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if necessary, to a sufficient amount to provide ample means 

 for its stocking, cultivation, and improvement. To make 

 money rapidly, by farming, requires ample capital ; those 

 who cannot command it, lose, to say the least, one-half the 

 profit they would otherwise secure. It may be true that 

 those farmers who can see no better investment for their 

 gains than the purchase of finery, need the pressure of debt 

 to forward their advancement in property. In many cases, 

 however, it would be more profitable than any other course, 

 to spend their surplus capital in improvements on the old 

 farm for several years, before adding a single acre to its ex 

 tent in surface. 



&quot; We have seen and known of so many losses in farming, 

 for the want of capital, that it makes us the more particu 

 lar to urge this matter on the attention of farmers. We 

 hope F., with his wide extent of practical experience, may 

 have seen something corroborative of this view of the mat 

 ter, and that he will present it and illustrate it with his usual 

 force and ability, in your columns.&quot; 



The remarkable discussion thus quoted will not 

 fail to give the reader many new and practical ideas 

 on the subject of getting a farm. It ranges over 

 many branches of the question, and contains a mass 

 of robust good sense which an ambitious young man 

 cannot too closely study. The suggestions made are 

 not those of enthusiastic theorists, but the fruits of 

 long and grave experience, such as, having been in 

 most cases successful, are entitled to the highest re 

 spect. It is to be noted, moreover, that the question 

 of how to get a farm being once started by one who 

 saw the difficulty of obtaining it without capital, 

 the subject was immediately recognized to be one of 



