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save all winter keep, except for the breeders. As the 

 lumber trade retires farther back, and becomes less 

 extensive, the large and fat pork which was in demand 

 for the lumberers becomes unsaleable, and a new form 

 of the article — such as a civilised community are likely 

 permanently to consume — is necessary to be produced. 



Considerations of this kind render it necessary to look 

 at stock in different countries with a differently instructed 

 eye ; and the opinions of a committee in offering, and 

 of a judge in awarding, prizes, must be determined, not 

 so much by the abstract excellence of this or that 

 animal or breed, as by its special adaptation to local 

 circumstances, and to the purposes for which it is reared. 

 Among the implements, which considerably exceeded 

 in number and variety what is often to be seen at the 

 shows of the Highland and Agricultural Society of 

 Scotland, there were many excellent ploughs, harrows, 

 cultivators, &c., manufactured in the province. Straw 

 and corn-stalk cutters, and corn-shellers, were in con- 

 siderable numbers; but an English visitor would be 

 struck by the want of drill-machines, and root-cutters, 

 and grain-crushers, now so abundant at our British 

 shows. A few of the former, for drilling wheat, were 

 the only implements of the kind which were to be seen. 

 The roots exhibited — turnips, carrots, beet, mangold- 

 wurzel, &c. — were all large and fine, showing the 

 aptitude of the climate and soil to this culture. But 

 here, as elsewhere in North America, the root-culture is 

 still in its infancy. A rich virgin soil, producing crops 

 for many years almost spontaneously, gave no stimulus 

 to the preparation and preservation of manure among 

 the first settlers ; while the ready sale for wheat, and 

 the difficulty of procuring hay for large wintc^y <^ock, 

 have hitherto prevented the attention of the ^5 ^^ '--^ ^ 

 farmers from being turned to the rearing of cat® ^^ form 

 Besides the fly — which, as with us, commit^ or staymg 



