Delaware Republican. (Wilmington, Del.) 1843-1874, 1866-11-15

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DECATUR, ILL, Oct. Goth, 1866
DEAR HBPHkw Your letter of the 18Th
inst, was duly received, and N reply state
that farming land in this coNnty, (Maoon,)
langt from fifteen to one hunde dollars Per
acre You may thinH this wide range ia
price, but il you will look around you, in your
adjoining nty, New Lastlt, or might say,
in the county GU reel e i'll & eel, } Tor lad,
you find that 1t is estimated III proportion to
its Improvements, fertility, AID distance from
market. Wages for tarm hands range from
fifteen to twenty dollars month. feel con-
hdent we don't require half the hands you do.
For four horses and two men will till enc hun
| bred acres in corn, product five thousan
bushels. We use, think, more agricultural
| implements than you for this country Is
| hl. ed 18th farming machinery, and they are
used freely too. As for using manure, lime,
| bone or any kind Of fertilizers, instead OF that
| of the stable, gets so full that a hor oanuot
get In, they move the stable. The whole Of
our land will produce from IL to tors Of
Timothy hay per acre, and very good sea
son will average two tons. Ill WIS your age,
with your industry and knowledge of farming,
| would buy at least three hu. DIR acres I
land Leie and raise stock. | would aise l q
kind OF grain or grass that d d nst leave the
farm in the ape of four foo.ed animal, f,f
Stock of all kinds is hig ami no trouble /
,el lug lor cash. We have several men ID
this place who are in this trade, and sinos my
residence in this county lind all thu stock
raisers in this section have made money. :
Corn 40 cts; Wheat, winter 70 . spring
wheat 80 to / 80 Oats % to 80 limo hy
day 100 dollars per ton fat Hogs 3 cents
gross Beet to cents; Hams % Mid
dlings az Eggs rs butter IS 10 40 lurnip'
40; Potatoes 30 to Is Sweet Potatoes LOG
Cabbage per head TO To- Lard = Mules !
to months old $50 90 Mules crown 100 L
200 dollars Horses nom loo to 2OJ dollat
and MilcA COWS from 40 to go dollars. Re
collect a i thee things are raised al half thu
+, ex ense they are in Delaware or Iyland
wi seld you paper the fr't of next month
publishel by Durfey & Co., o: this oIty, VIII
are large Real Is ate Agents. and are dali
selling farms and d elllngs, i'll and arounC
this pace and various ether parts OF Ii
u state think would hs ,ae in saying the
sell real estate to the value OF million {
e dollars per anuum. | came here in 1896, An
the humber OF inhabitants III this city. at tia
dune WAS 1000, at the resent time somethin
over SOUO. Ne have ) Churches, SeAo'
houses, with 2, 800 children attending Schoo
four hUurishing Flour Mills, Banks, one
National B-uk, 4 Iron iJu- dri 3, ] AgTltu
d, tural bach ne SHOP, employing 100 hand
/ Broom Factory, Is Dry Good stores, sellir
from 40 to so thou and dollars each p
annum, | Nooleu Mill CarIlag' Faetorle
and innumerable Black NTH AID other Shop
- 5 Clothing stores, selling from 81 to 100 Il y
70. sand dollars year, Drug Stores, Cotil
Makers business light, p Physicians and lhr
RI; fourths VI them no practice, and the hslau
not IL uch better OF, "A Lawyers, the proiessi'
Is honurab but don k-ow OF millionai
among them, alth. ugh the { ients thil
their pockets full OF cash, but | thinA litig
tim smeties the pockets Of tue client.
will coss this letter by advising you TO p
$3.50 In your pocket, and ooine out to sBe |
you can reach here in forty hoars from Phi
AdslpAia, for less than thirty dollprs. a
when you come don't wish TO start for hol
70 he next day after you arrive, for | la
sf grub enough to iced you month aJ
six months. Since have been in this COZ
try, land has more Than doubled in vail
-, and for the next ten yeaTs have no doubt
he will oo4tinue to increase, aud the reason
it's produotiveness and the ease with whict
ia cultivated. Come and ste for yourself
: the best way, aud nay word Tor It You will /
hs content TO return Bast to live L