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man has only money enough to buy and pay down for twenty- 

 five acres, had he better buy fifty acres, running in debt for 

 twenty-five acres ; or, if he had only money enough to buy 

 and stock fifty acres, had he better buy that amouut, or buy 

 one hundred acres, running in debt for fifty, and arranging 

 and managing his stock so as to raise enough in a few years 

 to fully stock his farm ? Or had he better take the advice 

 often given in the papers, that is, only buy when he is able 

 to pay for land enough to farm to the best advantage, and 

 to have an amount of capital equal to the cost of the farm, 

 as advised by B. ? 



Nuw, it would be useless to give any farmer such ad 

 vice here in this section of the State. Good farms sell here 

 at from sixty to eighty dollars an acre, and the best size for 

 a farm, to work to the best advantage, is probably from one 

 hundred and fifty to three hundred acre-. Such farms as well 

 situated for, and as well adapted to farming to the best ad 

 vantage, as seems to be demanded by the general tenor 

 of B. s remarks, would cost from $10,000 to $20,000, to 

 say nothing of adding as much more to stock and carry on 

 the farm. So that in almost all cases to advise a man not 

 to commence farming until he has such a farm, with such 

 an amount of capital to w r ork it with, would be equivalent 

 to advising him to not buy at all. It will do little good to 

 show him that farming can be made the most productive 

 and profitable where the farms are large enough to use all 

 the most approved tools, implements, and machines to the 

 best advantage, and where there is all of the capital that 

 can be made available or used profitably; or to tell him 

 that the greatest prosperity of the community and country 

 requires, and the character and standing of the farming 

 class may be promoted by this kind of farming. He will, 

 perhaps, a-sent to all you say, but tell you that this is not 

 the main question with him. That the main object being 



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