Jasper County Democrat, Volume 15, Number 63, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 November 1912 — Page 6 Advertisements Column 4 [ADVERTISEMENT]

FARMS FOR SALE. 12,500 livery stock for farm. 160 acres, finely improved, near courthouse, at a bargain. Terma 15,000 down. 225 acres, in Wgrhington county, Ind., n’ne miles north of Salem. This farm has 150 acres of bottom land, has house, good barn, 4 acres of peach orchard, is on R. F. D., and township high school 80 rods from farm. Will trade for property or farm near here. Large brick mill and elevator in Converse, Miami county, Ind., in first-class condition, doing a good business. Will trade this plant clear for farm land or good property. 21 acres, five blocks from court house, cement walk and all nice smooth black land. 35 acres on main road, all good soil, has good small house, new barn and in good neighborhood. Price 150; terms SSOO down. 80 acres, good house and outbuildings, all black land, all cultivation, large ditch through the farm, I’es near station and school, gravel road, and in good neighborhood. Price $65, terms SSOO down. 97 acres, near station, school, on main road and lies between two dredge ditches giving fine outlet for drainage. All black land in cultivation. Good six-room house, large barn. Price $55. Terms. 99 acres, all good corn land and all in cultivation. Has large dredge ditch along one end giving fine outlet for drainage. This farm has fiveroom house, barn, good well, and orchard. Price S6O. Sell on easy teirms or take good property or live stock as first payment. 80 acres at a bargain. This tract of land lies in good neighborhood near school and station and on main road. It is level, a good part prairie and remainder timber, containing considerable saw timber. Wil sell at the low price of $27.50 per acre. Terms SSOO down. “190 acres, all black land, tiled, on gravel raod, telephone, al builiiigf; as good as new, seven-room house, large barn, cribs and granery, wind mill and tanks, fine shade and lawn, ■ woven wire fences and a model farm.'

SIXTY-FIVE (Private Car Excursion Nov. 12.) THREE-FIFTHS of the people who have settled the West and y °uth, according to Government statisticians, have come from within one night’s ride of Chicago. TWENTY PER CENT of the farmers in the corn belt move every year such is the large proportion of farm renters; and such is the restlessness among farmers in the older settled agricultural districts, where lands are too high priced and away out of proportion to the earnings of the soil. SO, it is not to be wondered at,that immigration of farmers, landseekers and home seekers steadily increases to the nearby Swigart Tract in the center of Michigan’s Fruit Belt, in Mason Manistee and Lake counties, where good fruits, good potatoes and and vegetables and good clover grow. S^i TY ’ FIVE i>e OPLE filled our private car on our last semimonthly excursion. We have bigger parties, sometimes requiring two cars, .but this was a very satisfactory crowd as they were all out for business, and we had a record breaker from the standpoint of sales. Weuse automobiles now to show the lands, so it enables one to see more of this great tract which with recent additions still contains over 50,000 acres.

OF THESE EXCURSIONISTS many had sought for land in other localities, but decided that this was the place to buy because ot the good selection, the desirable local markets of Ludington and Manistee with 30,000 people ou the edge of the tract, no land over 5 miles from some shipping point or town in the tract, only 170 miles to the great central market of Chicago, and rearer still to Milwaukee by steamer. Excursionists are surprised to find so many good farms, such a good showing of crops, many schools, section line roads and practically all the advantages of a fully settled country. They like the gently rolling to level lay of the land, abundance of purest water, spring-fed creeks, pretty inland lakes and easily driven wells; the plentiful rainfall and the balmfin.ess and healthfulness of the climate; enough wood for fencing, building and fuel' for years. They find every natural advantage for the new settler of moderate means to go at the businesof farming. It is a genuine opportunity and a rare one. CROPS THE COUNTRY OVER were lareg last year and larger this year, and yet food prices keep going up. The Bureau of Agriculture shows prices thus: Sept. 15, Sept’. 15, 1912. 1911. Beef cattle, per 100 lbs.s 5.35 { 4.43 Veal calves per 100 lbs 6.83 6.11 Hogs, per ”100 1b5.... 7.47 6.53 Sheep per 100 1b5.... 4.11 3.91 Lambs, per 100 1b5.... 5.49 5.02 Milch cows, each 46.79 42.23 Horses, each............ 141.00 139.00 Wool, unwashed, per lb 18.7 c 15.6 c Milk, per ga110n?....... 22.5 c 21.6 c Apples per bushel.,... .62 .70 Cabbage, per 100 lbs.. 1.25 1.94 Onions, per bushel 89 1.04 These prices make people want to get on the producing, selling and money-making side of the fence, instead of being on the consuming, buying and losing side. IT IS UNWISE to delay. You can buy at once by the Swigart plan, whereby a down payment of $lO to SSO and then $5 to $lO per month secures for you 40 acres of land. For all chash 5 per cent off. You are doubly secured in the purchase, because if you should date I will deed the

.... TT I £ G ? T ™ G IjATE in thp Year. Come now while you can still see the lands to good advantage. Come posted. Write todav for full particulars. Address George W. Swigart. owner 124’ First National Bank Bldg., Chicago, 111., or his agent: C. J. DEAN, Rensselaer, Ind.