COMMON SENSE IN FARMING. S7 



this world, he acts an unwise part who runs away from comforts, 

 conveniences, institutions, safe highways, handy markets, schools, 

 churches, and neighbors having a common history and a common 

 tie of language, habits and associations, which it has cost a 

 hundred years and untold sums of money to gather here, for 

 the chance of finding a soil that can be easier ploughed, yield 

 more bushels to the acre, or is worth more to speculate upon 

 than these farms which the fathers of New England tilled in 

 comfort and content, before the railroad and the canal had 

 opened the forests and prairies of the West. 



