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the social scale from which their present contempt of 

 knowledge debars them. Still, the efforts now making 

 cannot fail to do good. The thousand pomids given 

 in prizes at Kingston had the effect of stimulating 

 many, and of awakening some ; while the things exhi- 

 bited in the show-yard must have led many, on their 

 return home, to look with a new eye upon their own 

 stock and tools and produce. The Society publishes, 

 as yet, no Transactions ; but a weekly Journal issued 

 under their patronage promises to spread much useful 

 information. And the lectures delivered from time to 

 time by their Secretary, in the country districts, must 

 lead to thoughts of change, and to improvements in 

 practice ; while the introduction, now in progress, of 

 scientific agriculture as a branch of instruction into the 

 Canadian colleges, and of elementary lessons on the 

 principles of agriculture into the schools of the rural 

 districts, will lay a solid foundation for those more general 

 ameliorations by which the practices of the next 

 generation are to repair the evils produced by those of 

 the past. 



Among the sources of evil and retardation to Upper 

 Canadian agriculture, the President, in his address, 

 stated the occupation of too much land by individual 

 farm-proprietors to be one of the most injurious. This 

 is especially the case in reference to the descendants of 

 what are now generally called the U. E. Loyalists. 

 At the close of the first American war, many persons 

 emigrated from the United States, not only to Nova 

 Scotia, but also to Upper Canada. They were kindly 

 received, and liberally dealt with by the British 

 Government. All the land on the St Lawrence above 

 the French settlements, up to and around the Bay of 

 Quinte, was divided into townships ; the settlers called 

 the United Empire Loyalists were placed upon it. 



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