SOLON ROBINSON, 1842 351 



"What is the price of a good farm wagon?" $60 to 

 $100. 



"Of harness?" Common double harness, without 

 breeching, $16 to $20. The country is so generally level, 

 breeching is but little used. 



"Can good prairie lots be got, and wood handy?" 



Yes. There is as good prairie as any man need ask 

 for, now lying in sight of my window as I write, subject 

 to entry at $1,25, and good oak timber within two miles, 

 for $5 an acre. 



"Are good common school teachers, in good demand, 

 and at what price?" 



Now, if the word "good" governs teachers, I can't tell. 

 The article is seldom found in this market. If the word 

 "common" governs teachers, I would answer that they 

 are tolerably plenty, and common enough in all con- 

 science. The price $10 to $20 a month. 



I think that the west is in need of an importation of 

 good teachers of common schools. If they did not meet 

 with good encouragement, it would show an uncommon 

 degree of inattention to the best and only means of im- 

 proving our condition as a civilized, moral people. 



"Can I better my condition by removing to the west? 

 I am blood and bone a farmer. Myself and wife are 43 

 years of age. We have two boys, 18 and 20; two girls, 

 14 and 16; two boys, 9 and 11, and two girls, 2 and 5; 

 and we wish to settle where we can keep the family near 

 together. I have a good horse team ; good farming tools 

 and dairy utensils, and some good stock, and but very 

 little money?" 



Yes; you are particularly well calculated to make a 

 first rate "blood and bone" western emigrant. No matter 

 if you have no money, you can rent land very low, and 

 will soon be in a condition to let land instead of hiring 

 it. I say come on, you and all that are under just such 

 circumstances, particularly if those boys and girls are 

 "blood and bone" farmer's sons and daughters. 



