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duction of wheat than the United States, healthy, 

 and entirely suited to the British people, within 

 a short and pleasant passage of a fortnight, will 

 open to the farmers and labourers of those king- 

 doms prospects which they do not yet fully 

 realise. Many difficult social problems, gradually 

 growing into prominence, will here find a natural, 

 solution. Workers of every class in the old 

 country, who have been growing up uneasy, and 

 discontented with the difficulty of supporting 

 their families, may there plant themselves on a 

 homestead, where no preliminary clearance of 

 forest, as in the older settlements in Canada, is 

 required, but on which with little labour, and 

 that of the simplest kind, they can in the first 

 season extract from the rich soil abundance 

 of food. The movement is begun ; labourers 

 and farmers' sons, carrying some capital with 

 them, are preparing to go. It may be five years 

 or it may be ten before the full current sets 

 in, which, before it ceases to flow, will alter 

 the existing conditions of agricultural pro- 

 perty in this country. As a state we shall 

 be richer by the abundance of cheap food, 



