with both ears and with eyes and mouths open. Their latent discontent with the conditions under which they work and live is roused to activity. Whenever two labourers meet together in the field or on the road, in the barber’s shop, in the public-house, the talk is of “how well Tom Jenkins or Sam Brown has done” in Saskatchewan or Alberta. He is besieged with inquirers who bombard him with questions about the country, the climate, the prospects, and what steps they should take to get out and what they ought to do when they arrive. There are old schoolmates whom he encourages and tells them that if they will only come out to his district he will see to it that they get a job immediately on their arrival—very likely he will be able to give them a job himself. One such labourer’s return—and there are few villages in the country in which you do not hear of such returns—sets up a stream of emigration to Canada from that village, and the stream, unless a thorough-going scheme of land reform is carried out, and carried out soon, is bound to deepen and broaden. [Illustration: “THE EMPRESS OF BRITAIN,” WITH EMIGRANTS, AT RIMOUSKI, MOUTH OF THE ST. LAWRENCE.] Then there are the tenant farmers and their sons. In the Old Country good land is highly rented and the conditions of tenure often such as to make farming one of the riskiest of occupations. A man wants security of tenure if he is to get the best out of his land. The old rough-and-ready methods of agriculture are little good in these days. Intensive culture is the means of making money to-day. Brains and capital must be put into the land if the land is to yield a profit. The farmers who are making most money in our country are those in districts where it is possible to secure the freehold of the farms they cultivate. Quite recently I was in Leicestershire in a district where almost all the farming land is freehold property. There I found a farming family who were making large profits out of the intensive culture of open land and out of the growing of tomatoes, cucumbers, and grapes under glass. A member of the family told me that this could not or would not have been done on rented land, for a man will not be fool enough to invest capital in the land, and people will not lend him the money to invest, unless he can look forward for several years to getting the return. It is little wonder, therefore, that the farmer, still young, heavily rented, with one or two experiences of a bad season, with the fluctuation of prices inevitable in a country like our own, and always at the mercy of a landlord, should look longingly across the seas to Canada, when he has heard of the ease with which there a man may become owner of his farm and may make money in all sorts of ways if he has the farming instinct properly developed, is a good business man, is able to adapt himself to the circumstances of the district in which he settles, and is prepared to put brains and “elbow grease” into the land.