HOW TO GET A FARM, 



AND 



WHERE TO FIND ONE. 



CHAPTER I. 



Poverty no Hindrance Government Lands Free Farms The 

 Homestead Law Its Friends and Enemies Settlers in Wis 

 consin Germans in the Union Immigration A Southern 

 Homestead Law Continued Grants of Public Land. 



THE buyer of a commodity seeks to purchase it 

 at the lowest price ; the seller, to dispose of it at the 

 highest. This is the unvarying law of trade. The 

 wealthy merchant acts up to it as closely as the 

 poor man whose whole capital is the shilling on 

 which he expects to dine and sup. It may be said, 

 indeed, that it is the successful practice of this rule 

 that constitutes the difference between the rich and 

 the poor. It breaks down the barrier between the 

 two, and elevates the latter to the condition of the 

 former ; for it is an accepted dogma of trade, that a 

 thing cheaply purchased is already half sold. 



Apply it to the acquisition of land. The man 

 desirous of obtaining a farm seeks to obtain the 



