. Letters on emigration to Canada [microform] : addressed to the very Rev. Principal Baird. Agriculture; Agriculture. EMIGRATION TO CANADA. Tl quickly have possession of it again,—as is the case in thousands of instances which every day occur. Indeed, many proprietors, by getting unwary Emi- grants to purchase in that way, have got payments in part half-a-dozen times over; got the poor Emigrant to improve more of it; and, when he could squeeze no more money out of him, foreclose the mortgage, and oust him without a shilling. It may be said, surely this is not the case with every Emigrant who p
. Letters on emigration to Canada [microform] : addressed to the very Rev. Principal Baird. Agriculture; Agriculture. EMIGRATION TO CANADA. Tl quickly have possession of it again,—as is the case in thousands of instances which every day occur. Indeed, many proprietors, by getting unwary Emi- grants to purchase in that way, have got payments in part half-a-dozen times over; got the poor Emigrant to improve more of it; and, when he could squeeze no more money out of him, foreclose the mortgage, and oust him without a shilling. It may be said, surely this is not the case with every Emigrant who purchases land in this way. I would answer, that a very great proportion of those who purchase at once, without being well acquainted with the country, are soon reduced to a very helpless state. Indeed, in- stead of an Emigrant benefiting by following the plan proposed by Mr. Pickering in this case in ques- tion, I must say the following up of it must inevit- ably be attended with ruin. In the first place, .£200 is by far too small a sum to attempt such an undertaking with; and in the next place, the attempt here made to grasp at a great amount of produce, to take to market the first year, is doubly ruinous. In this case, it is, indeed, easy to see the absurdity of the calculations made, be- cause, in order to make up a large value of produce, Mr. Pickering supposes the seed for crops profitable li 'I •. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Inches, James. Perth : Printed for the author by C. G. Sidey
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