Cost of bringing out and placing upon the land a family of five individuals £50 0 0 Provisions for one year 50 0 0 -------- £100 0 0 Stock-- 2 horses at £10 20 0 0 4 cows at £7 28 0 0 4 pigs 3 0 0 Fowls 2 0 0 -------- 53 0 0 Implements-- Dray 10 0 0 Plough 6 0 0 Harrows 5 0 0 Sundry tools 2 10 0 Dairy utensils 2 10 0 Harness 6 0 0 House utensils 5 0 0 -------- 37 0 0 Seeds-- For 20 acres of wheat 6 0 0 For 10 acres of oats 2 5 0 For 5 acres of maize 0 5 0 For garden seeds 1 0 0 50 fruit trees (various) 3 0 0 -------- 12 10 0 --------- Total £202 10 0 --------- If a family of five--husband, wife, one daughter, and two strong lads of from 14 to 16 years of age--entered upon the land in the month of January, and started at once putting up a house and getting stuff ready, they should be able to do all the work among themselves, and get the wheat and oats in in June--orchard and garden in July. The maize ground could be left until the fence was up round the crop. The amounts put down for food may look small, but it would not be more than that, as in six months (and before, with milk, butter and eggs) they would have potatoes, &c., from the garden, and one pig killed, which together would be half a living. Such a scheme as this could be easily worked out in detail, and thus I think millions of capital could be profitably invested. In fact, without some such scheme I don't know how the vast territories under the British Crown, now lying waste, can be utilised. A few such settlements would give an immense impetus to trade and manufacture, and we should soon cease to hear the cries of "want of employment," "over-population," and "over-production." N.B.--Such a scheme should commend itself to General Booth. It may further be said as regards settling a large population upon the land with intense culture--What is the amount of land a family can comfortably live upon? The sub-division of land has taken place considerably in the original eastern States of America. I see by the Government reports of the State of Massachusetts, 71,000 persons live from the products of farms averaging only 56 acres, and the average size of farms over the whole State in 1850 was 99 acres; in 1875, 76 acres, so that they