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Well, if that is all you want, I pray you come on. Here 

 is plenty of land — good land, and cheap ; and if to be the 

 owner of 2,000 acres of good land will make you and 

 your family happy, aye, even happier than they now are, 

 why just bring along $2,500 and you can be the owner of 

 two thousand acres of good land; beautiful land. But 

 what is it worth without cultivation? Why just what 

 half of your present farms are worth that are as uncul- 

 tivated as the western prairies. That word "your" is 

 wrong; because I am addressing myself to the readers 

 of the Cultivator, who have, a great many of them, 

 adopted an improved mode of cultivation. But I will say 

 the farms of many of the uneasy spirits of the eastern 

 states, who want to emigrate to the West merely because 

 they want to get more land. Don't understand, by what 

 I say, that I am opposed to emigration. No; like all the 

 first settlers of a new country, I want to see it fill up; 

 but I want it filled by a class of inhabitants that will feel 

 every day, and every member of the family, as though 

 they had bettered their condition by removing from the 

 old homestead to a new and uncultivated spot. 



How often do I see and hear the reverse of this. How 

 often do I feel sorry for the fate of the feeble old grand- 

 father and mother, who have been induced to quit all 

 the comforts of the old homestead to seek for "more 

 land ;" to get a "bigger farm" in the wilds of the Great 

 West. Singular and strange delusion, that bare acres 

 of land constitute a farm. Let the old man stay at home ; 

 and let the young man, with a constitution made to en- 

 dure toil and hard fare, come here and spend a few 

 years of industry, actually cultivating the rich soil in- 

 stead of doing as most of us do — "deviling over," and he 

 will be sure to create a home, that to him in his old age 

 will be as highly cherished as that of his father was. 



The article under the head of "Western Farming," in 

 the Oct. number, 1 speaks to the men of capital at the East 



1 Cultivator, 9:154. 



