Acadia s Crops 
past recovery. We were very sorry to hear 
such a story of an Acadian farmer. 
Kingsport is only one mile from Canning. 
It is on Minas Basin and is the port whence 
many of the Cornwallis Valley apples are 
shipped. 
Potatoes are also shipped from here in large 
quantities, and the Cornwallis Valley farmer, we 
were told, is the aristocrat of the Lower Prov- 
inces. His neighbours accuse him of having 
grown lazy under prosperity, and pretend to 
look scornfully upon his sloth, though one 
suspects this attitude is but the cloak to a 
secret envy. 
Apples and potatoes do come easy in the 
Cornwallis Valley, and the necessity for work 
is the cause of work the world over, still, we 
have seen lazier people In our travels than the 
Cornwallis Valley farmers. 
Naturally the people in this part of the 
country do not look with favour upon annexa- 
tion. They say, " Look at the American 
farmer, then look at us ! " One does not Hke 
to look at the American farmer and then look 
at them. 
The farmer here is the man of the com- 
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