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productions, is such as to require a variety of plants, 

 suited to every soil, and calculated to furnish crops 

 for all sorts of lands ; and it only requires the united 

 efiforts of public-spirited men to bring such articles 

 to notice, and encourage their cultivation. 



Very little attempt to improve stock appears ever 

 to have taken place in Bermuda ; everything being 

 left almost wholly to nature. There is, however, 

 every reason to think, that the breed of horses, 

 cows, sheep, goats, swine, and every other useful 

 animal, might be improved as effectually as it has 

 been in other countries, if proper means were only 

 employed. to accomplish it. The quantity of mUk 

 in cows might, undoubtedly, be increased ; a stronger 

 and more useful race of cattle, both for draught 

 and burden, might be gradually introduced: in 

 short, everything might be expected from perse- 

 vering attempts to improve those animals which 

 come under the denomination of stock, whether 

 intended for labour, the dairy, or for food. This, then, 

 would form a proper object to call forth the exer- 

 tions of an agricultural society. 



It is also to be lamented that the state of horti- 

 culture in Bermuda is almost as low as that of 

 agriculture; so that, except in the gardens of a 

 few Europeans, who procure a limited number of 



