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all at such low prices and upon such favorable terms as to 

 make them available for any one desiring to engage in agri- 

 culture or have a farm home. The soil of these farms is not 

 exhausted, but on the contrary is, with proper cultivation, 

 very productive. Nearly all have good buildings and fences, 

 are supplied with good water and plenty of wood for farm 

 purposes, and in nearly all cases have apple and other fruit 

 trees upon them." (List of Farms, occupied and unoccupied, 

 for sale in New York State. Bureau of Information and 

 Statistics, Bulletin, State of New York, Department of Agri- 

 culture.) 



These farms are distributed all over the state, some in 

 nearly every county. In Sullivan County, for example, 

 there are farms for sale ranging in price from ten to one hun- 

 dred dollars per acre. These can, almost without exception, 

 be bought by small payments, balance on long mortgages, 

 and it is wonderful how cheap they are. In Ulster County 

 thirty farms, some of which I have seen, are offered for sale 

 at trifling prices. 



Of course, many of these farms have been sold since the 

 first editions of this book, and the prices have advanced, per- 

 haps on the average doubled ; but cheap automobiles have 

 improved roads and have made others available that were 

 useless ten years ago. The development of the Southern 

 states, with eradication of the cattle tick (the cause of 

 "Texas Fever") and irrigation and rotation of crops, has 

 opened up new countries. N. O. Nelson writes he has 

 bought many Louisiana farms for his cooperative enterprise 

 for about what the improvements are worth. 



Cut over woodlands which we have learned to make pro- 

 duce incomes of about five dollars each year per acre by in- 

 telligent forestry, as well as swamp lands which we now know 



