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NOTES AND COMMENTS. 



Among the Farmers. — During the month of January just passed the De- 

 partment of Agriculture has sent out eight deputations to speak at ninety-four 

 Farmers' Institutes, each consisting of a Professor from the Agricultural College, 

 a practical farmer, and a practical fruit grower representing our Association. 



The interest in these meetings is rapidly growing among farmers, and will 

 soon surpass even their interest in political gatherings, for which they are so noted. 

 Throughout Southern Ontario the topics, discussed by the fruit grower on the 

 deputation, receive as much if not more attention as any others, a proof of the 

 wisdom of including that department of industry among the subjects discussed. 

 Hitherto fruit culture has been boomed by nurserymen and their agents, some of 

 whom have spoken in such extravagant terms of the profits accruing from it, or 

 of the wonderful merits of some new and untested fruit, that farmers generally 

 look with much discredit upon any statements under this head. But now that 

 fruit growers themselves are to speak of their own business, we may expect only 

 such statements as are backed up by practical expefience, and having no interest 

 in inducing others to compete with them in their line of industry, they will be in- 

 clined to leave off the glitter, and speak less of the profits of fruit culture than 

 of the best methods of meeting the difficulties in the business, and the best means 

 of reaching the best markets. 



Intensive Farming. — There is no doubt that many of our farmers are land 

 poor. Could they be persuaded to devote the same attention to one-half or even 

 one-quarter the amount of land, there would be some adequate returns. The 

 other day, for example, a farmer was pointed out to us who was the owner of 

 several large farms, and yet was always hard up, and was making no money; and 

 about the same time we met with a commercial traveller, who, having a great 



