Ontario in June--Snake fences--Road-work--Alsike clover fields--A natural grazing country--Barley and marrowfat peas--Ontario in July--Barley in full head--Ontario is a garden--Lake Ontario surpasses Lake Geneva or Lake Leman--Summer delights--Fair complexions of the people--Approach of the autumnal season--Luxuriant orchards 145 CHAPTER XIII. Some natural history notes--Our feathered pets--“The poor Canada bird”--The Canadian mocking-bird--The black squirrel--The red squirrel--The katydid and cricket--A rural graveyard--The whip-poor-will--The golden plover--The large Canada owl--The crows’ congress--The heron--The water-hen 159 CHAPTER XIV. Lake Ontario--Weather observations with regard to it--Area and depth--No underground passage for its waters--Daily horizon of the author--A sunrise described--Telegraph poles an eye-sore--The pleasing exceeds the ugly 170 CHAPTER XV. Getting hold of an Ontario farm--How a man without capital may succeed--Superiority of farming to a mechanical trade--A man with $10,000 can have more enjoyment in Ontario than anywhere else--Comparison with other countries--Small amount of waste land in Ontario--The help of the farmer’s wife--“Where are your peasants?”--Independence of the Ontario farmer--Complaints of emigrants unfounded--An example of success 180 CHAPTER XVI. Unfinished character of many things on this continent--Old Country roads--Differing aspects of farms--Moving from the old log-house to the palatial residence--Landlord and tenant should make their own bargains--Depletion of timber reserves 201 CHAPTER XVII. Book farmers and their ways--Some Englishmen lack adaptiveness--Doctoring sick sheep by the book--Failures in farming--Young Englishmen sent out to try life in Canada--The sporting farmer--The hunting farmer--The country school-teacher 208 CHAPTER XVIII. Horse-dealing transactions--A typical horse-deal--“Splitting the difference”--The horse-trading conscience--A gathering at a funeral--Another type of farmer--The sordid life that drives the boys away 219 CHAPTER XIX. City and country life compared--No aristocracy in Canada--Long winter evenings--Social evenings--The bashful swain--Popular literature of the day--A comfortable winter day at home--Young farmers who have inherited property--Difficulty of obtaining female help--Farmers trying town life--Universality of the love of country life--Bismarck--Theocritus --Cato--Hesiod--Homer--Changes in town values--A speculation in lard 227 CHAPTER XX.