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to imitate their example. To the quiet influence of just such farmers 

 is the present prosperous condition of agriculture greatly indebted. 



We have nothing to do with the theology of these people; but 

 we take the liberty of quoting a few paragraphs from their moral 

 laws or system of discipline, that may have had an influence in 

 making them such citizens and such farmers: 



"Are the necessities of the poor duly inspected, and they relieved 

 or assisted m business ? " 



" Do the children of the poor freely pai-take of learning to fit 

 them for business ? " 



"Are all members careful to live within the bounds of their cir- 

 cumstances ? Ai*e they punctual to their promises, and just in the 

 payment of their debts ? " 



"Are all ofleuders deajt with without j^artiality ? " <fec., &c. 



The distillation, or the sale, or the drinking of spmtuous liquors 

 are absolutely forbidden. 



The above are only a few items; but they show the spirit of the 

 M'hole system of government. 



After visiting the superb farms of these Salem county Friends, 

 and partaking of their plain but bountiful hospitality, we felt as 

 General Howard did when summing up the comparative merits of 

 various denominations in their contributions to the Christian com- 

 mission during the war, " God bless the Quakers." 



ISAAC P. TRIMBLE, ) 



J. V. C. SMITH, V Committee. 



THOS. CAVANACH, ) 



The committee were accompanied by Gen. N. N. Halsted and 

 Col. R. S. Swords, of the New Jersey State Agricultural Society. 



8I0UX CITT, IOWA. 



Mr. G. T. Smith, Sioux City, Iowa. — People here can't under- 

 stand why Eastern farmers will toil and starve on worn-out lands 

 and New Jersey barrens, when there is so much good land in 

 Northwestern Iowa, Nebraska, and Dakota, to be had for homesteads, 

 or if preferred, for cash or scrip, at from one dollar and twenty- 

 five cents to two dollars and fifty cents an acre. I know of one man 

 who raised 808 bushels No. 1 spring wheat on twenty-six acres. 

 He sowed fifty bushels seed. Another, from forty-one acres, pro- 

 duced 1,264 bushels. This wheat is worth here one dollar and forty 

 cents, cash. These are not exceptional farms, but about the usual 

 average for wheat in this region. Winter wheat is not grown to 



