The vicissitudes of weather, and the vicissitudes of price for farm produce are no doubt, causes of anxiety to farmers, but our freehold farmers are more apt to grumble because they do not make what they consider enough profit, than to despair, as the tenant farmers do at Home, because, by a very bad season, and foreign, competition, they suffer a heavy loss, and are brought to the brink of rain. Generally speak ing, the life of our farmers, or of such of them at least as do nob hanker after the excitements of a city life, should be a happy one. As to care and anxiety, I doubt whether our farmers are as much subject to it as merchants, trades men, and storekeepers. The worst of farm labour is the monotonous character of it — follow ing plough and horses all day, and other sorts of work — but the force of habit enables farmers to go daily to work with spirit and alacrity. The healthiness of a farming life cannot be gainaayed, if too much of exposure is avoided, and if workers on the farm only take the trouble not to sit indoors in wet clothing after the work of the day is over. Perhaps even working in gome wet and cold, while the body is kept warm with exercise, is not so prejudical to health as sitting all day at the desk. Men who came out here not experienced in farming, and never having been accustomed to practice that close economy necessary when first beginning farming in a small way, are apt to lose their capital, and get into difficulties, especially if they happen to have wives who want to be ladies, and who will not condescend to make money out of butter and eggs, the profit on the sale of which some people say should alone pay household expenses. I think our farmers may be a happy class of men, and farming, one of the safeit occupations in the country, as long as our farmers are owneis of the land they farm, and their ener gies are not subjected to the incubus of a heavy weight of rent. If this is to be a prosperous and happy country, I think the people of New Zealand should energetically resist land mono poly. 