THE GENESEE FAR^CER. 



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;he price of beer twice a year, according to the 

 ralue of malt and hops, and as the time approaches 

 ffhen the cost of this necessary of Bavarian life is 

 ;o be determined for the ensuing summer or winter, 

 ;he public mind is gravely, often painfully, excited 

 The demand for hops in Europe, especially of 

 .he best descriptions, is increasing, and it is said 

 .hat the growth of hops is already, to some extent, 

 lisplacing that of tobacco. 



WHERE IS IT BEST FOE AN ENGLISH EAEMER TO 

 SETTLE ■? 



Dear Sir: I have finally made up my mind to give up 

 ay farm and go either to America or Canada. * * * 

 f you can give me any advice as to my best course of 

 iroceeding, I should feel under renewed obligations to 



OU. J. B, S. 



Salojy, England^ Ja7iuary 8, 1S63. 



P. S. — I think, after the sale, I shall have about £1,500. 



The first question for you to decide is whether 

 o settle in the United States or Canada. Your 

 letter plan will be to bring your family here, and 

 hen look around next summer for yourself. You 

 j\\\ have no difficulty in finding a farm either in 

 his section, in the Western States or in Canada, 



If you were a young man, we should recom- 

 lend you to settle in the West ; but as it is, you 

 rould probably do better in Western New York 

 r Western Canada. Whether you will stay with 

 s in the " States," or cross the Niagara river or 

 jake Ontario into Canada, must be left to your 

 wn determination. There is really very little 

 iflference between Western New York and West- 

 rn Canada. The soil and climate are very similar, 

 "here is no better wheat land on the American 

 ontinent. The price of land is about the same in 

 ither, and you will find in both excellent farms 

 Dr sale at prices varying according to location, 

 nprovements, &c. You could buy a good farr^ 

 )r $50 per acre. 



There is one advantage in settling in this section 

 s compared with Canada. If you have £1,000 

 u buy a farm with, this £1,000 in Canada is worth 

 bout $4,840 ; with us it is worth to-day $7,244, 

 nd before long will probably be worth more. 



Perhaps this statement may be a little obscure, 

 t is nevertheless a fact. Had you come here two 

 ears ago, your £1,000 would have brought just as 

 aany dollars in Canada as in the States, while the 

 irice of farms was also the same. Unfortunately, 

 lur money is worth to-day only 67 cents on the 

 loilar. In other words, one of our dollar bills 

 vill buy only 67 cents worth of gold. 



Now it go happens that farmers and many others 

 IS yet do not realize that a dollar bill is not a dol- 

 ar in reality. It passes for a dollar— is a 



tender, and is just as good as it ever was io jjay 

 debts; so that the farmer who asked $50 an acre 

 for his farm two years ago, asks no more now. la 

 fact, in some cases, he asks less. 



If you had come here two years ago, your 

 £1,000 would have been worth here $4,840 — its 

 real value. To-day, if you were here, it would 

 bring you $7,244. In other words, you would get, 

 in exchange for your £1,000, some two thousand 

 dollar-bills more than you would two years ago. 

 You can buy the same farm now as you could then, 

 and have two thousand dollars in your pocket. 



You will say that laud has fallen in price. 

 Viewed from your standpoint such is the case. 

 The farmer who sells for $50 an acre now, thinks 

 he gets as much money as if he had sold for $50 

 an acre two years ago, and it is difficult to per- 

 suade him to the contrary. You will find plenty 

 of farms, at present, that you can buy at old prices, 

 and, as you will see, you get the farm for $2,000 

 less than it would have cost you two years ago. 



COTTON IN ILLINOIS. 



We have received from a friend near Blooming- 

 ton, Illinois, an enthusiastic accoxmt of his success 

 in raising cotton. He thinks it can be raised with 

 profit at ten cents per lb. It is cultivated like 

 corn, only the plants must be started in a hot-bed. 



When all danger of frost is over the plants are 

 set out. Make furrows with a horse hoe ; pat the 

 plants in and throw the soil against them from each 

 side with the horse-hoe, with a man to follow to 

 straighten the plants and press up the dirt with a 

 hand-hoe. It is better to set out the plants rather 

 thick, and then thin theiu out afterward. He does 

 notsay howfar apart,but we supposeaboutthreefeet. 



The plants of course must be well hoed to keep 

 the land clean. He watered his plants with a 

 sprinkhng machine, made out of an old hogshead, 

 set on wheels, which watered two rows at a time. 

 He did not let the plants suffer for want of water, 

 throwing it on the plants as the cart went along. 

 A boy, an old horse, and wind-mill pump, did the 

 job for one field. 



He can not tell how many bales he raised to the 

 acre, " but old planters said they never saw a heavier 

 set on the same amount of land — never so heavy." 

 The seed was the "green seed," from the State of 

 Mississippi, which was the reason he thought of 

 starting it in a hot-bed. 



He thinks cotton can be raised in the Northern 

 and Western States, if we only start the plant* in 

 a hot-bed. 



