FARMER'S 



nouse, and be very glad to have us call in some winter 

 evening, and talk over all these scenes of the new set- 

 tlement on the Western prairie. 



In the foregoing remarks, we have spoken altogether 

 of the use of a horse-team, while, at the same time, we 

 would recommend to the emigrants who arrive without 

 a team, to buy oxen in preference, as being the cheapest 

 at first cost, and altogether the most economical, for the 

 man of small means. So, also, we would recommend, 

 if you go on with a horse-team, and little money, that 

 the horses be sold, and a yoke or two of oxen furnished. 

 The average price we have previously stated. You see 

 that we do not recommend much Indian corn for the first 

 crop, because it is difficult planting that being done by 

 cutting a hole through the sod, and it admitting of little or 

 no after culture, the crop is light, seldom reaching twenty 

 bushels to the acre (in Indiana.) Neither is it profitable 

 to sow grass seed, until after the sod is well rotted. 



We have now only spoken of a cheap log-cabin and 

 the cost. Estimates of the cost of other houses are else- 

 where given. 



The wealthy class of emigrants will always find 

 plenty of improved farms for sale, cheaper than they can 

 make the improvements. We have given the reason, 

 the restless disposition of all pioneers in a new country. 

 And this restless disposition is not altogether acquired 

 here. The emigrants bring it with them ; and when they 

 arrive in a really good country, they are not satisfied to 

 settle down, lest there might be a better place a little far. 

 ther toward the setting sun ; and like that, they are ever 

 rolling westward. The Pacific Ocean will perhaps prove 

 a barrier nothing short of it : for it is already proven, 

 that the great wilderness and prairies between this and 

 that, are insufficient to stop the onward rolling wave. 



