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AMERICAN AGRICULTURIST, 
FARM LANDS FOR SAFE. 
THE ILLINOIS CENTRAL 
RAILROAD COMPANY 
IS NOW PREPARED TO SELI, 
OVER TWO MILLION OF ACRES 
OF 
EAEMING LANDS, 
IN TRACTS OF FORTY ACRES AND UPWARD , 
ON LONG CREDIT AND AT LOW RATES OF INTEREST. 
These lands were granted by the Government, to aid in the 
construction of this Railroad, and include some of the richest 
and most fertile prairies in the State, interspersed here and 
there with magnificent groves of oak and other timber. The 
road extends from Chicago, on the northeast, to Cairo at the 
south, and from thence to Galena and Dunleith, in the north¬ 
west extreme of the State, and as all the lands lie within fif¬ 
teen miles on each side of this road, ready and cheap means are 
afforded by it for transporting the products of the lands to any of 
those points, and from thence to Eastern and Southern markets- 
Moreover, the rapid growth of flourishing towns and villages* 
along the line, and the great increase in population by immigra¬ 
tion, etc., afford a substantial and gi owing home demand for 
farm produce. 
The soil is a dark, rich mould,from one to five feet in depth, is 
gently rolling, and peculiarlv fitted for grazing cattle and sheep 
or the cultivation of wheat, Indian corn, etc. 
Economy in cultivating, and great productiveness, are the 
well-known characteristics of Illinois lands. Trees are not re¬ 
quired to be cut down, stumps grubbed, or stone picked off, as 
is generally the case in cultivating new land in the older States. 
The first crop of Indian corn, planted on the newly broken sod, 
usually repays the cost of plowing and fencing. 
Wheat sown on the newlv-turned sod is sure to yield very 
large profits. A man with a plow and t wo yoke of oxen will 
break onea nd a half to two acres per day. Contracts can be 
made for breaking, ready for corn or wheat, at from $2 to $2 50 
per acre. By judicious management, the land may be plowed 
and fenced the first, and under a high state of cultivation the 
second year. 
Corn, grain, cattle, etc., will be forwarded at reasonable rates 
to Chicago, for the Eastern market, and to Cairo for the South¬ 
ern. The larger yield on the cheap lands of Illinois over the 
high-priced lands in the Eastern and Middle States, is known 
to be much more than sufficient to pay the difference of trans¬ 
portation to the Eastern market. 
Bituminous coal is mined at several points along the road, 
and is a cheap and desirable fuel. It can be delivered at several 
points along the road at SI 50 to $4 per ton. Wood can be had 
at the same rates per cord. 
Those who think of settling in Iowa or Minnesota, should 
bear in mind, that lands there of any value, along the water 
courses, and for many miles inland, have been disposed of—that 
for those located in the interior, there are no conveniences for 
transporting the produce to market, railroads not have been in¬ 
troduced there. That to send the produce of these lands one or 
two hundred miles by wagon to market, would cost much more 
than the expense of cultivating them ; and hence, Government 
lands thus situated, at Si 25 per acre, arc not so good invest¬ 
ments as the land of this Company at the prices fixed. 
The same remarks hold good in relation to the lands in Kan¬ 
sas and Nebraska, for although vacant lands may be found 
nearer the water courses, the distance to market is far greater, 
and every hundred miles the produce of those lands are carried 
either in wagons or interrupted water communications, in¬ 
creases the expenses of transportation, which must be borne by 
the settlers, in the reduced price of their products ; and to that 
extent precisely are the incomes from their farms, and of course, 
on their investments,annually and every vear reduced. 
The great fertility of the lands now offered for sale by this 
Companv, and their consequent yield over those of the Eastern 
and Middle States, is much more than sufficient to pay the dif¬ 
ference in the cost of transportation, especially in view of the 
facilities furnished by this road, and others with which it con¬ 
nects, the operation, of which are not interrupted by the low 
water of Summer, or the frost of Winter. 
PRICE AND TERMS OF PAYMENT. 
The price will vary from $5 to $25, according to location,qual_ 
it.y, etc. Contracts fcr deeds may be made during the year 1856, 
stipulating the purchase money to be paid in five annual install¬ 
ments. The first to become due in two years from the date 
of contract, and the others annually thereafter. The last pay¬ 
ment will become due at the end of the sixth year from the 
date of the contract. 
Interest will be charged at only three per cent, per annum. 
As a security to the performance of the contract, the first two 
years’ interest must be paid in advance, and it must be under¬ 
stood that at least one-tenth of the land purchased shall yearly 
be brought uuder cultivation. Twenty per cent, from the credit 
price will be deducted for cash. The Company’s construction 
bonds vill be received as cash. 
Ready Framed Farm Buildings , which can be set up in a few 
days, can be obtained from responsible persons. 
They will be twelve feet by twenty feet, divided into one liv¬ 
ing and three bedrooms, and will cost, complete, set up on 
ground chosen anywhere along the road. $150 in cash, exclusive 
of transportation. Larger buildings mav be cont racted for at 
proportionate rates. The Company will forward all the materi¬ 
als for such buildings over their road promptly. 
Special arrangements with dealers can be made to supply 
those purchasing the Company’s lands with fencing materials, 
agricultural tools, and an outfit of provisions in any quantity, at 
the lowest wholesale prices. 
It is believed that the price, longcredit, and low rate of inter¬ 
est charged for these lands, will enable a man with a few hun¬ 
dred dollars in cash, and ordinary industry, to make himself in¬ 
dependent before all the purchase money becomes due. In the 
mean time, the rapid settlement of the country will probably 
have increased their value four or five fold. When required, an 
experienced person will accompany applicants, to give informa¬ 
tion and aid in selecting lands. 
Circulars, containing numerous instances of successful farm¬ 
ing, signed by respectable and well-known farmers living in the 
neighborhood of the Railroad lands throughout the State—also, 
the cost, of fencing, price of cattle, expense of harvesting, 
threshing, etc., by contract—or any other information—will he 
cheerfully given, on application, either personally or by letter, 
in English, French, or German, addressed to 
„ J ^ JOHN WILSON, 
Land Commissioner of the Illinois Central Railroad Co. 
Office, up to the 1st of May,No. 52 Michigan Avenue,Chicago 
Ill. After that date, in the hew stone Passenger Depot, foot of 
South Water-street. 112—117n51 
B E BUR 
AMMONIATED SUPERPHOSPHATE OF LIME. 
^IPHE attention of Farmers and Planters is 
respectfully called to the above invaluable compound, for 
their approaching spring planting. 
The Manufacturer begs to assure his friends and patrons, that 
they may always depend upon being supplied with a Genuine 
and uniform article, for he constantly superintends, in person, 
the entire process of manufacture and putting up for sale. 
This article has now been before the community for a period 
oi five years, during which time it has been analyzed by a large 
number of Chemises in different places; has been TRIED by 
farmers upon every kind of soil, in nearly every State in the 
Union, with almost unvarying success. 
In response to my prsposition, two years since, to allow any 
responsible farmers or Agricultural Societies to take, free of 
cost, a quantity of it wherever, they might find it on sale, and 
give it the most searching practical trials, I am happy to be 
able to statethat many of the most influential Agricultural So¬ 
cieties have made such trials, and have pronounced their un¬ 
qualified approbation of it as a valuable and paying manure. 
Please refer, for proof of this, among others, to the Reports of 
the “ Massachusetts State Farm ” for 1855, and for the present 
year. 
Perhaps one of the best proofs of its value is the greatly in¬ 
creased demand, unprecedented in the history of artificial fer- 
^lizers, and not equaled by guano itself. I have now (Feb lst( 
orders for more than $100,000 worth, received since the com 
mencement of the present year, but having greatly enlarged my 
works, adding the new factories of which a water-side view is 
given above, I hope to be able to supply orders to any extent 
that may be required. 
As there are a large number of Superphosphates in market 
for the value of which I would not like to be responsible, I 
earnestly request all purchasing to be careful to get the GEN¬ 
UINE article, either from myself or my accredited agents, who 
are always of acknowledged respectability. For the Superphos¬ 
phate purchased from such houses, I hold myself responsible for 
its good character. 
The Superphosphate is packed in bags holding 150 lbs. each, 
and in barrels containing about 300 lbs. each. No charge is 
made for bags or barrels. In small quantities I will deliver it 
—cartage free—on board any vessel or railroad leaving New- 
York City. 
CASH PRICE, $50 per tun of 2,000 lbs. 
Orders (stating whether in bags or barrels) to be addressed to 
C. B. DeBURG, (Sole Proprietor and Manufacturer,) 
Williamsburg, L. I. 
(Factories two blocks south of Peck-slip Ferry.) 
N. B.—Pamphlets with full directions sent on application. 
109—116n 
JUISH GUANO.—The NARRAGANSETT 
E - MANUFACTUING COMPANY, of Providence, R. I , 
are now prepared to execute orders for their FISH GUANO. 
They have prepared their Guano after two methods. One by 
chemically treating,cooking and then drying and grinding-the 
fish to a powder.. This is put in bags and sold at $45 per tun — 
Theother variety is prepared ns above (with the exception of 
diying and grinding,) and is then combined with cn absorbant 
which is m itself a valuable fertilizer, and sold at two dollars 
per bbl. containing about 200 lbs. The compost is of great 
strength, and must be a verv efficient fertilizer, as it is com¬ 
posed m great part of simple flesh and bones of fish. 
Dr. Chas. T. Jackson, of Boston, has made an analysis of the 
Powder, and says: 
‘It is similar to the Peruvian Guano in composition, with the 
exception that the ammonial matter is dried flesh of fish, and not 
yet putrefied, so as to be ammsmiaoal. It will, however, pro¬ 
duce ammonia by decomposition in the soil. One hundred grains 
of this manure, dried and finely pulverised, was submitted to 
analysis, with the following result : 
ipERUVIAN GUANO —At lowest market 
prices , wholesale and retail—with Government weight and 
brand on each hag, for sale at the 
AGRICULTURAL IMPLEMENT AND SEED 
Warehouse of R. L. ALLEN, 
Nos. 189 and 191 Water-st., New-York. 
allen’s celebrated mowing machine 
CANNOT CLOG. 
S uperphosphate of lime— of 
Hoyt, DeBurg, and Mapes’s manufacture. 
>EST No. 1 Peruvian GUANO. 
>ONE DUST, ground 
' Poudrette, Tafeu, Plaster 
and sawings. 
of Paris. 
Purchasers may depend upon getting these manures of best 
quality. For sale by R. L. ALLEN, 
189 and 191 Water-st., New-York. 
analysis. 
Ammonial matter (flesh or fish) - 48.00 
Phosphate of Lime - - - _ _ 3390 
Carbonate of Lime - 7 . 6 O 
Sulphate of Lime ------ 6 '40 
Potash of Soda - 410 
Respectfully your obedient servant, 
CHARLES T. JACKSON, 
Assayer to the State of Massachusetts.” 
Dr. Jackson’s opinion of our Guano is expressed in the follow¬ 
ing note : Boston, March 9, 1855. 
S B. Halliday, Esq.—Dear Sir: In reply to your letter, I 
would state my entire confidence in the superioritv of a properly 
prepared artificial guano, made from fishes, over that of the nat¬ 
ural guano of birds, obtained from the coast of Peru. 
It is obvious that more of the nitrogenous, or ammonia-produ¬ 
cing substances, exist in fish prepared after your method, than 
are found in any guano, and hence the artificial preparation will 
go further in the fertilization of a soil. 
Theammoniacal salts act chiefly in bringing the foliage into a 
healthy and luxuriant condition, and thus cause the plant to 
absorb more of the phosphate and other necessary salts and sub¬ 
stances from the soil, and more carbonic acid from the air. The 
carbonate of ammonia, also, is a solvent for humus, and it quick¬ 
ly saturates any injurious acid salts that, mav exist in the soil, 
and forms from some of them valuable fertilizers. 
Respectfully, your obedient servant, 
C. T. JACKSON, M. D., State Assayer, &c. 
This manure is offered to agriculturists with the assurance of 
its becoming one of the most popular to be obtained. The Com¬ 
pany are ready to establish agencies at such places as are desi¬ 
rable for the convenience of farmers. As the supply for the sea¬ 
son is rather limited, the Company would esteem it a favor to 
have orders forwarded early to enable them to lay down at their 
agencies the requisite quantities in proper time for use. Orders 
may be addressed to the Company at Providence, or to R. L. 
Allen, N. Y. ; R. H. Pease, Albany; Geo. Buck. Hartford. 
S. B. HALLIDAY, Agent. 
No, 22 West Water-st., Providence, R. I. 
Providence, Jan. 15, 1856. 109—114nl6 
T HE “ CALIFORNIA FARMER,’' devot- 
ed to Agriculture, Stock Breeding, and the useful scieences 
Subscriptions received at the Resident Editor’s Office, No 119 
Washington-st., Boston. Sample copies sent when ordered 
T HOROUGH-BRED DEVON CATTLE, 
AND ESSEX PIGS, FOR SALE. 
The subscriber now offers for sale a few superior Devon Heif¬ 
ers, bred by himself entirely from recently imported stock, and 
in calf by his last imported bull, “OMER PASHA,” winner of 
the FiRST PRIZE, as yearling, at the Royal Show of England 
in 1855; as also a number of young Bulls and heifers, the get of 
his three imported Bulls “ MEGUNTICOOK,” “MAY-BOY,’ 
and “OMER PASHA,” and out of imported Cows, or their 
progeny. 
Also, constantly on hand, ESSEX PIGS, bred from the best 
imported stock. 
For full particulars as to age, price, pedigree, &c^ address, 
C. S. WAIN WRIGHT, 
1246nl08—119N9 Rhincbeck,Dutchess Co., N. Y. 
T HE LAWTON BLACKBERRY is the 
queen of all berries—of most magnificent proportions, ex¬ 
quisite flavor, and delicate texture.— Springfield, Mass., Repub¬ 
lican , Sept 4, 1855. 
Description of the Plant. —This is an original and entirely dis¬ 
tinct variety, and not, as some suppose, the “ New-Rochelle 
Blackberry,” improved by cultivation, (the plants which abound 
in that neighborhood being no better than those growing wild in 
every other part of the country.) It differs in shape, size and 
quality from every other known variety. For descriptive circu¬ 
lars and general directions for garden culture, forming planta¬ 
tions and pruning, address, WM. LAWTON, 
New-Rochelle, N. Y., or No. 54 Wall-st. 
N. B.—Plants will be furnished at a reduced rate to societies 
and clubs. Ill—tfn42 
R L. ALLEN, Esq. —Dear Sir :—Your 
• Mower (Allen’s patent) was first tried on my place at 
West Farms, and worked greatly to our satisfaction. It was 
then sent to our farm at East Chester, and cut the entire crop- 
some 80 acres—without repair or breakage. It does the best 
work in the best manner, is of comparative easy draught, and 
cannot he clogged, however wet or soft the grass may be. I have 
recommended your Machine to my friends, feeling that I do 
them a service thereby. Sincerely yours, 
EDWARD G. FAILE. 
Woodside, Westchester, N. Y.,Oct. 17, 1856. 111—12 
