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farm where a mixed husbandry prevails, and where a near 

 market is essential. A man with a genius for trade should 

 locate near a good market, and raise everything that sells 

 well, both animal and vegetable products. 



If one has a fancy for stock, cheap land and a wide range 

 of pasturage are essential to success. A valuable horse or 

 yoke of cattle may as well be marketed a hundred miles 

 off, as sold upon the farm. Most of the horses and beef 

 cattle sold in your city are raised from a thousand to fif 

 teen hundred miles away. Land worth a hundred dollars 

 and upward an acre, as many of the farms are near cities, 

 cannot be devoted profitably to pastures. They are worth 

 more for something else. 



It is always well to remember, in making a purchase of 

 so much importance, that farms, as well as men, have a 

 good or bad reputation, that is generally deserved. Some 

 farms are so fertile, so well proportioned, or so convenient 

 to market, that they have always kept their owners in 

 thriving circumstances. Trace their history clear back to 

 the first settlement of the country, and you will find every 

 owner what the world calls a lucky fellow. Other farms 

 have the name of always keeping their owners poor. Some 

 times they are in an unhealthy district, and much sickness 

 has made large doctor s bills. Xow unless you know just 

 what the secret of an unlucky farm is, and can remedy it, 

 avoid such a spot as you would the poor-house. You can 

 not afford to try many experiments in a matter of so much 

 importance. Is it a swamp that needs draining ? You 

 may safely venture, for there is wealth as well as health in 

 knocking the bottom out of it. But as a rule, it is better 

 to buy a farm that has a good reputation. If it has made 

 others prosperous, with better husbandry it may make 

 you rich. 



Yours to command, 



TIMOTHY BUNKER, ESQ. 



HooTcertown, Aug. 7th, 1861. 



