4 HOW TO GET A FARM, 



What man has done, man can do again. It only requires 

 the determined will, the energetic hand, the unremtted per 

 severance, and the patient, long-enduring application, and 

 almost any object, legitimate and honorable in its end, can* 

 be reached. I say then to young men, beginning life with 

 out means, having a taste for the business and desirous of 

 owning farms, you can do it if you will. You cannot be 

 any more destitute at the start than was he who now ad 

 dresses you. The times and circumstances now are vastly 

 in your favor, over those of forty years ago, and I bid you 

 God-speed.&quot; 



This expression of opinion was followed by a re 

 joinder from &quot;F.,&quot; to this effect: 



&quot; MESSRS. EDITORS In former volumes of the Country 

 Gentleman there have been several articles on buying farms, 

 which were mainly calculated to benefit those with plenty 

 of money to buy with ; while there has been very little, if 

 any thing, given, calculated to show those with limited 

 means how they can buy to he best advantage. So, too, 

 those writing on this subject have generally seemed to con 

 sider or take it for granted, that it will not do to run in debt 

 for land, although it is a very common practice in most, if 

 not all parts of the country, to do so. 



&quot; Now, without stopping to consider whether it will do to 

 run in debt for a farm or not, or the amount of capital a 

 man should have to commence with on a given number of 

 acres, I shall take it for granted that as a great many have 

 run in debt more or less for farms, which they have not 

 only succeeded in paying for from the produce of the land, 

 but have also, by the same means, attained to forehanded 

 and often independent circumstances ; and as. the example 

 set by such men is constantly before those anxious to attain 



