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in paste of flour and water, a pint of flour at least, and a handful of 

 salt ; cook thoroughly ; wlien cool enough add some home-made 

 yeast, and let raise till one perfect foam ; then thicken well with 

 corn-meal, and make out into cake immediately. Dry quickly and 

 thorouglily, so the corn-meal will be kept sweet. Care must bo taken, 

 if dried near a stove, that it is not too hot, 100 degrees is high enough ; 

 ninety degrees will do nicely. 



Counsel for You^tg Men. 



Mr. John H. Carr, of Ohio, writes : Myself and several others, 

 all mechanics, wish to take Mr. Greeley's advice, and become owners 

 of a small farm, but cannot decide where we had better try to get it ; 

 and we write for your advice. I want to know where we can go to 

 make a comfortable living with the least amount of money and labor. 



Mr. Alfred Greeuleaf. — I am liere to-day to get an answer to that 

 question. In Brooklyn I am accosted by men of twenty-five or 

 thirty, married, sober, but uneniployed. Thef^ want to get to the 

 country but don't know how, or where, or with whom, or what to do. 

 Can I, of this club, get the sound advice for such persons ? They 

 say : " "We are not afraid to work ; we have ordinary intelligence ; 

 we are thirty years of age ; we have wives and children looking to us 

 for support. We want something to live upon; we can't live upon 

 air, and we don't want, as many in New York do, to live upon otlier 

 people ; now will you, Mr. Greeuleaf, tell us where to go to ?" I did 

 not know where to come to get the proper answer unless it be to this 

 club, and I come at a good deal of sacrifice to-day to get an answer to 

 that question, wliich is put to me on all hands not once, but twenty 

 times a week. 



Mr. T. C. Peters. — If Mr. Greeuleaf will send his friends to me, I 

 will advise them alx)ut tlie south. This country is so broad that a 

 man may go anywhere ; but if a man tells me what business he wants 

 to engage in, I M'ill tell him where to go. For cheap farming, the 

 Shenandoah valley is unparalleled, extending all the wa^v' along 

 through the State of North Carolina," down through Georgia, and into 

 Alabama. In that region there .are nearly five millions of acres of 

 government lands that can be appropriated and settled under the 

 homestead law, and it is as fine a climate as there is in the world, and 

 within short distance of the routes of communication. It is the finest 

 fruit region that I ever saw. It is just about a hundred miles back 

 of.the cotton lands. If I was going to advise any one to go down 



