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leaving New York State behind with its average of- 88 bushels to the acre, and New Brunswick with its ' average of 456, and it takes the lead of ALL THE WORLD, with produce figures that begin at 500 bushels and often reach a round thousand But we have before enlarged on this subject, and must proceed.

Farmers who want to make enquiries on points other than we have alluded to can always obtain in— formation by addressing a letter to “ The (Srown Land Commissioner,” at Charlottetown, P. E. 1., who will make known whatever is required. It is part ofhis duty to do so, as well as, we may add, his pleasure. There is plenty of wood land to be had, the terms of which, though not furnished by the Government to the authm for publication, may be got by correspondence.

We conclude this chapter with an extract lrom Judge Peters’ “ Hints to the Farmers of P. E. 1.” His advice to new settlers runs thus:

“The man who commences a new farm in the woods has many difliculties to overcome, much hard- ship to endure, and many privations to suffer; exer- tion of muscle, rather than skill in husbandry, is at first chiefly demanded of him. The new land yields abundantly, and with his strength thus taxed to its utmost, and a long winter to encounter, the tempta- tion to over cropping is great, and he requires all his prudence to refrain from impoverishing what he has cleared, to supply his present wants. But beware how you do so. Nature has been bountiful in giving great fertility tothe virgin soil, but you cannot abuse her gifts with impunity; if you exhaust the ground by the reckless system of taking crop after crop, without manuring, be assured you and your children will suffer for it in after years. Look at many of the old farms of the Island: how many farmers do you see with forty and fifty acres of cleared land, selling their farms tor a trifle, or struggling with poverty, and just obtaining a scanty subsistence, when they ought to hav plenty? Yet these lands were once clothed withflvoodsy like yours, the soil as rich, the'