68 HOW TO GET A FARM, 



&quot; Now, Messrs. Editors, when you have followed me thus far, 

 should I stop, you would editorially ask, Why not advertise 

 your wants in the Country Gentleman ? I answer, because 

 if I did, I should have no end of applications from this very 

 class of people that I wish to save my land from. I am 

 diligently seeking for an experienced, money-making, land- 

 improving farmer ; but, in the mean time, my house, now 

 old and shabby, is rotting away, and my barns will soon fol 

 low in one general decaying, destructive sweep. Shall we 

 ever have schools of agriculture, from whose portals, as they 

 graduate, one can find a competent agent, tenant, or the 

 purchaser of a farm, who has learned the art of making it 

 pay for itself?&quot; 



