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you will be insensibly crawling toward a competence. Your 

 children will every year become more and more helpful to 

 you ; your young fruit-trees will come into bearing ; and 

 you will have at least twice the produce to turn off six or 

 seven years hence, that you can spare the first year. 



&quot; As to drudgery, a man who aspires to earn a good 

 living and rear and educate a family by honest, straightfor 

 ward work, must be diligent as well as frugal, there is no 

 help for it. Still, a farmer with $4,000 capital well invested, 

 or even half that sum, need not labor excessively. From 

 April to November, he must work steadily and energetically 

 at least ten hours per day ; but in winter he may moderate 

 his exertions and give himself a week or more to visit rela 

 tives or friends, when he sees fit. Farmers do not work so 

 many hours, on the average, as do the mechanics of this 

 city. 



&quot; As to location ; we think a man with $4,000 may buy 

 a fair farm, in New Jersey, or one of our river counties, 

 stock it fairly, and have $500 over for lee- way ; but he can, 

 of course, buy a much larger farm and stock it much better 

 frcmi such a capital in a newer region, or even in western 

 New York. Every section has its advantages and disad 

 vantages ; we should more strenuously insist on a healthy 

 locality, than on fertile soil. With a cash capital of $4,000, 

 you will be a rich man in almost any new settlement ; but 

 frontier life has its inconveniences, even for men ; still more 

 for women and children. Investigate and decide for your 

 self.&quot;- 



