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cheapest lands in Europe are those of Spain, where little atten- 

 tion is paid to the grasses. Holland is almost a continuous 

 meadow, and their land sometimer reaches $1,000 per acre. 



" A Belgian gentleman, who sold his land in Belgium for $500 

 per acre, and bought river bottom land in Floyd county, Georgia, 

 at $20 per acre, told the writer that he made more on the Belgium 

 farm^ valuing it at $500 per acre, under the Belgium system, 

 than he did on the Georgia land at $30 per acre, under the 

 Georgia system of cotton and corn. He even believed that clover 

 and grasses would not grow in Georgia, and therefore did not 

 attempt the Belgium system. 



^' If more of the land were in grass, much less labor would be 

 required to manage it. To the wearied business man there is 

 something charming in the thought of broad acres, a few select 

 laborers, green grass, cool shades, running water, thrifty live 

 stock, and all the abundance of the farm. 



" A small, well manured, and well cultivated area of land in cot- 

 ton and the cereals, with a large jDroportion of forage plants and 

 grasses, would give to the cotton planter a pleasure in his busi- 

 ness, and an amount of real profit which he has never before 

 known." 



Killebrew says : " These are more applicable to Tennessee than 

 to Georgia^ A stranger appears in the country desirous of invest- 

 ing in land, and while he would turn from the cotton plantation 

 at ten or twelve dollars per acre, he would gladly invest in the 

 grass farm at forty or fifty. Grasses mean less labor, less worry, 

 fewer hands, more enjoyment, finer stock, and more charming 

 homes, and as a consequence, happier families, more education, 

 more taste and refinement, and a higher elevation of the moral 

 character. " 



Will the cultivated grasses and forage plants grow at the South? 



In reply to this question, we read again from Mr. Howard: 

 ** There are some portions of the South, as is the case in all 



