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THE CULTIVATOR. 
that happy result which teases and puzzles the 
brains of so many ambitious mortals. We will 
say that you are in successful business, and can 
possibly save $500 per year, or some years at least. 
Do this, and get together $2,200; take $200 of 
this, or less, according to your age, and get an 
insurance upon your life for $5,000, for the bene¬ 
fit of your wife and children. Make it a perpetual 
insurance, so that your policy shall not run out, 
and the premium be raised; pay the first year 
down. Then look about you, and find a small 
farm, near the city where you reside, worth, say 
$4,000 or $5,000. Let it be on a river, or rail¬ 
road, easily accessible from town, in about an 
hour’s ride, without a horse and carriage. Pay 
down $2,000, and give a mortgage for the balance; 
let the place be varied in the character of its soil, 
and as pleasant and attractive as possible; let there 
be plenty of good water, and a little stream if 
possible, a small pond, and a grove of shade trees, 
and other natural advantages and natural beauties, 
if such can be found. If there are fruit trees, 
strawberry beds, See., upon the place, so much 
the better; if not, let the cheapness of the land, 
and its undeveloped natural advantages, decide 
you; send your family to this place, (provided, 
always, your wife takes a fancy to go;) hire a 
gardener and farmer who understands his busi¬ 
ness, and pay him two-thirds the ordinary salary, 
with the addition of five per cent, on all the cash 
proceeds of the place, he can obtain by sending to 
market the produce of the place, in order to make 
him work and contrive how he can best and quick¬ 
est make a fair salary. Keep horses, cows, hens, 
ducks, pigs; raise a great variety of vegetables; 
have an ice-house, if you can get ice; and now let 
us see where you are. Are you not independent ? 
Milk, eggs, butter, and fresh sweet vegetables, 
are luxuries in town—and these you will have 
plenty of at the first cost of raising them, for you 
pay your farmer no five per cent, on these. Your 
family can have a horse and carriage to ride 
with—a luxury you seldom dare to indulge in, 
when in town. Your house-rent is cheap, and if 
the farm does not pay in $400 per year, you still 
will have $400 or $500 left of your ordinary ex¬ 
penditures for living, to lay by or pay off the 
mortgage, or improve the farm. If you have no 
fruit on the farm, you may have plenty of it by 
planting trees, in three or four years; apples, 
pears, fjeaches, grapes, strawberries, raspberries, 
&c., enough to eat freely, and to sell to profit. 
Your family get fresh air, pure water, plenty of 
exercise, and live in a simple and unexpensive 
manner, free from many of the evils of a great city. 
You may combine with this the advantages of good 
schools, churches, and pleasant society; and may 
et your family go to town often enough to keep 
the city polish from wearing entirely off. As for 
yourself, the pleasure of visiting your place two 
or three times a week, or oftener if convenient; 
and spending the Sabbath in the country, will 
more than repay you for the inconvenience of even 
a partial separation from your family, should that 
be necessary. You will have little trouble about 
the working of your place if you give your far¬ 
mer a per centage on sales, for I have tried the 
plan, and know how it works. Only remember 
this, get a good man, and one who thoroughly 
understands his business. 
Now where are you? Are you not independent? 
If you die, and keep up the life insurance, (which 
will cost less than $100 per year) you will leave 
your family $5,000 in cash, and the farm, to say 
nothing of your business. If you put all your 
fruit and best improvements on one side, or one 
half of your farm, your heirs can sell off one half 
the farm, and pay the mortgage if it is not paid, 
and have the best half of the farm, and all the 
cash left. If you have no sons, and your wife is 
not skilled in business, that would be the better 
plan. Then, with a neat house and a good gar¬ 
den, plenty of fruit, a cow, a pig, poultry, a horse 
and carriage, and the income of $5,000, how com¬ 
fortably the family could live, at home , as long as 
they should survive. And all this can be done 
for $2,000 to $2,200. There are a hundred other 
suggestions which rise to my mind, in connection 
with this subject, but I will not write them out 
now. They will occur to every reader. 
Why, then, toiler in the city, wait till you ac¬ 
quire a fotune of $20,000 or $50,000, before you 
resolve to become independent, and make your 
family so ? Why not look out for a home in the 
country, and make yourself independent, with $2,- 
000 as soon as possible. I know of no other way 
that you can do it so easily and so certainly. It 
is a great deal better than going to California in 
search of gold. -—*©»— H. 
Large Crops. —At the winter meeting of the 
Oneida County Ag. Society, a premium of $5 
was awarded to S. H. Church, of Vernon, for the 
best acre of wheat, yielding 45 bushels and 26 lbs. 
For Spring Wheat, C. W. Eells, Westmoreland, 
received prizes for two acres—one of Sea Wheat, 
34 bushels 18 lbs. per acre—-the other Siberian, 
30 bushels 44 lbs. per acre. The prize for Indian 
Corn, 841 bushels per acre, was awarded to John 
Thompson, of Augusta. 
Newtown Pippins in Liverpool —A late paper 
states that the best Newtown Pippins, (carefully 
selected of course, and handled quite as careful¬ 
ly as eggs,) were worth $5 per barrel in New-York, 
are crossing the Atlantic in large quantities,and are 
bringing in Liverpool, in some instances, seven¬ 
teen dollars per barrel. 
