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valuable does not admit of a question ; it is en- 

 titled to the farmer s attention as being a pro- 

 fitable article : from 20 to 25 tons per acre may 

 be raised by careful management, which, if 

 housed before the winter sets in, would furnish 

 an undeniable food for cattle during that sea- 

 son ; by its means he would obtain a beneficial 

 employment in fattening his stock intended for 

 market, and also a large quantity of valuable 

 manure from his farm-yard, ready to be applied 

 to the poor and exhausted lands at the break- 

 ing up of the frost. Many other advantages 

 would be the result, if a systematic arrangement 

 in the change of crops were to take place of the 

 undeviating practice at present existing ; by it 

 a great progress would be made in the science 

 of agriculture, and a long catalogue of he- 

 reditary errors would no more remain unop- 

 posed by any radical improvement. I must 

 again repeat, that example only is wanting to 

 induce the Canadian farmers to explode the 

 unproductive methods they have so long fol- 

 lowed, and yield to the admission of profitable 

 innovations. There is yet another article or 

 two of culture of the very first importance to 

 the mother country, which would most certainly 

 prove highly beneficial to these provinces if 

 sufficient attention were to be paid to them. 

 The first of these is hemp, well known to be a 



