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milk or whey. The factory treats the milk for a specified sum, 

 which, after paying the working expenses, represents the share- 

 holders' dividend. The profit goes to the farmers. After lunch, 

 provided by our hosts, we drove to Freetown, where a special train 

 was waiting to take us to Charlottetown, the capital of the island. 

 It was about 4 p.m. when we got there. Quite a number of citizens 

 were awaiting our arrival, and after some preliminary arrange- 

 ments were made, we set off in different directions — the stock men 

 to see stock ; the dairymen to see dairies ; some went to see general 

 farming ; and some to see fruit. The steadings of the island, 

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up to date. The stables and the byres were paved with wood. 

 The stalls were somewhat undersized. The cubic space was much 

 below the cubic space in Scotland. But then less cubic space is 

 needed in a country where the thermometer falls to sixteen degrees 

 below zero in winter, and where the cattle are outside mostly in 

 summer. The land was a light loam on red sandstone, such a soil 

 as there is in the Lothians of Scotland. It is to some extent run out. 

 Much, however, might be made of it, especially when you consider 

 that it sells at from £6 to £10 per acre, and that it is in close 

 proximity to the great markets of America, though, in reckoning 

 up its possibilities, the climatic conditions must not be forgotten. 

 Besides, there is unrest in the air, and that to some extent 

 accounts for the existing condition of things. The New England 

 States are attracting the young men of Prince Edward Island just 

 as the towns are attracting the rural population of every country, 

 and the lure of the western prairie is attracting them more 



