52 HOW TO GET A FARM, 



CHAPTER III. 



What makes Land valuable Prices balancing each other 

 How poor Men pay for high-priced Farms A practical Illus 

 tration A Farm for the Right Man. 



WHILE it is thus seen that there are millions of 

 families who desire no better homestead than such 

 as can be secured by settlement on the public do 

 main, it is well known that there are other millions 

 who prefer remaining in the neighborhood in which 

 they were born. They prefer hard work there to 

 hard work in the West. That region is new, and 

 large portions of it are comparatively unsettled. 

 The other is old, and possesses all the conveniences 

 and comforts of a long-established civilization. Re 

 lations and friends are there concentrated, and 

 among them they prefer remaining. It furnishes a 

 quick market for all productions of the earth, and 

 at better prices. Fruits and vegetables, which, on 

 a thousand prairie farms, would find no purchaser, 

 are here salable in every town or city. Here the 

 consumers are collected in great crowded marts, 

 while there they have not yet had time to congre 

 gate in equal masses. 



Land within the seaboard region is consequently 

 more valuable, and, as a general rule, is unattainable 

 by small capitalists in proportion to its value. But 



