§ 1 h it a tril T O TO ALL THOSE WHO INTEND TO BUILD A HOME THERE, MAY THE FLOURISHING AND FERTILE P R A I R. I E - S T A T E UNFOLD, FROM YEAR TO YEAR, MORE AND MORE GLORIOUSLY; A N D . MAY WIRTUE, WEALTH, AND HAPPINESS, ro * EW ER HAVE THEIR ABODE WITHIN HER BORDERs. PAGE * LAWS — LAND TITLES - “............. 168 . ExECUTION OF DEEDS AND MORTGAGES ... 172 FORM OF ACKNOWLEDGMENT ...... - 173 RECORDING OF DEEDS AND MORTGAGES .............................................................. 174 THE PROBATE AND RECORDING OF WILLS ......... - 177 TITLE TO REAL ESTATE BY INHERITANCE 179 LEVY AND CollecTION OF LAND TAxES.. 180 LAND TAx FORFEITURES AND REDEMPTION 184 LIMITATION OF ACTIONS - f ....... 184 LIMITATION FOR THE RECOVERY OF REAL ESTATE......... ... 185 ExEMPTIONS ......................................” 186 PROMISSORY NOTES AND BILLS OF EXCHANGE 193 RIGHTS OF MARRIED WOMEN AND WIDOWS # 194 ESTRAYS it is so o os o o o so e o so to so to e o so to o is to to so to $ to 4 & 195 STATISTICS......... ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 218 CLIMATE, SOIL, PLANTS, AND ANIMALS ..................... 230 (5) BREAKING THE SOIL............................................................................. 310 DIVISION OF FARMS, ROTATION OF CROPS, AND MANURING......... • -- - - - - - - - - - - - ... 312 BARLEY .................................. to s e e s e e o 'o & is to - ............... 328 RYE ......... no o so to go to e o 'o o • *----- “....................... 329 BUCKWHEAT .... “............................... 320 HOPS ................... & so •-----------------------------............... 330 POTATOES... • * * * * * * * * * * * * * * *** * * * * * * g o o, ø, o g o $ to 330 SWEET POTATOES........... * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * g g g g g e or... 882 FLAX........................ to go to - * * * * g e o see s = e s s a see * to e o & © e o e e 333 BR00M CORN ..................... - “................... ... 336 CHERRY......... • e s : ~~~~ - . - 345 GRAPE CULTURE .......... “...... . :- “............... ... à é & to go to 348 GROWING OF TIMBER...... ~~~~ - . ... 352 THE MACLURA HEDGE................ ~~~~~~ 885 MAPLE SUGAR........................ ------------ t e o es e. -------------................. 363 CATTLE BREEDING...... - . - 365 MARKET PRICEs................ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~ * geology AND MINING............. -------- - ... ... 816 CoMMERCE AND MANUFACTURES OF CHICAGo.......... - ... 388 LANDS AND THEIR PRICES - - * ..... 401 THE LANDs of THE ILLINois CENTRAL RAILROAD........ 10. PUBLIC INSTITUTIONs............. ------------------------- - ... 486 NEWSPAPERS.... * * * * * * * - ~ ... 439 WEIGHTS AND MEASURES # * * ~~~~ ............... 444 HINTs to IMMIGRANTs........................ “..........................................' ... 445 IN presenting this book to the Public, it seems proper to me, to make a brief, but candid and respectful, mention of the motives which have induced me to write it, as well as the means I adopted to collect and secure, in a - reliable form, the large amount of material and truthful information that will be found to make up its contents. - . Having for a long while past endeavored. in seeking to aid and direct the great mass of the emigration from Europe, to find and to point out what seemed the best way to the advancement of their welfare, my attention was early given to the remarkable developments which have been, and are still, made in the Western States. While thus employed, I made myself fully acquainted with the prevalent literature of the West, and became a close observer of “the progress of events” in the new States. Through this employment, and by such observations, my judgment, I trust, has been rightly matured, so that I may freely utter my own convictions, as entitled to some weight, that Illinois is, if really not the most attractive, at least one of those States which offer the amplest guarantees for the rapid thriving and ultimate success and welfare of those who may seek to establish for themselves a “Home in the West.” - . . 3. After having thus sedulously made myself acquainted with the character of the West in general, and especially still more carefully studied everything relating to Illinois, I resolved upon the preparation of this work; and, for the purpose of facilitating my labors, I made a personal visit through the State, in the fall of the year 1855, and examined things with my own eyes. It has not, however, been my object to write a merely pleasing and saleable book, without the strictest regard to the authenticity and truthfulness of its statements. Well knowing the aptitude of even the most honest observer and candid writer, while travelling through a State in order to gain a more intimate knowledge of it, to be filled with false first-impressions, misapprehensions, and monotonous judgments, I have not, therefore, solely relied upon my own personal observations and experience; but sought, in all that I have |
