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The regions inhabited by the Lama, the Vicugna, the Tapir, the 

 Hoccos, the Kangaroo, the Phascolome, the Cassoars, hold in reserve 

 for us a rich future. 



In addition to these remarks of Mons. Hilaire, we observe lately the 

 importation and acclimation of some foreign animals. A iiind of 

 stag from Bengal called the Axis is actually naturalized in Belgium. 

 The Zoological Society of Antwerp has obtained quite a large num- 

 ber of the product of them which have been very well brought. The 

 Axis is recommended not only by its grace and beauty of its robe of 

 a brown chestnut colour spotted with white, but by its being excellent 

 game, equal if not superior to the deer or the roe buck. 



The Queen of England has received from the East Indies a fowl 

 called the Ostrich fowl. It is said to be the largest of the feathered 

 races on our barn yards ; is easily raised, and that the Queen has al- 

 ready presented many pairs of them to large farmers for multiplica- 

 tion, so that they are beginning to spread over the kingdom. Their 

 eggs are very large, of a brown colour and many of them. 



La Nprmandie Agricole, 1848. . 

 It is a mistake to believe that much is yet to be discovered in ag- 

 riculture. Good practice is to be found in many districts, but there 

 is a great want of knowledge of this in a great part of our territory, 

 of best plants, best races of animals and of agricultural implements. 



The extensive publication of good treatises, brief written, in plain 

 and simple terms, the creation of a system of agricultiual instruc- 

 tion, whose practice shall confirm theory, and lastly the foundation in 

 each department of a conservatory or museum of agriculture^ would 

 hasten the day so much desired, when agriculture will be styled a 

 science, an art, and a lucrative and honorable profession. Let us ex- 

 plain what we understand by a conservatory of agriculture. 



Paris possesses numerous libraries, museums of sculpture, painting, 

 antiquities, natural history. A conservatory of arts and trades, in 

 which are united all the wonderful productions of industry and me- 

 chanics. Each branch of human knowledge has some sort of a pan- 



