Special Advice to Young British Columbian Farmers.

• Get a wife.
• Keep no spirits in the house.
• Laugh at croakers.
• Hold on to your cash capital.
• Don't buy poor stock—a runt is dear at any price.
• Feed your land, and it will feed you.
• Do not buy one extra plough or harrow.
• Buy as little as possible secondhand.
• Don't improve—except slowly.
• Don't employ a lot of hands at first, building, fencing, draining, &c.
• Only good farming pays.
• Don't hunger for a "big" farm.
• Give up old-country notions.
• Don't think you are very much wiser than your neighbours.
• Make your house pretty with shrubs and flowers.
• Go to church.
• Work a little—rest a little, but be always about your place.