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his knowledge. He is looking for a farm ; I am looking 

 for a farmer who can take hold of the soil in a way to im 

 prove it and his own condition at the same time. My farm 

 lies vacant and unimproved, because no one appears that 

 can satisfy me of his capacity to do this. I can find plenty 

 of men who would be glad to buy the fami upon a credit, but 

 who would never pay for it, and who would tease, depreci 

 ate, and worry it to no purpose. I can find others who are 

 ready to rent it for a stipulated sum, or upon shares ; but 

 no one has ever appeared that possessed sufficient qualifica 

 tions to manage the business, to keep the farm improving, 

 and to do this. -If he prospered, it would be tolerably cer 

 tain that his success was at the expense and not by aid of 

 the land. 



&quot; This farm is accessible to good markets, and contains 

 six hundred acres of land of every variety, clay and light ; 

 plenty of meadow, salt and fresh ; abundantly supplied with 

 wood ; with never-failing sources of water, and surrounded, 

 with schools, churches, etc. Now I am willing to sell this 

 farm upon a reasonable credit ; or, I am willing to let it to 

 a responsible, improving tenant, at a low price, whenever I 

 can find a man of the right sort to take it, with a condi 

 tion attached to the lease, that the -tenant shall have 

 the right to purchase it at an agreed price within a given 

 period. 



&quot; A tenant usually grows rich on a farm, for the reason 

 that he usually goes upon it with a view of laying up enough 

 money to pay for a farm of his own elsewhere. He carries 

 from the hired farm in his breeches pocket all the scrapedble 

 value he can ; it has been made poor to make him rich 

 in other words, he has transferred the fertility of the one to 

 the fields of the other by a sort of electrotyping process, 

 whose transmutation in soils, are in such hands as sure as 

 they are by the labors of chemistry in metals. 



