The woods literally crawl with bees and I can detect no difference between wild and tame honey. I have a great many sugar maple trees, but have not yet made a pound of sugar from them. We live on milk, cereals and garden vegetables, and are thereby extremely healthy and well. I have now nine children around me and rejoice over them with all my heart. Nay rather, here, the more children, the richer the man is considered.
Land is here very cheap.
But they will not sell less than a quarter or 80 acres. Rental is also cheap at two dollars per acre. Or for the ninth bundle, or for the third, in which case, however, the renter receives all stock, tools, etc., furnished. Whoever does not want to rent, can settle on Congress land and rent out half of his quarter. He needs but ot go to the officials, buy a patent which cost four dollars, and gets the land for a term of eight or ten years, and then he is assured of his property.