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ing may be made to pay well, how are all that may wish to, 

 going to get land to work ? It has already been intimated 

 that the demand for farms was much greater than the 

 supply ; hence it must be admitted that, though it may be 

 a very good way to get a farm, for those lucky enough to 

 get a good farm to work, yet many will fail, because there 

 are not farms enough to be let to supply the demand. This 

 being the case, we will pass on to consider the third and 

 last course proposed for a young man to pursue in order to 

 get a farm. 



&quot; This course, as well as taking land, is more particularly 

 calculated for a married man. Though the single man that 

 is able to get good wages and steady employment, may do 

 very well, yet when he gets married he wants a home, and 

 generally the sooner he gets one of his own, the better. 

 Time and space forbid giving even a tithe of the reasons 

 why every man should have a home of his own. All are 

 more or less familiar with these reasons ; and as undoubted 

 ly one of the principal reasons why G. B. S. wishes to get 

 a farm, is to have a home, I need only state that I have 

 found, both by experience and observation, that a small 

 piece of good land, even though there may be but a few 

 acres, is a great help to a laboring man that wishes to get 

 along in the world. Here, again, time will not admit of re 

 ferring to the many instances of large amounts of produce 

 grown on a few acres of land, that I have come across in 

 reading and observation. But I must pass on, only stating 

 that few young men are aware of how small a place may be 

 made to give them more net profit for their labor than they 

 can realize by working out. 



&quot; Another advantage in having a small place is, that it 

 will enable the owner to do something at both farming on 

 his own land and working out. Whenever I have seen this 

 step in advance (which it surely is) taken by a man of 



