Excerpt from The Emigrants' Guide to the United States of America: Containing Introductory Remarks; Correspondence From Working Men Who Have Emigrated; Farmers' Life and Circumstances; Climate; Health; Dispositions and Manners of the People; Manufacture; Trade and Commerce, Agriculture; Animals, &C As instances of favourable symptoms to the doing well for a poor man, we find it admitted on all hands that land is plentiful, that there are millions of acres uncultivated and unoccupied, and that it is sold by the government at a very low price - only one and a quarter dollar (about 55. 3d. English money) per acre, freehold of inheritance to the purchaser and his posterity for everl With regard to the prices of stock, we would merely Observe, that a good milch cow, with a calf by her side, can be had at from GBP2. To GBP3. Horses from GBP6. To GBP12. Breeding sows from, 65. To sheep about the same price. Fowls from 33. To 43. Per dozen, _and working men. Being ever scarce, and, as it appears, not the less scarce for many going, because every one aims to be his own employer, and rather makes employment for others, than takes it out of the market wages are good, and kept good, and no worse (as is the case here) for provisions being cheap. Thus it is that a poor man is enabled to get up in life there rather than down, as is every where the casein drained and exhausted England. As a practical illustration of the success working men are meeting with in the western states Of America, we give an extract of a letter from a person of the name of Edward Gabbott, who went from the neigh bourhood Of Leyland, Lancashire. He appears to have been pretty well known in and about that locality, and we make choice of his letter because it is written in a plain and homely style, and appears to have had much influence in causing others to emigrate to the part of the country from whence he writes, and because it brings the affairs of the working and industrious classes to the very bosom and sympathies Of every man, woman, and child in England, who have any thing English left in them. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.