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Canadian Agriculture. 
It is difficult to estimate the value of the good results that 
have emanated from the Ontario Agricultural College and 
Experimental Farm. Whatever these have been in the past, 
they are likely to be still greater in the future — in the years to 
come when the many students who have been trained at Guelph 
will have beneficially influenced the style and progress of 
farming throughout the length and breadth of the Dominion. 
The Ontario Government expends no money more advan- 
tageously than that which is applied to the maintenance of this 
useful and necessary institution. 
The Province of Quebec. 
Quebec, the oldest Province in Canada, extends for some 
hundreds of miles along both banks of the mighty St. Lawrence. 
Its northern boundary is the high land which constitutes the 
Avater -parting ^ between the rivers flowing northwards into 
James Bay and Hudson's Bay, and those which flow southwards 
into the St. Lawrence. Its western boundary is determined 
mainly by the Ottawa River. Upon the south the Province is 
bounded by the parallel of 45° north latitude until it reaches 
New Hampshire, when, trending north-east, the boundary line 
follows a sinuous course till it terminates on the borders of 
New Brunswick. As the Atlantic steamers wend their way 
along the bosom of the majestic St. Lawrence, the traveller 
acquires a good idea not only of the immensity of this famous 
river, but also of the physical features of the Province of Quebec. 
On either bank he sees a broad alluvial plain clothed with 
forest trees down to the water's edge, except where extensive 
clearances have been made, and the background is effectively 
occupied by ranges of hills. Near the shores, and particularly 
on the south side, are to be seen the white houses of the old 
French settlers, sometimes aggregated into villages and towns, 
but more frequently dotted along in one straggling line lor 
more than a hundred miles. Here and there the sombre hue 
of the woodlands is varied by the glittering spire of a Roman 
Catholic church, for the French Canadians have adhered to their 
faith, to their language, and it might almost be said to their 
farming. Of the 1,359,027 people who dwelt in the Province 
in 1881, no less than 1,073,820 were of French origin. More 
French is to be heard than English, and all the enactments of 
the Provincial Parliament, as well as all official notifications, 
appear side by side in French and English. 
The Laurentian Mountains on the north, and the Adiron- 
dacks, Notre Dame, and Green Mountains on the south, are 
the most prominent features in the landscape. The valleys of 
