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so manfully to preserve their family home and who would 

 regard it as so bitter an experience to be obliged to leave it ? 

 must continue to realise as their fathers did that the process 

 of quitting home may be just as disagreeable to the old- 

 established tenant farmer as to the owner. When the land has 

 to be sold every effort should be made to sell it at its fair value, 

 whether by private treaty or by auction, to the sitting tenant; 

 but, if the land is sold by valuation and private treaty and not 

 by auction, then the owner will be entitled to protect himself 

 by inserting a clause in the conveyance reserving to himself 

 for a term of years the option of repurchase at the price for 

 which he has sold the farm in case the purchaser decides to part 

 with the farm within that period. 



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