Iowa news. [volume] (Dubuque, Upper Mississippi Lead Mines, Wisconsin Territory) 1837-1841, 1837-07-15

l. Tbs crops will repay expenses and yield
great profit.
2. Theiand cultivated, and .Ae Lard adjoining,
will be advanced several hundred per cent.
8. If stock is put on the farm, the same may be
Numerically increased, and greatly enhanced in
value, by improving the breed.
Either of these considerations is suf6cien, to JUS
THY cultivation, and guaranty large feturn-
might mention the successful cultivation 81 hay
in the west--from one and half to two tons Is .
fair crop. This can be cut and pressed without
any labor-saving machines, for two dollars per ton
and if the grass was cut by horse power, the exc
pense would be still less. The profits ON one hum
ldred heifers Ut S., might be easily supposed.
Fifty breeding COWS would probably give seven
hundred pigs per annum and by thess means
large farm could be stocked with little capital adj
vanced.
Hay a, New Orleans varies fem $40 10 Asepsr
ton. An average for the last three years may b
$50. The cost Of floating down hay in fiat boass
to New Orleans, may be dollars per ton.
If therefore, fifteen hundred to two thousand
tons of hay could be cut on one thousand acres,
would it not be a profitable crop?
There is practice mentioned by Mr.. Newell,
and highly recommended by others, Of puttihg in
hay seed without ploughing the ground. This 10
done by burning the prairie grass in the spring,
and narrowing in the seed. The seed catches
quick, and grows well. Blue grass, especially,
succeeds in this way, and the grass will sustain
stock all winter, without cutting any hay or fod-
der for them. A large drove of horses were kept
last winter at Indianapolis OH blue grass, OH tho
open fields, at the small expense of one dollar per
head per month.
From personal examination, l am convinced
that ditching aud hedging, as prac,ised in Holland,
England, and France, almost entirely, and now
successfully adopted in Illinois is cheaper than
fencing BY rails.
The general complaint of the earth crumbling
= naAAN
the Sides Mulberry trees might be raised onthe
slope of the ditch, with great profit. Indeed, such
is the ra,fd growth Of the mulberry in these rich
prairie lands that the purchase of this land at
81 IS an acre, and planted with these trees alone,
would in a few years be highly valuable. Such 70
the extent of the prairie, that woodland will ale
ways be valuable for timber. The woodland 10
also itch, and fine for cultivation; and If trees
under certain diameter are cut, fine grazing
farm may be easily made, and the good timber
pfeserved. Similar pastures arc found in ken-
lucky; these yield So profit per acre, annually.
II may be asked, how can non-resdents best cuiti.
yats their lands! would remark, that it is Gus.
tomary to rent land (ohce broke and feDced) for
one third ofthe crops delivered in tho crib or barn.
Al this rent the tenant finds all.
would advise to employ smart entcrprising
Young men from the New England States, to take
the farm OH shares. II The landlord should find
house, team, cart, and plough, aud add sons
stock he might then require one hall the pronts q
the same. would advise TO allow for fencing Or
dtchiug certain sum, and stipulate that the cap
tal invested should be returned before profits weis
divided. "A farmer could in this way earn for
himself from SOC to $1,000 per annum, on
lease for five years.
The second year !, moving machine might b
furnished, if one hundred acres were secuted down
10 tame grass. Mast for swine is found IN great
abundance, and the number of hogs could be easily
Increased TO one thousand, ny auolng 10 ths NUM-
Der of breeding sows.
Corn is SO easily raised, that it is found advans
togeous TO turn the hogs into field of this grains
without gathering il. thas long been the practices
in the State Of New York, 10 raise oats and peas
,oce,her, and turn in the swine 10 harvest sns
same when ripe. Experiments this summer in
Connecticut, show great profit in raising sprlae
whent and oats together, and feeding out tne 49,
10 hogs have omitted 10 say, that good oitumsr
nous coal is found IN the valley OF tine Wsus
The veins are from FIVE 10 ten feet thick, ana
large wagon load will supply one fire ior yssf:
Salt also is manufactured i'll large quantties, ana
SUPERIOR in quality to the Kenhawa salt.
| Farmers in Illinois aud Indiana are now eoc-
cessf,lly enclosing their lands by ditchinE, wnieh
has cost from fifty to seventy-fve cents per roo
The laws of the States Of Indiana ana lhinoiss
compel the owners of lands adjoining 70 pay ons
half of fencing. whenever they make use Oh OF a..
r;. av benei,s from the fences Of their neighbor.
This lessons the expense of fencing one Dali.
n; h, asked what are the profits of cultivation
answer If The land is rented for FIVE years, me
Profits accruing during this period Will repay VIC
rantal advanced III the commencement. win
twenty-five per cent. interest per annum, ana isevs
tho farm worth twenty dollars per acre q tno -
niraton Of the lease. Probably the pront wsu =
much greater.
Yours, respectfully,
| Fl T. ELLswo nTu.