Rensselaer Republican, Volume 19, Number 27, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 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 prico of fuel, has turned the attention of farmer*, homu-soekor*, and others of delicate constitution to the mild climafiy cheap fuel, and low-priced lands of file South. Northern farmers, unacquainted with sugar-cauo and cotton growing, have asked the question, Wfry cannot fruit-growing and stock-raising be made to pay in the South? To discuss these 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 tbe North. Lands arc being seeded down, creameries built, and Northern methods of farming quite generally introduced. Tbe result of all this has turned the tide of emigration Southward, and the Illinois Central Railroad, the direct line be- 1 tween Chicago and New Orleans, and the direct route to the principal markets of the South, West, and North, have Shown their confidence in the"agncultural poss bilities of the South by naming the following convenient land points, viz: Jackson, Telia ; Aberdeen and Jackson, Miss., and Hammond, La. These points have boon selected as a convenience Jo connecting lines in the sale of round-trip Tickets. Stop-over privileges will bo 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 ba bought at other than the points above mentioned For circulars concern ng points South on the. line of the Illinois Central Railroad, where so many Northern people are now settling, apply to J. F. Merry, General Western l’ass. Agent I. G, Ik It., Manchester, lowa.