of the LmuM Tnfn-esf,. 7i'3 
long life engaged in scientiBc and practical agriculture is in 
suggesting remedies to meet the present state of affairs. Let us 
trust notwithstanding that statesmanship may, on a study of the 
English Statute Book and the precedents therein and otherwise, 
seethe way to do that which is equitable and timely for the relief 
of now overburdened agriculture. It has been said — and sui’ely 
this is a subject amongst others for anxious consideration — 
that the charges now imposed upon agricultural land by 
imperial and. local taxation are unfair and excessive as com- 
pared with those falling upon personalty and other classes of 
property ; that such charges are injurious to all concerned in 
the cultivation of the soil, fall with especial severity on the class 
of yeomen formers, and by tending to increase the cost of pro- 
duction, and to overtax a struggling industry, are opposed to 
the interests of the community at large. 
Let us hope that Mr. Gamier in the not distant future may 
be able to paint some such picture as that presented to us in 
the past by Mr. Justice Haliburton, who makes his ever-famous 
Sam Slick say of his paternal home : “ I was bred and born 
on a farm — dear ! says I — on one, too, where nothing was 
ever wasted and no time lost ; where there was a place for 
everything, and everything was in its place ; where peace and 
plenty reigned, and where there was a shot in the locker for 
the parson and another for the poor.” It is sad to think that 
between the not far distant past and the immediate present how 
harsh is the contrast. 
In taking leave of iMr. Gamier I cordially say, Au revoir /— 
I hope we shall meet again. . 
C.ATHCART. 
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