Average per Acre. Wheat, 18,500,000 bushels, 18-1/2 Corn, 6,125,000 " 35 Oats, 11,816,400 " 43 Potatoes, 2,745,000 " 90 Barley, 625,000 " 30.6 Rye, 58,000 " 18 Buckwheat, 28,000 " 16 Hay, 430,000 tons, 2.08 Wool, 390,000 pounds. Butter, 5,600,000 " Cheese, 145,000 " Sorghum, 80,000 gallons syrup. Maple Sugar, 300,000 pounds. Flax, 170,000 " From this it would seem that the State is destined to be one of the most productive in the Union. "Have they good schools out there?" Just as good as in New England. Two sections of land are set aside for the common-school fund. The entire amount of school lands in the State will be three million acres. These are sold at the rate of five dollars per acre, and the money invested in State or government bonds. Governor Marshall, in his last message, estimated the sum ultimately to be derived from the lands at sixteen million dollars. A school tax of two mills on the dollar is levied, which, with the interest from the fund, gives a liberal amount for education. "At what season of the year ought a man to go West?" That depends very much upon what you intend to do. If you are going to farming, and intend to settle upon the prairies, you must be there in season to break up your ground in July. If the sod is turned when the grass is full of juices, it decays quickly, and your ground will be in good condition for next year's ploughing. If you go into the timbered lands along the Lake Superior and Mississippi Railroad, or along that of the Northern Pacific, you can go any time; but men having families will do well to go in advance and select their future home, and make some preparations before cutting loose from the old one. "Which is the best way to go?" You will find either of the great trunk railroads leading westward comfortable routes, and their rates of fare do not greatly vary. "Do you think that the State will have a rapid development?"