Democratic Sentinel, Volume 11, Number 6, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 March 1887 — To Southern Home-Seekers. [ARTICLE]

To Southern Home-Seekers.

The advance in price of Western lands, the increased severity of Northern winters, and the consequent high price of fuel, has turned the attention of farmers, home-seekers, and others of delicate constitution to the mild climate, cheap fuel, and low-priced lands of the South. Northern farmers, unacquainted with sugar-cane and cotton growing, have asked the question, Why cannot fruit-growing and stock-raising be made to pay in tho South? To discuss those questions, so important to those seeking homes in the South, agricultural conventions have been held of late in Tennessee, Mississippi, and Louisiana, and it has been proven beyond a doubt that diversified farming can be carried on in the South even more profitably than in the North. Lands are being seeded down creameries built, and Northern methods of farming quite generally introduced. The result of all this has turned the tide of emigration Southward, and the Illinois Central llailroad, the direct line between Chicago and New Orleans, and the direct route to the principal markets of the South, West, and North, have shown their confidence iu the agricultural possibilities of the South by naming the following convenient land points, viz: Jackson, Tenn.; Aberdeen and Jackson, Miss., and Hammond, La. These points have been selected as a convenience to connecting linos in the sale of rouDd-trip tickets. Stop-over privileges will be granted at all other points south of Martin, Tenn., and we are free to state that just as good and just as cheap lands can b 3 bought at other than the points above mentioned. For circulars concerning points South on the line of the Illinois Central Bailroad, where so many Northern people are now settling, apply to J. F. Merry, General Western Pass. Agent L C. B. 8., Manchester, lowa