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those circumstances as fast and to such extent as may be within our 

 power. I cannot doubt that a vigorous prosecution of dairy business 

 and of wool growing, the yield from both which, on lands both cheap 

 and good, will bear an export charge of one or two cents per pound, 

 without destroying profit, or the growing of horses and lean cattle, 

 possessing locomotive powers of their own, to take themselves to 

 market, may be carried on to advantage. Very probable is it, or 

 at least, so it seemed to me, that fat cattle might be produced, 

 barreled, and find an Atlantic market via the St. John, at a cost 

 enabling the producer successfully to compete with any section. 



Such, in its leading features, is the more judicious mode of pro- 

 cedure, wherever land is abundant and cheap, bearing but small 

 ratio to the value of labor, connected with distant markets. But to 

 do even this to the best advantage, so as to reap a handsome profit, 

 requires the outlay of considerable capital, notwithstanding the 

 cheapness of land, first, to construct the needful buildings comforta- 

 bly to house a large number of animals in winter, in order to save 



but poor accommodations as yet, the manure which was made had long ago yielded 

 its tribute of nitrogen to the wind; while its phosphates and alkalies, borne away 

 with the passing brook, bade good bye forever to our friend, who at the moment was 

 too much interested in stream-driving to think of such trifles; nevertheless, that 

 winter's work paid as well as the summer's had done. A poor chance enough for 

 high farming and stall feeding, you will say, and I agree with you. Accordingly, 

 our friend goes on cropping and chopping alternately, while he leaves the old fields 

 to recover by a most tedious (but economical) process of fallow or pasturage. Thus 

 he slowly progresses towards independence; and if he has not staid away too long 

 from his farm, fiddling and stream-driving, and so forth, he finds himself at length 

 the unquestioned lord of a large clearing, and with an ample inheritance for his 

 children forever; that is, if they will only try to avail themselves of its proper pro- 

 ductiveness. It is obvious, therefore, that in the first place, our clearings must be 

 large, and their productiveness comparatively small; and that from the nature of 

 the case. Those large clearings now await the application of skilled labor, aud are 

 ready to reward it. 



Immigrants with money, who understand farming, and design to pursue it as a 

 business, need not go through the process above described; they can almost always 

 buy cleared land, including both meiidow and upland, at a moderate price, or they 

 can hire the country people to prepare the land for use. We therefore invite those 

 whose health and strength is their chief capital, to go upon new land; while immi- 

 grants, possessed of a little ready money, and understanding of agriculture, are 

 recommended to buy ready made farms; and by manure and management, restore 

 to them fertility, and lay broad the foundations of comfort and independence for 

 themselves and families, in all time to come." 



