The weekly north Iowa times. [volume] (McGregor, Iowa) 1857-1867, 1857-12-23
From the Council bluffs Dugle.
Iowa and Nebraska against tho World

From the Council bluffs Dugle.
Iowa and Nebraska against the World
There is no country in the world
where the farmer gets a greater return
for the labor bestowed than in Iowa and
Nebraska. Here in Iowa good crops
are raised with less labor than is ex-
pended in the Eastern States in prepar-
ing the ground to receive the seed
All we have to do here is to turn the
sod over and plant the seed and three
times as much will be produced upon
the acre as can be produced in the Eas-
tern portion of the Union on the high
est cultivated lands. If one of our far
mers should attempt to raise a crop in
New York, or any of the New Eng
land States, with the same amount OF
labor expended here, he would not raise
enough TO make the amount Of seed
planted. Two years ago we raised six
ty-six cabbsges on piece of ground
but eighteen feet sqnare, and these cab
bages averaged fourteen lbs. and one
ounce to the heoa-to:al weight NINE
hUNDHED AMI IWGNII -AAunI 1oVNDo
AND TWO OUNCES! We also raised four
hundred bushels of turnips off of six
ty-two rods Of ground-the heaviest
turnip weighing thirteen pounds and
two ounces. We raised blood beet last
year which measured thirty-6ve and a
half inches in length and thirty-two
inches in circumference. This is what
we have done in the way of raising ve-
getables. William Garner raised eigh-
ty-two and half bushels Of oats per
acre off of four acres Of land without
ploughing after raising crop of corn
on the same the year before. Judge
James raised eighty-seven and a hall
bushels of wheat off of one and a fourth
acre of land. So much for Western
Iowa.
The following we clip from the Oma'
di Enterprise, published in Nebraska
Let our Eastern friends read it, and
then if they are content to remain in
the Eastern States and druid sc and slave
out their lives among stumps and stones
stuck into soil of blue and yellow clay
which produces nothing naturally, ex
cept horse sorrel, Spanish needles ane
Canada thistles' let them do SO, for they
are no, worthy of better fate ant
country, wEo have not the energy to re
move to it:
LARGEST CRoP ON RECORD
West,oard the Star Of Empire takes Il
Way!
There can be no stronger verifcatiol
Of this sentiment than that afforded by
agriculture. Many of our readers Cal
remember when Ohio ecliped the olde
States, but to be surpassed by Indiana
and how Illinois next wore the wreath
to yield it in turn to Iowa and Missouri
who now have to give place to Nebras
Ia, who is to be crowned the Conquer
or Of tie ConqMerors
Here are statements of some of ou
Nebraska crops, raised in this county
in the bottom this place is situated
Let every one read them for they ar
the largest crops We have ever heard o
Raised by Isaac Morton, on the Oms
; ha Greek bot ON. Dakota County. NJ
braska, the following described crop o
one and one tenth acres Of land:
. On lO4 rods, 1T bushels of corr
On the remaining 72 rods. 100 bushel
Of potatoes from two bushels Of seed.
besides using from them for his famil
t of seven, from the time they were larg
} enough. which would easily take twcl
+ ty five bushels from the crop; 100 head
Of cabbage. 80 small and imperfe'
ones no. counted;) As gallons of c'
: cumber pickles, and could have save
as many more; g bushels Of onions, a
/. ter using from them for his family; pea
!, beets, radishes, beans and lettuce
. great abundance for his family; l62 roc
0 turnips. measuring from 10 to 35 incl
l es in circumference; abundance of W
: ter melons to eat, and great many 81
8 en away-3 sold for dollar: 8 or fou
6 wa ,oa loads of pumpkins. On til
: ground is also plum thicket whi'
;, bore over one hundred bushels
1 plums.
II Inspected and measured on the 80
!. Of October by Thos. S. Parks. We
d Galena, Ills, who often saw the cr
It while growing. THos. s. PAEKs'
IS Still another:
ri Henry Pilgrim raised l53 bush'
!. and 5 pecks Of corn to the acre. A
y 1876 bushels Of potatoes from busl
J. and 8 pecks OF seed. This is rend'
al cd the more extraordinary. by its bel
,e raised on sod ground--plowed une
h, ana never touched until gathered. c