OUT-OF-TOWN PLACES 



disport with a model-farm in summer, without 

 much regard to the returns? Is it the estab- 

 Hshment of a country home which shall be 

 complete in all its equipments ? Not one in ten 

 of those freshly smitten with a desire to pur- 

 chase a country residence can definitely say. 

 So much the more need of one who can intelli- 

 gently, by a few practical questions, interpret 

 their own wishes to the purchasers themselves 

 and fathom the full reach of their country 

 longings. 



COST AND RETURNS OF FIFTY ACRES 



A FARM of fifty acres may be a large thing, 

 or it may be a small thing; small, if remote, 

 and submitted only to the "hand to mouth" 

 culture of the average farm-holder; but large, 

 extravagantly, if it be favorably placed, and 

 be wrought to the full measure of its capacity 

 by the best appliances of agricultural and hor- 

 ticultural art. Yet the applicant at the city 

 offices can form no idea of this distinction, 

 nor will his queries in such a quarter put him 

 in the way of arriving at the just grounds of 

 such distinction. If, on the other hand, such 

 applicant (Mr. Urban, we will say), were to 



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