New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1851-08-06
MICHIGAN
The Land OF Michigan-Farming- >beep-rais-
Labor Information for Unmarried
Fmiprant,-Price of Farm,-tcntrnl Rail
Correspondence Of The Tribune.

Correspondence OF Tie tribune.
TUESDAY,. July -.
The first forty miles ON the Railroad,
from Detroit, Is an aguish.iookins track, bog.
ry and swampy the most of It and yet II has
It's settlers. And am told that when drained
even IN the simple manner OF our great grand
fathers, makes excellent farm, AZ a log cab
IN On the roadside | saw q group OF three men
loune.ng. sitting and smoking about the door
the first verltcauou had met with OF Bingham,
Western Groups Near ipSi'lntl the land INT
proves and thence - Auu-AruOr lt Is a very
handsome country, after that u IS various, IRE
queu..y prt.tnliug tamaraCA sWamps although
Understand che worst section Is near the road.
and that land O., better as You 80 bach from the
road on both sides.
st0pped Ut Marshall 4 day To see the country
ana friend and had placed m nv hand when
retired-Shat had almost forgotten the exist.
euce ola tallow candle Farming lands here
IRE good naturally. but farming Is very poorly
attended 70. | have found farmers attempting To
manage WIKI their own hands or 40 most with
one A. sistant. farms of 100 acres. with 100 TN
der CT uvatiOn excepting that thcy hire OGc Or
TWO extra hands, when they can get them, during
harvest If | ain correctly informed, Nj Mapes,
# New-IeTScV. has fourteen persons cOnstaAly
employed on his farm OF seventy acres, ana
have no doubt but the seventy acres pay nm
notwithstanding all his expense 1t Is not Likely
that 50 much help i wanted IN Michigan, bu'
certainly two or thee aborers on farms where
400 acres are cultivated. would never be too
MANY to keep u thoroughly titled and IN good
order. while the extra produce ~ such manage
neut would easily pay. ~ M opinion, elght or
ten mems wages, IL the same time that the farm
Is continually Improving III value ana productive
ness Farms which some years ago gave thrty
bushels wheat 70 the acre. now yield 10 u ~
bushels other crops III the same proportion. II
IS the penny-w.se and pOundoolsh policy
Their sta5le-maAure and occasionally little
MASTER. are the only manure they dream Of using.
and not too frequently do they use these. Lime
can be bought for l.. 20 H. cents per bushel,
probably could be burnt By the farmers !Or much
less But 80, It would never pay ana tAlS
!, their conclusion, without GIVING It a thai
The present high price OF wool and the very
lttle trouble which sheep give IN raising anu
keepinq. have attracted the attention Of the
wb6ic farming community. and they would all
now iuv sheep If they could get them. Ny
Giends flock Melted hlm this season, reckoning
wool and increase. over = mead OrdIhaff
.h.e, have hitherto been bought for = . each
II = thus easy 20 that tLes pay ldlBe HitCl'
-, or course they now command higher price,
and therefore many conclude mat A. eieIy oir
/, GONG INTO the wool business, oy and ~ II VIII
be oyerdoue. 90 not think that tnis can "eH
600 Unlike wheat. which ~ or option NAY
lie q large or SINAI. crop. sheep can have na'pfai
increase only and against the natural increase
hero are th6,o that grow old AMI must be allied
and furthermore. a. TIE demand Tor WOOL iOt nome
manufacture Is continually increasing. THINK
mus, fc evident that sheep-ra.sing VIII not gro"
much TOO fast Sheep IN Michigan are rem'f'a'
BIZ healthy. .....,,
Labor i. paid good wages II 'hls state con con
mon farm laborers getting cl2 per month TX
uerienced men readily command 80 ana - one
farmer said. the reverse OF what II IS tas,, '''
.rnvlover has 10 court their smiles at mat nam
farmers through the state nave lost iuhs o. ~
no; beng able. fr0s want 0fneip 70 save II 'eioie
the wheat harTeSt- g.. ...,
Unmarried en- grants vii dnl this state one
IN which they can fnd prompt AMI feA''iieia''ls
employment ,,e,,r,,,,
Iotyltf standing that the system u 'erlilIs
hen. furnishes the rlire OF land. ~ pflee rapiip
,rcrea>e, Farms that three year. ago eou iu p,
Longb, from Sl2 to 50 per acre. now sen ~,
"a ard - per acre. although ~ many PAGES a.
,s,s.aTcs frdrn the Railroad. they can be bought
To ,na,,,geuent ofthc Michigan Central Kali
,oad IA, pt,ra nuch dissatisfaction to tae cen