"in the New-England states and in New York the Devon blood prevails. Most of the stock are grades, as they are called, or crosses of the pure Devon bull with the older stock of the country, which is originally of mixed English and Dutch of various kinds. The cows exhibited were nearly all Devons, and there was a beautiful Devon bull in the yard which had been bred in Canada. In the Western and South-Western states the Shorthorn blood predominates, and of this blood there were some good specimens exhibited." p. 165, vol. 1. An astute agricultural professor, most truly, who, in the Provinces, a fortnight before this, affected to be a judge of cattle! The veriest tyro on earth, who had ever slept a night on a stock farm in "New-England or New-York," would deserve to have his ears soundly boxed for a remark betraying such profound ignorance and stupidity. Did Mr. Johnston go into the cattle quarter of the show grounds at all? Or if he did, had he knowledge in live stock enough to discriminate between the scores of Short-horns, the Herefords, the Devons, the Ayrshires - his own country-kine, and the various grades of almost every intermixture that he could not but see there? Or was his information drawn from some one quite as ignorant and unobservirg as himself? There were some 400 cattle exhibited on the Syracuse show-ground, and there were not a score of Devon cows among them all, although of Devons, including bulls, cows, heifers, and calves, there was a fine collection: but there were at least three Short-horns to one Devon, and the best show of Short-horns yet exhibited in the state, and several of them recently imported from England. Equally correct is the remark that "in the New-England States and New York the Devon blood prevails." In those states not one animal in twenty has a trace of Devon blood in its veins, as Devon cattle are now understood.

Both Devons and Short-horns are occasionally found in New-England, and so are Ayrshires, Alderneys, and Herefords, in their purity; and so also are there many grade cattle of those bloods;, but, in comparison with the whole, they are few, like our author's facts, and far between. And so with the Short-horns in "the Western and south Western states," towards which he never advanced beyond the foot of Lake Erie, where he asserts that "the Short-horn blood predominates." In regard to New-England and New York he must have made his very accurate observations as he "steamed, and railed" through that country; and a most convenient clairvoyance undoubtedly helped him to the like accurate information regarding the Western and South western cattle.

Our horses "are in reality too light for heavy farm-work." Our author believes that "when the period arrives for deeper ploughing and more extensive cultivation of heavy land, a heavier and stronger stock of horses will be necessary." When he demonstrates to us that the clumsy draught horse of Clydesdale, or the snail-paced cart-horse of Lan-caahire, with the same weight of carcass applied to the work, and the same amount of food.

and the same manual assistance, can plow two acres of strong land in one day, and plow it as deep and as well as a team of "limber" New York horses, we shall give more weight to his authority. The time has not yet arrived for a "Britisher" - so self-styled, only - to read the Yankee a lesson in the breeding of useful horses.

In some other branches of the exhibition at Syracuse, Professor Johnston was quite as discriminating as in the stock department. "Farm and dairy produce, however, and fruits, receive much attention from the New York State Society, and had an appropriate place assigned to them under the tents and sheds which were scattered on the grounds." In his very particular notice of the fruits - and what we have quoted is all of it - we have much to admire in the extent of his information. An unsophisticated man would have supposed that a tent, regal in size, 120 by 80 feet in area, containing shelves placed amphitheatre-like the full length of its oval sides, and filled with thousands of the choicest specimens of apples, pears, quinces, grapes, peaches, plums, and melons, all grown in the open air, and of the most exquisite flavor, garnished with beautiful collections of flowers, and by their tempting luxuriance attracting the attention of a dense crowd during the three days of their exhibition,would have excited a remark beyond simply naming their presence in general terms.

But true to the instinctive taste of his own foggy hills, where not a thing of them all is grown out of doors, he no doubt regarded them with the like affection of the old laird at the sight of the sugar-plums: "Hoot mon! and what is all this bau-bce trumpery to a bicker of kail broose?" In his after observations, our traveler remarks somewhat upon our apple culture, none of which remarks are new, and part of them incorrect. Of apples, he says, "those varieties which are best for the table are unfit alone to make a palatable cider." "Where ignorance is bliss, 'tis folly to be wise," said a much abler man than Professor Johnston, and it were equally wise for his own credit that he should speak of that only of which he knew something. He has however introduced the extensive orchards of Mr. Pell, and their management, but draws no conclusions. In this place, he says that Mr. P. has 2,000 Newtown Pippin apple trees in full bearing. In the second volume he states, that "Mr. Pell has 20,000 apple trees, chiefly Newtown Pippins." "We should really like to know how many apple trees Mr. Pell has got in his orchard, so that the disputed question of two thousand, or twenty thousand - for there is some difference in the number - may be set at rest.

Discharging creditably, though in manner and taste quite mistakenly, his public duties at Syracuse,he extends his rambles to the fine farm of Mr. Geddes,a few miles out of town, which gives him opportunity for some geological remarks upon soils - all borrowed - and modes of agriculture, not new. He then leaves in the railway for Buffalo on the 15th, after a two and a half days' sojourn in the richest agricultural county of the state. "Introduced to a gentlemanly-looking physician," he soon apologizes for the rudeness of an answer which he gave him to a question which we are quite sure no "gentlemanly-looking" man of any profession would have addressed to him; and then a commentary on manners and language in general, in which neither the words "Britisher" nor "Transatlantic Cousins," occur. Joe Smith and company, of the Mormon faith, now come in for a share of his reflections, followed up by a fling at the fanaticism of his followers, in which he candidly admits that a large accession to their force had come from England to sustain the open polygamy of Smith, when living, and Brigham Young, now chief apostle and leader of the tribe.