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objection to working out a few years in order to get a few 

 hundred dollars to start with. But as to working out that 

 length of time, it is useless to talk about it ; he is not going 

 to do it. Point him to some one that has succeeded in this 

 way ; he will admit it, but say this is an exception, not the 

 general rule, and will point to many men that have failed 

 of ever getting farms by working out, and will say that no 

 man with a growing family on his hands can lay up any 

 thing, to say nothing of saving enough to buy a farm ; while 

 there are few young men that have not formed ties and 

 made arrangements, that are not to be put off for a very in 

 definite period. Hence, put the case in as strong a light as 

 we may, or argue it ever so strongly, it will be of little use. 

 Consequently, those that would persuade young men to stick 

 to farming, and undertake to point out a way whereby they 

 may get a farm, will, in most cases, have to show them some 

 other way besides working out. Yet it cannot be denied 

 that young men do not always sufficiently appreciate this 

 way of getting a start in the world ; that in many cases it 

 is the best thing a single man can do as long as he remains 

 single, and that many that have left it for other business 

 would have done better if they had not made the change. 



&quot; But we must pass on to consider the second course for 

 a young man to take, in order to get a farm. Renting a 

 farm, or taking one on shares, is, next to owning one, what 

 seems to suit young men the best. G. B. S. seems to have 

 had this course in his mind ; but says that renting a farm, 

 the way it is done in this part of the country, is not very 

 desirable. It generally goes on the &quot; skinning process,&quot; mak 

 ing it profitless to both parties. Now here is the main dif 

 ficulty, not only as to those taking farms, in finding this a 

 good way to get a farm, but with those having farms to 

 let. It -is a fact well understood on all hands, that, as poor 

 business as taking or renting land may be, there are many, 



