10 CONTENTS. 



CHAPTER V. 



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Exhausted Farms always to be had Thriving Tenants 

 Owners anxious to sell Bartering Farms A lucky Begin 

 ner City Owners Taking Advice Where to search 

 Saving a poor Farm Struggling with limited Means A 

 Cry from a Working Man 103 



CHAPTER VI. 



Wanting the Best The Poorer Lands first Cultivated, then 

 the Richer Ones Value of Swamps History of three of 

 them Cranberry Swamps of New Jersey Power of Ex 

 ample The Mississippi Swamp Interest Wealth follow 

 ing Reclamation Public Loans to aid Drainage John 

 Johnston, the Great American Tile Drainer 119 



CHAPTER VII. 



Getting the first Thousand Dollars How to save Man 

 wants but little here below Actual Cost of Food Great 

 Successes A Dime a Day 163 



CHAPTER VIII. 



The Long Island Barrens Their Condition, Pnce, and 

 Crops 190 



CHAPTER IX. 



The neglected Lands of Delaware Repeopling the Slave 

 Region Condition, Soil, and Products Crops and Lum 

 ber Farms for Sale, and Prices Railroads Maryland 

 Farms . . . 205 



