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sun in summer, and rapid vegetation. Even the long 

 winter itself is not wholly without its advantages; it 

 affords the farmer great facilities for hauling firewood, 

 manure, fence rails, &c., on sleds, and the long housing of 

 his stock enables him to accumulate a larger pile of 

 manure. Although extensive lumbering operations are 

 incompatible with farming, there is no reason why 

 farmers should not in winter cut and haul materials 

 for building purposes, fences, &c. ; on the contrary, no 

 farm should be without a certain quantity of forest at its 

 back, which may little and little be cleared, and in the 

 meantime furnishes necessary lumber and fuel in winter, 

 and a run for young cattle in summer. 



New Brunswick is a good province for emigrants of 

 the working classes. If wages are not nominally so 

 high as in the States, they are actually higher, because 

 living is one-third less. A hard-working man, accustomed 

 to farm labour, can earn from ten to fifteen dollars a 

 month all the year round, with his keep, and in two or 

 three years save enough to commence farming on his own 

 account. It is not one of those countries (are there any 

 such?) where a man can invest a small capital in land 

 and in a few years make a fortune ; but it is a country in 

 which a man with a certain small income, can live much 

 more comfortably than he can in England, have some 

 shooting and fishing, and do everything that he sees his 

 neighbours doing, which I believe to be half the battle. It 

 is a mistake here, as elsewhere, for a man with little or no 

 idea of farming, to rush out and invest all his capital in 

 land. He should rather take plenty of time to look about 

 him, and in the meantime can always get from 6 to 8 per 



