AMERICAN AGRICULTURIST, 
1875.] 
[May, 
leap Farms and Free Homes! 
ON THE LINE OF THE 
UNION PACIFIC RAILROAD! 
Located in the GREAT CENTRAL BEET of POPULATION, COM- 
BIERCE, and WEALTH, and adjoining the WORLD’S HIGHWAY 
from OCEAN TO OCEAN. 
IS, 000,000 ACRES! 
3,900,000 Acres in Central and Eastern Nebraska, in the Platte 
Valley, now for sale! 
We invite the attention of all parties seeking a HOME to 
the LANDS offered for sale by this Company. 
TUe Vast Quantity of Land from which to select, 
enables every one to secure such a location as he desires, 
suitable to any branch of farming or stock raising. 
TUe Prices are Extremely Low. The amount of 
laud owned by the Company is so large that they are deter¬ 
mined to sell at the cheapest possible rates, ranging from 
$1.50 to $8.00 per acre. 
The Terms of Payment are Easy. Ten years 
credit at six per cent interest. A deduction of ten per cent 
for cash. 
EXAMPLE. 
Eighty acres at $5 per acre on long credit of ten years. In¬ 
terest on deferred payments at six per cent per annum. No 
interest is taken in advance, and no payment, except the in¬ 
terest due, is required at the end of the first year. 
Principal. 
Interest. 
Total. 
Cash payment down. 
.... $40 
OO 
$— 
$40 
00 
Payment in one year. 
21 
60 
21 
60 
Payment in two years. 
.... 40 
00 
21 
60 
61 
60 
Payment in three years... 
.... 40 
00 
19 
20 
59 
20 
Payment in four years_ 
.... 40 
00 
16 
SO 
56 
80 
Payment in five years. 
.... 40 
00 
14 
40 
54 
40 
Payment in six years. 
.... 40 
00 
12 
00 
52 
00 
Payment in seven years.. 
.... 40 
00 
9 
60 
49 
60 
Payment in eight years... 
.... 40 
00 
7 
20 
47 
20 
Payment in nine years.... 
.... 40 
00 
4 
80 
44 
80 
Payment in ten years. 
.... 40 
00 
2 
40 
42 
40 
The same land can be bought for $360 cash down. Produc¬ 
tions will pay for land and improvements before the last 
payment is due. 
The Location is Central, along the 41st parallel, the 
favorite latitude of America. Equally well adapted to corn 
or wheat; free from the long, cold winters of the Northern, 
and the hot, unhealthy influences of the Southern States. 
The Face oi the Country is diversified with hill 
and dale, grain land and meadow, rich bottoms, low bluffs, 
and undulating tables, all covered with a thick growth of 
sweet, nutritious grasses. 
The Soil is a dark loam, slightly impregnated with lime, 
free from stone and gravel, and eminently adapted to grass, 
grain, and root crops; the subsoil is usually light and por¬ 
ous, retaining moisture with wonderful tenacity. 
The Climate is mild and healthful; the atmosphere 
dry and pure. Epidemic diseases never prevail; Fever and 
Ague are unknown. The greatest amount of rain falls be¬ 
tween March and October. The winters are dry with but 
little snow. 
The Productions ore wheat, corn, oats, barley, rye, 
and root crops, and vegetables generally. Flax, sweet po¬ 
tatoes, sorghum, etc., etc., do well and yield largely. 
Fruits, both Wild and Cultivated, do remark¬ 
ably well. The freedom from frosts in May and Septem¬ 
ber in connection with the dry Winters and warm soil, 
renders this State eminently adapted to fruit culture. 
Stock Raising in all its branches is particularly profit¬ 
able on the wide ranges of rich pasturage. Cattle and sheep 
feed with avidity and fatten upon the nutritious grasses 
without grain; hogs thrive well, and wool growing is ex¬ 
ceedingly remunerative. 
Timber is found on the streams and grows rapidly. 
Coal of excellent quality exists in vast quantities on the 
line of the road in Wyoming, and is furnished to settlers at 
reduced rates. 
Market Facilities are the best in the West; the great 
mining regions of Wyoming, Colorado, Utah and Nevada 
are supplied by the farmers of Platte Valley. 
The Title given the purchaser is absolute, in fee simple, 
and free from all incumbrances, derived directly from the 
United States. 
Education is Free 5 life and property are secure; 
churches are liberally sustained; flourishing towns on the 
line of the Railroad afford markets; daily mail, telegraph, 
and all the advantages of older settled communities. 
Free Homestead Lands. The intervening sections 
on the line of the Railroad are reserved by the Government 
for actual settlement, and may be obtained under the Free 
Homestead Act. By the provisions of this law, every head 
of a family, widow, or unmarried person, over the age of 
twenty-one years, may have eighty acres as a free gift for¬ 
ever, if he will come and occupy the land. 
Soldiers of the Late War are entitled to a Home¬ 
stead of one hundred and sixty acres within Railroad limits, 
which is equal to a bounty of $ 100 . 
Persons of Foreign Birth are also entitled to the 
benefits of the Free Homestead Law on declaring their in¬ 
tentions of becoming citizens of the United States; this 
they may do immediately on their arrival in this country. 
For Colonies, the lands on the line of the Union Pacific 
Railroad afford the best locations in the West. 
TOWN LOTS FOR SALE VERY CHEAP 
in the most important towns on the line of the Road, afford¬ 
ing excellent opportunities for business or investments. 
Full information in regard to lands, prices, terms of sale, 
&c.. together with pamphlets, circulars and maps, may be 
obtained from all the Agents of the Department, also, 
“THE PIONEER,” 
A handsome Illustrated Paper, with maps, etc., and 
containing the Homestead Law. Mailed free to all ap¬ 
plicants. Address, 
O. F. DAVIS, 
Land Commissioner U, P. K. It., 
OMAHA, NEB. 
CHICAGO & NORTH-WESTERN R’Y. 
THE TRANS-CONTINENTAL ROUTE. 
This is the Pioneer line between Chicago and the Pacific 
Coast, and was the first to connect with the great Pacific 
roads, and form the OVERLAND ROUTE. This line is 
the shortest rail line between Chicago and Omaha; the track 
is of the best steel rail; and all the appointments are first- 
class. The trains that run over this line are made up of 
elegant new Pullman Palace Drawing Room and Sleeping 
Coaches built expressly for this line, luxurious, well light¬ 
ed and well ventilated Day Coaches, and pleasant lounging 
and smoking cars. The cars are all equipped with the cele¬ 
brated Miller Safety Platform, and patent Buffers and Coup- 
lings, Westinghouse Safety Air Brakes, and every other ap¬ 
pliance that has been devised for the safety of passenger 
trains. All trains are run by telegraph. In a word, this 
GREAT CALIFORNIA LINE has the best and smoothest 
track, and the most elegant and comfortable equipment of 
any road in the West; and has no superior in the country. 
It is eminently the favorite route with Chicagoans traveling 
west, and is acknowledged by the traveling public to he the 
popular line for all points in Western Iowa, Nebraska, Wy¬ 
oming, Colorado, Utah, Montana. Idaho, Nevada, Califor¬ 
nia, and the Pacific Slope. 
All Coupon Ticket Agents sell tickets by this route. If 
you are going West, you should try this route. 
This is the route to take to reach the Lands of the Union 
Pacific and the Burlington <t Mo. River R. R. Co’s in Ne¬ 
braska. Buy your tickets via the Ch. & N. W. R. W. for 
Milwaukee, St. Paul, Minneapolis, Green Bay and all points 
North and West of Chicago. Il owns the best routes. 
MARVIN HUGHITT, W. H. STENNETT, 
General Superintendent. General Passenger Agent. 
TREES AND PLANTS. 
S. B. Parsons & Sons, near 
Kissena Station, Flushing, N. Y. 
TOIIN S. COLLINS has pure plants, roots, 
• " &c. Scud lor low prices, or see page 111 March number. 
Play and Profit 
IN MY GARDEN. 
By E. P. ROE, 
Author of “ Barriers Burned Away," etc. 
NOTICES BY THE PRESS. 
The author takes us to his garden on the rocky hill-sides in 
the vicinity of West Point and shows us how out of it, after 
four years’ experience, he evoked a profit of $ 1 , 000 , and this 
while carrying on pastoral and literary labors.It 
is very rare that so much literary taste and skill are mated 
to so much agricultural experience and practical good sense. 
— Harper's Magazine. 
This hook is as poetical as it is practical. Still he is no 
dreamer. He goes into every essential detail with as much 
minuteness and precision as if he were writing a manual for 
the practical farmer. Indeed few works professedly de¬ 
voted to agriculture give more sound and valuable informa¬ 
tion on the secret of winning golden harvests from the soil 
than this brief idyllic sketch.— N. Y. Tribune. 
A very charming book, not only by reason of its pleasant 
style, but for its quiet refined humor and fund of really use¬ 
ful information on the subject of gardening .—Boston Gazette. 
It deserves to stand side by side with “ My Summer in a 
Garden.”— Christian Register. 
A fresh, lively work.—V. Y. Observer. 
One reads without weariness and learns much of practical 
value.— Chicago Evening Journal. 
Full of information. Explains just what the reader wishes 
to know. We most heartily commend it.— Providence Even¬ 
ing Press. 
A e.liatty, sensible, profitable book.— Cleveland Herald. 
The book gives much valuable information, and gives it 
in the pleasantest manner imaginable.— Detroit Daily Union. 
CONTENTS. 
OHAf . 
1 .—Will you Walk into my 
Garden ? 
2_My Garden Accounted 
for. 
8.—My Garden—Its Loca¬ 
tion. 
4. —My Garden—How it 
Grew. 
5. —My Garden—'Vhat Fruits 
were Cultivated. 
6. —The Same—Continued. 
7. —Markets. 
8. —Expenses. 
9. —Ground for a Garden. 
Price, Post-paid 
Chap. 
10. —When to Commence a 
Garden. 
11. —We will go to Work. 
12. —The Campaign in Sep¬ 
tember. 
13. —Preparing for Winter 
Quarters. 
14. —Gardening Over a Win¬ 
ter Fire. 
15. —April. 
16. —Grafting or Horticultural 
Conversion. 
17. —Corn and Beans (Succo¬ 
tash). 
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Plans, Details, Specifica- 
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STAIR BUILDER. \ 
MONORTON’S NATIONAL [ Six Dollars, 
CARPENTER and JOINER, f post-paid. 
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