosen and honored profession. " In England, Dukes, 

 Marquises, Earls, Baronets, and all ranks of nobility emu- 

 late each other, not merely in patronizing husbandry, but 

 in actively engaging in it." Would that the large landed 

 proprietors in England and Ireland were more generally 

 engaged in agricultural pursuits. There is infinitely 

 more honor and more enjoyment in these employments 

 than in the pastime in which some indulge. To monop- 

 olize vast tracts of the most fertile lands in these fertile 

 Islands, and persist in keeping them in an unproductive 

 state, neither tilling them, nor suffering them to be tilled ; 

 thus denying to thousands of poor but honest husband- 

 men a means of subsistence, rather than permit them to 

 labor for their own support, and for the direct and mani- 

 fest benefit of their employers or landlords ; is very much 

 like having ten talents and burying them all in a napkin. 

 If there are duties devolving upon the rich, as well as the 

 poor, such landed proprietors fall far short of performing 

 theirs. The grand inscription upon the Royal Exchange, 

 in London, 



"The earth is the Lord's and the fulness thereof," 



is a silent but decided rebuke to them. 



Were it only the private interests of such men that 

 suffer by this exclusiveness, or whatever it may be called, 

 there would be no such ground for complaint as is called 

 forth by this great national abuse. 



Prince Edward Island, one of the fairest and most pro- 

 ductive garden spots on earth, suffered long and sorely 

 from that remnant of the feudal system, Seigniories. The 

 burden became too grievous to be longer endured, and 



