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What then constitutes the immediate disadvantages 

 to farms situated at a distance from markets? The 

 expense of transport, arising* from bad roads, waste 

 of cattle, labour, &c. &c. Gould a farmer make his 

 produce convey itself to market y all would g-o well; 

 and this apparent impossibility is what he must effect. 

 In lieu of growing- tvheat to excess, he must raise 

 cattle. In lieu of drawing* his artificial resources, as 

 manure, &c. from a distance, he must have every 

 thing: w^ithin his grasp ; and little observation is ne- 

 cessary to perceive that g-rass or its adjuncts, not 

 wheat — the iron and not the gold of his estate, is the 

 most useful, and mosi to be depended on. 



1st. —A location, is to be chosen in reg-ard to one's 

 means. 2d. — Its productions are to be regulated by the 

 facility with which they can be changed into money, 

 or other kinds of produce. 3rd. — By the quantity of 

 labour which we have at command. And 4th. —By 

 the immediate consumption of the produce. 



A location is to be considered general or special, 

 Tne tide of emig-ration hns, for a great number of 

 years, been settling- towards Upper Canada; lands 

 have become, if not scarce, dear, consequently, in- 

 accessible to a g-reat number of emigrants. Bad 

 winters, partial frosts, diseases, all impediments have 

 been overlooked, or attempted to be conquered, 

 until some less hardy and more venturesome, less rich 

 and more calculating* persons, turned their attention 

 to the Lower Province, or certain parts of it; where, 

 if the winter was somewhat long-er, the roads to 

 market or for transport were continually good ; where 

 if it were colder, uo peculiar disease prevailed ; and 

 where, if wheat was not so abundant in its crops, it 

 was equally profitable; and grass, potatoes, peas, 

 &c., more so ; wfiere labour was cheaper, the distance 

 shorter from the great exporting markets, and the 

 residents in the neighbourhood were persons originally 

 or native British. 



Writing not from interested motives, we can have 

 no object in withholding our reasons, if not for pre- 

 ferring the Upper to the Lower Province, at least to 

 place them on a parr as to eligibility for intended 



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