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caroruUy executed, and with which cultivation 

 or wild animals do not interfere, is almost incred • 

 ible. I mention these facts to encourage settlers 

 in new districts to commence and persevere in 

 the prosecution of such an efficient method of 

 agricultural and sanitary improvement. The 

 ditching plough, which has recently received im- 

 portant structural modifications, promises to 

 become a very valuable implement in cheapening 

 and extending draining processes. Before, how- 

 ever, dismissing this subject it is important to 

 observe that the cheap system of draining (if 

 what has been suggested can be so designated) is 

 intended simply as introductory and provisional, 

 as the best suited to thew^ants and circumstances 

 of new settlers. There is no other agricultural 

 operation that calls for the exercise of more 

 judgment and care ; and when means and appli- 

 ances admit, no reasonable amount of expense 

 should be spared in making the work as effective 

 and permanent as possible. 



I cannot conclude without again very briefly 

 adverting to the immense progress made of late 

 years by the exhibitions of this Society, and the 

 improvements in agriculture and other industrial 

 arts that must have resulted therefrom. From a 

 humble commencement, not much more, 1 be- 



