8 INFLUENCE OF SUCCESSFUL COMMERCE 



His turnip-culture is only commencing. His potatoes 

 yield seventeen to twenty fold ; and his hay, of which he 

 has cut 140 acres, has yielded him, on an average, 3J 

 tons an acre. 



To his head-man, who is a Scotch grieve, he gives 4 

 a-month ; and to his other farm-servants 2, 10s. cur 

 rency a-month, besides their board and lodging ; and 

 they are engaged by the year. A few farm-servants, he 

 said, would be sure of employment in this district at 

 these wages. 



I put down here, as it occurs to me, a caution to 

 emigrants possessing capital which will apply equally, 

 I believe, to all North America, whether British or 

 Eepublican never to bring out men-servants under an 

 engagement, and with the expectation that they will 

 contentedly and honestly work for their employer till 

 their engagement is fulfilled. Experience says that it is 

 a bad plan, and never succeeds. The men soon begin to 

 think they have been over-reached, and that they are 

 cheated ; and they either remain discontented and half 

 useless, or they seek a quarrel with their master, or, 

 without a quarrel, go off and leave him altogether. 

 Ingratitude of this kind is all but universal. This is an 

 evil for which human nature is to blame, and which has 

 brought disappointment to the hopes of comfort enter 

 tained by many emigrant families, which, but for this 

 unexpected occurrence, might have been fully realised. 



I was interested by finding in New Brunswick, as in 

 many places at home, the intelligence, energy, and busi 

 ness habits of the mercantile classes, turning themselves 

 to the cultivation of the land, and exhibiting a warmer 

 spirit, and more praiseworthy example of improvement, 

 than is generally to be seen among those &quot; to the manner 

 born.&quot; It is a circumstance which, as a matter of his 

 tory, is not undeserving of notice, that those countries 

 which, in our time, have been most fortunate in com- 



