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Canadian Agriculture. 
stock, implements, drainage, &c., to the end of 1880, amounted 
to 45,178/. 
Did space permit, I should like to give a description of the 
two pleasant days I spent at this admirable institution under 
the courteous and instructive guidance of President Mills and 
Professor Brown, but I must content myself with a brief sum- 
mary. The crops include wheat, barley, oats, peas, hay, roots, 
pasture, and green corn. I walked amongst a splendid field of 
Indian corn, ten or a dozen feet high, and just ready to cut for 
soiling. Besides the ordinary live-stock, the farm possesses 
high class pedigree representatives of ten breeds of cattle, and 
ten breeds of sheep, whose cost is included in the valuation 
for 1884. I have condensed into the Table on page 415 a 
summary of the cattle. 
The sheep comprise : of Lincolns, one ram (30/.), and three 
ewes (10/. each), bred by Mr. R. Wright, Nocton Heath, Lin- 
coln ; Cotswolds, one ram (23/.), bred by Mr. R. Swanwick, 
Cirencester, one ram (30/.), bred by Messrs. Gillett, Kilkenny, 
Bampton, and five ewes (5/. each), bred by Messrs. Gillett ; 
Leicesters, one ram (50/,), and six ewes (8/. 6s. %d. each), bred 
by Mr. R. Wallace, Mauchlin, Ayrshire ; Highland, one ram 
(iO/.), and two ewes (2/. 10s. each), bred by Mr. J. Craig, 
Craigdarroch ; Cheviots, one ram (10/,), and two ewes (2/. 10s. 
each), bred by Mr. W. Marshall, Merton Mains; Oxford Downs, 
two rams (20/. each), and six ewes (10/. each), bred by iVIr. A. 
Brassey, Heythrop Park, Chipping Norton ; Hampshire Downs, 
two rams (40/. and 35/.), and five ewes (6/. each), bred by Mr. 
W. Parsons, West Stratton, Micheldever ; Shropshire Downs, 
two rams (65/. and 35/,), bred by Mr. J. Evans, Uffington, 
Shrewsbury, and one ram (10/.), and twenty ewes (5/. each), 
bred by Sir Henry Allsopp, Bart., Hindllp Hall, Worcester- 
shire ; Southdowns, two rams (52/. 10s. and 105/.), and five 
ewes (10/. 10s. each), bred by Lord Walsingham, JVierton, 
Norfolk. 
Merinos are to be added to the sheep, and Holsteins * to the 
cattle ; but no provision is being made for Welsh or Kerry cattle, 
as they are not considered suitable for Canada. For the students 
of the college this splendid array of live-stock will possess all 
the educational value of a permanent agricultural show, and it 
is a great treat to walk through the houses and see the repre- 
sentatives of so many aristocratic families at one and the same 
time. The beneficent effect which such sires as " Strathglass," 
" Conqueror," " Kob Roy," and " Sir Leonard," will produce in 
the Province, is bound to make itself apparent in a few years' 
time. 
* These are really Dutcli (chiefly Friosland) cattle. — Edit. 
