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to follow, unless we lead. Published in tlie French language, at 

 Quebec, 1852. We translate the following extracts from it: 



Chapter 11th. Considering that the amelioration of agriculture 

 is of the greatest importance for the people of this province, and 

 that the establishment of central chambers and local societies, are 

 known to be eminently proper to accelerate such amelioration, and 

 that without suitable means for collecting and distributing all au- 

 thentic facts relative to agriculture, we cannot attain that full 

 advantage which we require. Considering that it is therefore ex- 

 pedient to provide an Agricultural Bureau, &c. : It has been en- 

 acted by her most excellent Majesty the Queen, by the advice and 

 consent of the Legislative Council and Assembly of the Province 

 of Canada, &c., &c., that the Governor and Council may organize 

 a Bureau, whose Chief shall be entitled Minister of Agriculture, 

 who shall be ex-ofiicio, a member of all the local societies. The 

 members of the Bureau may annually elect a president and vice- 

 president. 



The Minister shall receive all communications, models, &c.,&c., 

 and register them, and shall inquire throughout the Proviace as 

 to the state of agriculture, and to circulate all valuable facts 

 acquired by him. 



All the societies, agricultural, mechanical, public officers, &c., 

 shall answer the questions of the Bureau, promptly. 



Every town to have its society, with officers chosen annually. 



Every county a society. 



Fairs to be held in the chief towns of counties. 



County societies with 25 Louis in their treasures shall be paid 

 three times that amount and in proportion, provided it do not 

 exceed 250 Louis per annum. 



Section 43. Each county society may establish an agricultural 

 school — but not more than one hundred acres of land. 



Mons. Latour also sends us a report of the Superintendent of 

 Education for Lower Canada, for 1855; octavo, pages 220, pub- 

 lished at Toronto, 1856. 



Mr. Ely Phelps of Rochester, New- York, recently from Califor- 

 nia, where he has resided six or seven years, presents to the Farm- 

 ers' Club, seeds of a squash raised at Napa valley, in 1856, from 



