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Excerpt from Reports of the Minister of Agriculture, and the Chief Emigrant Agent, for Canada, for the Year 1857
Messrs. Gibson and Russell's reports on the state of these roads are appended hereto, and their accounts and vouchers submitted to the auditor of public ao counts.
Experience now teaches that newly arrived emigrants, unaccustomed to the use of the axe, and alike ignorant of the effects of our climate and the rotation of crops, have but little chance of immediate success in settling Upon wild lands, unless possessed of sufficient capital to enable them to employ laborers, or pay during the first year or so for the experience which others can furnish. The newly arrived emigrants, with but little means, should be warned of the difficulties in the way of their success; and should rather be encouraged to hire out with the farmers of the country for a season or so, than to undertake farming themselves without experience. Labor, though not commanding the price it did during the last four or five years, is, as compared with the prices paid ten years ago, very high; and even those most ignorant Of the customs Of the country can readily find employment, if willing to work, and receive from eight to ten dollars per month wages, with as good board and lodging as their employers.
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