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there be a ffood crop the coming season? Which is best for fodder, 

 Hungarian grass or oats? 



Mr. N. C. Meeker. — In many places timothy is sown in the fall, 

 and with turnips. Hay ought not to be cut the next year. Don't 

 be in too much hurry. Hungarian grass has not met with much 

 approbation. 



TENNESSEE AND NEW JEESEY. 



Mr. A. J. Aldrich, Nunda Station, Livingston county, N. Y., 

 writes to the Club: " Will you tell me through the Club reports 

 which part of Tennessee would be best for a young man to locate 

 in who has about $1,200 cash. I wish to buy 100 acres of land 

 with some improvements and good soil. I am a farmer, have been 

 with Phil. Sheridan through the war, or three years of it. Do you 

 think the Tennesseans will fellowship me ? " 



INIi'. Horace Greeley. — East Tennessee is the only part in that 

 State wherein a soldier would be welcomed by the people. The 

 mountain lauds there are well adapted for grazing, and also for 

 grain growing, and may be purchased at very low rates. 



Mr. Solon Robinson. — I have no doubt that with $1,200 a man 

 could move to Tennessee, buy*a farm, and locate his family com- 

 fortably. 



Mr. W. B. Peck. — Men gomg to new countries must expect to 

 endure great hardship. This is the experience of early settlers in 

 the west. 



Mr. S. B. Nichols, Hammonton, N. J. — If men wish to buy land 

 they can have it for $10 or $15 per acre, and have four years' time 

 to pay for it, in the State of New Jersey, withm 100 miles of New 

 York. 



Mr. Horace Greeley. — This country has been brought out of the 

 wilderness by men who went into the woods with less than $100 

 per famil}'. This, however, has been accomplished by hard work. 

 If men love to drink whiskey, and idle about groceries and taverns, 

 they will be pushed otf hj more thrifty people, who are industrious 

 and economical. It is now a less difficult task to go mto the woods 

 and make farms than ever before. It seems easier to begin life in 

 the prairies, yet the farmers who go into the forests are, at the end 

 of twenty years, much more comfortably and advantageously 

 situated. At first it is much harder to go out into the timber 

 with little else than an axe, yet after the work is accomplished the 

 condition of the people is better in every repect. The State of 

 Michigan is an example of this fact, and nowhere on the prairies do 



