112 EMIGRATION, OR 



With the beef and vegetables allowed above, 282 dollars 

 will keep a family of four or five persons well during 

 the year, leaving a clear profit of 200 dollars, or 45/., be 

 sides the improvement of the farm ; and if hemp or tobacco 

 were made part of the productions, the profits, probably, 

 would be larger. No one that is well acquainted with 

 Canada will, I think, say that I have made a partial state 

 ment. Some may think I have stated the number of fat 

 hogs on so small a farm in one season, too high, as there 

 are but a very few farmers that fatten so many. I allow 

 there are not many; yet as there are some that do, and as 

 I have allowed sufficient grain for the purpose, if there 

 be any nuts at all in the woods, that objection, of course, 

 falls to the ground. It would be to the interest of the 

 Canadian farmers, particularly those in back settlements, to 

 pay more attention than they now do, both to the breed 

 ing and feeding of hogs. There is too little spirit and 

 taste for improvements, for want of a proper stimulus. As 

 there is comparatively but little capital vested in farming 

 pursuits, there are no leading characters to introduce, or 

 excite, a spirit of improvement. For this purpose I would 

 strongly recommend the immediate establishment of agri 

 cultural societies in each district. They have been esta 

 blished in Lower Canada, Nova Scotia, and New Bruns 

 wick, as well as in the United States, with very general 

 success and benefit to the community ; and as the Upper 

 Canadians have an emulative spirit, I am confident their in 

 troduction would produce a spirit of enterprise equal to that 

 of any country. If farms were set apart in each district 

 for the purpose, and conducted by a competent person, the 

 most approved system of farming introduced, and the im 

 proved breeds of cattle, sheep, &c. ; selected and imported, 

 with superior implements of husbandry, and clover, grass, 

 and other seeds cultivated, with an annual exhibition and sale 

 by auction of the same, and appropriate premiums given for 

 agricultural improvements, &c. the best effects would cer 

 tainly result to the whole community, and particularly to the 

 agricultural part of.it. And if these farms, stock, &c. were 

 judiciously arranged, I think they might be made even a 

 profitable concern. 



Hemp, tobacco, and clover seed, may be made enriching 1 

 staple articles in the western part of the province, and to 

 the advantage of the trade of Great Britain. The finest 



