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much to learn to allow of either of these 

 contingencies being realised. 



Having decided on the exact kind of farming 

 it is intended to pursue, the locality one will 

 settle in will be more or less fixed. The next 

 point is to arrange to be taken on a farm 

 of the kind one ultimately hopes to take one- 

 self, and it is a point of some importance to 

 ascertain that the farmer, who is to be one's 

 future mentor, is making his farm pay as a 

 tenant-farmer, and is not merely using the farm 

 as an adjunct to some other business out of 

 which his real income is derived, or is 

 '' farming pupils " ; because, if the farm be 

 producing a proper income, it may fairly be 

 assumed that sound, practical and remunerative 

 methods of farming are to be learnt there. It 

 is not to be inferred from the above remarks that 

 the student is advised to spend all his pupilage 

 on one farm — on the contrary, it is well to see 

 the working of more than one farm ; but what 

 he should do is to gain all his experience on 

 farms in the same locality and devoted to the 

 same class of farming, as by so doing, he not 

 only learns the kind of farming he is going in 

 for, but acquires considerable knowledge as to 



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