94 HOW TO GET A FARM, 



&quot; The farm should be suited to the products which it is 

 desired to devote it to. The taste and experience of the 

 owner will incite him to undertake certain branches of farm 

 ing, but some soils are best calculated for grain-growing, 

 others will produce extra fruit, others have grass and water 

 for the dairy, or stock generally, while occasional locations 

 are to be found where all these may be combined to a greater 

 or less extent. These things should be taken into account 

 in buying a farm. 



&quot;Then market facilities are to be considered. In the 

 management of a farm much depends on this, and it is a 

 matter of moment whether it will cost five cents or fifty to 

 bring a dollar s worth of produce to the consumer. In the 

 vicinity of large towns the production of garden crops is 

 often very profitable, while at a distance from market no 

 dependence can be put on such products. The one can 

 grow a large variety to dispose of something every week 

 bringing in the cash while the other must necessarily 

 devote himself to a few leading articles, his harvest oc 

 curring but two or three times a year. But the recent 

 great increase in the means of transportation has done much 

 to equalize the value of farming lands throughout the coun 

 try, especially when devoted to the more valuable and least 

 bulky articles of produce. 



&quot; Again, a farm should possess in itself good capacity of 

 production, so that it may be readily and profitably man 

 aged, in such a way as to retain and increase the fertility 

 of the soil. A farm easily worn out a course of manage 

 ment rapidly exhausting the fertility of the soil, would soon 

 bankrupt the farmer 5 his business would no longer be re 

 munerative ; his home and his comforts would soon pass 

 away. Hence it is not all to buy a farm ; one must also have 

 the skill to manage it rightly. To do business profitably, 

 one must understand business principles and carry them 



