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By taking this course, a young man ought to lay up $100 

 a year, and many will lay up more. We will suppose he 

 commences when he is 21, and when he is 25 has saved 500. 



&quot; Xow, what is the best course for a young man that has 

 earned, or by some other means come in possession of 500, 

 who wishes to get a good farm ? He desires, and ought to 

 have one worth $4,000 or 85,000, or more, and with him 

 the very important question is, what is the best course for 

 him to take to get it ? Now, without taking into consid 

 eration the question of going into a new country, in pursuit 

 of cheap land, I conceive he must choose one of the fol 

 lowing courses : He will either continue to work out, or he 

 will take or rent a farm, or he will buy and commence 

 farming on a small farm. It being necessary, in order for 

 any one to pursue either one of the two last courses, to 

 have some capital, it is not considered that there is the 

 same necessity for working out after a man has $500 that 

 there was before. Consequently, he may now be considered 

 as fairly in a condition to take his choice between the 

 three courses here pointed out. And, as undoubtedly there 

 are many, in different parts of the country, that may find 

 it desirable to follow each of these different ways, and 

 many more desiring all the information they can get, in re 

 gard to the best course to pursue, perhaps it will be best 

 to bestow some attention on each of these ways to get a 

 farm. 



&quot; First, in regard to working out. This is a very simple, 

 plain, straight-forward way to get a farm. It is only a con 

 tinuation of the course already pointed out for those who 

 have to start with nothing for an indefinite period of time, 

 which will be longer or shorter in proportion to the amount 

 desired to commence with. The advantages of this course 

 are presented in a very favorable light by Hon. J. W. Col- 

 burn. He says : 



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