AND WHEKE TO FIND ONE. 71 



&quot; F. gives us an instance of a man that died worth 

 $10,000 in cash, that made it all but a small legacy by 

 working out and the interest on his money. Another that 

 is 36 years old, that has between $3,000 and $4,000, all 

 made by working and the accruing interest on his wages. 

 1 And yet another that saved 8900 in six years. These 

 cases show most conclusively that working out on a farm 

 by a young man starting without means, who is determined 

 to own a farm, is the shortest and surest way to accomplish 

 that praiseworthy and desirable object. Had either, or all 

 of these cases, detested working out, as many young men 

 do, and got married at the start, and relied upon taking 

 farms upon shares, or upon running in debt for a few acres, 

 think you at the same period in after-life they could have 

 shown these results ? I tell you they could not, but prob 

 ably would have seen an old age of destitution and want. 

 I know at the present day there is an antipathy among our 

 young men to working out on a farm. As F. says, it is useless 

 to talk to them about working out ten or fifteen years in 

 order to enable themselves to become owners of good farms. 

 The process is too slow ; some more rapid way must be 

 contrived ; but the effort rarely proves successful, and the 

 farm is very seldom owned. In olden times, farms, and 

 good ones too, were often obtained by this patient and per 

 sistent industry, coupled with strict and rigid economy. 

 True, they cost less then than now, but farm-wages com 

 paratively were as much lower then than now as the farms 

 were lower, while every article of clothing was 50 per cent, 

 higher than they were previous to our present war prices. 



&quot; I have known many independent farmers that com 

 menced life by working out for wages, but a precious few 

 that commenced by taking laud upon shares, or by pur 

 chasing a few acres, that ever were the owners of productive 

 farms. This working laud upon shares, or the product of a 



