AND WHERE TO FIND ONE. 85 



worth at that time 82, 100. Worked a farm on shares for 

 two years was then worth $3,100. Then bought a farm for 

 $4,500, having it so arranged that the payments would be 

 made from the grain and meat raised on the farm. When 

 that was paid for, he sold again and bought another for $8,200. 

 By improving in fencing and building, the farm is now 

 worth $13,000. Many young men, who commenced with 

 nothing, have now good homes, surrounded with all the 

 comforts of life. Working a farm on shares, he thinks is 

 quite as profitable for a young man as working by the month.&quot; 



The importance of avoiding an unfavorable loca 

 tion, will be seen by attending to the description of 

 farm-lands in the neighborhood of Jamestown, ISTew 

 York, as given by Mr. W. H. Benson, in the fol 

 lowing article : 



&quot; Again, in regard to the best way for a poor young man 

 to get a farm : I think the discussion on this subject has 

 not yet touched bottom, and that much more might be 

 said that would be of advantage, at least to some lone one. 

 W T orking out by the month, and earning enough to buy a 

 farm, would, in my humble opinion, bring a young man so 

 far past that title, that, in nine cases out of ten, he would 

 go down to the grave gray and sorrowing, with the ob 

 ject of his lifetime still far in the distance. As to taking 

 farms or working land on shares, I think that would be the 

 best and only way : but even then it must be sought under 

 favorable circumstances. In this locality it would be up 

 hill business, and the reason why is this : In the first place, 

 the price of farming land is about double its real value for 

 farming purposes. Secondly, the landowner asks double 

 the rent that the tenant can afford to pay, and if the tenant 

 takes a farm on shares, the bargain will b something like 



