$ 1 team of horses 350 1 set harness 32 1 farm waggon 75 1 sleigh 25 1 breaking plough 25 1 stubble plough 18 1 3-section harrow 15 1 disc harrow 25 1 seeder 85 1 mowing machine 50 1 harvester 135 to 155 Other implements and tools 50 4 good cows at $40 160 4 good pigs at $15 60 4 good sheep at $5 20 Poultry 10 ------ Total $1,155 ------ = £235 ------ Let me close this chapter by quoting the stories told by some sample settlers from the Old Country who went out within the last seven years. I take them from a pamphlet issued from the office of the Dominion Ministry of the Interior. Arthur Newman went out to Alberta in 1907 from New Shildon, County Durham, England, and at once took up a homestead. He writes:— “My father and brothers came out and we were in partnership, but I pushed ahead, as we had some drawbacks like all homesteaders. We had everything to haul from Lloydminster, forty-two miles either way, but we have a town twelve miles from us now. We have about 100 acres in crop this year, 57 wheat, and about 43 oats, besides potatoes and a garden patch. If the season permits, we hope to break about 100 acres more. Our wheat turned out 35 bushels to the acre and the oats 70 bushels to the acre. This was our second year’s crop; our first was hailed out. Our stock is getting along finely. I lost a fine mare the first year, but am still ahead. We have four oxen, four fine mares in foal, about fifteen head of cattle, seven pigs, and about seventy hens. I might also say we have all the machinery that is wanted for the farm, &c., and all of it is paid for. So if our crops turn out well this year, we shall be all right and making fine success. I often have letters from friends at home asking me if I should not like to come back, and I always tell them just for a holiday but not to stay. This is the home I prefer.” W. Hordern, a native of Leicester, who settled in Saskatchewan, writes:—