A four-roomed house would cost about 1,200 dollars.

Live poultry cost about 6 dollars per dozen.

Cows, 25 to 50 dollars each.  Horses, 75 to 150 dollars each.  Sheep, 3 to 4 dollars each.

Cultivators cost from 7 to 15 dollars each.  Ploughs and harrows about the same price.  A riding cultivator, 45 to 50 dollars.  Pruning shears, 3 dollars.

Day labour costs 1 dollar per day and board; but, in harvest time, 1-1/2 dollar per day and board.

Carpenters, 2-1/2 dollars per day, sometimes with and sometimes without board.

Fencing costs 500 dollars (i.e., L100) a mile.  To fence a 20-acre lot would cost 350 dollars (i.e., L70); but if the eight forming the quarter section joined together, it would cost each about 130 dollars (i.e., L26).  The fence would be a 6-inch board at bottom, then 30 inches of wire netting to keep out rabbits, then another 6-inch board and a barbed wire at top.

Firewood costs 6 to 7 dollars a cord of hard wood, or 5 to 6 dollars of willow wood; a cord of wood is 4-ft. by 4-ft. by 8-ft.

TAKE CLOTHING AND BRIC-A-BRAC.

All kinds of clothing are dear.  A good suit would cost L7 to L8, or, if ready made, L5.  Settlers should therefore take with them plenty of clothes, sufficient, say, to last for five years, including boots, blankets, linen, etc.; also bric-a-brac, and anything to add cheerfulness and refinement to the home, but they should not take furniture nor animals.  Guns they might take, but not tools nor implements.

SEA PASSAGE FROM ENGLAND.

Steamships run from Liverpool and Southampton at the following rates:—­

1.—­Cunard Company’s Line.  Liverpool to New York.  During the summer months—­

1st class. 2nd class. 3rd class.

From L12 12s. to L26 5s.  L7 L4.

During the winter months—­

1st class. 2nd class. 3rd class.

L10 10s. to L25 L7 L4.

The third-class passengers are provided with a free ticket from London to Liverpool.

2.—­Inman Line.  Liverpool to New York—­

First class fares from L10 10s. to L25.  Second class fares from L6 10s. to L7 7s.  Third class fares L4.

The third class includes a free ticket from London to Liverpool.

3.—­The “White Star” Line.  Liverpool to New York

1st class.                  2nd class.       3rd class. 
Summer season—­L15 to L28                  L7 to L9         L4.

Winter season—­L10 10s. to L18 L6 10s. to L8 L4.

The third class passengers are provided with a free ticket from London to Liverpool, and free tickets, if required, from New York to Boston or Philadelphia.

4.—­North German Lloyd Company.  Southampton to New York—­
    First class, L14 to L23.  Second class, L10.