The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1873-11-08 00:00:00

WITH MR. ARCH IN CANADA.

The following letter from a Correspondent of the
Das Pews le both enoourasing and surnring to those
who are desirous of ta7ing their fortunes in Canada:—

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I,OPDON, Mittel°, Ocl 11.
Having received an Invitation to Malt the celebrated model
farm of the Hon. George Brown, the proprietor of the Globs
newspaper, we left Tweet° In the morning, and, after • ride
of some sixty miles by the Great Western Railway, reached
the Sown of rade Here • grand agricultural show was
being held. These shows appear to be quite an institution
in this flourishing province. We have already &deeded three
or four of them, end from the numbers present, and the ex.
Wealth Manley ef native pedants, tasks It that their value
and importance are pretty well understood by the thriv-
ing husbandmen who constitute the main population
Of the oceinfay. After spending an hour or two in
Wei thow, and threariencling once more something of the
Ild001•1111140{ will. which we Stet beheld • fine display of
the fruits, vegetables, and cereals which this profile soil
produces, we soosptth an Methadon to lands with the
Mayor of the town. This gentleman, who, like every one
else her. le • self-made men, Is the owner of •211•1111 TO
flour mild, and we rest at his beautiful villa some of
the leading men of the district. Each one had his story
to toll of sexily battling with adverse cdrournatencee and
victories woo. Mr. Arch found in the foreman of our
hoe* an old schoolfellow. He had been in Canada about
a quarter of a oentury. Like every other honest and
incustrions emigrant thin Berford man had done well.
He had bought his own house--a house worth some
two hundred pounds—and had &tithes • couple of thousand
pounds out at Interest. Thus, side by aide were limitable(
both master and man. In the edemas, thee=
one or two of Mr. Brown'. friends, we started for etti:ndilbeys
drive to Bow park. Our road lay through what must, I
think, be called the preen of Canada. All the farms
appeared to be, unlike those of the QI•DOO proviso',
wtheis we first went through, In • high state of culti-
vation. " Yonder," said • gentleman by my side, • brother
senator of Mr. Brown, is my farm of 600 acme. I bought
it thirty years ego, at 40 dollare an acre; and today
should wants. many pounds an acre loriS. Over yonder,"
at another point, he sald, " le • farmer who came out tweet,
Years eV without • cent le his pocket, and now he boa two
hundred acres of as fine land as to to be found In Canada."
Pending by a rather dilapidated looking farm-house, I rs
marked on Its exceptional appearance. " Yes,' said my
"the man drinks." This seems to be almost the
only Impediment to a settler's progrem ben, but I have pre.
Measly remarked oath, happy rarity of this vice In Canada.
We have not seen • single drunkard. One of the ether of
this happy state of things Is of 00111 NO the cleat, bracing olt
mate but another Is undoubtedly the gonersl discourses-
meet of the habit of drinkleg strong liquor. In the homes of
the people For instance, at the Mayor s Sable yea erdey toed
water and delicieus them might be had, but neither wine nor
ale. At the hotel, few drink anything at dinner stronger
than tee or coif..., and it is • =Menai practice to serve
One up at the dinner-tallies of private
After & delightful drive of an hour and • hell, peeling on
our way through thefi n/telling toe, ot Brantford—a place
of about '0(00 inhabitant" and the enmity town or the
" Brant " district. so named after the celebrated Indian
" Brant"— we reached the point towards which we ears
tending Bow pale ram vintages 94 scree all of it, with
the exception of the res. e•ations for ornamental timber,
under high cultivation. Thelma' is nearly surrounded by
the Grand River, sod the soil is alluvial depads of the most
fertile character The energetic proprietor purchased the
estate mem few years ago, and bee loveeted • very
large capital upon it. Commodious buildings have been
erected, ODO ban alone being about ISO feet long
by nearly 60 feet broad. There are about 400 head of high.
bred shorthorns in the stalls, and no expense to spend In
replenishing the stock with abe beet breed'. Tim situation
of the farm le highly picturesque, and Mr. Brown, like Mr.
Kiehl, to minden{ of reaping • pecuniary success, although
he has taken to farming as a recreation. IS took us the
whole morning to go through his extensive range of cattle
died& and esthalnly it wee • grand display torso young an
ertablishmant. A catalogue of the stock, with full &SOL sa
to pedigree, do., was planed In our hands ; and the annual
sale, which will behold next week, Mr. Brownexpethe Dumb.-
sell from Zeeland Scotland, ended rests of the United States.
Not the lead itheresting part of the ethltdtion—for such, in
truth, the farm is—wee the show of Berkshire pigs. It will
he eratifylng to Berkshire farmer, to hear what Mi. Brown
thd in answer to my Inquiry se to whether he had any other
breed of pith. "01 cosine not," was Ms reply, ".bat'. the
smog having any but the very best ett Some of the thorough
bred short-holes of Mr. Brown's herd would have won the
applause of the won conks of the great loge& egricidthrel
thews, and doebtiose may of Shot will yet pus under review
of thavacele egagegMi Mr. Brown ccetemplates &considerable
el Olhoulmolho mod 00O1Bery. It would moo INA
▪ climate, e. kola&er soseething elms of Canada, Vastly
=pi Wm& Immo Ibo laboloas Woo NOW so.
As • rant oh co a 000llass$ offo Nod

aelliehistah" wil
Mr. tiro he. bought oral ortarbest
10 se
Zuglaod, and he will probably get for mime of
their othopeing, from English buyers, MIMI Ise orMtahl huh/
of the Parente.
Ii hi. aisle mad sons been asked re r 7 filleadion NO"
cwWwWW. Why do not •3•000 your Isralles OHM out Iwo
end hitY thre dewed farms widen ars &Isms la Use minket t"
Thelguastion b ender anted than ahmeered. Otrreiroodlit
would be the bed thing try could det, provided u
tines of sUeColl were "Mailed well. One al these le a
/NA esevinade Mader • mood Canseten le. laillad-
tLeteigranie 01 rim era ray ter lOU rma di-
II one Whenever IS Is not reed upon, IS wren
11-&---i—whall may. be the capital at oramand, bang
will be Om inerlabie he, of the farmer. On this
there Is a namierelleam einessess of opinion throughout
Caudal. °:ljian offialosiloi pops man?" sald our host,
so we were Mew he he buildings, "bela an edii-
reed prearkera. Ile Sloe lad are whit me to
est a Moron. o 1 ha. They lir and work
with the other NM. WO in way resPed jut the tdd
Ter Tim 'seatilemea" was reeded la the " working
raw." As Mr. Irons .os3.stteSly marrhed. Res aU
Melt • Ye. Wm swear le sure. By and by. he
will him Nerved he • end than with hia
$O. 01 the.. Ihrreerd peaade iiuAel be will ripper on
small sealers Wendel nooses of he eaterprblng esployer.
Ifs few hundred of young genMIMWEI Who Me Imaging
about their father's halls In Upland, Miami to re darter
of socidenM, would Jut follow the ezampte of them young
Rlonlana, they would exparienee the neer niamailes of lade
peadenoe.
After a pleasant day among them high-bred cattle, said the
picteresq. meedows in which they Erased, we took our re-
luctant departure for the city of London. A two or throe
hours' rapid ride in a Pullman's car—llm perfection of tra-
velling—brought no to this oomewhat ambitious namesake of
the Imperial city three thousand miles awry. At the elation
we found a deputation from the Tom n Cruncil waiting to
steals° us, and after refresloing ourselves with a cup of
whet seems to be the drink of C spade—lea, we had to yield
to the solionsUons of the Mayor and hie oollerre to accom-
pany them round the city. Canadians feel a great malefac-
tion In showing the prools of their Vlsofif aild enterprise,
and those excellent Londoners were no exception to the rule.
And certsinly they have much to be proud of. At their
agrlceltural show, which we were unfortunatoly too 1/1• to
see, no leas than 34.000 persona paid for admission, and the
exhibition of every had of agricultural produce was, ac-
cording to all accounts, remarksble. The further we oonse
Weak the greater are the also. of =twill Parrer.
Unlike; England, wealth appear. to be dbtributo
alma.* q sal proportions among all dame Poor people seem
to be unknown. Ii riding down the Muskoka River, the other
day, we had to get our canoe over some arida, and some
young fellow near at hand Madly helped ua through our dial-
cultlee We acesalb had to IMMO • little to get them to
take • gratuity for rear sorter It Is a somewhat signifi-
cant fact—and one Or Beglialt Maumee would do well to
ponder—that even Yip loolleilt of Casadlan villages have
their spacious drill ohs& for the no. of their Volunteer.
There Is natalp thee provokes a smile more readily than
a serestlon to a Clenadra 01 danger from inverter.
An impression obtains In Mislead that Canada is
tem wean point at the Lupins I ass Microughly
oonvinced that it le a deisron. like many others
which arrisalonaly propagated sed consciedionaly behaved
repenting the colony in England. It ran never ba too
thoroughly understood by the people and Parliament of Greet
Britain that MU portion of the lairrim eau well take can of
itatelY Anyone who has win the tens of thontesnda of
lithe, mitre Intelligent, and well-disciplined men if
Canada, and witnemed the innumerable proofs ol their
patriotism, loyalty, and reaped for the panel Institutions
will hem again have one moment's outeasineas ramemelei
it. future. When the unhappy 2'vent business we'
seit‘ther anglaso, the tom reopening Canada was
coo:Aped to that side of the •41•11410. Nothing but
enthusiasm dwelt talk. breasts of these poor relations In the
Wen. The hanker left hie till, the lawyer his desk, the buy
tracer closed his ledger and the studesi Ms book; and la an
incredibly short period the whole °mints., was in a state of
preparedness for whatsoever might happen.
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I may ray, in Denolusion, Usti iron- -hints thrown out by
some influential persou there Is good reason for believing
that $O. Ontario Government will 00-operMe with Mn. Aro%
In certain very satisfactory azrangrment. for facilitating the
emitration of agricultural labours. to Canada. lii ail pro-
bability, such as would like to some out and settle upon
the free grant. of Illaskoka will have emenforiteble homes
emoted kw them, • portion of the land clawed for
Immediate miltivation, and work found by whlob they will
be enabled to get together a little capital to dart them upon
their farms. Ur. arch has promised, on °maim of them
bolts being afforded, te bring out next spring, • inuidred
picked men and their famillea, and me them mllety through
to their respective lab. An equally salistaalory arrangement
has beta entered into with the Government Immigration
agent at Toronto, with referenoe to the larger body
of migrant, who will elect to go into service here
for • while. A registry will be kept of applications for such
men. Ovine full particulars as to hours of work, amommods,
lion, he , certified by the reeve of the township from whence
the application come° Thus, as our mission hither draws
near Its end, we have good hope that It will be fruitful In
beneficial results.