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the Englishman, a degree sufficiently high to give grass all 

 the necessary heat to enable it to attain its full supply of 

 sugar and nitrogen from the soil. 



The beautiful lands of Kentucky and Missouri, to say 

 nothing of the Northern States, still retain a great value, 

 and are in demand at high prices. It is because these 

 States have more land in meadows, while broad stretches of 

 valuable pastures and prairies dot the landscape in every 

 direction. Poor land will not make much grass, and with- 

 out a great outlay of capital land cannot be placed in first- 

 class order at once. But it only requires a start, and then 

 the persevering, provident farmer will soon see his farm- 

 blossoming as the rose. Laud in Europe not infrequently 

 reaches the sum of $1,000 per acre for purely agricultural 

 purposes, while here it is a difficult matter to extract, with 

 our best farming, $50 per acre, and then the expenses arfr 

 to be drawn from that meagre sum. 



Let us draw a comparison between our leading staples. 

 Cotton here will make on average land 800 pounds seed 

 cotton per acre. This at the usual price makes §20 per 

 acre. Corn will produce on good land eight barrels per 

 acre, and at $2.00, the laborer will get |16. Tobacco, our 

 most remunerative crop, on good land will make 800 pounds 

 of leaf, which is about $50 to $60 per acre. Wheat will 

 make, on good laud, fifteen bushels per acre, and at $1 will 

 yield about $15. Taking the cost of production from these 

 amounts, the average farmer will not have left, at the best, 

 more than twelve dollars per acre. A good meadow, in full 

 bearing, with ordinary care, will yield, with two cuttings, 

 at least two tons per acre. The cost is altogether in har- 

 vesting, while the trouble of sending to market is no greater 

 than either of the other crops. This, at the price for which 

 it has been selling for several years, will be $20 per ton. 

 Here, then, is a difference in actual receipts of almost 

 double that obtained from other crops, nothing paid out for 

 production, and besides the land can be enriched year by 



