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influence, or, indeed, to exist at all. It is 

 much to be wished that the system of manage- 

 ment in Lower Canada was as good as the 

 land upon which it is exercised; agricultural 

 riches would then flow in a copious and inex- 

 haustible stream ; for if the natural excellence 

 of soil and goodness of climate, contending 

 against the disadvantages of a very inferior, 

 not to say bad mode of husbandry, be capable 

 of yielding crops of 15 to 18 for one, what 

 might not be expected from it, were the modern 

 improvements in implements as well as culture, 

 that have been introduced with so much benefit 

 in England, to be applied to it? The Canadian 

 farmer unfortunately, and it is a circumstance 

 much to be lamented, has hitherto had no means 

 of acquiring instruction in the many new and 

 beneficial methods by which modern science 

 1ms so greatly assisted the labour? of the husT 

 bandman. Unskilled in any other mode, he 

 continues to till his fields by the same rule that 

 his forefathers followed for many generations, 

 which long habit and an unprofitable partiality 

 engrafted thereon, seems to have endeared to 

 him ; knowing the natural bounty of his land, 

 he places his greatest reliance upon it, and feels 

 satisfied when he reaps a crop not inferior to 

 the one of the year gone by, apparently without 

 a wish to increase his stores by the adoption of 



