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owing tlie abandonment of farms by persons who, leaving 

 both debts and mortgages behind, and taking with them 

 any capital they could secure, had moved west to lumber 

 on the Aroostook, or to begin life anew In the far off 

 Wisconsin. 



I have been thus detailed in my observations upon 

 this subject, because I felt myself inclined to be unjust 

 In my judgment as to the agricultural capabilities of a 

 district from which so many were emigrating, and In 

 which land was so little esteemed that its owners 

 appeared to be abandoning it, with all their Improve- 

 ments, merely because it refused to support their fami- 

 lies. A knowledge of all the circumstances, however, 

 satisfactorily showed that not the land, but the haste of 

 its owners to become rich, and their discontent with the 

 slow but certain gains of agriculture, were the causes of 

 the distress from which so many of the farmers were 

 suffering. 



With the view of obtaining a more general body of 

 testimony In regard to the agricultural condition of New 

 Brunswick, I was enabled, through the kind co-opera- 

 tion of the Provincial Government, to circulate a set of 

 queries among the owners of the land In every county 

 of the province. One of these queries referred to the 

 profits of pure farming ; and the numerous answers I 

 received were unanimous In declaring — " That^ in every 

 'part of the 'province^ those who for a series of years had 

 confined their attention to farming alone^ had all^ loithout 

 exception^ done iveliy That prosperity, therefore, may 

 attend the new settler, or may return to the older 

 farmers of the province. It Is necessary only that they 

 confine their attention solely to the business of their 

 farms. 



On the Miramichi, at present, owing to failures and 

 the foreclosing of mortgages, land Is cheaper than It has 

 been for many years. At Bergoris, twenty miles from 



