50 AGRICULTURAL REPORT.

orchards should be increased throughout the land for promoting the blessings of temperance and health. Plantations of timber-trees

should be established for furnishing, in future, materials for naval and of forest-

civil architecture and the arts, thus laying the foundation culture. Our axgricultural, mineral, and forest resources should be developed by the extension of railroads, canals, and other channels of intercommunication, in all cases which would justify the expense. Capital should be invested in joint-stock companies, or otherwise, for rearing and improving domestic animals; for the production and manufacture of manures; the raising and preparation for market of the Cereal grains, cotton, flax, hemp, tobacco, sugar, molasses, tea, fruit, wine,&c.; for directing the agricultural portion of immigrants into proper channels, and extending to those pioneer farmers all pos- sible aid and support in their hazardous and laborious undertakings; for the remedying of pauperism and preventing crime by persuading, and coercing, if necessary, the idle and the vagrant to engage in some useful employment, and thus, by furnishing food and profitable labor for the poor, to lay the foundation of moral as well as of physical

good. D. J. B.