not recommended to go under this system ; for, though they 

 might honestly beUeve they were doing all that was necessary 

 lor their future success, they would eventually find they had 

 been acquii-ing only habits* of idleness, never becoming 

 thoroughly independent, but making constant demands for 

 money on their friends at home, and permanently prejudicing 

 their prospects. 



This plain view of the matter is expressed in the interest Practice 

 only of the pupil and his friends. We are far from painting and 

 a success to be acquired without labour, or advocating a T^®oT' 

 system under which we could easily, if so desired, place 

 young men with faiTners or other residents, who would be 

 willing to receive them on moderate annual payments without 

 expecting their help or exertions. 



Nor can a residence with English gentlemen in America How not 

 be recommended to those who go out to really learn farming, to do it. 

 for, though there are English famihes settled in various dis- 

 tricts in comfortable homes, they are usually officers or other 

 gentlemen who, having hut recently gone out, are only them- 

 selves learning American farming, and are, therefore, not 

 qualified to teach it ; these gentlemen, moreover, usually re- 

 quire high terms as payment for board and residence, how- 

 ever long the pupil may remain (often as much as £100 

 a year), and usually give no pay; so that young men 

 neither become self-supporting nor are taught as an Ameri- 

 can farmer who has begun without money and made his own 

 way would be able to teach them ; and unless they have 

 acquired the knowledge of detail and habits of work and 

 steadiness which a practical training gives, they will not be 

 likely to succeed in the management of land or farms of. their 

 own ; it is not only knowing how to do the work, but the 

 habit of actually doing it, which is so necessary for their 

 success when they start for themselves. 



As to the country or district to be selected, there is no selection 

 doubt that North America has an advantage on the score of of 

 distance over most of the English colonies. Not only are Country. 

 Australia and New Zealand far distant, and the cost of the 

 journey very great, but it now requires considerable capital 

 to succeed in these colonies ; the Cape hae few advant- 

 ages, and the constant difficulties with the natives form a 



