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insurance, and all the various outlays incident to the home and to 

 farm life, and, above all this, be expected to contribute annually to 

 a bank account. An investment of $1,500, or $2,000, will pur- 

 chase a farm on which are eomfortal)le buildings for the shelter of 

 the family, together with an abundance of fuel for home use, and 

 will contain land enough, the income of which will feed and clothe 

 a famil}' and meet running expenses. Is it not too much, out of so 

 email an investment, to look for more than this — and should a 

 farmer be dissatisfied if from it he is unable to secure a surplus? 

 No; the wonder is that it can be made to afford so much. In the 

 city, or large town, that investment would hardl}' afford a roof under 

 whi;h to shelter the family ; while the farm not onlv does that, but 

 supports the famih' also. I believe it to be a fact which cannot be 

 controverted, that farm i)roperty brings a larger income on the 

 investment, in proportion to the labor expended, than any other 

 kind of propert}-, or any other kind of business. 



