Show FARMER immigrants some of our citizens make good farmers but poor city dwellers many of our italian immigrants tire are good farmers after their fashion or of laborious intensive cultivation they are wretchedly poor but they aro are children of the soil and where they occasionally sio nally do get into the same sama congenial occupation in this country they make good farmers and eventually good citizens the greater part of the immigrants in fact now pouring into tho the country are better qualified fled for agricultural and horticultural pursuits than for any others these pursuits were theirs in their european homes and but for certain difficulties they would naturally resort to them here tile the trouble la Is there Is nobody ready as a general thing to offer them employment in groups on the land and transportation to tho the land Is more or less expensive on the other hand there are always contractors ready to engage them for railroad mining and similar employments ploy ments in the seaboard states and sometimes in other states more often they simply settle down in tho the big and already congested cities they tako take what they can get and more especially what will bo a most likely to enable them to enjoy the continued companionship panion ship of their follow immigrants the newcomer dreads dreada the isolation which will usually bo be hla his lot it ho ha accepts employment on a farm under the farsighted far sighted plan of the men who aro are colonizing some western areas particularly in california and new mexico all these difficulties aro are avoided groups of at agriculturists of the sanio same tire aro brought together and invited to become owners of small tracts sold to them on easy terms ten acres of good land so BO obtainable tai and the price of which ho he can call usually pay in labor for others Is a very attractive proposition to tho the average immigrant especially when in ills his new home he may bo be surrounded by others of his own raco race tho the plan liar has been already demonstrated to bo be very profitable to tho the promoters also |