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     With cold storage and direct steamship communication between the Province 
     
     and Great Britain~for both of which arrangements have been made—it is confidently 
     
     expected that the farmers of Prince Edward Island will, in the near future, be able to 
     
     add largely to their exports of fresh butter, mutton, fowls, apples, plums and small 
     
    
   
   
    
     fruits, all of which are produced herein the highest perfection, and that they will thus 
     
    
   
   
    
     be in a better position than they have been to meet the ever-increasing demands of 
     
     our latter-day civilization. 
     
    
   
   
    
     But it must not be supposed that farming in Prince Edward Island, is, or ever 
     
     will be, an easy means of rapidly accumulating great wealth. It will yield a good 
     
     living to a good husbandman; and to the husbandman who adds to industry, prudence 
     
     and economy, it will yield a competence. There are hundreds, aye thousands, of 
     
    
   
   
    
       
     
    
   
   
    
     cases in which men have landed here without a shilling in their pockets and have 
     
     become passing rich in land and stock and agricultural machinery, together with 
     
     money at interest. Some of these men have lived to an advanced age, carrying with 
     
     them, throughout life, those most precious of earthly riches, health of body and peace 
     
     of mind. Upon the other hand, many have completely or partially failed, even though 
     
     they may have come here with money in their pockets. These either knew nothing 
     
     about agriculture,vor else, having learned to farm according to the old country 
     
     methods, they refused to conform to the conditions and circumstances of this new land. 
     
    
   
   
    
     As a matter of fact the forces which combined in the movement that 
     
     brought Prince Edward Island out of a state of wilderness into a state of civilization, 
     
     caused an immigration of all sorts and conditions of people. A large proportion had 
     
     lived in the British Isles as fishermen and crofters; others came from the large towns; 
     
     many had never seen an axe or a hoe, a plough or a harrow until after their arrival. 
     
     The wonder is that such a large proportion of these succeeded in the pursuit of 
     
     agriculture. Nor is it surprising that some of these men and their descendants have 
     
     always found farming a tiresome and not very lucrative occupation, and have .