Farm Tenant Houses

soe views whieh we have earnostly advoeated rooting freely, and evidently e:tcnding theinselves. In regard to the policy of farmers boarding their hands, au exchange says that 'a great many farmers are coming to the conclusión that it does not pay to run thoir houses u boarding houses for hired help, and are building tenant houses and gctting marriod laborera.' Said a New York farmer : " I have always boarded m y own help ntil the present season, but I ahall never do it again. I built a tenant house yonder," and he pointed to a neat little domicil twenty rods from his own, "and it has paid its cost already in the added privacy and quiet it has enabled me to eojoy, fvn 1 in the great blussing of work for tho wouien folks." This is just as we have always said, although only pai tially put as wc would have it. We advocate the policy, not only for the relief it givns so many i'nnn:rs' wives from, in raany cases, abjeol slavery, but on tho score of absoluto profit to the eïnployer. Single men as laboréis nv i;iy uurelialilc ilost of tbem ivho are emigrants come hero to better themselves, and it is only reasonable that tbey should continuo to change for a while, nntil thoy find where they can settle down. 'i'his thoy can do raTely as farm laboren, becauso there aro no tenant houses f.ir married men ncar most farms. Now it is our experience, and we doubt not it is what othere have found, that it takes nearly a year to edúcate a now band into our wants and ways. He is always worth muc1 more the second than thu first year ; vet. under our present system i continual obango is the order of tbe ïay. ' Married men are much more steady, as ' a general rule, than single ones. That is they are botter workers, and usually exhibit more common sense nnd judgifieni in cases where any discrotion is réqñired. ïhoro are cases, of course, whrro it is best to board one's hands ; but as a genernlf ntle we should liko to see tio old practice como to grief as the moralists