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     formation that only ‘leads to false conclusions, ‘a'n 
     
     confidence only in the unaided powers of easily im- 
     
     poverished land, must necessarily feel that it is a 
     
     poor country that will not, after perhaps twenty 
     
     years mismanagement, and hardship, yield to the 
     
     tarmer enough seed to form a trifling crop—will not 
     
     yield enough to feed a few poor starving cattle— 
     
     will not give a surplus out oftnothing :for the landlord, 
     
     and will not put the poor farmer out of debt for to- 1 
     
     bacco and rum. These opposite statements are based , 
     
     on authentic records,and constitute the two ways by ' 
     
     which a stranger may determine the farming capa- 
     
     bilities of Prince Edward Island, without the trouble 
     
     ofa visit; but when he comes to a practical investi 
     
     gation, he will see for himself, if he possess the com- 
     
     mon sense of a man ofbusiness,-that to farm in Prince 
     
     Edward Island is no sinecure, that a man must bring 
     
     as much intelligence into the business as'to any other 
     
     branch ofindustry—must keep up asgood fences in 
     
     Prince Edward Island as in England—must be as 
     
     careful to provide food for stock, as stock for food—- 
     
     must as carefully adapt his surplus products to the 
     
     highest market, as find out the best markets for his 
     
     marketable and overplus wares—must as particularly 
     
     watch the wants of the people with whom he lives, 
     
     as the people must look out for their regular supplies 
     
     —and cultivate his mind as uniformly and per- 
     
     fectly as his fields—as much in Prince Edward 
     
     Island as in any other farming country in the world; 
     
     nay, more, indeed, \for in Prince Edward Island .the 
     
     soil is light, and therefore hungry; is fertile, and 
     
     therefore requiring to be 'kept clean; is brief of 
     
     season, comparatively speaking, and therefore 
     
     obliging foresight. and early preparation, and having 
     
     crops specially adapted to the soil and climate, such 
     
     as barley. oats and turnips, demands as a necessary 
     
     condition of success, particular study. We have 
     
     mentioned turnips as particularly adapted to the 
     
     soil, let us see how we are borne out in this state- 
     
     ment. 
     
    
   
   
    
     It is irrelevant to the purpose at this work to en- 
     
     tter upon any laudation of any particular efforts by