New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1857-04-08


City, who has somehow scraped together four
thousand dollars, but finds himself precluded from
adding to it by high rents dear food and the newt
able increase Of his expenses on every side, ASKS US
This question:
81 want To know what chance q man would stand
in tie country take up fsrmiog-not out IN Kansas
but FAY In jersey the western part OF this State OF
ont West rear some improving location, so as 70 ger
away from high rents and dirt and breathe mouth
full OF fresh sr-say little place Of fifty sixty aces
with house and barn one horse, three or four COWS,
feS sheep, some poultry all paid for and clear OF dc o.
go IS TO have Coo or 500 at interest just 10 nave
little lot We change coming in Could man live bet
ter fee better and be less drudge than to say here
10 New York and drudge drudge, from day to day aad
month 10 month I"
TO this question, or string Of questions, We
answer:
Farming is vocation requiring knowledge, eI-
per epce and skill, like any other. No man born
and reared in the city can remove to farm st
thirty OF forty years Of age and become Immediately
an efficient, thrifty successful farmer. He Will
have much to learn and something 10 unlearn, and
if be should get through bis first year of farming
without using up $500 of his capital, he may
consider that he has done well. Yet if he will keep
two or three good Agricultural papers, and read
them carefully we believe be can render himself =
fair average farmer the second year, and something
better than tbs thereafter
But, Is .lch change advisable
We answer, Yes. If, with average capacities
ard capital of $4,000, You can by steady industry
make nothing beyond a bare living in the City, we
hold that you can do better n the country. II you
buy your land for its fair valuation (and great
deal in this quarter is held twenty to fifty per cent.
above that msrk), and use it well, it must be
steadily increasing in value. Your buildings also
will necessarily be enlarged and improved-this
year o cOrn-crlb will be added, next year an ice
house, and 80 On-and though your surplus funds
will rather diminish than increase, and you will
hardly see dollar where you now see ten you will
be inseDsibly crawling toward competence Your
children will every year become more and moro
helpful to you; your young fruit-trees will come
into bearing; and you will have at least twice the
produce to turn off six or seven years hence that
you can spare the fret year.
A TO drudgery-a man who aspires to earn
good living and rear aud educate family by honest,
straightforward work, must be digent as well a.
fruesl-,tere is no help FIR it. Still, farmer with
$4,000 cspital well invested, or even half that sum,
reed rot labor excessively. From April to No
yember, he must work steadily and theoretically at
east ten hours per day; bu. in Winter he may
moderate bis exertoDs and give himself week or
more to WRIT relatives or friends when he sees fit.
Fsmers 90 not wcik so many hours on the average
az DO tie mechanics of this city.
a. to location, We think man with 81, 900 may
buy fair farm IN New.Jersey or one Of our River
Counties stock it fairly, and have $500 over for
lee-way; but be can Of course buy q much larger
farm and stock it much better from such a capital
in newer region, or even 10 Western New-York.
Every section has its advantages and disadvantages;
we should more strtnuousy insist on healthy To-
csty than On fertile soil. With cash capital Of
$4,000, you will be rich man in almost any new
settlement; but frontier life has its Inconvenience
even for men; still more for women and children
Investigate and decide for yourself.