Jasper County Democrat, Volume 9, Number 49, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 March 1907 — Page 1 Advertisements Column 4 [ADVERTISEMENT]

| How Much Could You Get For Your Farm? X * 1 YT You are a farmer. You live near this town. You own land. XX Let us say that you own more than you need and would like to sell FT a hundred acres. XX How much could you get per acre? ft Land values have risen lately. But has the value of your land |>X risen as you think it should? FT Your land is good land. You think it Is worth considerably XX more than anybody has offered you. Well, let us see. Ft A man buying farm land naturally prefers to locate near a XX thriving, up to date town. He wants good home markets for his FT crops. He wants good XX schools. Z FT Let us say your land is XX three miles from town. A FT farm that looks very much XX like yours is three miles it from a town twice as big XX and twice as prosperous IT as this town. XX If you were going to £ j buy a farm for your own XX occupancy, wouldn't you £X P !l J' 11 whole lot more for j' VJL <•* land near the town that is U ■' FT twice as large and twice XX as lively? XX be good business. JwWT \ IT Now, makes W M XX town big and bustling? FT Money. Money in circulaXX tion. Not in circulation BMEyMBjiCT FT for instance, but XX right In the town / Mj _... .wants to grow. XX How much money have H jou sent to the big Mail \ Vs. ♦ '« > " Order houses in the city \ A the past ten years? How X(S Wti >< > much have your neigh- •• ’ bors sent? How much S “ I have all of you together >• • put out of circulation i X “ J here at home? Q>aoa v J “ I It is probably beyond " • calculation. If all that money had been spent in your own home “ I town, isn’t it reasonable to assume that the town would have •' • grown more than it has grown? »« » “ ; Wouldn’t this town be a bigger and better town? H I h I Wouldn’t it have more stores to buy your produce? Xr Wouldn’t it have more public improvements to make FT it more attractive to outsiders who might tome here to live, FT to go into business, or buy your surplus land at a good tX figure ? X+ TO’TRADE AT HOME MEANS TO HELP THE TOWN it AND THE NEIGHBORHOOD. TO HELP THE TOWN AND it THE NEIGHBORHOOD MEANS TO HELP YOURSELF.

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