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arable land. I will not venture an estimate, but only the remark that 

 large tracts of such ground might be brought to a high state of culti- 

 vation if the resources of science were made to act upon it. To be 

 able to do this, the intelligent minds of earnest men are required to 

 guide and influence the raw material of agricultural labor. At the 

 outset this would be found to be a great want. There are so many 

 Broughams, Westburgs, Edwards, Pallengers, Thadsons, Redpaths to 

 do the patriotic, yet purloin grandly. 



Again, if the attempt were made on the thirty million acres of 

 waste land at once, where would the men be got to do it all in due 

 season, unless prejudicially drawn from existing farms, to the mater- 

 ial injury of our established agricultural property? 



Farm laborers cannot be made out of town-bred men. Let any 

 one who thinks himself apt at learning simple things, try his hand at 

 a month's harvest that is, cut, cart and stack; or wood-cutting. 



With improvement in the condition of the land look forward to an 

 unfair increase of rates and taxes under the present rule of govern- 

 ment; for as property is improved, the rates are unconditionally 

 raised as a sort of fine even, before the property has won its cost back. 



The inference to be drawn from these remarks, tends tosho^that 

 while there is great reason for the conversion of waste land into either 

 good pasture arable land, it must be a growth of time, say fifty thous- 

 and selected acres and by a selection of workers the first year at the 

 government's cost. A gradual increase of the acreage might be made 

 each year afterwards. Private enterprise should be encouraged in 

 every various way to aid in the same direction, for locating competent 

 and worthy families on the land in tracts of not less than fifty acres 

 for each family. Land of appropriate amounts should be advanced to 

 those needing them for actual farming purposes. 



A SOLUTION TO THE UNEMPLOYED PROBLEM. 



This problem, from its vastness in relation to England, is on that 

 account simple to understand with the view to the employment of 

 every willing (and also unwilling) worker in this our England. Mark 

 the very name of our country with its affix "and." It tells at once the 

 claims of duty of one and all to work for the country which sustains 

 us, to work on and for English land; for England. Cease to be un- 

 employed ! 



More than a seventh part of these Islands is lying idle. Is that 

 policy or justice to those who are born to live on these islands'? To 

 coop people up in "dosseries," model lodging houses, and the ranges 

 of tenements that make up monstrous London and other cities and 

 towns of the United Kingdom, and ask boroughs and parishes to find 

 work for a million involuntary idlers, is to aggravate the evil; and, by 

 enormous rates, bring down others struggling for existence to the 



