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ally not bad, is not up to the highest standard of modern 

 agriculture. But this is owing more to following old prac 

 tices and prejudices, and the kind of, or want of education, 

 than the want of means. And I may also say that their 

 general course of farming is being gradually but surely and 

 largely advanced and improved by the younger class of 

 farmers that are coming on ; some of them having, in pro 

 portion to their chances and opportunities, been more suc 

 cessful than any of the older class. 



&quot; A few words in regard to running into debt for land. A 

 land debt, when entered into with proper precautions, and 

 well guarded, the farm being worth considerable more 

 than the debt, and in a fertile condition, giving reasonable 

 assurance of producing more than enough to pay the inter 

 est and a portion of the principal each year, and payments 

 arranged so as to give ample time to meet them, is not a 

 thing to be so much dreaded. In fact, it often seems to 

 be an advantage. It seems to furnish an object, an end to 

 strive for, to be attained to. It gives the farmer a home, a 

 something that he wants and means to keep, that he would 

 be sorry and ashamed to lose, and altogether something 

 that will induce him to work harder and manage better 

 than he has ever done before, rather than fail in. This 

 seems to be so well understood among farmers that the 

 remark is often heard, * that the best way to make money 

 by farming is to buy and run in debt for land, and then go 

 to work and pay for it. 



&quot;Perhaps I cannot better close this part of the subject 

 and this article, than by giving a little of the experience of 

 a farmer in the north part of this county, as related by him 

 self to a friend of the writer. He said, that having got his 

 farm paid for, and a little money ahead, his family thought 

 they must have something a little better than common, so 

 they persuaded him to buy a $300 carriage. When they 



