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and kinds of manure are most suitable, and also for improving the breeds and qualities of the different kinds of animals raised on farms, should be promoted by the aid of the Legislature.

The public roads which have been undertaken by the authority of the State are progressing and in some instances have been completed.

The reports of the agents of the Mattanawcook road, and of the Baring road will be laid before you, and will require your consideration.

The Canada road, according to the report of the agent appointed to examine and inspect it, appears to have been completed during the past year, and is now believed to be safe and convenient for travellers.

An easy communication, thus opened between this State and our friendly neighbors, cannot fail to be mutually beneficial.

It will afford an opportunity for the increase of our trade, by the interchange of commodities, will promote the sale and settlement of the State's land in the vicinity of the route, and contribute to a continuance of the very friendly understanding now happily subsisting.

The greatest inconvenience that exists in passing this road is the want of suitable houses of entertainment established at proper distances throughout the route.

In order with as little delay as possible to remedy this deficiency, I would respectfully suggest the appropriation of a lot of land at the most eligible situation, for the use of the person, who within a limited time shall erect thereon suitable buildings to be occupied, for a stipulated number of years as a public house for the accommodation of travellers.

Before closing this subject, it becomes my duty to state that information has been received from a respectable source, that a part of the road lately completed, passes over the Bald Mountain, in a direction different from that prescribed by the resolves