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not find favour either with the native-born Canadian or 

 with the immigrant. The great object of the latter in 

 coming to a new country is to acquire a property of his 

 own. Eeally good wheat land cannot be rented, and it is 

 the height of folly to rent a run-out farm for a short 

 period. Rented farms, as might be supposed, are the worst 

 kept and most untidy in Canada. I was shown a fair 

 farm in Ontario of 100 acres half cleared, to let for seven 

 years at 20Z. per annum. Another of 150 acres, TOO 

 cleared, to let for six years at 30?. per annum. 



The immigrant has great facilities for travelling about, 

 and should avail himself of them to the full before tying 

 himself down to a locality or a farm. Travelling is very 

 cheap in Canada West, as there is plenty of competition. 

 From Quebec to Montreal, for instance, a distance of 

 something like 180 miles, the steamboat fare is $2. This 

 includes cabin and supper. The voyage occupies ten or 

 eleven hours, and the traveller is quite as comfortable as 

 at an hotel. Both on water and land there are two classes 

 of passengers. Canadians, though a thoroughly democratic 

 people, have yet the sense to know that in all countries 

 there are at least two classes who require separate accom- 

 modation the dirty and clean, the drunken and sober 

 but the industrious man who does not drink is always first 

 class in Canada. 



A great breadth of land in Ontario has the last year or 

 two been under barley.- Bushel for bushel this grain sells 

 for nearly as much as wheat, and the land, acre for acre, 

 produces a great deal more of it. 



The potato crop suffered severely from the ravages of 

 the Colorado beetle for some seasons, and farmers conse- 



