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solve not only to keep trying till you know how to do ev 

 erything just right, and then do it no otherwise than that, 

 but to know ichy that is the best way its reason in the na 

 ture of things. If you have chosen farming, be sure to find 

 some time in each week to read the best treatises on that 

 noble calling, and keep a keen eye on all the periodicals 

 within reach that treat of it. Take the best one yourself, 

 and study it carefully. In short, give the next two, three 

 or four years to the vital work of mastering your chosen 

 pursuit, so that thenceforth, through every clay learning, 

 you may confidently measure your strength in it with any 

 competitor. 



&quot; 4. Having thus mastered your calling, go to work in it 

 for others for the best wages you can obtain, resolved so to 

 earn them that you will be morally certain to command a 

 larger sum next year. Thus persevere in industry, frugal 

 ity and temperance, carefully economizing your time and 

 means, until you shall have earned enough to strike out 

 boldly for yourself. 



&quot; 5. By this time you will have made friends, especially 

 among those of kindred position and habits to your own ; 

 and now you can make that sympathy available for your 

 mutual good. Have as many as possible join you in a pur 

 chase of land to be divided among you according to your 

 several means and needs; whereby your wealth may be 

 doubled in a month. For example : two or three hundred 

 young men of twenty to thirty, knowing and trusting each 

 other, and each of them a good, thrifty, likely farmer or 

 mechanic, having severally earned and saved from $200 up 

 to $2,000, resolve to buy and settle together. So they send 

 out two or three of their number to look and buy lands for 

 them in any of the new or of the border Slave States, 

 where even improved lands are cheaper than elsewhere on 

 earth. They select and purchase from 2,000 to 10,000 



