462 REMARKS 0N EMIGRATION.

Children, whose parents are unable to support them, may he provided for by binding them until they become of age, as apprentices to farmers, with whom they generally are brought up as one of the family ; and a cow, a sheep,and some seed, are usu- ally given to them when they leave, to begin with on a farm. In this manner, orphans are generally taken care of. It rarely happens that a man who has a family finds it necessary to bind any of his children to, others ; and he who has the most nume- rous ofl'spring is considered to have the best opportu- nity of prospering, in a country where land is abun— dant, and in which the price of labour is high.

A common plan with those who own cleared farms that they do not occupy, is, to let these farms on the halves ', that is, to stock the farm with horses, horned cattle, sheep, and hogs, provide half the necessary seed, and then give possession to a practical farmer, who will cultivate it and find the labour. After har- Vest, the produce, even to that of the dairy, is equally divided between the proprietor and the farmer. Many farmers who dislike commencing at once in the woods, have, by industry and frugality, supported their families very comfortably in this manner for two or three years, besides accumulating suflicient stock and seed to commence on a new farm. Farmers from the inland counties of England, and from Dumfries- shire and Perthshire, have succeeded best in this way.*

* The prosperity of a man who cultivates land on the shares, as Well as the benefit which arises to the proprietor, depends (as suc~