. The Illinois Central Railroad Company offers for sale over 1,500,000 acres selected farming and wood lands . olling land were called by the first French settlers Prairies,which, translated, means natural meadows, and such theyarc ; almost the whole State is a natural meadow, lying in high,beautifully rolling, or gently undulating Prairies, with a soil of surpassing and inexhaustible fertility, all ready for the plough,without a rock, stump, or even stone, to interrupt its difficulties experienced in the Eastern States, or in Westerntimbered States, in bringing lands under cultivat
. The Illinois Central Railroad Company offers for sale over 1,500,000 acres selected farming and wood lands . olling land were called by the first French settlers Prairies,which, translated, means natural meadows, and such theyarc ; almost the whole State is a natural meadow, lying in high,beautifully rolling, or gently undulating Prairies, with a soil of surpassing and inexhaustible fertility, all ready for the plough,without a rock, stump, or even stone, to interrupt its difficulties experienced in the Eastern States, or in Westerntimbered States, in bringing lands under cultivation, are un-known here; the soil is readily turned over at the rate of twoacres to two acres and a half a day, by a heavy team of horsesor two yoke of oxen, or it may be contracted to be worked atfrom $2 to $o per acre, and an active practical man can readi-ly cultivate ten acres here, against one in the Eastern orMiddle States, taking them as they run, while the yield per acrewill be infinitely greater. With far less labor, a farm purchasedhere at the low rates ruling at present, will yield more than one. BREAKING PRAIRIE. there valued at $100 to $150 per acre. The soil is a dark, richvegetable mould, varying from two to eight feet in depth, capa-ble of producing any thing in the greatest profusion, which willgrow in these latitudes at all, and absolutely inexhaustible in itsfertility. Instances could be multiplied of land cropped fortwenty to thirty successive years, without the addition of apound of manure, on which the growth, last season, was just asvigorous and the yield as profuse, as on any other of the the prairies are belts flf white oak, hickory, blackwalnut, ash, and maple timber, of excellent quality, generallyfollowing the courses of the streams, varying from half a mileto five miles in width, in many places running far out on the 10 prairie, or scattered in groves here and there over its vState, as a general thing, is well watered, the
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