The Davenport daily gazette. [volume] (Davenport, Iowa) 1856-1869, 1857-09-07
THE DAILY GAZETTE.
SEPTEMBER, I
visii 10 IN Illiusis Farm.

Yesterday afternoon wc rude out to the
farm Of Thomas Mcneil, sit,.- led six miles
south of this city. IL contains 200 acres
u which Goo have been broken, and loo
are now in crops. fcss than two years ago.
tins farm ~ what ~As called Wild land. Mr.
Mcneil then lived on . iuO acre farm whicli
he still owns in the tawn III Owen. NInae
bago County. six miles ir,m Rockford. tine
thousand acres Of the present farm he enter
cd with land warrants at one dollar per
acre. Tue other thousand be purchased
year ago last November Of the Illinn.s Cen
trsl X. X. Co, for SD per acre. lie com
menccd making Improvements upon this
form year a,o last March AMI he has since
that time expended about Sl2 90 upon H.
Tie has built elegant tenant house, &c. he
sades two story white ho't-c in which he
resides himself, AMI ha. buit al~u 'Relcs
sastes of fence, part Il u board fcncc aud
part wire. lie has ten families living on
his plsntatlon-ior Il n certainly deserving
that ramc--ali II aAoil arr thriving and
happy. Mr.. Mcneil furnishes the seed, AMI
the, do the work AMI give him halt the
gram they raise. By this arrangement Mr..
NcNeil> time is chiefly occupied ia visiting
TIE different portion, II hi- domain, and
wortay vile seem to ENJOY IL A. they should,
and arr surrounded nv happy AMI .'antent
ri oirrle ~ families. all e wlon are prs
I'cfin9 To tleir heart content. la one field
he las 10 acres IT wheat. anil ~ another
auu, maxim. 30 in all. lie thinks IL can
be saisly estimated NJ - bushels Ia the
acre, making Al aggregate IL =, 500 bushels
liz has also ~ .cr,.. uf corn and cats Tie
- a.
Last year was the first crop he ever rai>ei
-, an. part Of u. The year before he broke
JtU asre-, last year lac hrs,ke 40. and this
year he has broken JsD NOR. Tie e.ri IL
breaking j. 81 per acre. Tie keeps isD head
II cattle, and L. horses lie las three
toantiful springs which will watcr the " hole
tract, and with n gopd water A. We ever
tasted, lie has also a good stone quarry,
out III which he has already taken some 30
cords a stone. In short, his farm j. in every
respect, Just that IL should be- t. make IL
une II the mo-. desirable holmes in tLe
world. IL lac, handsomely rolling, a~ far n
tue eye can roach. AMI the sol j. rich and
icep-no better can be- found r" mn Eas-
tern man, an aosonnt like thi-. a farm
which, when only atout halt II II j. IA cr,p,
yields ala income of from s.suubO to So, Usv.
SEEMS To BE- fabulous And IL will appear
even more " hen w. state that but lev
YEAR an Mr.. McNeli wa = popr man
psorer than nine trnths N those who read
this article. lie Is entirely selfmaie lie
Mas poor but honest and industrious, and
with that only A. capital u start upon, he
now stands up ~ one u the richest and hap
pest men In this section nf tie country.
IL. came into Winneb.so county about
nineteen years ago, and when be arrived al
Rockford, has entire inventory Il this worlds
g,'od- Was . span of horses and wagon, n
wife and three children, and fiity cents IN
money.
Mr.. Mcneil has five reaper- an a-e GA las
,arm-tl.ree Of ths Rockford machines, one
n the Fountain Reaper. and one Og Seymour
a Morgan's self-rakcr- lie says thcv are
all first class machines. all doing their work
up Handsomely. The only one W. had ri
opportunity Il seeing a. il xa- nearly night
when We reacaed thcrel Was the Fountain
rcapr Its work was done IN the bet man
ner.-fnqporf Joaraa'.