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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1864 edition. Excerpt: ... CHAPTER IV. More Opinions and Experiences--Some Objections--Additional Light--Encouraging the Young--A personal History--Getting an Illinois Farm--One Example--Good Suggestions--Buying and going in Debt--Value of the Discussion. The discussion thus opened drew out, as may be supposed, the views of other practical men to elucidate the important question as to the best way of getting a farm. The following is the commentary of another intelligent observer, Mr. J. W. Colburn, of Springfield, Vermont. Referring to the suggestions made by "F.," as quoted in the preceding chapter, he says: " His advice cannot but be regarded, by those to whom it was intended to benefit, as very sensible, and in the main correct. He points out three ways to be pursued to accomplish the object sought for, viz.: Working out for wages, taking farms upon shares, and beginning with a few acres at first, enlarging as means are saved to invest, seeming rather to give the preference to this last method over the two first. Circumstances, with regard to land and labor, may be such in his locality as to make his views correct; but with all due deference to his opinion, to suit the locality in which I reside, I should ask him to reverse his opinion, and put the working out for wages to get a start in life at the head of his three ways to get a farm, as decidedly preferable to either of the other two. " If the first thing that a young man thinks of and must do, after arriving to the years of his majority, and destitute of means, is to get married, as is often the case, then he must do the next best way that he can--take a farm on shares, or purchase a few acres; but it will be but a few acres, in four cases out of five, that he will ever be likely to pay for and own. I know...

Reprint of the original, first published in 1864. Showing that homesteads may be had by those desirous of securing them. With the public law on the subject of free homes, and suggestions from practical farmers. Together with numerous successful experiences of others, who, though beginning with little or nothing, have become the owners of ample farms.

Excerpt from How to Get a Farm, and Where to Find One My effort has been to group together in the fol lowing pages Some of the many remarkable openings for agricultural enterprise which exist in our country. Wherever we turn they are to be found. The great West has long abounded with them, and the South will soon be equally prolific. The Middle States, New Jersey, Delaware, and Maryland, contain thou sands Of these Openings, where cheap lands within reach of cash markets have long been waiting for purchasers. But they have remained comparatively unknown to the agricultural public. The owners have not prized them as they deserved to be, and the speculators have overlooked them. The great West has carried Off the honors as well as the popu lation. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.