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money togetlier and jointly farm on the same farm, we 

 cannot advise, except where they are brothers, or are as 

 brothers. With mercantile or professional men the 

 thing is feasible, and of course is daily done, but then 

 they do not have to live in the same house, they only 

 meet at the office, when each has his ov/n department, 

 and clashing is thus avoided. All they need is to be 

 agreed as to the general manner in which their business 

 shall be conducted, and then to use mutual forbearance 

 in carrying it out. But in farming it is impossible to 

 avoid almost hourly clashing ; and besides this, they 

 will be living together, which greatly increases the 

 chances of disao^reement. 



Man and wife often find it difficult to rub along 

 smoothly, with their two spheres of labour so utterly 

 distinct ; and two men living in the same house, and 

 farming together, are in nearly as close union, with all 

 the favourable circumstances of agreement removed. 

 If one is older, and has more experience than the 

 other, and the younger agrees in the deed to let the 

 voice of the senior be final in all matters, it may work ; 

 without this, you might as well put two captains in com- 

 mand of one ship and think they would agree. 



