FARMING IN CANADA

Evening Post, Volume CXX, Issue 18, 20 July 1935, Page 24

FARMING IN CANADA

The author of "A Farm for Two Pounds," Harold Baldwin, made his way to Canada in pre-war days fired by advertisements showing bronzed men in overalls spending their lives amid golden sunshine handling sheaves of golden corn, and the assurance of a farm of his own for the insignificant sum of £2.

Mr. Baldwin got his farm, and the frontispiece to this book shows him standing contentedly before.his woodpile. But to get that farm he had to work.' The monetary transaction was the smallest part of the. undertaking with the Government. It was also part of the. bargain to stay on the quarter six months out of twelve for three years running, • build a house on it worth 300 dollars, and break and cultivate twenty acres. ..

It is nearly 25 years since the author, a stocky lad from Warwickshire, embarked for the land of promise. Now, looking back across the gulf of the Great War, hi; surveys the green youth that was himself—looks back, he says, as through a pour of raiu that blurs the scene. Nevertheless, he has drawn a very vivid, clear-cut, and fascinating picture of life on the farms and in the great lumber camps and. cities of Canada.