The Potter journal. [volume] (Coudersport, Pa.) 1857-1872, 1857-05-28
Plant Every Foot of Ground,

Country should induce the farmers OF
this County to plant epery foot Of avalla-
BILE ground. Corn meal Is worth at
present $500 per hundred In Couder-
sport, and it will doubtless be higher be-
fore harvest. for corn is now worth taco
I dollars per 6ushel in the hart OF Iowa.
And these prices will be pretty sure TO
continue for more than a year to come,
for so many people have gone west this
spring. and so much money has been
withdrawn from agricultural purposes to
invest in land speculating, that there
must of necessity be less grain raised than.
last year, Another reason is thus stated
by the n, Y. Eve. Post,
"The danger is, however, that there
will not be seed enough left In the West
to plant land ON an average area
High prices ordinarily tempt the farmer
to sow and plant wider surface, but
when farmers are feeding wheat to their
horses, and people are obliged to subsist
on one meal of corn or -four day, it is
not likely that an average quantity OF
seed will be reserved for planting. I'm
der these circumstances it is premature
to calculate upon any great abundance or
considerable reduction in the price of
provisions during the coming year."
Therefore we urge our farmers to rely
upon themselves, 1t is not safe to rely
upon the West, and if it was, why should
not our own farmers reap the benefit of
the almost stor0ing prices which are near.
ly certain to rule for a year to come.
Z OF the present condition of the West,
the n. Y Eve Post says:
In Iowa the traveller finds no hay or
straw for horses at any of the hotels
AT Des Monies corn is considered cheap
at two dollars, and can scarcely be had
at that 1t is reported that five dollars is
the regular price in many places between
there and Council Bluffs Dead horses
and cattle along the road are said to be
ordinary sights. Wheat seems to be
nearly as scarce as corn and hay, Flour
is selling at five dollars and fifty cents
per hundred and rising High as this
price is, farmers who could afford it were
feeding their carriage-horses on wheat.
The suffering in Michigan has been
80 extreme that public meetings have
been held and measures taken by the pub
lie authorities for relieving the detitute.
The Relief Committee of Lansing report
that in Gratiot county people were sell
ling their land for means to get away with
: that none have provisions to last more
than two or three weeks. What they
have, consists Of flour and meal merely;
they have no meat, the smoke last fall
from the extensive fires having driven of
: the deer. .... .. .. r
One of the most substantial farmers
in the town of Arcadia reports that in his
neighborhood most of the families have
only a few potatoes left for seed; they
have divided with each other until they
l can divide no more, and have seed t.
plant. Each has from one TO three bush
f els, He had last season one and halt
acres of fine corn, that was cut off by an
early frost when it was in the milk, and
he could only use it for provender for his
cattle. The cattle have had to subsist
; mostly through the winter on browse
He heard of neighborhoods north of him
from ten to thirty and even sixty miles,
that have nothing but oats to boil fol
food, and that one woman and two ol
three children west of him, in Moltealn
county had died for want Of food"
Let us be thankful that we are Sc
highly favored as tobe in nosuoh danger
as is here described, and let us show oul
thankfulness by improving the soil under
our control to the best of our ability
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2 R9" The following local laws have
passed the Legislature and received the
| signature of the Governor during the. latc
t session
$ An act to release the Prothonotary Of
+ Potter County from certain taxes.
An act providing for the support of
, the Coudelsport Academy.
An act to inaornorate the NAVIGATION