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away. We are to-day in the European condition, where we 

 are simply moving along fixed lines of industry, acquiring 

 simply a competence and little more. While in some of the 

 industries here and there a man may amass wealth, yet taking 

 into consideration the chances of life, would you not feel 

 more secure with your daughter on a farm which her husband 

 owns than in the city with the general outlook to-day? 



Mr. LuNT. I must say that I am not in love with the 

 farm and farming. I have not much more than the averao-e 

 interest in farming in comparison with my neighbors from 

 the county of Essex, but I try to make farming a success. I 

 have not heard a young man endorse the ideas of the pro- 

 fessor yet. The endorsement all comes from these men 

 with the golden crowns. I know that money can be made 

 on the farm, but it seems to me doubtful whether one could 

 do as well on this rocky land as he could on other land in 

 the State of Massachusetts that is in the market at a low 

 price. 



Professor Saxborx. I think every gentleman in the 

 audience will understand that my judgment is sufficiently 

 mature to know better than to advise one to take land that 

 is covered with bowlders. I am speaking of farms where, 

 if a few dollars were put out in the way of clearing them up, 

 it would greatly improve their condition, and where those 

 few dollars would make the diflerence between modern farm- 

 ing and ancient farming. The best land will go into fields, 

 and the poorer will go into forest. I do not advocate farm- 

 ing under conditions that do not permit the support of man 

 or civilization. I have too much love for the yeomanry of a 

 country to send them out to that sort of a living ; but our 

 farminor must conform to the new order of thing's, and if the 

 new order is not worth developing, the business is not worth 

 undertaking. 



Mr. LuNT. I will ask the professor if he would advise a 

 young man to undertake farming without money ? It seems 

 to me it is a matter of business. If he goes into farming 

 he has got to have capital, unless he carries a mortgage. 



Mr. F. II. Plumb (of Westfield). It is the same in any 

 business. I know of a farm in the "Catalogue of Aban- 

 doned Farms," of 370 acres, with two houses, four barns, 50 



