Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1859-09-16
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OARDINaroN, o., Sept. Sd, 1859.
Mr.. MAHlN 81 have no objection to give
any items of interest to the readers Of the
which may be able to gather by
the way. have never travelled in Indiana
or Ohio much, until this trip, and to travel
by Railroad one cannot gather much by the
way.
As passed from Michigan City to Lafay.
cite, found much greater distance OF
mean, fiat, wet, country than | expected
Much of Indiana is certainly good country.
From Indianapolis to Cincinnati, much of the
country is rolling and billy, and underlaid
with too much gravel, causing the land to
suffer with drou lh-the streams to go dry
destitute of springs.
The hills back Of Cincinnati what de-
lightful ramble had there for two days !!
People Of the city OF Muscatine, rebel no
more against your hills They are no doubt
blessing. You who lay out the roads in
the billy suburbs, take counsel from the
COW paths, and nleander the hills with them.
Save the beautiful young oaks and hickores,
and add thereto the elm and maple, and our
native willow. Stand at our Post Office
and look thirty yards north, and see as
beautiful a group VI willow trees as ever
adorned Clifton palace. Then do not
send far for rare plants, or carved marble,
or wood, or castings, to adorn your grounds
with. Accept of your hills aud valleys AZ
they are, and improve them. The suburbs
of Muscatne eau be made equally beautiful
as Clifton at Cincinnati,
The Grapes. Went into the Vineyards
The vine is this year loaded with its ricl
fruit. They estimate 400 or 500 gal Ions
per acre; some estimate more. 1t is sale
that 700 has been made on some acres, ant
even as high rs thousand on small patches
They are Caiawba grapes, and just nov
rpening. In u week or ten days they viii
begin to grind. A bushel will make 4 gal
Ions. Price when plenty 1925. They ar
planted four feet apart each way. Many Q
the Americans say the Germans plant to
; thick and trim too close. | see that their ar
bors and trellises IRE loaded, and woul
. produce double to the acre, that the shor
: vine or the straight stalks does but it
quito like that the fruit would not be q
good, and the rot, which troubles them 8
much, might be worse. | think that shal
be able to get large quantity of vines thu
full or spring at low prices. ~.
F1uit p, ashes scarce 1925 to $50
: per basket. Dut they are peaches. Apple
t half crop.
Pork.-rhe corn crop was much damage
: by early drouth, but is coming on tolerabl
I now. 1t will generally be light crop !
t Ohio, and much of it in the middle an
|, northern p .rt is late and in danger of fros
Whsat.-A fair crop in Indiana and th
: southern part of this State, but it looks ba
y to see the great number of fields in tn re
:, gion killed by the June frost, and but tn
d black straw standing. The drOuth reduce
the potatoes and grass crop very much
On the whole, Ohio is rather poorly off f
). crops.
# A gentleman to-, me to the Mechanics II
). stitue to see model Of an undergroun
draining machine. | there learned of 4
less than six differe machines similarl
}. constructed, to drain in the same way.
}. the farmers wish to drain their wet lands
). and no doubt they ought to-l suppose the
will not only have the priv eye, but wi
u be urged to buy a patent right. ( mentio
!; this because think the right asked for tt
! one at WORK on Jr. Weeks farm was tc
high-$20O to $500 for n single TOWNSHIP
) If Doctor and Chester Weed, or any OF
7 else, have bought the right for that town {
county, sh uld lie very sorry to say any
e thing to interfere with their business, or
II the least to hinder the introduction Of S
useful mach: ne !; but patentee ought
have conscience as biz as a New jersey
mans. 100000 for Il single State is ou
rageous.
The farmers College, at College Hill, 81
u miles back of Cincinnati, is not much, b,
c the Female College, just across the street
!; L perfect model.
l hope to see the Farmers College
G Pennsylvania next week and be early .
e the U. S. Fair at Chicago, and home 500
. after the middle of the week. Yours, truly
n SUEL FOSTER.