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field, are capable of advancing to an infinite extent the 

 progress of wealth. Nowhere are railways capable of 

 producing a more thorough and profitable revolution 

 than with us. In England these wonderful roads con- 

 nect only parts already connected by other means of 

 communication, and whose productions are similar in 

 character. With us their effect will be to unite regions, 

 all differing in climate and productions, which have as 

 yet only imperfect communication one with the other. 

 It is impossible to predict what may result from such a 

 radical change. 



It is of consequence, then, that our proprietors and 

 cultivators apprehend clearly the only means of enrich- 

 ing themselves, lest they hinder their own prosperity. 

 Their opposition would not arrest the course of things, 

 bat would render it slow and tedious. All jealousy 

 between agricultural and industrial and commercial 

 interests, will only damage both. If you wish to en- 

 courage agriculture, develop manufactures and commerce, 

 which multiply consumers ; improve especially the means 

 of communication, which bring consumers and producers 

 nearer to each other ; the rest will necessarily follow. 

 Commerce and manufactures bear the same relation to 

 agriculture as the cultivation of forage crops and multi- 

 plication of animals do to cereal production. At first 

 they seem opposed to each other, but fundamentally there 

 is such a strong connecting link between them that the 

 one cannot make any considerable progress without the 

 other. 



Markets this is the greatest and most pressing re- 

 quirement of our agriculture. The proceedings to be 

 adopted in order to augment production do not come 

 till afterwards. I have pointed out the principal methods 



