42 EMIGRATION, OR 



But little fallowing of land, nor indeed is it necessary 

 under a proper system. Land, if ever so foul, can be easily 

 cleaned with a corn crop. There are no tares, turnips, or 

 cabbages, to pulverise and ameliorate the soil, which I think 

 might be introduced in a small way to advantage ; and 

 although the two latter will not stand all through the win 

 ter, (except Swedish turnips), yet there is seldom any frost 

 to hurt them till after the middle of December, when they 

 might be put into cellars made in the ground for the pur 

 pose. Rape or cole-seed (a small patch of which I have 

 seen looking tolerably well, but evidently sown too late) I 

 believe would answer well on this soil, and some others, for 

 its seed, as oil mills are introduced into the province ; I be 

 lieve it would grow to perfection on new, or rich old land ; 

 in the latter case it might be sown after wheat, rye, barley, 

 or peas, as they are off the ground generally early enough. 

 Sunflowers also have been sown for their seeds for poultry 

 and oil, and I think are deserving notice, as they grow re 

 markably luxuriant, evidently produce a large quantity of 

 seed per acre, and require little trouble in their cultivation. 

 Every person busy getting the harvest in ; good hands for 

 cradling the grain in request, 3s. 4d. in cash, or 4s. 60?. in 

 trade, with board, per day ; there is but little advance of 

 wages given in harvest from other times. Up to the present 

 time almost every payment has been made in trade that is 

 an exchange of articles of grain, cattle, or goods from the 

 store (shop). 



July 29. Stopped a day or two with an agreeable, re 

 spectable working farmer (as they all are in this country) 

 from Nova Scotia, who wanted to engage me to stop and 

 help him twelve months for the share of one-third of the 

 produce of his farm, and treated as one of the family. He 

 was going to put in (sow) forty acres of wheat this fall (au 

 tumn), and calculated they would produce 1000 bushels, 

 besides other grain and corn ; but I declined. Farmers, 

 captains, and esquires, rich and poor, none think it a dis 

 grace to work, even for each other; yet, except in hay- 

 time and harvest, there is but little steady work from morn 

 to night. It has been said, that, &quot; in America, if you want 

 any thing done, you must do it yourself,&quot; which, generally, 

 is true, as you cannot always hire others ; this is peculiarly 

 the case in new settled parts, where every one can get land 

 to himself. This is one reason customs differ from those in 



