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market in the northwest as any competitors. There is a wide opening 

 for small fruit growers for home market at almost every town in Mis- 

 souri, though most of them seem contented to get a few cases of surplus 

 stock from the cities, or some buckets full of strawberries from some gar- 

 den. We get better prices in such a market than any of the commer- 

 cial growers net in St. Louis or Chicago, and our customers are served 

 better and cheaper; so much so that every family in this town puts up 

 all they need or can afford for the year, as cheap as they could buy it 

 in the store, and very much preferable to them. Yours truly, 



CHAS. PATTERSON. 



FARMLESS FARMERS. 



HOW AND WHERE THEY MAY OBTAIN CHEAP LANDS AND HOMES. 



To the Editor of the Kansas City Journal. 



I want to say a few things through the columns of your widely cir- 

 culated and influential paper about cheap lands in south-central Missouri, 

 and I want to say to them, particularly to small farmers — farmers with 

 only $200, $300, or $400 in cash, or its equivalent, and with an average 

 quantity of brain and brawn, which they are inclined to use. I want to 

 show them, as briefly as possible and as convincingly as I can, that cheap 

 homes are within their reach in the section I have named, and that the 

 rewards for their investment here and their industry are infinitely greater 

 and surer than they are on any cheap lands in Western Kansas or Ne- 

 braska. 



The cheapest lands are government lands, subject to homestead en- 

 try and obtainable at the government price of $1.25 per acre. Along or 

 near the line of the Memphis route, in Douglass, Wright, Texas, Howell, 

 Ozark, Oregon, Shannon, Carter and Ripley counties, there are to-day 

 nearly 500,000 acres of this land, and this, of course, is the cheapest ob- 



