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WHEKE TO FARM. 



my father was over sixty years old, and had 

 lived some twenty years in Erie County, Pennsyl- 

 vania, he said to me : " I have several times re- 

 moved, and always toward the West ; I shall never 

 remove again ; but, were I to do so, it would be to- 

 ward the East. Experience has taught me that the 

 advantages of every section are counterbalanced by 

 disadvantages, and that, where any crop is easily 

 produced, there it sells low, and sometimes cannot be 

 sold at all. I shall live and die right here ; but, were 

 I to remove again, it would not be toward the West/' 

 This is but one side of a truth, and I give it for 

 whatever it may be worth. Had my father plunged 

 into the primitive forest in his twenty-fifth rather 

 than his forty-fifth year, he would doubtless have be- 

 come more reconciled to pioneer life than he ever did. 

 I would advise no one over forty years of age to 

 undertake, with scanty means, to dig a farm out of 

 the dense forest, where great trees must be cut down 

 and cut up, rolled into log-heaps, and burned to ashes 

 where they grew. Where half the timber can be 



