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country who commenced life under similar circum 

 stances, who have risen to be successful and inde 

 pendent farmers. The reply bears the signature of 

 &quot;F.,&quot; and is as follows: 



&quot; Having commenced life under circumstances substan 

 tially the same as those described by your correspondent, 

 and having thought much on this subject, and no answer 

 having appeared as yet, I have concluded to try and see 

 what I can do towards helping him, and others in similar 

 circumstances, in their laudable efforts to get a farm. 



&quot; Well do I remember the intense thought and study 

 with which I first turned my attention to farming as a 

 means of getting a living. Having failed in other business, 

 for want of the capital without which I had always sup 

 posed I could not succeed in farming, I was casting about 

 and considering what to try next, when for the first time I 

 came across some agricultural publications, which were 

 read with all the interest of an exciting romance, and 

 which at once led to a determination to make farming the 

 business of my life. But here I was met by the same 

 difficulty as your correspondent. I had no land, nor nothing 

 to buy with. I was in a strange country, with no friends 

 to assist me in beginning, except such as by industry, 

 economy, and fair dealing, I was able to make. Yet I 

 have succeeded so far, beyond my most sanguine expecta 

 tions ; while my farming prospects are not only improving 

 every year, but they are better now than ever before. 



&quot; But in answering your correspondent, I do not propose 

 to go into the details of my own experience, but rather, as 

 briefly as may be, try to point out the best course for young 

 men to pursue, in order to succeed in getting farms. I am 

 led to take this course, not only by the reluctance felt by 

 most men of laying their private business affairs before the 



