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By breeding and rearing cattle we shall increase our stock of manure, 

 to use in the interim while we are learning how to add to it superphos- 

 phates and other artilicial manures. 



Here is our mistake : we persist in following the old system of farm- 

 ing, which may have been good enough on the confines of the bush, when 

 the soil was virgin, but which is now no longer good after at least half a 

 century of spoliation. We close our eyes to the fact that in the cultivation 

 of grain we have now a rival with whom we cannot strive Buccessfully — 

 the West, the great West, where this cultivation is canied on on an im- 

 mense scale that defies competition. 



This is a fact that the people in the Eastern States, and especially in 

 the State of New York, are beginning to feel that they will have to reckon 

 with. 



On this point, allow me to read the following extract from a speech 

 recently made by the G-overnov of the State of New York : 



{The Cidlivntor and Country Gentleman, 19//t May, 1892.) 



" My own observation and experience have convinced me that the 

 most practicable kind of relief which can be offered to the agricultural 

 communities of the State, is that which, recognising the changed conditions 

 prevailing now and created by the opening up of an immense farming 

 territory in the west, endeavors to discourage our farmers from the vain 

 attempt to compete with their western rivals in the production of wheat, 

 corn, and other cereals, and stimulates them to new lines of agricultural 

 effort more suited to existing conditions and to present demands. The 

 rapid increase of population in the towns and cities of the State is of direct 

 benefit to our farmers if they would take advantage of it, by offering a 

 greater market than that possessed by the farmers of any other State for 

 the sale of the so called " small crops," vegetables, fruits, etc., of dairy 

 products, line butter and cheese, of poultry and eggs, and other products, 

 the demand lor which is constantly increasing, and in the sale of which 

 there cannot be dangerous competition from the farmers of neighbouring 

 States." 



VARIOUS KINDS OF CHEESE. 



At the dairy school, the mode of making several kinds of cheese, not 

 yet manufactured in this province, will also be taught. These novel kinds 

 will not return smaller profits to the maker even if they were put on our 



