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drive, if he be worthy of such a noble animal 

 as the horse. When he starts for himself let 

 him locate on a good road. There are always 

 enough persons wdio are not thankful for advice, 

 especially if it be in a book, who are looking 

 for cheap land at the end of the hilly I'oad. 



Many farms are purchased by young men 

 just starting out in life before judgment has 

 been developed by experience, while men of 

 mature years take in the whole problem, or 

 rather series of problems, easily and at once. 

 The novice would do well to make a list of 

 the topics enumerated above, and add to them 

 sucli others as appeal to his tastes or condi- 

 tions and then study them, one at a time ; in 

 fact, there is nothing left for the young man 

 to do but to make out a score- card upon which 

 he records his judgment in numbers as he in- 

 vestigates each phase of the difficult problem 

 of selecting a farm. 



