A(;i;[(Ii;iti;a[. i;E.sorRCEs. 117' 



La-i (ipi'iu-d up tlic IVnilc l.tinU. tlu-u nearly a inilliini i|n|lai> 

 Avliicli arc anmially smt nut nf iln> (•omiti-v lo pay ihc aL;i-i(iil- 

 turists of (itlu'i- lamls, wuiiM Iji- ntaiuL-d to bcni-fit XcMioiiinllanil 

 farmers ami I'uruisli iucrca^i-il employment to the ]ieo|ile. it' 

 liome manufactures are wmtliy of encouragement, still more so- 

 are food factories in the siia]>e of farms. It is evident iVom the 

 foregoing return^ tliat, for- >niiie time to come, the produce of 

 the farm and the dair>', and th<' raising of stock will tind a re- 

 munerative market in the i>land itself, apart altogethei- fi-i m 

 exportation. ]\Iui'h (an he done to promote agiiculture liy the 

 e.stablisliment of nioih'l firm-: the increase of agriiiill inal 

 societies; the introduction of iiii]iroved breeding stock ; the 

 impartation to the young of a knowledge of the elements o|' agri- 

 culture by means of a good texidiook to be used in the scIkkjIs 

 and colleges. Now that the iild tradition.- about the barrenness 

 of the soil are largely di.~>ipated. and that we begin to have ciai- 

 fidence in the capabilities of the country it becomes evident that 

 the progress ami prosperty of the colon}' depend very laigely cm 

 the employment of the people in agricultural pursuits. There 

 is room for thousmd- o|' emigrants from other countries ; Imt 

 lueantime our suriilu- population, wdio cannot tind subsistence 

 from sea-farming, should lie drafted to the land and along the 

 liues of railway, fhc long a minister of Agriculture will be- 

 come a necessity, and hi- dejiartment will become the most useful 

 iu connection with the jiublic ser\ice. 



PROBABLK INtlJKASK Ol I'lUCES OF FARM ri:<»I)l CTS. 



There is another considei'ation — the pi-oximity of this islan<l 

 to the Old World from A\hich the stream of emigration chiefly 

 fiow's. Six days' steaming lands the emigrant here, at a trilling 

 cost and -without incurring tin- danger and fatigue of a long 

 journey to the far \Ve>t of the United States or the Xorth-west 

 of Canada. In the I'liited States the good wheat-growing lands 

 iire nearly all occupied ; there are no more fertile regions to con- 

 quer. The big farms, where most of the labour is done by 

 macliinery and hoi-ses, are no hniger found to lie lionanzas owing 



