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are for sale in almost every county in the State, at wliat would be consider' 

 cd, in New Enjfland, reniarkably low prices. They give the price of four 

 faints in Cecil county, where the other correspondent writes from, as 

 fi)llows : 



No. 1. Tdily-.^ix acres; price, $'2,S00 — stone dwelling and good out- 

 houses, barn and stone stabling, four miles north of Klkton, on Philadelpiiia 

 I't Haltimore Kailroad. 



No. 2 One hundred and twenty-five acres ; price, §8,125— new dwelling 

 and good out-houses, plenty of fruits, eight miles from Port Deposit. 



No. 3. Fifty-t'ight acres ; price, 8:3,800 — good dwelling and out-houses, 

 fine water, fruit, &c., seven miles frf»m Elkton. 



No. 4. On<! hundred and thirty acres ; price, $10,000 — brick dwelling, 

 barn, &.c., good land, at Elkton, 



In Haltimore county, farms can be uonght at from $13, without buildings, 

 to $100 t») 8:'iOO per acre, according to improvements, and in other parts of 

 the State at rates proporlionattly lower, according to distance from market, 

 W»; have no doubt tiiat those who are desirous of buying land in that State 

 can obtain valuable information fiom eitlier of the above parties. And we 

 have no doubt that land can be bought both in Pelaware and Maryland, 

 according to its actual value, cheaper than in Illinois or any other Western 

 State. And we have no doubt that the first free labor settlers will get their 

 land at less than one-half the price of those who come ten years later- 

 There is no mistaking the signs of the times, Maryland is about to be 

 redeemed from a most terrible curse upon her fertile soil and healthy, mild 

 climate. Let all the friends of free labor help to set the tide of emigration 

 toward her fchores. 



Statistics of Illinois Farming — Comstocr's Spader. 



The Secretary — Here is very interesting letter from M. L. Sullivant, oikt 

 of tlie largest farmers in the United States, which gives the detailed cost 

 of procuring corn on the Illinois prairie, by improved machinery. Probably 

 \v)..n v.ti;,tn is applied, the cost will be still less. Mr. Sullivant says : 



IIoiiER, III., July 2, 18G4. 

 " I liave prepared and planted to corn thi.'^ season 1,335 acres of land ; 

 844 acres were plowed in <Hir usual manner, say about four inches deep, at 

 a cost of 



445 dayi manual labor, nt $1.50 JfifiT 50 



8"J0 clo>« botso lubor, at JOc 415 UO 



ToUl $1,112 60 



"Or 51.31 per acre 



" Thrrt' were spaded (eight inches deep) with Comstock's Itotary Spader, 

 491 acre.-*, at a cost of 



89 1 dajf mnnoal labor, at $1.50 fH.T 87 



20S Amjt hor»c labor, al 60c 104 00 



291 ila>» ox labwr, at 2Jc 72 76 



ToUl t:\0 62 



" Or 63 cents per acre. 



