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thus forms a natural manure. But, when required, 

 they can be fed to the cattle or the cattle can be 

 pastured on them as they are. Their nutritive value 

 is one sixth that of good hay ; so that 10,000 pounds of 

 this waste used in this way, would equal H>00 pounds 

 of hay. 



By what precedes, the importance of introducing 

 the sugar industry can be seen, in an agricultural 

 point of view and the great advantage to be derived 

 from its establishment. This importance and these 

 advantages should of themselves stimulate farmers 

 to make serious attemps to plant beets, even although 

 factories have not as yet boen established. They 

 would thus know what to depend up on, as to the 

 return to be received, when they are established, and 

 in the meantime their efforts would not be lost, as 

 they would always have as a crop, a fodder root 

 whose nutritive value would recompense them for 

 their labor. 



I conclude by repeating that* the land of Canada 

 requires only a little effort, work, courage and ac- 

 tivity on the part of its farmers to secure to them 

 a fortune. Let them sincerely advance in the way 

 of progress, and they will soon see their fields co- 

 vered with rich harvests, their stables filled with 

 fat cattle, their hovels changed into small chateaus, 

 and their empty coffers overflowing with dollars. 

 My prediction is by no means hazardous ; I have 

 seen the same things happen in other places. 



