The Russellville Democrat., 1877-05-10

times as high as SIX hundred pounds of lint cotton, or 7o bushels ol corn per acre.
 As to the price of lands-eitlcr river or upland-l would refer the reader to the advertisement of MT. James Potts, Agent for the railroad lands. Or, if the immigrant does not wish to purchase from the rail road there is plenty of deeded land can be bought at reasonable prices; -or there is State lands that can be entered-or there is government lands that can be homesteaded.
 Now to those contemplating n move l would ask what more do you want to know? We'll sir, that all sounds very well, but not one wore did you say about the health of you? country. We'll, no; l had like to have forgotten that. You see l am living in the N. W. corner of Conway county, (joining Pope on the west, where it IS beautifully level and healthy,-so much so that we never think of getting sick unless 1t is from some other than local cause. Indeed it is so beautiful and healthy here that we call this part of the county Jerusalem. As 1 said before, | have been here five years, and l have paid out only alb put twenty four dollars to the doctors. Before I left ,r fa.t cf, 1 meneed rearing family-my doc tor bill was always from fifteen to thirty dollars per year. So much flor health.
 One thing I want understood by my Giles county friends :--if you do take notion to come to Arkansas don't expect to find honey pond or ritter tree, for they are not here, unless you choose to work and make them. If you take notion to come, come with the determination to bet. ter your condition and success will crown your efforts. But when you come be sure and not settle in the bottoms, but get an upland place where you can enjoy health, even if the land is not so rich; for If you go to the bottom to rent river lands, you will find at the expiration of the year, when you pay your rents and other bills, that the upland country is the safest home. This spring would have beel great time to come to this country, as provis- ions of all kinds are cheap.
 To the man of little capital, say enough to buy hundred ewes, he could make the raising of sheep an excellent business. They can be bought for ole dollar and fifty cents per head, and it takes but little feed to keep them through the winter, and nothing in summer save a little salt and attention.
 A few words now in regard to crop prospects: the most of the wheat IS rather thin on the ground. but looks very well. Where it was sowed early and put in we'll It looks finely, in fact very promising. Oats looks very well. Corn that has come up is looking very nice, though the cut worm is at work on it. The rainy weather is setting us back about planting cotton, but we have not lost much by that yet, as the ground is getting warmer and the seed will germinate and grow faster. Most of the farmers in Jerusalem and ad- joining vicinity are pretty well up with their work. If nothing hap pens to injure or destroy it We will have q bountiful fruit crop.
 Let me say in conclusion that l think Pope county, Johnson county, and in fact all of N. W. Arkansas is fine fruit growing country. One tbing 1 do know-I have seen as nice and good tasted apples, peaches, and grapes here as were ever grown anywhere. l set out 22 one year-old grafted apple trees, this spring two years ago, and of them have apples on them now. Beat that, will you? Yours respectfully,
 III