Our nte lAndL
Now that tbe wave of emigration has
found a western shore upon which it re
coils, the current must stop or find some
other direction. Tbe limit of successful
agriculture in the West seems to have
been reached, for already thousands of
settlers bave found that they have gone too
far and have actually penetrated tbe arid
districts where bo vegatable growth can
thrive without irrigation, although it may
exist without iu It is therefore well that
attention should be called to the vacant
lands in the East and South, where there
are millions of acres which need only cheap
reclamation to become productive. The
broad Alleghany ranges, with their outlying
spurs aud parallel ridges, are all but unoc
cupied, and land on those hills and in the
valleys between them can be purchased in
large tracts for nominal prices. Whole coun
tries in Maine, New York, Pennsylvania,
West Virginia, Tennessee and Kentucky,
large tracts in other States and smaller
'tracts almost everywhere, are ready and
wailing to be reclaimed. Parts of them
may be profitably turned to timber cul
ture and tbe remaining portion, the better
share of the land, is admirably adapted to
grass and grazing either fur lighter and
moreiardy beeves or the hardier kinds of
sheep. The attention of those philanthropic
societies, who aim to encourage Ihe sealing
of industrious men of small means upon
farms of their own, might be turned to
these tracts, upon which annual fires now
purposely set every Spring, destroy the
young timber and kill the grass and so keep
back their reclamation.
NO. 15.
Paper Weights aad lekstaadj.
