[June, 
AMERICAN AGRICULTURIST, 
1875.] 
Cheap Farms and Free Homes! 
ON THE LINE OF THE 
UNION PACIFIC RAILROAD! 
Sweated m the GREAT CENTRAL. BELT of POPULATION, COM¬ 
MERCE, and WEALTH, and adjoining tlse WORLD’S HIOMWAY 
from OCEAN TO OCEAN. 
IS, 000,000 ACRES! 
8,000,000 Acres in Central and Eastern Nebraska, in the Platte 
Valley, now 1 ’ for sale! 
We invite the attention of all parties seeking a HOME to 
the LANDS offered for sale by this Company. 
The 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. 
The Prices are Extremely Low. The amount of 
land owned by the Company is so large that they are deter¬ 
mined to sell at the cheapest possible rates, ranging from 
$1.50 co $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 fir3t year. 
Principal. 
Interest. 
Total. 
Cash payment down. 
.... $40 OU 
$-- 
$40 00 
Payment in one year. 
.... - 
21 CO 
21 60 
Payment in two years. 
. 40 01 
21 60 
61 GO 
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. 
12 00 
52 00 
Payment in seven years.. 
. 40 00 
9 60 
49 60 
Payment iD eight years... 
.... 40 00 
7 20 
47 20 
Payment in nine years.... 
. 40 00 
4 60 
44 80 
Payment In ten years. 
. 40 (X) 
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 Pace of 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 fails be¬ 
tween March and October. The winters arc dry with hut 
little snow. 
The Productions are wheat, corn, oats, barley, rye, 
and root crops, and vegetables generally. Flax, sweet po¬ 
tatoes, sorghum, etc., etc., do well and yield largely. 
Emits, both Wild and Cultivated, do remark¬ 
ably well. Tlie freedom from frosts in May and Septem¬ 
ber in connection with tlie dry Winters and warm soil, 
renders this State eminently adapted to fruit culture. 
Stock liaising 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 ; life and property are secure; 
churches are liberally sustained ; flourishing towns on the 
line of the Railroad afford markets ; daily mail, telegraph, 
and ail 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 pave 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 $400. 
Persons of Forefgn Birth are also entitled to the 
benefits of the Free Homestead Law on declaring their'in- 
tentions of becoming citizens of the United States; tliis 
they may do immediately on their arrival in this country. 
For Colonies, the lands on the line of the Union Pacific 
Railroad afford tlie best locations in the West. 
Free Passes and reduced rates of freight for pur¬ 
chasers of Railroad land. 
TOWN LOTS FOB 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 PIMEER,” 
A handsome Illustrated Paper, with maps, etc., and 
containing the Homestead Law. Mailed f ree to all ap¬ 
plicants. Address, 
O. F. DAVIS, 
Land Commissioner U. S’. It. It . 5 
OMAHA, NEB. ^ 
Are you going to California ? Arc you going West, North’ 
or North-West? The shortest, safest, quickest, and most 
comfortable Routes are owned l>y the Chicago and Norlh- 
Western Railway. It owns over two thousand miles of tlie 
best road there is in tlie country, liny your tickets by tlie 
Chicago and North-Western Railway for SAN FRANCISCO, 
Sacramento, Salt Lake, Cheyenne, Denver, Omaha. Lincoln, 
Council Bluffs, Yankton, Sionx City, St. Paul, Duluth, Mar¬ 
quette, Green Bay, Madison, Milwaukee, and ill] points west 
or northwest. If you wish the best traveling accomoda¬ 
tions, you will buy vour tickets liy this route, and will take 
no" other. This popular roiite is unsurpassed lor Speed, Coin¬ 
tort, and Safety. Tlie smooth, well ballasted, and perfect 
track of Steel Rails, Westihghonse Air Brakes, Miller's Safe¬ 
ty Platform and Couplers, iho celebrated Pullman Palace 
Sleeping Cars, the perfect Telegraph System of Moving 
Trains, the regularity with which they run, the admirable 
arrangement for running Through Cars from Chicago to all 
points West, North, and North-West, secures to passengers 
all the Comforts in Modern Railway Traveling. 
PULLMAN PALACE CARS are run on all trains of this 
road. No other line runs these cars between Chicago and 
St. Paul or Chicago and Milwaukee. At Omaha our Sleep¬ 
ers connect with the Overland Sleepers on the Union Pacific 
Railroad for all points west of the Missouri River. Take this 
route to reach the Lands of the Union Pacific and the Bur¬ 
lington tf Mo. River R. R. Co's in Nebraska. For Rates or 
information not attainable from 
apply to W. H. STENNETT, 
MARVIN HUGHITT, Gen. Sup. 
your home ticket agents, 
Gen. Pass. Ag., Chicago. 
Wolcott Bros., 
Real Estate and Loan Brokers, 
TOLEDO, O. 
Real Estate purchased, managed, 
and sold on commission. Large pro¬ 
perties a specialty. Money loaned on 
Real Estate. All money transmitted 
through the banks. 
Corffespoiadeaice Solicited. 
The Original SKINNER 
Portable Engine 
IMPROVED, 
2 to S II. P. New Location, and 
cheaper freights to all parts of the. 
country. Over 300 in use. 
Adrress 1,. G. SKINNER, 
Erie, Pa. 
Late Chittenango, N. Y. 
Payson’s Indelible Ink. 
This Ink is almost indispensable in the family. Briggs’s 
Marking-Pen lias been before the public for fifteen years, 
and is justly celebrated for all kinds of marking, and par¬ 
ticularly for writing upon coarse fabrics.. The Pen and 
Ink are put up in a neat case, being thus portable, always 
ready for use, and protected from loss or injury by eva¬ 
poration or breakage. Sent, post-paid, on receipt of 75c. 
ORANGE JUDD COMPANY, 245 Broadway, N. Y. 
A Trochar for Cattle-Men, 
In June of 1872 we gave illustrations of a Tro¬ 
char and Cannula to be used in ringing 
a bull, and on page 13 (January) and 
page 97 (March) of this Journal for 1S73 
we described the use of this apparatus 
in relieving hoven in cattle. These ar¬ 
ticles have brought out a large demand for 
Trochars, and failing to find just the right 
kind among the makers of surgical imple¬ 
ments, we have induced an establishment 
to undertake their manufacture. We give 
herewith a small engraving of the Trochar. 
These articles are now in the trade, and 
maybe had of most dealers in agricultural 
implements. Those who can hot get them 
from dealers can receive them from this office, prepaid, 
for $1.00. ORANGE JUDD CO., 245 Broadway, N. Y. 
A Copper Bull-Ring, 
0 214 inches in diameter, of the 
most approved pattern, with 
screw-drivcr for putting it to¬ 
gether, will be sent, prepaid, on 
. receipt of $1.00. Address 
ORANGE JUDD COMPANY, 245 Broadway, N. Y. 
