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children, if industrious, in independent circumstances 

 also. 



But in regard to persons who are possessed of larger 

 means, and who, wherever they go, wish or expect to 

 carry with them the comforts and consideration, and to 

 obtain from it the return of profit which such capital 

 insures them at home, the course is more difficult. 

 Two thousand pounds, or perhaps three, may be laid out 

 in the purchase of a farm which the owner is himself to 

 cultivate and live upon, and the farmer will enjoy more 

 independence and higher consideration than the same 

 capital would give him as a farmer in Great Britain. 

 But if he wish to expend more capital on his land, 

 employ more labour, and farm more largely, there is 

 against his chances of success the prevailing opinion as 

 to the employment of paid labour which I have already 

 stated though with skill, energy, and prudence, there 

 is also, according to others, the prospect of a fair profit 

 upon the capital he may expend, and a certainty of his 

 attaining to a leading and influential position in a rising 

 country, in which the importance of agriculture is 

 becoming every day more acknowledged. 



Those who wish to emigrate with a view to farming 

 on a large scale to become gentleman farmers, as they 

 are called have generally more means and leisure for 

 acquiring information. Such persons, therefore, will 

 judge for themselves as to the eligibility of New Bruns 

 wick for their purposes. But for a richer or higher 

 class men of capital, who wish to invest their money in 

 land, and, letting it out to others, to live on the proceeds 

 or rents this is not the country. The time will no 

 doubt come when such a class of men will spring up in 

 the colony ; but at present, land possessed, but not culti 

 vated by its owner, yields comparatively little return. 

 Renting land is in little favour ; and, where it is farmed 

 on shares, the lion s share generally falls to the culti- 



