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VERMONT.— Windham: On the line of railroad the farms are increasing in value, 
while at more remote points from market the price is decreasing. 
MASSACHUSETTS.— Middlesex : Suburban lands increase in value from the influence of 
increasing population. Bristol: Farm-lands in the immediate vicinity of cities are 
worth at the present time double their price ten years ago. Berkshire: Farm-lands are 
higher than in 1860; but not so high as in 1865. 
RHODE IsLanp.— Washington: Farm-lands have steadily increased in value along the 
shore, while those a few miles distant have as steadily and perhaps more rapidly de- 
creased. Shore-farms are worth 25 to 45 per cent. more at present than in 1860—remote 
lands remain about the same. 
New YorkK.—Chenango: Farm-lands are not selling as high as they were two years 
ago. Ontario: Landsare firm with an upward tendency. Monroe: Average price about 
$100 per acre, small places much higher. Livingston: Farm-lands are improving in 
value at the present time; not much higher than in 1860. Good farms in this county 
are worth $100 per acre; those near railroad-stations often sell for $200 per acre. 
Rensselaer: Farm-lands are increasing in value from 25 to 100 per cent., and more in 
some cases. Jefferson: Farms can be bought 10 per cent. less than two or three years 
ago. Ulster: Land in this county has doubled in value since 1860 on account of our 
good markets—caused by manufactures, working quarries, and building railroads 
through the county. Montgomery: Farm-lands are decreasing in value at present. 
Otsego: Owing to falling prices farm-lands are not as ready of sale or at as high a 
price as two or three years ago. Madison: The value of lands compared with 1860 is 
about $10 per acre higher. 
NEw JERSEY.—Bergen : Farming lands for farming purposes, all things considered, are 
worth no more to-day than they were in 1860. Warren: Farm-lands have advanced 
since 1860; from 1865 to 1869 they advanced 80 per cent., and have now fallen back 
about 40 per cent. Hunterdon: Farms are worth about as much in currency as they 
were in 1860; lands are going down both in fertility and value. 
PENNSYLVANIA.—Clearfield: Timber-lands have increased in value at least 300 per 
cent. since 1860. Washington: Farm-lands are increasing in value slowly and steadily 
by reason of improvements, both public and private. Mercer: Farm lands are inereas- 
ing in value. The causes of rise are large mannfactories of iron, and large export 
of coal, and the facilities of five railroads traversing the county. Fulion: The 
best of farms here that could have been bought in 1860 for $40 or $50 per acre, would 
bring now from $75 to $100; the poorer farms that could then have been bought for 
$10 to $15 per acre, would now bring $25 or $30. Indiana: Land ranges here from $15 
to $60 per acre; rough timber-land has advanced more than 50 per cent. 
VIRGINIA.—Spotisylvania : The price has fallen 50 per cent. since 1860. The farmers 
are anxious to sell their surplus land, and will give a cordial welcome to all who may 
wish to settleamong them. Chesterfield: Increasing; our cheap lands, which have been 
so long overlooked, are beginning to be appreciated, with a little disposition to advance 
in the middle and nortbern portions of the county, especially along the lines of the 
three railroads running through it, and more especially near and in the growing town 
of Manchester. Roanoke: Our best farm-lands are increasing in value, while thin 
lands are decreasing in about the same ratio. Nelson: Decreasing; from 20 to 50 per 
cent. less. Very poor lands can scarcely be sold at any price; where the fertility of 
theland has been maintained and the buildings and fences kept in repair the reduc- 
tion in price is much less. Nansemond: For truck-lands, increased ; tor farm-lands, 
very much diminished since 1860. Powhatan: Lands have been sold in the county, 
recently, at $3 to $10 per acre, and there are numbers of farms for sale which could be 
purchased at those figures. 
NortH Caro.ina.—Warren: Lands immediately on the railroad have advanced, 
probably, to their price in 1860, on account of immigration; but those removed from 
the railroad are not in demand. There are not less than 50,000 acres in the county for 
sale. Jones: Lands adapted to cotton have increased in value at least 25 per cent., and 
some as much as 50 per cent; while lands not adapted to cotton, but only to grain, 
have decreased in a corresponding ratio. Burke: Good farms of from 200 to 500 acres 
can be bought at from $1,000 to $5000. Pasquotank: Increasing. . Because of the large 
number of farmers who have emigrated from Pennsylvania and New York to this county 
in the last three years, (they now own one-fifth of the land and pay one-fourth of the 
taxes,) land has advanced in price very much. It is not generally as high as in 1860; 
but in some instances, near town, it is much higher than ever before. Bertie: The 
lands that are cultivated regularly are improving in quality, but decreasing in quan- 
tity. ‘The large farms, say of 1,000 acres and upward, have decreased in value since 
1860 about 50 per cent., except those on the water-courses, the value of which remains 
about the same. Cumberland: Increasing ; worth about as much now as in 1860; from 
$7 to $20 per acre, half cash and one or two years time on the balance. 
SoutH CAROLINA.— Union: Farm-lands were higher before the war than at present, 
but are gradually increasing in value. Darlington: Improved places are worth $8 per 
acre; unimproved, $4 per acre. Marion: The average value is about the same as in 
