LAND OF THE OLD
WHAT CANADA HAS STOLEN FROM SCOTLAND. A Wairarapa farmer, wlioso forbears trod the heather, returned recently from ft trip to Scotland, a sftddened mfm. "You hear out here occasionally about tho great immigration to Canada and the States. Travelling in the country parts of Scotland you can sec two effects of it everywhere. Land that has been cultivated for scores of years is falling into disuse, and many of tho farms held on iease l'rom the'lairds aro falling back into tho main estate for lack of tenants. What is tho most pathetic thing of all, to my mind," our informant continued, "is to notice the absence of young folks in the country. In tho cities you see thom, but there aro few left in the eountrv cm tho farms. Old people seem to bo doing the work everywhere. If you ask them where their sons are they will invariably tell you that 'they're doing wt>p| in ("nnn'dn. Tt'« very ili«lie.irtonini; to go back to tho old place.".
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Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1417, 18 April 1912, Page 4
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171LAND OF THE OLD Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1417, 18 April 1912, Page 4
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