A farmer, living near Clinton, Monroe county, brought his
last year’s crop of tobacco down last week, for which he received $9 per
hundred, in gold, and which averaged 1,200 pounds to the acre, making one year’s
products bring up $118 per acre!
A friend of ours asked him if land in his neighborhood could
not be bought at from $30 to $40 per acre.
He replied “Yes, from 35 to 37.”
At this rate the products of one acre for one year, would purchase the
rise of 15 acres for all time.
Think of the Eastern and Southern farmers and govern
yourselves accordingly. – {Hannibal Messenger.
– Published in The Burlington Weekly Hawk-Eye,
Burlington, Iowa, Saturday, February 8, 1862, p. 2
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