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tlie acre. He is a progressive man, and expects to learn mncli from 

 those lie so liberally offers to assist. He can accommodate from iif- 

 teen to twentj ftimilies, and all he wants is the enterprising, industri- 

 ous, and thorongldy alive northern man to come, and he will do by 

 him as many a father here fails to do l)y a son, give hira such a start 

 on the highway to success that ordinary industry, with perseverance, 

 will insure him that success. It will cost you fifteen dollars to get to 

 Charleston by steamer, and from there to the place you may travel 

 for one cent per mile, or one dollar and ^ixty cents ; so the poorest 

 may embrace this opportunity. There are many others in Georgia 

 tliat will do as well ; only let youv wants and wishes be known, and 

 a kind-hearted and generous peoj^le will invite and urge you to share 

 with them the health-giving climate of central Georgia, where con- 

 sumption and all pulmonary and scrofulous diseases are unknown, 

 and where a genial climate and fertile soil will reward your labor by 

 bountiful harvests and w^ell filled barns. 



Pkofit from Poultky. 



J. W. Todd, Yermillion, Ohio. — Am on a farm and keep fowls for 

 pleasure and profit. I commenced January 1, 1868, to keep a daily 

 account with fifty-six hens and four cocks, which foots up for the 

 year as follows : 



615 dozen eggs, at 20 cents per dozen $178 35 



Cost of feed 30 00 



IS'et profit on eggs $148 35 



From the same hens I also raised 198 chickens, which 



amounted to $180 95 



And cost in full SO 00 



Cleared in chickens $100 95 



Added to amount of eggs . , ' 14:S 3:5 



Total net profits $219 30 



January 1, 1869, commenced u-ith 80 hens, which have pro- 

 duced eggs as follows : In January, 120 dozen ; February, 

 127 dozen ; March, 141 dozen ; April 20, 92 dozen, or a 

 total of 480 dozen in 110 days, at 25 cents per dozen, 

 amounting to '. $120 00 



Cost of feed during said time 20 00 



Leavi]ig net profit of $100 00 



