AND WHERE TO FIND ONE. Ill 



like ruts in the roads. The wheels of life settle into 

 them, and we jog along through the mire, because 

 it is too much trouble to get out of them. 



I could point to one farm thus taken from an 

 owner so disheartened that at one time it was seri 

 ously contemplated to abandon it. The soil seemed 

 hopelessly sterile, was chiefly yellow dirt with gravel, 

 and had apparently as little capacity for retaining 

 manure as a sieve for holding water. But deep 

 ploughing and heavy manuring with fertilizers, man 

 ufactured on the premises by hogs and cattle, have 

 brought it up to yielding thirty bushels of wheat per 

 acre. Patience and perseverance, with very mod 

 erate capital to begin with, overcame every thing. 

 As may be supposed, it was purchased for a small 

 sum, but in ten years could have been sold for a 

 large one. Instances of recuperation are too numer 

 ous to be recited. 



The design and object of this volume cannot be 

 better promoted than by quoting from the Country 

 Gentleman the following inquiry, made by one of 

 the large class of persons who are constantly looking 

 for a country home, with the editor s answer. His 

 ripe experience of agricultural subjects gives the 

 highest value to his remarks. The inquirer de 

 scribes himself as a young lawyer 



&quot; Making about $400 per year by my profession, and with 

 almost no hope of increase, as the market is overstocked ; 

 and I am sensible that I am neither a Kent, an Emmet, nor 

 a Story. Having a \vife and child to support, I am anxious 

 to try some other business, that will better enable me to do 

 so than at present. Would farming be better ? 



