(122) 
     
    
   
   
    
     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'