hind her. In the growth of Indian corn, most of the States surpass Nova Scotia. The quality of the corn raised in the province is excellent, and the rate per acre is larger than in any place we know of. It is only in some of the western counties of the province that any effort has been made to raise it.

The progress of Nova Scotia in husbandry is not by any means what it might be, were skill, and industry, and enterprise applied to her natural resources, as they have been in some neighboring countries. Too little attention is given to the laws of rotation-to the preservation and preparation of manures-to the management of live stock

to the using of improved implements and modes of culture. There is need of a second Agricola, to give a new impetus to our agricultural interests. Agricultural societies in many of our counties are but a mere form, without life or energy; and the Central Board, if not entirely defunct, is certainly asleep for all practical purposes.

Comparison with the past, however, will show that we are making substantial progress.

The number of acres under cultivation at three successive periods were as follows:

The cultivated land of the province is given in the census of 1861, under the following heads. Salt marsh, 20,729 acres; diked marsh, 35,487 acres; cultivated intervale, 77,102 acres; and cultivated upland, 894,714 acres; making a total of 1,028,032 acres, the total value of which is estimated at $18,801,365, the average value given per acre is: of diked marsh, $62.06; of salt marsh, $26.04; of cultivated intervale, $27.45; and of cultivated upland, $15.58. This is undoubtedly an under-estimate of the value of every one of these classes of land. It is to be accounted for in a great measure by the local prejudices of a great many people against giving the full value

of their real estate to the enumerators, for fear that it would be made the basis of taxation. In some counties, cultivated upland sells for $50, $60, $80, and in some cases, $100 per acre; while diked marsh of the most ordinary description brings $80, and the best from $200 to $350.

COMPARATIVE STATEMENT OF AGRICULTURAL PRODUCE, ETC., FOR 1827, 1851, AND 1861.

The value of the agricultural products of 1861 is esti

mated at $8,021,860.

COMPARATIVE STATEMENT SHOWING INCREASE OF LIVE STOCK, FROM 1808

The value of the live stock of Nova Scotia is estimated

at $6,802,399.

A good milch cow costs from $20 to $40. Sometimes cows of superior breeds sell for $60 and $80.

The best fatted oxen are produced in Kings county. The next best in the county of Cumberland; Hants and Annapolis counties come next.

A pair of fatted oxen of the first quality yield the owner from $190 to $300 at his own barn-yard. This refers specially to Cornwallis, Kings county.

In the department of agricultural industry, Pictou ranks first, Colchester second, Cumberland third, Kings fourth, Annapolis fifth, Inverness sixth, Sydney seventh, Hants eighth, Lunenburg ninth, Halifax tenth, Cape Breton (county) eleventh, Yarmouth twelfth, Digby thirteenth, Victoria fourteenth, Guysborough fifteenth, Queens sixteenth, Richmond seventeenth, Shelburne eighteenth. It will be noticed that those counties which rank the lowest in agricultural, rank the highest in fishing industry.

FISHING INDUSTRY.-If we except Newfoundland, Nova Scotia may be safely said to possess the finest fisheries in the world. There is no part of its coast of 1,000 miles, where, at one season or another, a profitable fishing may not be pursued. Its bays and harbors, and inland lakes, seas, and rivers, abound also with excellent fish.

The following comparative statement of the number of vessels and boats employed, and men engaged in fishing, and the quantities of fish cured in Nova Scotia, in 1851 and 1861 respectively, will exhibit the progress being made in this department:

Vessels..

1851.

1861.

The only kind of fish in which there is a decrease in the

catch, as compared with 1851, is the mackerel. The migra