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he has possessed from the beginning of his career. He has 

 not denied himself one of the real blessings of life. All the 

 healthful and satisfying delights of labor he has enjoyed 

 without many of its anxieties. What a zest it gives to his 

 labor that he is improving and embellishing what is to him, 

 and what will be to his children, a beloved home.&quot; 



As appropriate to the subject in hand, a writer, 

 under the signature of &quot; B,&quot; contributed the follow 

 ing sensible remarks : 



&quot;A farm should be the home, and its management the 

 business of the owner. It is true, one may be hired or 

 worked on shares, but very seldom do we see land, cultivated 

 under such circumstances, managed in a way worthy of the 

 name of farming. Ownership seems necessary to a proper 

 appreciation of the characteristics and powers of the soil. 

 We again see a movement in the real estate market sales 

 and purchases of farms, and it suggests some thoughts on 

 what one should look to and seek for in buying a farm. 



&quot; Considered as the homestead and abiding place of the 

 owner, a farm should be pleasantly and conveniently situa 

 ted. The health, comfort, and happiness of those who oc 

 cupy it, are of the first importance ; so every social and 

 physical influence which bear upon them should have due 

 weight in determining a choice. A healthy locality should 

 be considered far above a fertile soil. The thousand things 

 which promote home-comfort will compensate for many pe 

 cuniary disadvantages. Happiness, the enjoyment of social 

 privileges and blessings, go far to make a sterile soil of 

 greater value than the most productive, where a moral 

 miasma prevails. A situation of easy access to the great 

 routes of business and mails, with educational and religious 

 privileges of a high class, would be considered of the high 

 est importance by the intelligent and cultivated man, who 



