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how to make healthful by drainage and by the extinction of 

 mosquitoes, can still be had at low prices in New York and 

 other states. Numerous others are in the market from five 

 dollars per acre up, and so it goes through the state, from 

 Wyoming County in the extreme western end, where farms 

 ranging from thirty to three hundred acres are in the market 

 at from thirty to forty dollars per acre, to St. Lawrence 

 County in the north, where land can be bought as low as 

 fifteen dollars per acre. 



When it is considered that these lands are within easy ac- 

 cess to established markets with transportation and mail 

 facilities, rural delivery, and telephone a proper idea may 

 be formed of their value in opportunity. The authority 

 quoted further states that "probably fifty thousand agri- 

 cultural laborers can find employment on the farms of New 

 York at good wages. Families particularly are wanted to 

 rent houses and work farms on shares." Wages for new 

 hands run from twenty to thirty dollars and upwards per 

 month with board. Men who know how to milk are es- 

 pecially in demand throughout the dairy regions. These con- 

 ditions make it possible for experienced farmers, although 

 entirely without money, to get to the soil. 



Over three hundred thousand aliens annually settled in 

 the cities of New York State during some years in the last 

 decade. These people could be got out of the cities, where 

 in normal times they are little needed, into adjacent country 

 districts where they are much needed. 



In the Real Estate Record and Guide, Mr. A. L. Langdon 

 says : " It is most remarkable that there are on Long Island, 

 within from thirty-five to seventy miles of New York, thou- 

 sands of acres of land which have never been cultivated, which 

 have for years produced nothing but cordwood, and which 



