New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1853-10-25

ls-rsuent could never have occurred.
Irdiana now ranks Is BY 10 means new Stagei SIZE
Is -s,her an elder among the states admitted since the
Union. having eleven Members in ihe House AMI over
one lion OF inhabitants and ye. We l01b; that one
eighth sher arabic soil has even this year been snb
iected to cultivation such is made do there. lhis
STATE has less prairie than Illinois an i probably less
fertile wien first cultivated AZ all events bit IFS more
eastern location and abundance Of good timber gfe
advantages not easily overcome ana unless Chicago
IS 20 rival Cincinnati doubt that say living
VII gee Illinois equal in populstionso Indiana.
Corn is the chief st4ple-Indian Corn Maize or is
results, Pork and Whisky. We passed, during
recent visit many corn-feld large enough for pretty
good school district though did not see the arges,
byany means. An old frendnOw farming in the Wabash
Valley is interested in the purchase Of township Of
/ Prcirie-six niles square. without q tree or human
bab.tatieD upon (which was taken mp last spring
broken up an pat into corn, OF which the yield is
timated az ty bushels per acre, OF oreT one B5a Of
tssEes from six nile plat Of ground, which fed
any thing but Wild animals till now OF course. the
state at this rate, might produce enough TO feed
the entire Union and have enough left to make al the
/ Pork that ought TO be eaten and more Whisky than
sortd be drank by the present generation.
grown on brokeu-up Prairie At SIR cents per bashel
This leaves it standing in tie field but suppose it
IS worth six cents more to gather and she'll it, rs ne.
coat is bur shilling per buhel, leaving to the grower
at the present average price of 81 cents net profit
of % cents per bushel $40 per for average
Weld of forty bushels As there is much ID prairie yet
to be bought for Si per acre and breaking up costs
but - Per acre tie Indiana farmers surely neel not
complain of hard times.
In tie cultivation labor is economical to the utmost
Hoeing is unknown planting is done BY drill other
machine which drops and covers; and, indeed, are
assured that planter often attached to the breakng
UP pOw, which deposits the seed at proper intervals IN
the furrow covers it, and there it is left til harvest
tme-newly broken land not being supposed to require
aitertillaec The blowing shallow leaving the crop
exposed to drouth and everything is done on the prin
cpe Of getting the most product for tue least labor
this year and letting next year look ont for itself That
much OF the land so used should be horribly infested
with no1Ous weeds, is matter Of course
Our cid friend H. L. Ellsworth ex-Patent Commits
soner who has done large business in converting
coed prairie into shallow vicious AID halfexhaustei
tiIlage Las undertaken ono enterprise which we
heartily approve. He is gathering peach-stones,
for which he is paving fifty cents per bushcl and
VIII plant fifty bushels If them in the center
of great prairie which he is breaking up.
There they viii grow uzurisntly AMI soon bear, when
lie viii have the Peaches gathered and dried by women
on shares and so for four or five years growing Corn
or some otLer crop among them AMI thus keeping tie
land in good condition Then he VIII cut lowu the
trees for fuel, and have growth from the roots
This lie believes the cheapest AMI quickest way to ge
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dance OF Dried Fruit Of which, has beoa half
enough IL tie country We trust this enterprise my
Be crowned viii abundant success
Tie best portions Of the prairios not Jet cult
waited, being wet Cheap bitches would dry them but
The pioneers scout e idea Of dching where dry land
is 80 cheap aud so thousands Of fertile produce
nothing but sour grass and nOxi0u weeds to nes the
aGiannt tiloce This cannot last always Mr.. Els
worth Las done something toward draining in rude,
slovenly way, by turning up heavy burrows each way
into ridge not 70 steep as to wash down with an open
ditch on each side II says this will stop cattle, and
that two men with good team and suitable plow will
make half mile of it per day. Though very poor
ditchng and we should judge poor fencing it is better
than none and may lead to better still and when those
portions of the prares rendered useless by water
slall be drained and cultivated, they will prove the
richest of all
Tie mass our Eastern people as they esteem des-
er waste shrubless deadleycl olgtering sand gene
rally picture 10 themselves prairie aloyey velvet floor
70 mingled grass and flowers, level dry and delightful,
with silvery brooks dancing and laughing across the
landscape. The cold reality is somewhat different
from this The actua prairies have decided tendency
to the marshy, and Though many Of them wholly,
and others partly dry eEough) VIII turn out as much
black mud TO tie county any other land we ever
saw Their surface is often rolling undulating
10. sufficiently to abundance Of springs or
an adequate fOw to the brooks which too few too
scanty and too sluggish 4 clearly bred duck would
fight shy OF most of them and might his bill down,
owing TO the dry grass in the very center Of many Of
them, without finding any thing bat muddy. oozy
dlmpness. Rich as the soil il, the scarcity Of water
through most Of tie summer and fall must prove Sc
Iious drawback its value until reservoirs can be
formed and irrigation resorted to.
beautiful as the prsres doubtless arc in June, il
the young freshness of their heritage and nnumerabe
flowers they are anything but fascinating in October,
when their edible grass has been cropped by cattle.
their flowers Lave vanished leaving only rank growth
OF coare weeds and sour harsh grasses, al stGened
and enbrOwned by age and frost. The contrast be-
tween ills and the bright vartcolored foliage Of the
adjacent forests and belts spurs and cumps of timber
is very striking and not OF all to the prairie, adEan-
tage.
The most eligible wild lands are those combining
timber and prairie in about equal proportions 50 in
terspersed that the one is rarely more than mile
two from the other Northern Indiana embracing La