CHAPTER XXVI. 



Hii\^Ts ON" Selecting a Western Fa-rm. 



Many thlu]:: tbey know mncli liecause they were 

 "brouglit up" on a farm. Ferbaps it was not a western 

 farm. One who has merely learned to milk a cow may 

 make mistakes in hitching up a horse. 



(tEnerai> The newcomer who would build a home in 



TioiTS " ^^^ West should remember that he is now meet- 



ing with conditions about which he knows noth- 

 ing. So far as he understands the principles 

 which underlie the science and practice of agri- 

 culture his education will be useful. What he 

 may know about local practice and the experi- 

 ence which fixes his method of judging that some 

 fact must be true here, because certain relation- 

 ships make it true where he was raised, should 

 be entirely forgotten and laid aside. The West 

 establishes new relationships and new facts 

 which are seldom what they appear to be. 



The "tenderfoot" who would secure a farm 

 in the arid region should have disinterested and 

 expert advice if he has to pay for it. Not all 

 land agents are the get-rich-quick kind. Those 

 that are reliable act upon the realization that 

 the success of the man to whom they sell land is 

 of much importance to them. Such men know 

 the first principle of all successful business, that 

 fraud profits them nothing in the end. The 



