122 MR EVANSON S HOME FAKM. 



counted no less than five-and-twenty burnings visible at 

 the same time in the primeval forest. 



SOth August. — Early in the morning, I drove over to 

 visit Mr Evanson, an Old Country settler, who owns a 

 fine estate in one of the richest parts of the valley. The 

 intervale land through which the river flows, produces 

 2^ tons of hay an acre, and is valued at £10 an acre. 

 The undulating slightly elevated land on which Mr 

 Evanson's home farm rests is a red loamy clay, is valued 

 at £7, 10s. an acre, and produces 25 bushels of wheat, 

 35 of oats, 40 of buckwheat, and 250 to 300 of potatoes. 

 This farm of 400 acres — 200 acres still in wood, 30 in 

 crop, and the rest in grass, with a house for a gentleman 

 to live in, and other buildings — he valued at £3000. 

 This is high for the country, however, being at the rate 

 of £7, 10s. an acre for cleared and uncleared land 

 together. 



In this district some farms are let on a money-rent; 

 though, as I have already said, this kind of farming is 

 not popular in North America. It prev^ails more here, I 

 believe, because this Sussex Vale is an eligible spot, 

 likely to attract by its appearance a settler from the 

 Old Ooimtry, and because it is easily accessible from the 

 port of St John, where most of the emigrants land. 



I walked over the farm of Andrew Alton, a Scotch- 

 man, which consists of 100 acres of good land of different 

 qualities, lying between the true flat intervale and the 

 upland. It is valued at £7 an acre, and he pays £44 

 a-year of rent for the whole — or 9s. an acre — which in 

 other parts of the province would be considered a high 

 rent. He had 12 acres in oats, 3^ in buckwheat, 4J- 

 in potatoes, 3^ in turnips, cuts 30 acres for hay, and has 

 the rest in pasture. He keeps 16 cows in milk, 7 

 young cattle, makes 30 cwt. of cheese, and works his 

 land with one pair of horses. His farm is held on a lease 

 of seven years; he thinks his rent moderate, has no 



