THE WISCONSIN FARMER.



cover, oiled and painted, ready for spring's
use;
  Of the roads to be repaired previous to the
rainy seuson;
  Of the sohool-house to be looked after, and
furnished with everything necessary to the
comfort and progress of the neighborhood
children;
  And finally, of a thousand other things too
numerous to mention in detail.
  0, ye farmers I neglect none of these duties.

    kitish Colonies at the Great Exhibition.
                   NO. IL.

  Next in order, after Canada, we find an in.
teresting display of wheat, oats, barley, Indi-
an corn, grass seeds, agricultural implements,
furniture made of native Woods, Indian bas-
kets, leathers, furs, and hear skins, in the
court of



land is not all fish and blubber-samples of
grey oxide, peacock, and yellow copper ores;
argentiferous lead; vitreous, ruby, and chlo-
ride of silver; quartz, rich in silver; iron
ores and marbles.
  Touching the mainland again-which we do
here in the Exhibition by turning a few steps
to the right-we come first upon
               NOVA SCOTIA;
A province, just now a shining point on the
map of the great world, on account of its
many promising gold mines. This court is
distinguished by a magnificeDt coal trophy,
consisting of a shaft or pillar of coal 84 feet
high; showing the actual vertical thickness
of the famous Picton coal-bed. Here are like-
wise several other shafts of lesser height,
each illustrating the thickness and character
of the bed to which it belongs.
  In the side court-the entrance to which in



          PRIaCZ EDWAAD ISLAXI)! guarded by a noble representative moose-
  Situate in the Gulf of St.. Lawrence, and there is a fine collection of
the minerals of
                                            Nova Scotia, together with a
series of samples
betw een the 46th and 47th parallels of lati- of gold to the value of $20,000:
also several
tude, its climate is necessarily somewhat rig- varieties of building stone
and marbles; spe-
orous; and yet the enterprise Of its eightyvaiteofbldnsoeadmrls;p-
trous;and  yetple  th e alrenterprie  ofitsn eigt  cimens of fish, illustrative
 of the importance
thousand people has already made It an island oher fisheries; of birds, fruits,
vegetables
of some importance.  Extreme length, 180 and cereal grains.
miles; greatest breadth, 34 miles; area, I-,-
366,400 acres, divided up into 67 counties. Te discoveries 01 gold were not
made till
Agriculture, the mechanic arts, commerce and just last year (1861); since
which time no less
educational enterprises report themselves fa- than one hundred places have
been found to
vorably.                                    contain auriferous deposits.
The gold is found
  And here also is larger                   in quartz rock, and whether the
mines will
                                            prove sufficiently rich to warrant
another
                                            grand rush of the gold-diggers
is a matter of
Further out in the Gulf-the most ancient of doubt  Judging from the descriptions
we
the British colonies.  Fish and oils are the have seen of the geological
formations in
chief attraction in this court.  Codfish and which they occur, and from the
specimens
capulin of course.  Is there so fWhy a place here displayed, I must declare
that I have no
anywhere else in the world? The Superin- great faith in their richness.
tendent tells us that the annual British catch  Iron and lead are also found
in Nova 8co-
is ten million fish, the Frerch catch, five mil- tia. But after all, and
especially in view of
lion. The universal Yankee, whether counted the fact that Halifax, her principal
city, is a
in or not, undoubtedly makes a good haul. sort of halfway house between the
two conti-
Seal oil is shown in great abandance. as also nents, her coal mines are probably
more im-
a new kind of stearine made of it and much portant than any other.
used for soap.                               Next in geographical order we
have the next-
  Sundry minerals, in proof that Newfound- door neighbor of the peninsular
province,



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