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the business, so that he will feel himself a partner in 
it. Teach him to keep an accurate account of all 
his receipts and expenses. Get for him a couple of 
good agricultural journals. Have them sent in his 
own name and point out to him, and talk over with 
him, matters of special interest to him treated of in 
those journals, as well as other matters connected 
with the farm. Thus you can arouse in him a posi- 
tive love for his work, which will soon become an 
enthusiasm, and will hardly fail to render him highly 
successful in it. If farmers would generally adopt 
some such course as this with their boys we would 
hear fewer complaints about boys leaving the farms 
and rushing into the towns and cities, and too often 
to ruin.” 
‘May [ ask what it would probably cost me to get 
established in Dakota in some such way as you sug- 
gest?” 
“Tecan not tell. A relinquishment near enough 
to a town to answer your purpose, would cost any- 
where from $400 up, and then you would need some- 
thing for moving expenses, for Land Office fees, for 
breaking on your claim, and setting up in your busi- 
ness in the town.” 
“T think [ could command about $1,500. Would 
that be enough to start with?” 
“Yes, [ think you could get a very fair start with 
that. But permit me to suggest here that if you 
decide to go you should at the same time make up 
your mind to endure cheerfully any hardships anid 
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