In Moose Jaw one of the three or four drunken men whom I saw in Canada—the drunken woman, I am told, is happily an unknown figure in the Dominion—was going along the main street repeating joyously “I’ve got some lots, I’ve got some lots.” Let us hope he had secured them before he had taken the liquor, otherwise he might wake up sober and find he was amongst those who had burnt their fingers. It is not only in home or business sites, however, that the Real Estate man deals. There is a vast amount of Real Estate business done in “acreage,” as the Canadian calls agricultural land. A man or a company secures 10,000, 15,000, 20,000 or 50,000 acres of unbroken prairie. This is divided into farms. The usual map is produced showing the position of the farms. The railway line in actual existence or in contemplation is seen striking through the estate. There are three or four or half-a-dozen stations shown along the line within the boundary of the estate. You are told that the Canadian Northern or the Canadian Pacific Railway is going to make one of the stations a divisional point—you are further told that all around the region towns are springing up and other towns are certain to be started in a year or two. Every farm on the estate will be within three or four miles of a railway. These farms can be had at the giving-away price of $20 an acre to be paid for by $2 an acre down now and the remainder in instalments covering five or ten years. I was offered my choice in Toronto of as much as I liked to take of a 25,000 acre estate in Manitoba. The Real Estate man spread out his map before me and earnestly impressed upon me the quite exceptional “snip” that this acreage proposition was. I could not do better than to snap up some farms for myself and persuade my friends in England to do likewise. I am afraid that the half-hour of that Estate man was wasted, for reasons into which I need not enter. Now the proposition may have been all he stated it to be. A number of Anglo-Canadian combines have purchased such properties and divided them up into farms of from 25 to 500 acres, and men who have taken the land are fully satisfied with their bargains. On the other hand, the same speculator, not knowing much about acreage values, might easily get badly burnt over acreage. As a practical Canadian farmer said to me: “The land may look all right on the map and the visitor who does not know farming—especially the Englishman who does not know Canadian farming—may think it looks all right when he is taken over the estate; but the practical Canadian farmer has sharp eyes and wants to be assured that the thing is as good in reality as it looks on the map. You may buy a farm, for instance, and find that the land is stony and dry and that a lot of money will have to be spent in irrigation if crops are to be raised out of it. On the other hand, you may find that it may be low-lying and swampy, and that even