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|)l;inted in corn, it would give, at thirty bushels per acre, 

 a gain nearly equal to the present crop ; if another 

 twentieth were sowed to rye, at twenty bushels per acre, 

 the crop would be about four times the present one ; a 

 twentieth in barley, at twenty-five bushels per acre, 

 would give more than eight times the present crop ; one- 

 twentieth in w^heat, at fifteen bushels per acre, would be 

 773,130 bushels, or about sixteen times the amount now 

 raised ; one-tenth in oats, yielding twenty-five bushels 

 per acre, a crop four times the present; two-fifths in 

 hay, at one and one-fourth tons per acre, and the hay 

 crop would be doubled ; if the remaining five-twentieths 

 w^ere brought into good i)asturage, and two acres made 

 to support a cow, more than 125,000 of this valuable 

 and profitable part of our stock could be added to our 

 present number. Large as the products would then ap- 

 pear, who will say the maximum point would be attain- 

 ed, for the average yield of the acres now termed im- 

 proved could be easily raised twenty-five per cent., and 

 still be below what it produces under the management 

 of our best cultivators. That greater progress in our 

 agriculture can and ought to be made, none will ques- 

 tion ; but are the tillers of the soil, under present cir- 

 cumstances, able to bring it up to the desired standard ? 

 If all the means within their reach are persistently and 

 fluthfully used, the prospects are encouraging. The 

 transition state through which they are passing will soon 

 be over, and things settle down to a more permanent ba- 

 sis. The Avork they have to do and the best manner of 

 doing it will be better understood, and it is to be hoped 

 that ere long the migration from the farm will be check- 

 ed. It was an important step towards progress when an 

 ijistitution was provided for educating our young farmers 



