AND WHERE TO FIND ONE. 69 



CHAPTER IV. 







More Opinions and Experiences Some Objections Additional 

 Light Encouraging the Young A personal History Getting 

 an Illinois Farm One Example Good Suggestions Buying 

 and going in Debt Value of the Discussion. 



THE discussion thus opened drew out, as may be 

 supposed, the views of other practical men to eluci 

 date the important question as to the best way of 

 getting a farm. The following is the commentary 

 of another intelligent observer, Mr. J. W. Colburn, 

 of Springfield, Vermont. Referring to the sugges 

 tions made by &quot; F.,&quot; as quoted in the preceding 

 chapter, he says : 



&quot; His advice cannot but be regarded, by those to whom it 

 was intended to benefit, as very sensible, and in the main 

 correct. He points out three ways to be pursued to accom 

 plish the object sought for, viz. : Working out for wages, 

 taking farms upon shares, and beginning with a few acres 

 at first, enlarging as means are saved to invest, seeming 

 rather to give the preference to this last method over the 

 two first. Circumstances, with regard to land and labor, 

 may be such in his locality as to make his views correct ; 

 but with all due deference to his opinion, to suit the locality 

 in which I reside, I should ask him to reverse his opinion, 

 and put the working out for wages to get a start in life at 

 the head of his three ways to get a farm, as decidedly pref 

 erable to either of the other two. 



&quot; If the first thing that a young man thinks of and must 



