The Boston Herald, in an editorial on the work of the SOUTHERN STATES, says: “The reports are extremely favorable in regard to richness and variety of crops, and the chief danger seems to be that the speculators in Southern lands, as well as many of the railroads, hold their lands at such prices as to dissuade the poorer but industrious class of immigrants from taking them up.” The danger apprehended by the Herald does not at all exist. There are many millions of acres of the best land in the South that can be had for prices that are merely nominal. The trouble is not that there is any fault to be found with the land, but there are not people enough in the South to cultivate more than a small part of the land, and the surplus is, therefore, in a sense valueless, no matter how rich and productive it may be. There are a good many millions of acres of railroad land, and in some of the States State land, that can be had for such prices and upon such terms as nobody can find fault with. And as to the private holdings of individuals, there is too much land in every part of the South unused, and therefore too many owners anxious to sell a part of what they own, to make possible any speculative putting up of prices. How to Reach Prospective Immigrants. That North Carolina needs immigrants of the right kind is too universally admitted to call for proof; and that all efforts heretofore made in this direction have been practically a failure seems also clear. It seems equally clear that circulars, handbooks and the State press fail of their purpose in this respect, because they never reach the class we desire to influence.--The Gazette, Washington, N. C. The Gazette is right. Many thousands of dollars are wasted in printing books and pamphlets that nobody ever reads. There is a way, however, to reach the class it is desired to influence. It can be done through the SOUTHERN STATES. The SOUTHERN STATES is a journal of information about the South. It is engaged in the work of making known the resources in soil, climate and agricultural capabilities, of the Southern States. And such is the desire for accurate and comprehensive information about this section that although the magazine has been in existence only a year it goes into every part of New England, the Middle States, the West and the Northwest, and is read by thousands of farmers and business men who are seeking to inform themselves as to the most attractive localities in the South. The SOUTHERN STATES furnishes a channel through which to reach effectively the class of possible immigrants needed in the South. Work of Southern Railroads in Promoting Immigration.