. The advantages of Canada for emigrants. as the English farmer does. His expenses, inproducing are not half as great. A very large item of outlay inEnglish agriculture is the cost of manuring: this is entirely un-necessary in the North-West; there are whole centuries of richnessstored up in the soil, and fertilising it simply means a large crop ofstraw, with little or no grain. Then, practically, all a farmer makes inthe North-West goes into his own pocket. There are no workhousesto maintain, no tithes, hardly any taxes of any kind. And so almostall the farmers I met last autumn were in excel
. The advantages of Canada for emigrants. as the English farmer does. His expenses, inproducing are not half as great. A very large item of outlay inEnglish agriculture is the cost of manuring: this is entirely un-necessary in the North-West; there are whole centuries of richnessstored up in the soil, and fertilising it simply means a large crop ofstraw, with little or no grain. Then, practically, all a farmer makes inthe North-West goes into his own pocket. There are no workhousesto maintain, no tithes, hardly any taxes of any kind. And so almostall the farmers I met last autumn were in excellent spirits. Thosewho had worked their land with intelligence and energy had, as a rule,crops from which they expected to clear comfortable sums, notwith-standing the low quotations for wheat. And at the worst conceivableprices, how very much better off are the farmers of Western Canadato-day than those who 50 years ago, in Ontario, carried their wheatin waggons 100 miles to York, now Toronto, and sold it at Is. 6d.(374 cents) a bushel!. |[iw^^llf:lliilliAlMw4i4iilllili,Jil. |,: •^|l!ir1 :y.;,j|r?iii.:;!ii.|liii|:ii!-l,;,,„;, st. Johns college, quappelle. But there are other considerations than those ofChurches and gain. Is Canada a good place to bring up childrenSchools. in ? There can hardly, I think, be any better. Schools t- are to be found almost everywhere in the North- West, and in Manitoba alone there are already 600. And if thefartner wants his son to study for one of the professions, he can sendhim to St. Johns College, Winnipeg, or to one of the other collegesworking in connection with the University of Manitoba, where he willreceive an excellent collegiate education for a sum which is merelynominal. If he wishes to bring his boys up to mercantile life, the 24 The Advantages of Canada for Emigrants. towns constantly springing up in Western Canada, as well as thosealready established, offer abundant opportunities for getting thempositions which will be more or le
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