AND WHERE TO FIND ONE. 7^ 



Colburn means a laudable ambition, such as is becoming 

 any young man to possess, and energy also to persevere 

 under difficulty (if need be) ; and, in his closing sentence, 

 he adds, * What man has done, man may do again. Also, 

 * that it requires the determined will, the energetic hand, 

 the unreraitted perseverance, and the patient, long-enduring 

 application, and almost any object legitimate and honorable 

 in its end can be reached. 



^Such, then, are the qualifications, if I rightly under 

 stand Mr. Colburn, that the young man wishing a farm 

 must possess, and such Mr. Colburn advises in order to 

 become the owner of a farm in the shortest possible time 

 to work out by the month on the farm for a period of from 

 ten to fifteen years, as circumstances may require ; and to 

 substantiate his position, he quotes the following sentence 

 from F. s communication in the Country Gentleman: F. 

 gives us an instance of a man that died worth 810,000 in 

 cash, who 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 83,000 and $4,000, all made by 

 working, and the accruing interest on his wages. And yet 

 another that saved $900 in six years. Mr. Colburn then 

 says : 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 

 Also, he adds : * 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 r acres, think you at the same 

 period in after life they could have shown these results? 

 Mr. Colburn then answers the question decidedly in the 

 negative, saying I tell you they could not, but probably 

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



