182 THREE ACRES AND LIBERTY 



barely to pull through, and the third give him a start at a 

 permanent income. In farming, as in all other businesses, 

 only those will succeed who know what they want and how 

 to get it; who have selected with care the locality best 

 suited to the special crops they intend to raise; and after 

 having once made a selection, stick until they have com- 

 pelled success. 



The lure of the vast West and of the new South is not 

 forgotten; but the time has passed when the young man 

 could go West to take a farm of Uncle Sam's. Desirable 

 land is too expensive for the pioneer, and the constant toil 

 and comparative isolation of the prairie farm offers but a 

 poor sort of liberty, though it still affords a living. 



But close to the growing towns in those states small plots 

 of land can still be had to work with the same bright pros- 

 pects that are offered near the great metropolis. 



In nearly all the sections within the area of intensive cul- 

 tivation, timber is still plentiful enough to make it the cheap- 

 est building material ; and persons who really want to get to 

 the land can contrive a sufficient shelter, like a pioneer's, 

 for from two to five hundred dollars. 



