54: HOW TO GET A FARM, 



adaptation of crop to location is absolutely indis 

 pensable to success. 



It has been shown how the poor man can gratu 

 itously obtain a farm where he may not happen to 

 be desirous of locating. It remains to be shown 

 how he can get one where he does desire to settle. 

 To promote this laudable ambition of those whose 

 whole capital is industry and labor, much has been 

 already written by ingenious and generous men. 

 Their views and plans have been different, as well 

 as numberless. It is remarkable, however, that 

 while some of them propose methods which would 

 require a lifetime to make successful, none of them 

 present difficulties too great to be in some way over 

 come. I refer now, as well as throughout these 

 pages, to the man who is sober, industrious, am 

 bitious of success, saving, and possessed of ordinary 

 intelligence. The poverty of such may be an in 

 convenience, but it is no insuperable bar to progress. 

 The men whose characters are the reverse, I do not 

 write for. It is they who, instead of acquiring 

 farms, invariably lose them. It will also be seen 

 that feeble health need be no fatal discouragement, 

 and that some men have succeeded even when com 

 paratively disabled by incurable bodily infirmity. 



A practical farmer, writing in the Albany Coun 

 try Gentleman, in 1862, gives the following as his 

 method of getting a farm with no cash capital to 

 begin with. His article is in reply to a writer in 

 the same paper, who wishes to know how to get a 

 farm without money or capital at the outset, and 

 who says that there are. no rlonht. manv men in our 



