The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Stroudsburg, Pa.) 1853-1911, 1854-06-29
A Mammoth Farmer.

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ber of acres of corn he has this year, i:
twenty-three hundred. This, at forty
bushels per acre, low average yield fol
the last-season, gives ninety-two thous-
and bushels. The corn fed to cattle i:
f not husled, but is cut up and fed to them
on the stalks. Another farm is owned
6 by the same man, which is six miles long
and four broad Last year he paid out
ten thousand dollars for fencing materi-
ais. He has also large tracts of unim-
; proved lands. Strawn is an immense
dealer in cattle.
The above we clip from one of our ex-
changes. JACOB STRAwN is descended
from the same ancestry as the numerous
and much respected family of STRAwNs
now residing in Haycock and Richland
townships, in this county, His father re-
moved from Bucks county, and settled in
the Territory (now the State) of Ohio
He was drover and farmer; and man.
aging his affairs with industry and econ
omy, acquired handsome unincumbercd
landed estate. His son JACOB removed
to and settled in the State of Illinois, at
his present residence. near Jacksonville,
and about one hundred miles from ST.
Louis. He engaged in droving on a
large scale; and by his unbounded enter
prise, united with industry and skillful
management, he became one of the larg-
est and most prosperous dealers in stock
in the United States; and laid the found
alton, life and health being spared, for
being one of the wealthiest citizens of the
country. With all his good fortune, be
now, at the age of about ffty-four years,
continues his personal attention to his ex-
tended business; and his house is we'll
known, with "the latch string out" and
plain but comfortable entertainment, free
of charge, to all who call, with the single
condition that they shall wait upon them
selves and not interfere with his daily
routine of business.
Among his recent visiters were our
sporting friend THORNTON ofthis borough,
and SAMUEL FENToN of Buckingham,
from whom we have gathered some inter-
estiDg facts concerning his operations.-
His landed estate in Illinois amounts to
about 40, 900 acres, all susceptible of cul-
tivatioD, and with deep, rich soil. His
homestead Farm contains about 10000
acres, with large mansion house, ard
about forty tenant houses, with other ex-
tended improvements. 1t is mostly en-
closed with worm fencing, ten or eleven
rails in hight. During the last year, how
ever, upwards of five miles of post and
rail fencing was put up, at cost Of So
so per rod. On this tract he has about
1900 acres of what he calls walnut
brush" which our informants describe as
the most beautiful timber they have even
seen.
His last seasons corn crop of 1880 a
cres he estimated to yield from seventy
to seventy-fve bushels per acre. This
was cut and shocked on the ground, and
fed to his stock during the winter without
husking. lie raised 500 worth Of tim
otby seed and used the whole of it on his
own lands, together with $3.50 worth
more which he purchased,
His stock consists Of about 1000 head
of cattle, 10000 hogs, so brood mares,
and the necessary number of working an
imals
The whole concern is managed under
the superintendent of Mr.. STRAwN, who
is mainly occupied in riding on horse
back over his immense plantation, giving
directions to those in his employ, which
ho requires to be implicitly obeyed; and
he is down most decidedly upon that class
Vi IOdlCIS WIZ llbC NCI4 anu NlGSo gen
teelly at the expense of their creditors.-
He says be dislikes them more than the
swarms of wild geese, brant, and prairie
hens, which annually destroy from two
to three thousand bushels of bis corn.
We might relate much more of interest
concerning Mr.. STRAwN and his farming
operations, with some rich anecdotes, did
time and space permit; but we have said
enough to show the bountiful reward at
tending his enterprise, economy, and in
tegrity in his business relations-a crown
ing success open to all who will pursue
like course, if not in the same degree, ct
least in an ample measure Bucks cou'a-
ty LatelltgenceT.
A couple of the most efficient members
of the Shakers Society, at Enfield, sud
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