IN DAKOTA, ‘ 95 
in Dakota with $3,000 cash in your pocket. You 
don’t know much about farming, but you have a fair 
knowledge of general business. Now the question 
is, had you better leave a business here that is paying 
you a living and $290 a year besides, and go to Da- 
kota? Would you be better off there in five years 
from this time than if you staid here? In all human 
probability you would.” 
“ Then, if I should decide to go,” he said, ‘the 
important questions come up, where and when shall 
I go, and what shall I do when I get there?” 
“You should secure a farm, by all means. If you 
don’t do that you had better stay where you are,” 
“ But [am no farmer, Do you think [ could suc- 
ceed on a farm?” 
‘You would not need to go to work on it with 
your own hands. You could earn more, for several 
years to come, anyway, at your trade, and hire your 
farm work done. And the same is true of mechan- 
ics in other branches. 
A FARM AND WHAT TO DO WITH IT. 
‘Get your farm, if possible, near enough some good 
town for you and your family to live on it, so that 
you can carry on your business in the town. Not 
only there, but in all the country around there will 
be a great deal of building to be done for many years 
yet. And as you were speaking of your friends, | 
will say that there is plenty of work in those towns 
for good mechanics of all kinds. But every one who 
