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YBarn Y 60Y
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YClearing Y 160Y
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YOxen Y 80Y
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YCow Y 20Y
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YPigs and poultry Y 20Y
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YPlough, harrow, etcetera.Y 20Y
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YSeed Y 50Y
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YHorse and wagon Y 100Y
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Y150 pounds Y 690Y
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But choosing between these two estimates, according to his means, that
is, by reserving, if possible, one hundred pounds for contingencies, he
has every chance of doing well. He must bear in mind, that although
every year his means will increase, he must not cripple himself by an
outlay of all his money at first starting. After the first year, he
will be able to support himself and family from the farm. I have put
every thing at the _outside expense_, that he may not be deceived; but
he must not expend all his capital at once; his horse or oxen may die--
his crops may partially fail--he may have severe illness--all these
contingencies must be provided against.

But the settler who goes out under the most favourable circumstances, is
the one who has one thousand pounds or more, and who can, therefore,
purchase a farm of from two hundred to four hundred acres, with a
portion cleared, and a house and offices ready built. These are always
to be had, for there are people in the Canadas, as in America, who have
pleasure in selling their cleared land, and going again into the bush.
These farms are often to be purchased at the rate of from five to ten
dollars per acre for the whole, cleared and uncleared. In this case all
the difficulties have been smoothed away for him, and all that he has to
do is, to be industrious and sober.

When I was at London, on the river Thames, (in Upper Canada I mean), I
might have purchased a farm, lying on the banks of that river, of four
hundred acres, seventy of them cleared, and the rest covered with the
finest oak timber, with a fine water-power, and a saw-mill in full work,
a good house, barn, and out-buildings and kitchen garden, for six
hundred pounds. In ten years this property will be worth more than six
thousan