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ticular place. In a new country the labour market is 

 easily drugged, and farmers in Canada do with less than 

 half the labour required by farmers at home. They 

 should not go out in the autumn or the winter. In the 

 winter months farmers require no extra help ; indeed 

 many of the small farmers do without all hired labour 

 during that season. The Dominion is a large and growing 

 country, capable of absorbing a great proportion of the 

 overplus population of the mother-country to the mutual 

 advantage of all parties concerned ; but the process must 

 be gradual, and not spasmodic or forced. Capital and 

 labour should go together as well as possible ; and I think 

 it would be both for the interests of Canada and of the 

 working people at home if the system could be introduced 

 of hiring working men before they left their old country, 

 instead of after they landed in the new. 



Weak or sickly men do wrong in emigrating to Canada. 

 In return for better wages and better food men have to 

 work harder than in England. The Canadian farmer, as 

 a rule, does not spare himself nor his men either when 

 work has to be done. In hay-making and harvest time 

 especially the hours are long and the work hard. In 

 return for his hard work the emigrant workman re- 

 ceives better wages and better food, as we have seen 

 before, and he has the prospect, if he is only industrious 

 and saving, of becoming a farmer himself. Then his 

 social position from the very first is better than it was at 

 home. If frugal and industrious, he can afford to buy 

 better clothes, read his paper, and generally polish him- 

 self up more than the working man at home, thus quali- 

 fying himself to mix on more equal terms with his richer 



