93 BUYING A 



GARDEN 



grading. Get an old building if you can, even 

 if you have to have it moved a long distance on 

 to your land. It is cheaper to buy and alter by 

 your own work than to build; a tumble-down 

 barn with good lumber in it makes a surprisingly 

 good house at a low figure, especially if you can 

 do the most of the work yourself. I have tried 

 it repeatedly and know, though I did not do the 

 work myself. 



If you have any special knowledge of soils, of 

 minerals, of coal, or clays, or water power, you 

 may make special profit of it. Thousands have 

 got fortunes (as Carnegie got his first start by 

 buying natural gas land) through seeing capa- 

 cities or uses of earth that others overlooked. 



