1866.J 
American acriculturist. 
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BEST FARi^lMC LAKES in the WORLB 
FOR. S^LE BY THE 
ILLINOIS CENTRAL RAILROAD CO., 
In Tracts to suit Purchasers, AT laOW PE22CES. 
THE ILLINOIS CENTRAL RAILROAD COMPANY HAVE FOR SALE, 
000,000 ACRES of tlie best Farming Lands in the Country. 
The road extends from Dunloith, in the north-western part of the State, to Cairo, in the extreme southern 
part with a branch from Centralia, 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 distance 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. Tho United States Commissioner of Agriculture estimates 
the amounts of the principal crops of 1804, 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 onc-fourth of 
the corn, more than one-fifth of the wheat, and almost one-sevonth of tho oats produced in all the United States. 
_ ^ Grain—Stock Raising. 
Pre-eminently tUe 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 StAn. Tlic seeding of these prairie 
lands to tamo grasses for• pasturage or hay, offers to farmers with capital the most profitable results. Tho 
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, . 
Tlie attention of persons, whoso limited naeans forbid the purchase of a homestead in the older States, is 
particularly invited to these lands. IVithin ten years tho Illinois Central P.ailroad Company has sold 1,400,000 
acres, to more than 20,000 actual settlers: and during the last year 264,422 acres—a larger aggregate of sales 
than in any one year since the opening of tho road. The farms are sold in tracts of forty or eighty acres, 
suited to the settler with limited capital, or in larger tracts, as may be required by tho capitalist and stock 
raiser. The soil is of unsurpassed fertility ; the climate is healthy ; taxes are low ; churches and schools 
are becoming abundant throughout the length and breadth of the State ; and communication with all the great 
markets is made easy through railroads, canals and rivers. 
PRICES AND TERMS OP PAYMENT. 
The 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 ten per cent, from the short credit price is made to those who buy for cash. 
EXA^IVIBEE: 
Forty acres at $10 per acre, on credit; the principal one-quarter cash down—halauco one, two and three 
years, at six per'cent, interest, in advance, each year. 
Interest. Princxpai.. Interest. Pbincipai.. 
Cash Payment,.$18 00 $100 00 | Payment in two years,.$6 00 100 00 
Payment in one year,. 12 00 100 00 | “ three years,. 100 00 
nriie @ame E>aii(l may be E*nii*chascd for @S60 Cash. 
Full information on all points, together with maps, showing the exact location of Lands, will be furnished 
on application, in person or by letter, vo 
LAND COMIVIISSIONER, Illinois Cenifal R. R. Co., Chicago, Illinois. 
For Sale—Mear WasSaingfoia. 
The verv desirable residence known as 
SHAEJY gIBE, 
twenty minutes walk from the Bladenshurgh Station, Similes 
from Baltimore, and 6 from Washington, communicating with 
both cities by four daily trains, and with Washington twice 
a day by an omnibus, which receives and delivers passengers 
a1, any desired point. The character of the house and its 
surroundings is such as to combine many advantages. The 
location is healthy. The house spacious and convenient, with 
hatli room, cooking range, spring, well, and cistern water, 
and numerous out-huildings, Grounds judiciously and taste¬ 
fully arranged. Garden admirably adapted for both early 
and late vegetables, and well-supplied with grapes and other 
fruit. Twenty acres of meadow, chiefly low land, well set in 
grass. In sight of the house on one side is the Eastern 
branch of the Potomac, affording an ample supply of fish in 
the season. Not far off on the other side is a superior chalyb¬ 
eate spring, highly recommended by the Washington physi¬ 
cians for its tonic properties. While fitted in every respect 
for a gentleman's private residence, Sliadiy Side would an¬ 
swer equally well lor a Dairy or a Market Garden, a Hotel or 
a Boarding School, or for a Water Cure Establishment. 
For further particulars apply to the undersigned, on the 
premises, or by letter addressed to 
J. B. LUCE, 
Bladenshurgh, Ma. 
No. 1 Peruvian Cruswo, also Balter’s Island 
and other Pliospbatic (Bone) Ctuaiios of the richest 
quality, genuine as Imported, and pure article. Also Maii- 
^ulatcd Guano, consisting of No. 1 Peruvian and 
Bakers’s Islaii*! Guano, making a very rich and sub¬ 
stantial fertilizer. For sale in quantity to suit purchasers by 
J. B. S AKDY, 58 South-st., cor. of 'Wall, New York. 
(A fair deduction made to Dealers.) 
30,00© 
Acres, Franklin Tract, at Newfield, Gloucester County, 
New Jersey, on ihft Railroad runnine: from Fliiladelpliia to 
Cape May, 30 miles South of Philadelphia—adjoiningr the 
Vineland'Tract, and 2 miles North of the Vineland Station— 
for sale at low prices and on easy terms, in lots to suit pur¬ 
chasers, Circulars with reports of Solon Robinson, lion. 
William Parry, and others, with full information, sent to ap¬ 
plicants, free. Address JOHN H. COFFIN & CO„ New- 
lield, Gloucester Co.. N. J. Improved Farms also for Sale. 
l^AIKY FARM or GENTLEMAN^S COUNTRY 
-m-^SEAT FOR SALE.—Four miles from Providence, R. I., 
situation elevated, cool, healthy. House cood, views exten¬ 
sive, iar^e .^hade trees near, 100 acres, 70 cultivated, 250 choice 
apple trees, fruits of all kinds. Barn costly, with well inside, 
cellars, stalls for 40 head, and room for 100 tons hay, 40 tons 
now in barn, grain, implements of every description, 300 
cords standing wood. Inquire of DO VLE & JOSLIN, Real 
Estate Brokers, Providence, U. I. __ 
SOUTHWARD HO !—FARMERS AND VINE 
K^Growers, desiring to emigrate to the South, may find it 
for their interest to communicate with D. H. JACQUES, 
389 Broadway, New York. -i 
600 Maryland and Virginia Farms' 
and Timbered Lands. 
Catalogue of Maryland and Virginia Lands, tvith Geo¬ 
graphical description of Maryland, for sate by E. W. TEM- 
PLEMAN & CO., Land Agents, 48 Lexington-st., (up stairs,) 
Baltimore City, embracing a description of the soil and pro¬ 
ducts of Maryland. Send 23 ce nts for a copy of Catalogue. 
URSERY BUSINESS.—A Partner wanted -who 
understands it. Location 22 miles from New York. 
Apply to JARVIS JOHNSON, New Providence) N, J. : 
AP«B> FKillT B.ANI>'S, in a 
mild and healthfnl climate. Thirty miles of Phila¬ 
delphia by Railroad, in New Jersey, on the same line of lat¬ 
itude as Baltimore, JId 
The soil is rich and pTodiicHw, varying from a clay to a 
sandy loam, suitable for Whe.at, Grass, Corn, Tobacco, Fruits 
and Vegetables. This is a great fruit country. Five hun¬ 
dred Vineyards and Orchards have been planted out by ex¬ 
perienced fruit growers Grapes, Peaches, Pears, &c., produce 
immense profits. Vineland is already one of the most he,au- 
tlful places in tlie United States. The entire territory, con¬ 
sisting of forty-five square miles of land, is laid out upon a 
general system of improvements. The land is only sold to 
actual settlers with provision for public adornment. The 
place on account of its great beauty as well as.other advan¬ 
tages has become the renort of people of taste. It has in¬ 
creased five thousand people within the past three years. 
Churches, Stores, Schools, Acadamies, Societies of Art and 
Learning, and other elements of refinement and cultnreliave 
been introduced. Hundreds of people are constantly set¬ 
tling. Several hundred houses are being constructed, and 
it is estimated that five hundred will be built during the sum¬ 
mer. Price of Farm land, twenty acre lots andupward, $25 
per acre.' Five and ten acre and Village lots for sale. 
Fruits and Vegetables ripen earlier in this district than in 
any other locality north of Norfolk, Va. Improved places 
for sale. 
Openings for all kinds of hfisincss, Lnmher Yards, Mann, 
factories. Foundries, Stores, and tlie like. 
For persons who desire mild winters, a healthful climate, 
and a good soil, inti country beautifully improved, abound¬ 
ing in fruits and possessing all other social privileges, in tho 
heart of civilization, it is worthy of a visit. 
Letters answered and tlie Vineland Rural, a paper giving 
full information, and containing Reports of Solon Robinson, 
sent to applicants'. 
Address CHAS. K. L.ANDIS, Vineland P. O., Landis 
ToM’nship, New Jersey. 
From Report of Solon Robinson, Agricultural Editor 
of The Tribune : It is one of the most extensive fertile 
tracts, in an almost level position and suitable condi¬ 
tion for pleasant farming that we know of this side of 
the Western Prairies. 
T he phrenological journal uiki life 
ILLUSTR.dTED is a “first-class” work. In Its 42d vol„ 
devoted to PiiYSioGNOaiT, with “Signs of Cliaracter 
Phrenology, the Natural History of JIan; Phrenology, 
and the Temperaments; Physiology, the Laws of Life and 
Health; Psychology, the Science of the Soul. Ampty.illns- 
trated. Monthly, $2 a year; sample Nos. 20 cents Address 
Messrs. FOWLER & W'ELLS, No. SS9 Broadway, Netv-York. 
Announcement extraordinary. 
The Wonderful Talc Entitled 
HERMAN : 
.1 
— OB,— 1 
TdDUNG KNI«IITH®OD, 
IVhich sent an electric thrill tlirongli every reader, as it ap¬ 
peared, from week to week, in the National Er.a, is in press, 
and will soon he published in two handsome 12mo vols., by 
ZUU (b SHEPARD, 
149 Washington Street, Boston, 
■■ ipg- Advance orders from the Trade solicited. 
Washington’s Letters 
ON AGRICULTURE, 
IN THE WORKING FARMER FOR 1866. 
'World-Wide as is tlie fame o'f Wasliington as a soldier .and 
statesman hut fexv, even of liisconntrymcn, are aware that, 
dnriii"- tlie pressure of urgent public business, liis interest in 
no-ricultural improvement led him to write a series of letters 
that entitle him to be considered first in Farming as well 
.as “First in War. First in Peace, andlirst in the Hearts of 
his Countrymen.” . . . ,, 
Believin" that the general diffusion of Ins opinions would 
stronn-lv counteract the present lamentable tendency in 
_2 rovtvt.bAmns fnv tlio nvor-f’rnwH. 
armer nave niaciu airHui^t-'iiiciiia vi 
these letters in tlie coming volume, and to give portions ot 
them in fac-simile of his own handwriting. 
Such a Souvenir of the Father of liis Country should be in 
the home of every lover of Washington, and especially of 
^'iVe a^sTpirpose giving a series of Portraits and Biograph¬ 
ical Sketches of persons who liave rendered valuable service 
in the cause of Agriculture. 
This volume will contain a splendidly illustrated 
Treatise on the Pear, by P. T. Quinn, Esq. , . o, 
TOE WORKING FARMER has been ciil.arged to 24 
PAGES QUARTO, and is still furnished for ONE DOLLAl. 
A YEAR Onr Premiums are numerous and vahiahle, and 
terms to canvassers liberal. Specimen numbers and circulars 
®^Addl"esr“‘’^'^ "W- L. ALLISON & CO.. 
Auaiess •No. 124 Nassau-st.) New-York. 
