Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1855-08-24

caii YOU " that tiile thouSh unacquaint.
ed, as long as you adhere to the same
principles as those you now advance,
principles which every American born
citizen shonld firmly adhere to. aid also
Try to carry on, ,he grea, objec, OF " liner.
ieani:ing Amuiea,' Here in our state
! in the far west the cause is growing fine
/ ly aud will soon speak in loud tones in
favor Of The one great object. | have
not been in the ives, grce, while (av-
ing come from the east las, falD bu, l
have been here long enough to know
something what the feeling is for our
common cause. va. in your state last
| fall and found the cause was growing
rapidly there and coming here found II
WAS doing the same, bu, while the feel
ines in the Eas, and Yves, are SO nearly
alike for the benefit of our country, wha,
contrast is to be seen in the face Of the
country itself. East you find hills,
mountains, timber. rocks &c. on every
side, while Yves, we have broad prairIes.
gently un1uatlng or nearly level, with
here and there a nice lille brook crossing
them, towards the rivers that serve as
boundaries for the prairies. Timber here
is rather scarce or might say a little
more would not be announcement. Our
timber here confines itself TO the banks
of the creeks aud rivers and is generally
Of the hardest kinds, comprising the va.
rietes Of Hickory and Oak, the latter Of
which we have four kinds, all Of which
are very valuable, VIZ: White, Red,
Back and Burr Oaks. Then we have
T large quantities Of Black Walnut and
White " alnut or Bu,ternu,, Ash, Hack.
berry aud Linn or Eastwood. We have
no evergreens 10 speak Of no Pine,
Spruce, lIemlock or Cedar as you have
east, probably owing their humiliation to
the fires which have Tagged over tie prai-
ries every season and extend into the tim
: Der land.
Oar rivers are clear and rapid, running
over hard gravel bottom mostly. aud The
climate is generally as far as ! can learn.
don't think people IN Maine or any 9th
er OF the y Z Stat es need be afraid o
, coming ives, on account of sickness.
don't think as a correspondent OF the
keunehec journal says OF the west tina,
III is an unhealthy country. II IS true
, that people have the fever and a.ne here
some, but that is not dangerous disease
aud II persons are as careful here OF Their
health as they are cas-, they need not fear
the ague, and we have no other sickness
, worth mentioning. We have not raany
cases Of consumption or pro,racted lever
| or other diseases tina, we nave east, aud
do think we have less sickness III TIL:
, western country according 10 the mum
Der oil uh abiiaals than YOU do cast
Aside from health we have many o,hel
. advantages IN this couniry. We have
good level land free from rocks and stone
aud good rich soil from three 20 ST,
fee, in depth equal IN richness to ant o
. the highly improved ttIlage land of any
u OF the best farmers in the New EngIam,
States, 81 you see We have no stones /,
pick, rocks 10 dig or manuring to do be
II fore we have good moving lol or lot 70
i tl!lage. But still as TO manuring it ha:
:; GO, TO be done eventually or the lane
must run on, in time. don't favor tn,
: idea Of continually skinnIng the land an'
= never manu:ing as some do The bes
Of land canno, las, forever in that way
but farming here is nothing as far a.
la boz is concerned to what it is east
u thiak it would be far better for man,
: hundreds Of people cas-, to come west ant
J. take up land and cultivate it and live
: rather than remain east and work day al
ter day and then ''hardly stay" as The
: saying goes. Here land can be got fol
: one dollar and twenty five cents per acre
: therefore one hundred and sixty acres o
as good land as any farmer would wish ,e
till, can be got for the small sun Of two
T hundred dollars, and small house car
be pu, up. for little or nothing, Of logs
if they have no, the means to build any
: other, then they are prepared to lise.l hen
little fencing done and sc, in your seed
: one crop Of corn will pay TOT breaking
up the ground and fencing. Here we
have way oil planting what we call "sod
corn" that would make some Of the old
Maine farmers laugh at US, suppose
We sirew the corn on the grass near the
edge Of the furrow a Ind pillow j, under, and
I do not touch ii again until harvest. when
+ We harvest from twenty to fifty bushels
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