1865.J 
AMERICAN AGRICULTURIST, 
167 
BEST FARi^iiiC LA^OS In the WORLD 
FOR. S.i%JC„E BY THE 
ILLINOIS CENTRAL RAILROAD CO., 
Xn Tracts to suit Furchaeers, AT LOW FEICBO. 
THE UiLTNOIS CENTRAL RAILROAD COMPANY HAVE FOR SALE, 
600,000 ACRES of the best Farming Lands in the Country. 
The road extends from Dunteith, in the north-western part of the State, to Cairo, in the extreme southern 
part, with a branch from Centraiia, one hundred and thirteen miles north of Cairo, to Chicago, on the shore of 
Lake Michigan_altogether a length of 704 miles—and the land which is offered for sale is situated upon either 
side of the track, in no instance at a greater distauce than fifteen miles. 
State of Illinois. 
The rapid development of Illinois, its steady increase in population and wealth, and its capacity to produce 
cheap food, are matters for wonder and admiration. The United States Commissioner of Agriculture estimates 
the amounts of the principal crops of 1864, for the whole country, as follows: Indian corn, 530,581,403 bushels; 
wheat, 160,695,823 bushels; oats, 176,690,064 bushels; of which the farms of Illinois yielded 138,356,135 bushels 
of Indian corn; 33,371,173 bushels of wheat; and 24,273,751 bushels of oats—in reality more than one-fourth of 
the corn, more than one-fifth of the wheat, and almost one-seventh of the oats produced in all the United States. 
Grain—Stock Raising. 
Pre-eminently the first in the list of grain-exporting States, Illinois is also the great cattle State of the 
Union. Its fertile prairies are well adapted by nature to the raising of cattle, sheep, horses and mules; and in 
the Important interest of pork packing, it is far in advance of every other State. The seeding of these prairie 
lands to tame grasses for pasturage or hay, offers to farmers with capital the most profitable results. The 
hay crop of Illinois in 1864 is estimated at 2,166,725 tons, which is more than half a million tons larger than the 
crop of any other State, excepting only New York. 
Inducements to Settlers. 
The attention of persons, whose limited means forbid the purchase of a homestead in the older States, is 
particularly invited to these lands. Within ten years tho Illiuois Central Railroad Comp.any has sold 1,400,000 
acres, to more than 20,000 actual settlers: and during Uie last year 264,422 acres—a larger aggregate of sales 
than in any one year since the opening of the road, llie farms are sold in tracts of forty or eighty acres, 
suited to the settler with limited capital, or in larger tracts, as may bo required by the capitalist and stock 
raiser. The soil is of unsurpassed fertility ; the climate is healthy ; taxes aro low ; churches and schools 
are becoming abundant throughout the length and breadth of the State ; and communic:i4ion with all tho great 
markets is made easy through railroads, canals and rivers. 
PRICES AND TERMS OP PAYMENT. 
Tho price of lands varies from $9 to $15 and upwards per acre, and they are sold on short credit, or for 
cash. A deduction of len per cent, from the short credit price is made to those who buy for cash. 
E X .A. M B E E : 
Forty acres at $10 per acre, on credit; tho principal one-quarter cash down—balance one, two and three 
years, at six per cent, interest, in advance, each year. 
INTEUEST. PKINCIPAl.. 1NTXHE5T. PBIIVCIPAI.. 
Cash Pftrmant,.$18 00 $100 00 | Payment In two years,.$6 00 100 00 
PajmontlnoBe year,.it OO 100 00 | " three years,. 100 00 
’X'he Same I.and muy be Parchased for S3GO dash. 
Full information on all points, together with maps, showing tho exact location of Lands, will be furnished 
on application, in person or by letter, lo 
LAND COMMISSIONER, Illinois Central R. R. Co., Chicago, Illinois. 
MARYLAND FARMS,—GEOGRAPHI- 
“iVvcal description of Maryland, with Catalogue of 
Maryland Lands, for sale by 
R. W. TEMPt.EM.AlV & CO., 
Laiid Agents, 
48 Lexlngtou-strecl, (Up stairs,) 
Baltimore City, 
Embracing a description of the Soil autl Products of 
Maryland. 
Send Twenty-five Cents for a Copy. 
FOR ^ A ff. E. 
FARMING AND 
MARKET GARDENING 
L I> ^ 
IN NEW JERSEY. 
ECWKE A HOME.—Lands for sale in the Cele¬ 
brated Fruit Settlement of Hammonton, New Jersey, 80 
miles from Philadelphia, on Railroad, and near the 5iew 
York Railroad.—No better soil in the State.—For Fruits, 
Vegetables and Early Gardening, is the best in the Union.— 
Hundreds of Acres now producing to be seen, on which is 
made from $200 to $G00 per acre. Mild and healthy climate. 
Soft Water, Churches, Schools, Mills, Stores, &c. Price from 
$20 to $2.5 per acre, for 20 acres and upward. 10-acre fruit 
^rms, $300. Terms easy. Title perfect. For full information 
Address R. J. 15VUNES, Haminonton, N. J. Letters answered. 
Cheap Maryland Farms. 
$40 to $:40 per acre, convenient to Eailroad, Navigation, 
Cliurdlies, Schools, &c., &c., situated on the Eastern Sliore. 
Many northern families are settling liere. Descriptive circu¬ 
lars giving all information sent Tree to all applicants. 
Address H. P. CHAMBEKS, Farm Agent, 
Federalsburg, Md. 
F arms for SAlE of 40 to iso acres each, of 
the richest ag".cultural land in Bock Co., Wis., near 
Janesville Oily, well timbered. The Madison railway runs 
through, and Uie Southern Wisconsin on their border. Apply 
to J. f. K. PF.ASE, Janesville, or to B. F. DAWSON, 9 East 
Bth-street, New York. 
THE SUBSCRIBEKS WILL SELL TRACTS OF GOOD 
Land for farming and market gardening, in quantities to suit 
purciiasers, situated in the counties of Ocean and Burlington, 
on tlie line of the Raritan and Delaware Bay Railroad, mid¬ 
way between New-Tork and Pliiladelphia, at $10 per acre. 
In addition to ail the common products of a farm, these lands 
are valuable for growing cranberries, sweet potatoes, peach¬ 
es, grapes, tobacco and hops. All crops ripen ten days ear¬ 
lier than on Long Island. Squankum marl is delivered at 
any point on the railroad at one dollar and fifty cents per 
ton, and fertilizes the land for seven years after its applica¬ 
tion. The lands are mostly covered with yellow pine timber, 
suitable for lumber and cord W’ood. A portion of the timber 
has been recently cut off, leaving the land ready for immedi¬ 
ate cnltlvation. Price of cedar rails, $5 per 100. Cord w'ood, 
at any railroad station, $3 per cord. A portion of the lands 
contain a large quantity ot the best potters’ clay yet discov¬ 
ered, for the manufacture of yellow ware. Saw-mill witliin 
one mile of Shamong Station. A good hotel at Shamong, on 
the lands offered for sale. Tlie location is very healthy and 
water e.\'cellent. Lands well w.atered with unfailing streams, 
and supplied with good mill-sites and water-power for man¬ 
ufacturing purposes. The whole purchase money may re¬ 
main on mortgage for a terra of years if desired, if the pur¬ 
chaser cultivates tlie land. 
For further particulars apply to 
F. B. CHET WOOD, Elizabeth, N. J. 
WM. O GILES. 70 & TZ Franklln-st., New-York. 
so.ooo 
I^Acres at low prices and accommodating terms.—Frank- 
linville Tract.—Gloucester County, New Jersey, 25 miles 
south of Pliiladelphia, on Railroad running from Philadel" 
phia and Camden to Cape May. in lots to suit-purciiasers 
Circulars witli reports of Solou Robinson, Hon. Wra. Parry, 
and otliers, witli full Information, sent free by addressing 
JOHN H. COFFIN & CO„ Franklinvillc, Gloucester Co. 
New-Jersey. Also Improved Farms from 20 Acres upward. 
J^RUCE’S PATENT 
€4>BtccBafrated Manure 
Is no longer an experiment. Three years* trial has proved 
Its SUPERIORITY over all other MANURES. It & com¬ 
posed of 
Animal Fibre, Blood and Pnre Ground Bone. 
It is not because of these VALUABLE INGItEDLENTS 
alone that we claim its 
GREAT FERTILIZING POWER. 
It Is also in the Patest process thkough -which it pass¬ 
es in its manufacture, by which we are enabled to 
CONCENTRATE THE NECESSARY FOOD FOR 
VEGETATION. 
C^ITTIOIN'. 
There Is a new fertilizer in market called by a similar 
name, the agents of wliich have taken from our Circular of 
1804, testimonials in regard to BRUCE'S CONCENTRATED 
MANURE, and are using them to sell their article. 
ORDER DIRECT FROM US. 
We have no Agents in IVe-»v York City, and see 
that the barrels are branded 
BRUCE'S PATENT CONCENTRATED 
MANURE. 
C. W. VAN DOREN & CO., 
GRIFFING BROXYIEK A CO., 
58 & 60 Courtlandt-strcet, New-Tork. 
We also sell at Wholesale and Retail 
LODI CO.’S Pondrette. 
EXCELSIOR CO.’S Pondrette. 
HOVT’S Superphosphate of Dime. 
PLASTER & Pure Ground Bone. 
GRIFPINGS BRO. & CO., 
58 &60 Courtland-st., N. Y. City. 
AfiSBiBiosaiatcd Faeiiic Cruaiao. 
A real guano, containing from seventy to eighty per cent 
of Phosphate of Lime ; to which has been added by a chem¬ 
ical process, a large percentage of actual Ammonia, so fixed 
that It can not evaporate, making it equal, if not superior, to 
any other fertilizer. Frice $80 per net ton. A liberal dis¬ 
count to the Trade. 
Pamphlets with copies of analysis by Dr. Jackson, Mass. 
State Assayer, and Dr. Liebig, of Baltimore, and testimonials 
from scientific agriculturists, showing its value, can be 
obtained from J. O. BAKER & CO., Selling Agents. 
131 Pearl-st., New-York. 
The Crcuaaasae 
iSESUCE FEIFITM^EH. 
The best as well as the cheapest m.anure in the market, 
made by Mr. Duncan Bruce, is for sale by 
GEO. E. WHITE CO., 55 Cliff-st., 
and by the principal dealers in Agricultural wares. 
Another of our regular Series of Great 
$10© Prize Puzzles 
appears, with numerous attractions, in the May number of 
MERKTMAN’S MONTHLY. 
the Great N ational Comic Magazine. $100 Prizes! $30 Prizes! 
$.3 Prizes! $1 Prizes! iW Prizes are paid in greenbacks, so 
there can be no humbug. Names and addresses of winners 
are published in the next number. Don’t fail to get tlie MAT 
number of MEllKYMAN. Price 15 cents. Sold by News 
Agents, Booksellers, Sutlers and all dealers. Sent post-paid 
on receipt of price. 
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strokes of the pen- cit, without eras¬ 
ing any lines, or go-]_|_|lng over tlie same 
lines twice. Averyi i i icurious thing. Try 
it, and if you fall (as you surely will), 
see the full and corn!_L__'_l-plete solution in 
MEliKYMAN. US’” Tlirce different numbers, as samples, 
sent to any address post-paid for tliirty cents. A rare 
chance to procure a good magazine very clieap. 
Address J. C. HANEY & CO., 
lOONassau-street, Mew York. 
The Herald of Health 
AND 
JOURNAL OF PHYSICAL CULTURE is just the tiling for 
every invalid, for parents who would bring up their children 
in health with be.autiful forms and elastic steps. Jan., Feb,, 
March and April Nos. for 60 cts. post free. 15 cents a number, 
S I 50 a year. First six Nos. tor 1865, and tlie New Hygiene 
ook Book, by Mattie M. Jones, M. D., all for $1 00. Cook 
Book alone for 30 cts. Every person who would know how 
to cook healthful food for sick or well should have it. 
Address MILLEU, WOOD & CO., 15 Laight-st., N. T. 
L ove on the brain.—a rollicking and 
mirth-provoking Song that pleases everybody, both 
young and old. Kisses, Blisses, Hearts, Darts, Aromatic 
Pain Everybody’s troubled once with Love on the BKAIN. 
Price 30 cents. Published by W. Jennings Demorest, No. 
39 Beekman street, and sold by all Music Dealers. Mailed 
free on receipt of the price. 
Huy the Eiglitest---Halsted’s. 
