ABSTRACT THE first impression that strikes us upon taking up this substantial volume is closely allied to envy. Here is a fund of valuable and condensed information relating to every point

connected with the development of the soil's resources, a record of original work and of experience at home, and abounding in suggestions from the practices of other countries. It is

true we have to some extent, in the excellent transactions of our great agricultural societies, a means of presenting a digest of agricultural progress. But these are, and must to some

extent be, written in popular style, whereas the Report before us, while deeply interesting, is essentially businesslike and proportionally more useful to those whom it concerns. Report of

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