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products of our forests. Timber is disappearing rapidly ; when that vast 

 harvest, sown by the hand of Providence on our soil, shall have vanished, 

 man can never renew it. But the greater the exports of the products of 

 our dairy industry, the greater the increase of our cattle, the greater the 

 increase of the fertility of soil, the greater the wealth of our country. 



FARM-BUILDINGS. 



I cannot avoid saying a word, en passant, on the importance of well- 

 constructed farm-buildings. Our climate is a stern one. The cattle are 

 in the house half the year. The warmer, the better ventilated and lighted 

 they are the less the stock will cost to feed. Of the warmth necessary for 

 the support of life, that which the animal does not obtain from the circum- 

 ambient air, he must obtain from a greater consumption of food. To erect 

 buildings in which the cattle feel all the warmth they need, is therefore an 

 economy. 



The Department has at the service of all several plans of barns, which 

 will be sent, gratis, to all who ask for them. 



When anyone is about to lay out money in important farm-buildings 

 that may serve as a model to the neighborhood, in addition to the despatch 

 of the plans I have spoken of, the Department will, if it is asked to do so 

 and the project appears to be useful, send to the spot a competent man 

 capable of giving advice as to the arrangement of these buildings, the best 

 place for their erection, etc. 



DRAINAGE. 



I may also inform those about to drain their farms that the Department 

 is in a position to procure them pipes at a good discount ; that in case the 

 draining is to be of considerable extent and of great interest to the locality, 

 upon request being made to that effect, an engineer shall be sent to take 

 the principal levels. 



OFFICE FOR ANALYSIS. 



The Honourable Premier called my attention lately to the importance 

 of establishing, in every important centre in the province, an office for 

 analysis, both for the agricultural and the mining industries. An approv- 

 ed Lai iff will be published, so that everyone will know beforehand the 

 ■cost of the analysis he wants to have made. I need not say that I shall 

 favour with all my power the creation of these offices, and that the charges 



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