For miles round there is joy and thankfulness among all classes' at_ the wonderful wheat crop that is now ripen-into harvest. Such a crop has not been seen for.thirty odd years, "Wheat said a farmer to me a few days ago, "I do not remember seeing such wheat before, and I am nearly forty years old." In another place a youth said: "T have never seen such wheat before in my nineteen years." Vegetables, with the exception of broad beans, are all good. The latter have dwarfed, whether it be*by reason of much snow, bitter cold, or late rains, I must leave the agriculturist. to determine. Even the mandarin rejoices in such a harvest. "My work will be less; " said he to me a few days ago. "Lawsuits rise chiefly when men have little else to think of." One cannot, but regret that so much money should be used in the various displays which are
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