360              THE WISCONSIN FARMER.

            KIMr BAUXSWICK-               fair samples of wheat, barley,
oats, field peas,

The second colony of the British crown in timothy seed, all sorts of garden
products,
North America.                             including apples and cherries,
demonstrative
  At the beginning of this century, New i evidence of what the science of
Physical fe-
Brunswick was a wilderness. To-day, nearly ography teaches. that the west
rn coast of
a million of acres of land are under cultiva- North America is much warmer
than the east-
tion, cities and towns have sprung up in great Iern
number, mines of coal, iron, copper and lead,  The wheat on exhibition is
above the stand-
and quarries of marble have been opened, ard weight-being 64 lbs. to the
bushel-an1
factories have been erected and railroads leave I the yield large enough
to make some of you
been built.  Not much in the way of rapid I Wisconsin ten and twelve busbelers
open wide
progress for a Badger to contemplate, but a, your eyes. Winter wheat of superiorquality
good deal for an offspring of John Bull in a, at 86 bushels to the acre is
a good crop.
territory mountainous in parts. a dense wild-  And then here we find splendid
specimens
erness in others, and with a climate not the I of timber-oak, pine, fir,
sprucc, hemlock,
most kindly, and a soil a good deal less prol maple, &c-and of minerals,
including cop-
ductive than ours.                         per and gold.   Vancouver is a
flourishing
   The articles on exhibition are mipcellane- young member of the great colonial
family,
                                            and deserves credit for her spirit
in coming so
 outs; consisting chiefly of agricultural imple
 ments and produce, native woods, cabinet far to show us what she is doing
on the far off
 ware, minerals of ordinary quality, marbled Pacific coast.
 manufactures in iron, woolen manufactures   At a single step we AIve crossed
the great
 some models of a suspension bridge, a rail-  A  a single st   rode    the
   grmat
 way train, sawmill, &c., and preserve'1fs  American continent, strode
the stormy Atlan-
                                        fish tic, the burning sands of unexplored
Africa,
 and lobsters,                              the wide expanse of the Indian
Ocean, passed
   Grouped all together, these several Anglotr
                                            Ithe new world of Australia-a
distance more
 American colonies constitute quite an empire. titan two-thirds of the way
round the globe-
 The Queen of England may justly be proud l and planted our feet, for the
first time, on the
 to reign over them, and the mildness of her island of Tasmania, formerly
known as Van
 government proves her to be what all nations Dieman's Land.  In the Exhibition
it is dis-
 with one accord acknowledge she is, a wise tinguished by its lofty trophy
of spars, which
 and liberal sovereign,                     rise almost to thle roof of the
Transept, 100
    if from the Canadas we cross the Great feet high. There also fine specimens
of coal.

  Lalkes and the Rocky mountains, on the 50th furs, fibres, wool and other
agricultural pro-
  parallel of latitude we shall find, on the coast ducts. The wool crop of
last year was over
  of the Pacific, another British colony; which, 6,000,000 pounds; a fact
of much importance
  though restricted in its limits by the waves as showing the wool-producing
capacity of
  of old Ocean, to a narrow boundary, is, never- the island.
  theless, rich in its resources and prosperous  The woods used in the construction
of the
  in its growth. It is a part of British Colum- trophy are remarkable not
only from the fact
  bia, and is known as                       that many of them are different
from any with
              V"NCOUVXaRS ISLA.D.             w hich we are acquainted
in America-for in-

    it has a superficial area of about 16,000 sq. stance, Blue Gum, Ash or
Swamp Gum, Stringy
  miles; being 26 to 76 miles wide and 276 Bark, White Gum, Silver Wattle,
Muskwood,
  miles in length. It would seem to be too far Blackwood, Huron Pine, &c-but
likewise
  north to warrant very considerable expecta- for their beauty of color and
great intrinsic
  tions of its agriculture, and yet here we have I value for economical uses.