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-to all farmers willing to turn them to profitable account. To bring 

 my remarks to a practical issue, let me hope, as indeed I venture to 

 think we well may, that the late and indeed the present disastrous 

 depression may not be altogether without its bright side and its use, 

 inasmuch as it may tend to turn the minds of the manhood and 

 youth of the colony from precarious speculations and other 

 unstable methods of that ignis faluus — the pursuit of wealth 

 without work — into a higher and nobler groove, namely, the 

 making the best of the land we live on, in extracting fresh, and it 

 may be yet unheard of, treasures from the soil, in enriching the 

 country as a whole, and in many cases causing even the hitherto 

 waste and apparently useless wilderness to become rurally pictu- 

 resque, as well as to yield supplementary and even payable results 

 to well-directed labour. 



