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both, for the advance of his land in value above cost in the 

 former case would have been a little fortune; but he has 

 made a sure thing of it as it is, has lived healthily, and saved 

 a competency for all future wants. 



&quot; Mr. Colburn further states that this is not an overdrawn 

 picture. It is what has transpired within the observation of 

 the writer, and at a time too when farm wages were lower 

 than the prices here named, and much lower than at the 

 present time. 



&quot;Now it will be admitted on all sides that these extracts 

 place this part of the subject in the most favorable light; 

 that in fact it would seem that there can scarcely be any 

 need of, even if there is any room for, saying any thing 

 more ou this side of the question ; therefore it only remains 

 to briefly allude to some of the objections that young men 

 may find to pursuing the course so favorably presented. 



&quot;The first objection will be in regard to wages. It will 

 be said, and with a great deal of truth, that such wages are 

 a good deal higher than young men that work on a farm 

 are generally able to realize. And to this it will be added 

 that in most of the older settled sections of the country 

 $800 or $1,000 goes but a little way towards paying for a 

 good farm. Consequently, it will be said a young man will 

 have to work out a great deal more than seven years, in 

 most cases from twice to three times that length of time, 

 before he can even pay half down for a good farm, to say 

 nothing of the money that will be needed to begin farming 

 with. 



&quot;Perhaps there is nothing that a spirited, enterprising 

 young man would view with greater reluctance than the 

 proposition for him to make up his mind to work out for 

 from ten to twenty years of the best of his life in order to 

 get the requisite capital to commence the business of farm 

 ing with. He will probably say that he has not so much 



