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find, with the. ragged zigzag fences of lopped trees ed trees | season. Crossley and other artists may y paint an 
strewn loosely between the fields,—sometimes a lon merican Fe tid but who can describe it? Look at Soricties 
tract of corn is passed, wit the assive sheaves | the monstrous Pine, that was barked last year, an nd a ANK g 
stacked together like straw tents, nd the ground whi ich, all dead and white, seems to sprea ad its lean CHEMICO-AGRICULTUBAL : Dairy Produce.—Pro- 
covered witn brig ge Pumpkins and Squash lled fessor es res that he had just, Arto a from 
which the inexhaustible fertility of J, land has | its fall ree the trunk a creeper comes, which, tu ned | Dublin, where he had been engaged in delivering a 
nurtured between the ridges Maize. Then come} to pink, to purple, gold, and scarlet by righty course of lectures to the pupils of the Albert Training 
acri cres of orchar ards, with trees heavy and over frost, e in ben ge of ‘colour like oie brilli ant Schoo l. He orted the condition of the crops on the 
borne with their rich burden, droo down 1 4 gee encoura: . The P disease, 
Willows to the ground, their red ee yellow fruit curves, that it seems = once both more sna less than caer age de re gg progress in some 
sparkling softly in the evening sun. All the barn-doors | natural—the wane ofa decor r = = a gement of eae of Potatoes— fully 20 per cent. of the kemps 
of the cleau, white farm houses stand pen, show- | colours, such as only Nature’s colour: scat ee were heat W nsiderably 
g heaps of corn ed high within, and across the foreground ee. a clump of peo PURREN above Eae le, the agriculturist, had placed 
ings oxen come slowly along with mounds of other | piles of gold, intermixed with wild Sycamores of Tight in his hands some exceedingly interesting tabulated 
sheaves in rough n carts, d ng a plenty for | quic sii reen, red, purple, crimson, and alm osy blue. returns of extende d experimental investi ations which 
which the farmer has no room in timber outbuild- | Behind are trees of every shade of autumn glo b farm. These 
ings which ordinarily accommodate the harvest, On d gold to almos while abov would be published in the Journal. ‘The following is 
‘ade ack, tow the 
nite. deep green Pine, aera in its pe Saad 
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one of the returns referred to: 
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acre has been offered and 
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there is such alm in these wild, clean, fruitful features as Canada itself, with a host of umbrageo 
homesteads, there are such signs of progress and of d iti a ļ $ 2 z A 
energy, even in the ee hacked aside © make room a hues, rusi mg t ind h d raor = % < A 
for cultivation, that e can not but gaze with linger the “ fal nt n them. Let any on @ ak | = 
i ri scene of ‘hing gies | Reng: such poor anpil n imagine miles upon miles o 3 ? 2 
think of that vast class at home whom Bumble this forest CORA sa. in ae the tints of a stormy p> 
denominates as ‘ able-bodied paupers? with hill untain p ona river bank, H om Aap Eg Eos 
to bed for want of work. on e are millions of deep sı gorg s like these, and peera? a a re 
acres of such fertile lan lish farmers never then fi gh but ideaof 3 
think of getting without draining, manu i rth American scene: ry is durin e Jip ammer, af 
dressings and all t ientific agricultural slang which ta bright, quiet, treacherous forerw of: the eee Ea A fi FE y 
ayk the presence of poor land. Here e millions of races winter in the world. Gar AETA TEF of The > 4 ee ck 5a + 
res still clad in, all the savage grongeur o! of the wilder- Tim ma 
their rich matted growth = Š 
of F tanber and Tecunant underwood for some one, to Be e -7 3 3 
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ofthe earth have scope si proper might an nd Home Corresponden 7È ERAS eR 38 F 
usefulness. Where the esis fell Hope in the| Reaping Machines tars ising “desired re- j f 
Upper Ottawa they scatter handfuls o ian corn | specting these im mportant aids to far ers, we gladly o eee, J 
among the ragged stumps, and lo, i some six | put in our mite, as there and Bu =H u e PE gore B44 
eeks’ time, a harvest for a few in number, though dictory se i afloat Aa Hs their tnerite, a w ai io of] Reese = 
enough in quantity to keep an English parish. Yet | was a most expensive one for ¢ cutting Corn, added = ` 
men break stones in England for 8d. a-day, and cost | the irat t was so prevalent fro e scarcity of E ape 
the try 10d. more while doing it, and farmers labour and the aptitude of Corn to shed. This induced e g ee ae g Fe £28 = 
here cry out for labour and get it few | us to order a machine, and A TE it came to hand. a . % 28 Es = 
hort ths, till their servants have saved enough It was first trie d upon a sev e field of Barley, =] 
to better daa and buy land, when t to finish, ttig: E and stooking, 9s o 
the law of Canada steps in with restrictions which tae a0 rses (en o at m psi each, hard nalink and a g g >g e BE 
drive them me dreds and thousands yearly t of the an acre, wher Sa Me eee Ego Eg 
the far west of America. It is not to be suppo! fee iia l lefi a Jong stubble, Phak A altogether’ W as a beg e a 
that the active folly which drove the Sae ao we felt satisfied. In removing it to seat heh for z s 
anly insurrection and independ: =~ ope ation some distance on the road, the heavy edl SERA ees we asks > 
pea a H oya t; but t fixed, and two hours’ delay was occasioned by its S 8 o © me ees J 
each- hour s slimy traces of red. tape Barnacles | peru ning and alteration before it could travel 2 pors 
over Canada, a signs of its bei ing 1 t Ordinary 9 or 10 feet gates are another con- a 
iy atis cause of delay, which we generally shortened Gt iF $s wi ZA S 
us nO young colony „ however nat vi orous, SRA by taking one of the gateposts up. However, we at | s z > = ga BPE 
stands for Mongi hi “ Wheat, dj . z e-* b- 
Canada if emigration to its fertile soil is is only Jy |w es had been mown; here r, 4 - ä 
encouraged and develop ed by the Government at home prepared a heavy Ai g and chain to adapta third horse, als, £ AS 
—if they will only bolt = È such real inducements as | so this tay oo . ae tg (half a nA each, that $2) S32 zs BES 
Suen nae and who manage i is ieo om a atten hey P| Bogen Re 
thts people, even Wien T tn Britis! ditional hands and a boy to aad —— = 
dominions, to mak fi We made ve coe work} (5522S SES SEag 2 FETA a ù 
xi mses and as one Sakea? iori for 7 this dag ad soanptoted cutting before night and Qa? ogo gamt 5 2% Bo Bee. EN § 
hy I cannot help saying ¢ that, land for tying; but it m Bhd men Bh days each to stoo Sashes sitzesreoreg E Ry 
land, wes airie is better erg even pic Bad Pd men average od ‘be a day each, Soe BES om REEFF 8 
valleys sai Canada, but there is pee all that 1 4l., it being Soke PE 5°RO "a Fo G 
difference i the two hich would ae a farmer | a Cee crop wo sata s year ~~ = sts = = PE esses y> p E 
to prefe: cres West „or even 120, round | 12s. or 14s, an acre; Ps if we ay, 30s. fi | Boh ac eek ae Aer ae 
etc = eR able emigrants to buy three &c., we shall have a total cost f 50. 10s. ‘epee st 6 12s. a rae? g 
acres in Canada for what they would only get two in or 7. 14s. Last year such a crop 2 283 F 
- Michigan, Illinois, or Wisconsin — le y an ‘acre, or even more. We Sa Eai completed á A fo S 
10 acres if he pleases, or as his z it, fW. fi S 2 BSS i 
and the uld be no wart of settlers anada ms 4 gong 2B. S 
The value of Teeni a a pS oa ee varies of LR ring pg work; the Laem was denle, being ° 3 fy B 
= m 2 dols. to 4 dols. e; n sometimes, during partly one laid. The‘one, sis so be pe es, WAS neer leted B36 
ti E prevalence of s eculative epidemics, 6007. sterling |1 a o more =s Be ee eee 
k refus sed, and as much as = a t day to cut. The last attem mi with t the machin seta cows re fot on Tala Rs 
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n 8- acre field ‘clogged with Chickweed, ick 
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butter 
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in small tow his we cut with diffi- 
Towards to A RA train quitted the cleared | cu ay mathe? more a half, the remainder was mowed ing w z was fii oo ve Clover. TA ee ne 
farm lands, and Secs upon a tract which the tre- | by hand. ee fcr n that our en, one did ae" fare |~ °7™ Angust 
mendous Canadian forests is KeA in close, c: gajso well as ‘ie in fact all kinds of reaping ipa at ae 
unknown ti serge an ines in this neighbourhood cane to have e Fa oF ” soa 
e is something | failures, from the abundance of weeds, from the PEM : Welsh But he last dinner of 
the ponderous les of these forests— -some thing ture condi ti in” a a crops, and trom the laid aed this Soc psi “Mr, Bagnall, ae “had acted as judge S the 
in their wild, tara, m ossy darkness, their Fro ur own experience this | dairy ea , said— Peat will r p er that at the 
which impress sses the traveller ‘ina | year fid in their utility h r;|last meeting T ha casion tosi e that I w - 
new aspect each time he sees them till hee! is room for improvement in Bu d | appointed with the alir ot ter th h 
¥ melancholy which I wish I could describe, though | Key? n they Bd qnte be too heavy, and they are as fully for by so peculiar 
me In Upper Canada the endless Ries wide to be easily removed from one field to another; € i 
oi Pines giv e way at ast, Or at most’ stand C timy they a ved for small occupations, the number bes | bricks: without. sera, expect 
intermingled with gigantic tall Hemlocks, | of horses and me ing only available on od sized | make butter wi 
and Ash. re ‘aoe Birch, and wild Sycamore, rd farn, and they do not seem likely to be in as 
nvderwood o! f these great leafy hills. Mile after mile hired machines in their present pe, as what with | mo 
NE RT T reparing for thei weai finishing Figs work after vege" 
tack solitude, with here and there a ber bu as fast the crops may | exhi to-day. notice a 
showing the massive trunks, gray as it opening v up, them, th they oo vould a Meo, fin th uality. lapse tatoo that 
which bore the rich canopy of leavi aloft, i tall it this one condition will Dake recommend them—that | shire butter was over-salted, and think has been 
ae for even the harry of — any farmer independent of Sap si puo — noved. Iam — to neg from informat 
‘ts being called a canopy of - with a moderate number of | whic e 
closing in fast upon the sona RE glory orth the Tae, i asd] aut “toe Ts ero es withi reasonable time. | upon the whole, the Pembrokeshire butters of the 
they stand. in such glowin inta, such deep rich i are cheaper than mo ra or reaping, ers are | uch i : 
Sle at mite aS of steeped in blood; such | but they og comes beneficial rds eas srate noe ee ae of parses E oe not think a such 
e ittering i i = a 
ci Hae tnt Jou gay, in naan ah Ser ane tae areata ante of Oea day Por [smut oe do wih ever 
Tot hill opens out in sheets of burn r, like the aa ay, wit her tet free 
list t grand shower of red mian AS befor ‘ nth, and fins a he great | competition, I think ıt aren for any trader 
e th ee as S eer va r eg pe 
tose in frost and snow and Sette for the =e he ay wit a W., Peterboron gh jobtain exorbitant prices. I re ee oe 
