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just to have a little loose change coming in. Could a man 

 Jive better, feel better, and be less a drudge, than to stay 

 here in New York, and drudge, drudge, from day to day, 

 and month to month !&quot; 



What a revelation is here given of the workings 

 of one mind among the large class for whose infor 

 mation this volume has been written ! To this 

 string of questions the editor made the following 

 pointed reply : 



&quot; Farming is a vocation, requiring knowledge, experience, 

 and skill, like any other. No man born and reared in the 

 city can remove to a farm, at thirty or forty years of age, 

 and become immediately an efficient, thrifty, successful 

 farmer. He will have much to learn and something to un 

 learn ; and if he should get through his first year of farm 

 ing without using up $500 of his capital, he many consider 

 that he has done well. Yet if he will keep his eyes open, 

 take counsel from his neighbors, take two or three good 

 agricultural papers, and read them carefully, we believe he 

 can render himself a fair average farmer the second year, 

 and something better than this thereafter. But, Is such a 

 change as this desirable ? 



&quot;We answer, Yes. If, with average capacities, and a 

 capital of 84,000, you can, by steady industry, make noth 

 ing beyond a bare living in the city, we hold that you can 

 do better in the country. If you buy your land for its fair 

 valuation (and a great deal in this quarter is held twenty to 

 fifty per cent, above that mark), and use it well, it must be 

 steadily increasing in value. Your buildings also will ne 

 cessarily be enlarged and improved this year a corn-crib 

 will be added, next year an ice-house, and so on and 

 though your surplus funds will rather diminish than increase, 

 and you will hardly see a dollar where you now see ten, 



