(1m)

June is the turnip sowing month,and finer and more abundant crops could not. or at least do not, grow in any other part ofthe world. England, with all her agricultural fame, cannot compete with Prince Edward Island in the growth of turnips, and hardly in any root crop known to good farmers.

July is the haying month; August and September the harvest months while Octoberand November are devoted to ploughing, and clearing ground, and the process of stumping, and December is the month‘ when the buildings are looked after, and all the ne- cessary preparations made for the blessings of an opening New Year.

In taking our farewell of the seasons, we remem- her Mrs. Hemans’ lines' “ If in whate’er is bright or grand, Our mind can trace Ilis voiceless hand, If nzyure’s music bid us raise The ong of gratitude and praise; If heaven and earth with beauty fraught Lead to his throne one ruptured thought,

If there we love, His love to read, Then each of us is blest indeed.”

CHAPTER. XXI. F A R M I N G .

” And some, the Lord forgive them, go The other way, the other way."

THERE are two ways by which a‘ stranger, endea- vor.ng to come to a judicious conclusion as to the capabilities of Prince E dward Island, as a farming country, might determine for himself, irrespective of an examination by chemical analysis of the different soils, and irrespective of any consideration of the local and adventitious peculiarities ofsituation. These