secure a ready-made farm he considerably reduces the risk of the woman’s moping and wanting to return to the familiar village in the Old Country again, even though it may mean returning to 15_s._ a week and no prospect but the old age 5_s._ a week at seventy. The Provincial Governments, agricultural associations, and a number of financial corporations are very willing to give every assistance to a _bona-fide_ settler on the land. When he has established the fact that he is a safe man to trust, he may get his stock and implements on credit, and the land will be broken at a nominal charge to lessen the burden of his first effort. A Canadian writer says he knows of specific cases in which English immigrant buyers paid $30 and $15 an acre respectively for farms. “One case was a very choice piece of land near to the social and educational advantages of a large town, and another enjoyed the same favourable position but was not quite such good land throughout, but had the very best grazing where it could not be used for cereals or root crops. In the one case the payments ($30 an acre) were completed in seven years, and in the other ($15) five years were found sufficient to acquire a clean bill of the rights to the property, and both men are wealthy citizens to-day. This does give assurance that is certainly needed in the face of the misrepresentative and conflicting statements which have been circulated in the Motherland, where it is impossible to verify on the spot one account or another. It provides an opening at once for the family or for the young couple without children, who are rightly advised that they should not take up a homestead at a point far distant from social life, at least until they have had experience, which they can only acquire by living in close touch with neighbours who are farming to some purpose.