Monmouth weekly herald. [volume] (Freehold, N.J.) 1854-1860, 1859-06-09
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Horace Greedy on His Travels.

both reliable and interesting, we make
for some extracts. Here is a no.
tice of Agriculture in South Western
New York
Wheat was moderately sown last Fall
and this Spring; but was looking very
well until the late hot, dry weather, which
caused it to spindle instead of spreading,
and would have seriously damaged the
Fail sown, but for the recent change from
a hot to a cold, moist temperature. Of
Rye, but little was sown, and that little
is doing fairly. Oats have been pretty
extensively sown, and promise a good
yield. Of Corn, a large area has been
and will be planted. Grass would have
suffered seriously had the rains which
began last Sunday or Monday in Yves
tern New York, been withheld a few
days longer. Now, the prospect is good.
Of Illinois Mr.. G. observes:
No buster season was ever seen than
this is to be- from the Hudson to the
Mississippi, you see four horses or oxen
at work to one in pasture; aud there are
thousands Of farmers who would plant or
SOW %asquarter more, il they had grain to
feed their teams, than they will now be
able to do. There are a few travelling in
the cars, few idling about stores or tav
ems, but mary in the fields. May a
bounteous Heaven smile on their labors
Illinois is just beginning to be %cultiva-
ted. | presume she has no railroad along
which half the land within a nils has
ever been touched by o pillow. Back
from the roads, there is Of course still
less cultivation; probably less than a
tenth OF her soil has ever yet been bro,
ken. Probably o%ne-fourth of her spon+a.
neouS product Of grass may now be eaten
by animals that contribute to- the sEsten-
ance or comfort of man; though I think
one sixth would be nearer the mark
She has far more coal than Great Britain
far more than any other State-buthas
hardly yet begun to mine it. Her timber
is not so excellent; she lacks pine and
all the eyergreens; but she is beautifully
and cheaply supplied with these from
Michigan and Wisconsin. Her timber,
such as it is, palpably increases from year
to year, and will increase still! more rap
idly as roads ana plowings check the
sweep of prairie fires. If her p~rairies
were more rolling they would be dryer
and could be worked earlier but then
they would wash more, and probably have
less depth and richness of soil. Doubt,
less the child is born who will see her q
State of Ten Millions of people, one mil
lion of them ~inhabiting her commercial
Emporium.
The route across Missouri by the Han
nibal and st. Joseph r. R., is thus de
scribed
Though the day was dreary, I noted
with deep interest the country through
which we passed, which disappointed me
in these respects. /. The land is botter
than | had supposed 2, 1t is Of more
uniform grade-hardly anything worth
calling a hill being seen after rising the
bluff from the Mississippi till we come in
sight OF those which enclose the Missouri;
8. There is more prairie and less timber
than | had expected and /. There is
infinitely less population aid improve
ment. Of course, this road was run to
avoid the more settled districts, and thus
to secure a larger allotment Of the Public
Lands, whereof the alternate sections for
a width Of five or six miles were granted
to the State in aid of it's construction ;
but | had not believed it possible to run
a railroad through Northern Missouri so
as to strike 50 few settlements.
We take one more extract in reference
to the Missouri river:
The river is at once deep, swift and
generally narrow-hardly sc wide in the
average as the Hudson below Albany,
though carrying the waters of thirty
Hudsons. 1t cannot be half q mile wide
opposite the city. Its muddiness is be-.
You'd all description its color and con
sisteney are those of milk ~porridge you
could not discern al egg In a glass Of it,.
A fly floating in a tea cup of this dubious
fluid an eighth of an inch below the sur
face, would be quite invisible. With its
usually bold bluffs, two aad three hun
dred feet high, 0 opposing q rocky
barrier to Its sweep, now recedlpg to a
distance of two or three miles, giving
place to an intervale, many feet deep, Of
the richest mold, usually covered by a
thrifty growth of. elm, cotton wood, &C.,
its deep, rapid, boiling, eddying current,
its drifting logs and trees. often torn from
its banks by its floods, the Missouri stands
alone among the rivers Of the earth, I'M
less China can show its fellow.
Here as everywhere it is crooked and
capr1ciUuo. 1 rcSrvttod ~ noUo 0rraU IL
tends, if unchecked, to grow worse and
worse the swift current rapidly form-
ing a bank below every projecting poirN.
and thus setting the stream with ever IN
creasing force against the yielding, crum
bling mold or silt Of the interval which
forms the opposite shore, which is thus
rapidly undermined, and falls in, to be
mingled with and borne away by the re-
~sistlesS food. The banks are always
nearly perpendicular, and are seldom
more than two or three feet above the
surface Of the water at its present high
stage, so that the work Of d%evastations
is constantly going On.
| have not yet learned to like it.
a@ The Persia took So, 000, $50 in gold
and silver-an amount, we believe, exceeding
by over $500 600 any previous shipment. The
Steamships A raro Viro ard NVacor laft Nau,