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50 or 60 acres & do the work on it we could undoubtedly get a good living from it, but if we come to rent it we should have to hire a house to live in & the rent of the farm would not half support us. The rent of 300 acres where our farm is would amount to about the same as 180 acres here. The rent of land there improved as ours is regarded as $3 per acre & hire at $5. I do not think that land will pay a man usually to rent it at these prices. The renter usually loses money who pays a cash rent. I have told you my dear wife as near as I can how this matter has looked & still looks to me. I presume I should be as glad to get away from the farm as you possibly can be if I can see where we can make a home for ourselves & our children, & not gradually but surely spend all we have. I think that we might live comfortably in