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thousand acres of land, has near twenty-seven hundred in 

 cultivation, and his sales of cattle and hogs, at the Chicago 

 market, amounted to a little over forty-four thousand dol 

 lars in a single year. 



&quot; Mr. Isaac Funk, of Funk s Grove, nine miles distant 

 from his brother Jesse, and ten miles northwest from 

 Bloomington, on the Mississippi and Chicago Railroad, 

 began the world in Illinois at the same time, having a 

 little the advantage of Jesse, so far as having a little bor 

 rowed capital. He now owns about twenty-seven thousand 

 acres of land ; has about four thousand acres in cultivation ; 

 and his last sales of cattle at Chicago amounted to $60,000. 



&quot; In California, farming has yielded equally good returns. 

 A gentleman writes : 



&quot; The following facts have come under our knowledge. 

 A German farmer squatted on one hundred and sixty acres 

 of ground, some four years ago. Although he began with 

 out a halfpenny, he made in the first year, by wheat grow 

 ing, the handsome sum of nine hundred dollars, besides 

 paying for his land at one dollar per acre, and for his im 

 plements, and buying horses, cows, and oxen, building his 

 house, and completing his fence. For tl^e last two years, 

 his field of forty acres has yielded him 1,100 bushels of 

 wheat per annum, selling for net $1,400 ; his eggs, poultry, 

 vegetables, fruits, &c., brought in four hundred dollars. 

 He estimates his increase in cattle at eight hundred dollars, 

 and the increase in value of the land at three hundred and 

 twenty dollars. Besides this, according to his own account, 

 he had $2,500 cash in the bank ; and, in fact, considered 

 he was worth $10,000, and all this the result of four years 

 judicious labor, single-handed, and commencing totally 

 without capital. A field of 500 acres of wheat has pro 

 duced, within the last four years, a total of 63,220 bushels, 

 of the value of $108,000. 



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