The farmer and mechanic., 1913-04-01

added to the farms OF this country
each year from time on. that land must
oe FOUND in a large measure from
Kansas and Texas eastward, and from
the Ohio river southwark The cen
sus figures show that lands with inn
proNements in Ohio are held at two to
three hundred dollars an acre ILL
nols, Iowa and Indiana have about
the same scale Of prices Pennsylyan-
Ia, New York, New Jersey, and the
states around the lakes in the north
west hold lands at from one hundred
to two hundred dollars. Kansas Ne
DraSka, Kentucky, and states around
the border of the more popuiOuS states
still have lands to sell at an average
Of forty to fifty dollars an acre with
Improvements.
The eleven million acres to be made
into farms each year can not be pro-
cured in these states because the farm
ers who are to make the new farms
dosnot have ft'e eleven hundred mil
hon dollars TO pay the price. They
must find cheaper land if possible: SO
we come to another class OF states
The Caroiinas, Georgia, Alabama and
Mississippi have not yet learned to
put on their lands high valuation, the
prices for improved farms running
from eleven to fifteen dollars.
| The strip of territory from Virginia
! around the sea and the gulf to Louis
| lana, is the only cheap land in the
United States that is really valuable
! land, and singularly enough. it has
some Of the most desirable character
istics.
It has the best climate of any part
Of the United states for crop growth
and for conducting out Of doors work
It has the best rainfall Of any part Of
the United States. IT rs convenient to
market by land and sea. 1t is adapted
for the production of many crops.
It is a healthful region. alread. in
habited by large population. suppied
with cities and towns. churches
schools, railroads, modern facilities
for enjoying life, and with many mil
lion hands to carry on industry.
1t is abundantly supplied with water
power for manufacturing, having snf-
ficient undevclOped and deyeiop2o
energy tc turn the wheels for manu-
featuring world the equal OF anything
that exists anywhere.
1t may seem curious that with st
much that is useful to man the VAS
movement Of emigration and develop
ment which has made the west. die
not flow into the South Atlantic a:
well as into the Mississippi valley. Ru
!, | that goes PACK again TO the Kansas
; Nebraska days when both North ant
South were putting forth every effOr
: to esta blish strong colonies III the De
batable ground. the one for, and tn
5 other against the extension of sla* cry
3 All of the South gave what it ceult
spare Of its energetic young men t.
the westward movement. All of tn
T North gave what it could spare o
: it's young men to the same struggle
4 SO the West thriyed with the vicorOu
s young blood that both sections wer
$ contributing, and il is only natura
n that the West became power.
e The deserted farms of New Englan
4 | were Of a class with the deserted farm
Of the South Everything was Wes
s and the South was OverloOhe ed.
4 In recent years as the West ha
n filled up, the crowding oVeCSroW
: cities and the over-filled farm com
}, munities of the North and West hav
;. turned their eyes southwark. Spie
g sent out to view the land have return
| ed with glowing accounts and the to-
g Of settlement has turned southwark