178 HOW TO GET A FAKM, 



&quot;An Irish farmer began farming in 1853 with the small 

 sum of $300, made in the mines in company with his 

 nephew, a young lad. He first bought two hundred acres 

 of land, paying a deposit on the same ; and the rest of the 

 money was invested in a horse, a cow, and the necessary 

 implements. The first year, his fenced-in fields yielded 

 wheat to the value of $800, which enabled him to pay the 

 remainder of his money for his land, besides repaying him 

 for that expended on his stock. He owns six hundred 

 acres of land, and twenty-eight head of cattle, including 

 seven horses ; together with lots of pigs, sheep, and poultry. 

 His arable land is now forty-five acres, besides which he 

 has a large orchard and kitchen garden. In a word, he 

 has made himself a very snug, comfortable home, and 

 something like $4,000 to boot. 



&quot;In 1852, an Englishman and two Germans came from 

 the mines, with a, united capital of thirteen hundred dollars. 

 They bought six hundred and forty acres of land, and 

 farmed it. Last year one of the Germans sold his share in 

 the increased concern for nine thousand dollars. Some 

 years ago, an intimate acquaintance of ours, a German, in 

 company with another as partner, bought a farm, and took 

 to cultivating it and raising cattle. He now owns upwards 

 of fifteen thousand acres of land, and is worth pretty nearly 

 one hundred thousand dollars. This person, too, began 

 without a halfpenny. 



&quot; The Germans are proverbially a frugal, money-making 

 people. One of the Teutons, in reply to a question pro 

 pounded at the Philadelphia Board of Trade, in relation to 

 discounts, is reported to have revealed the secret of his 

 success as follows : I open von grocery, mit cot-fish, and 

 molasses, and one barrel of viskey. Veil, I goes on und by 

 and by I gets a box of sugar and one box of tea ; und by 

 and by I gets a big grocery store mit a box china man in 



