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I would say he would have over 2,000 bushels of 
potatoes, 175 of flax and 300 of oats, worth alto- 
gether not less than $800. Of course it will cost him 
considerable to gather and thresh his crops and get 
them to market, but he will still have a handsome 
margin left—enough anyway to build a comfortable 
little house and send for Annie and the babies. 
And there has been a complete transformation m 
James Hardy since that morning [ met him in [h- 
nois. His eves are bright, his step is elastic, and 
even when he was working from early morning till 
midnight he never seemed tired. Hope and faith in 
the future have created a new world for him, and 
when his wife and children come [ don’t think there 
will be a happier man in all this world. 
COULD LI Do THAT? 
Other men in the Kastern and Middle States situ- 
ated as James Hardy was, will ask the question, 
“Could J do%is well as he did if I were to go west?” 
In answer [ say frankly that no man ean tell but 
yourself, If you will do as he did I can see no rea- 
son why you should not. The same soil is there, 
and the same sun that shines and the same showers 
that fall on his fields will fall on yours. I have sim- 
ply told you what one man without a dollar of money 
actually ts doing, and how he is doing it. It is well 
for you to remember that he is very much in earnest, 
and such a man will generally succeed, while another 
less earnest may fail. And remember, also, that his 
