The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1863-10-24
4 GRlC 1T U RA =.
A F~a,r, win SIXTY thousand Acres

A F~asr, with Sixty thousand Acres
What do Won think OF thIs. farmers
~ Indiansl By the following il
will be seen thar farming can be- car.
ri,.d on ~ extensively Is any other
hnsin-ss. ana ~ - large = pr"fit. Mr.
Snllivmn's farm ''Br. adIand." on
which h. resides. contains 22.000
sr,-s. u five miles wide and seven
long. wits 5000 acres under cnltiva-
ton: rom that lie clears profit 81
$50. A correspondent VI tnv
(nicsgn journal SAYS:
M.charl l.. Sullivan. Esq. tor MANY
years one Of the largest and mist de-
voted farmers OF Ohio. whose broad
srre- stretched along the rich valley
o. fhr Scioto. in sight OF the dom. ~
~. capitol. is now thr leading farmer
~ the Northwest. Some years agJ
h. snId has valuable lands in Franz
lngfon. aud reinves'ed in the cheap
rich. and unsettled prairies of Illinois
Nm. miles from Homer. onthe Great
Western railroad. and seventeen miles
from Tolena. on the Illinois Ccntrsl
in Champaign county, ten years ago
the magnificent farm Mr.. Sullivan
n,w cnlrivates Was u dreary waste.
aud il. vicinity a solitude. He en-
tired 10 1883 more than twenty thou
sand acres. expended 500. 900 IN
permanent improvements. and now
farms rising nine thousand acres. Tie
remainder is unier fcnce. and will in
time be farrned. Mr. Sullivan has
forty thousand additional acres in the
county adjoining Champaign, but IN
improved.
A correspondent Of the Chicago
Journal. who has recently been TAX
ing notes Of the systematic iarinln-,
Operations of Mr.. Sullivan. states that
his books show clear profit last year
cf $4,000 The writer SAYS. every
rSp cnse OF labor or improvement j.
daily and carefully entered. and his
book- are balanced and kept with an
accuracy equal 10 any bank in thu
State. Far instance. every laborer
horse. mule. or OK Is named. AMI a
time book Is kept Of each. The farm
is laid of in sections. and every day ;
work together with production and
improvement. is entered. and profit.
and loss. debit. and credit, are fairly
exhibited. This is his system, and j.
inviolable
One statement will startle the Gre
dulity Of most men. even farmers
that one thousand eight hundred acres
Of corn we're cultivated last year bv
one Thousand five hundred DAYS
manual labor. His books show this
fact. and more. Every DAYS work 81
horses. oxen. and mules on the farm
and parts of the farm. are accurately
and carefully recorded. His black
smiths, gardeners. dsirymen. fruiier-
butchers. &C., each have separate &C
counts. and he can tell you the cost ~
the tenth Of dime Of the raising Of
corn. or the cost Of hay. clover, fimo-
thy seed, &c. &c. He expected last
year to cut three thousand tons 81 hav
hut the season was unpropitions. and
tipping the timothy with machinery
cent 70 market three thousand bushels
timothy seed this winter and spring
ceiling most Of il at 3 80 per anshcl
lie cnt one thousand tons q fimsh
hay. This morning received news Of
The arrival of three thousand horses
AMI mules belonging 70 the govern
mrnf for feeling. This is hut one in
cidcnt ~ Mr.. Sullivan's great plan.
and in five years he will have that
Number Of cattle Of his own to feel
Ills purpose j. raising and feeding
stock. and the raising last year 81 one
hundred bushels Of Strawberries and
one thon-ani hnshrlsnt peach : were
hit incidents If his great purpose -
Riding oyer The FARM found l 900 far
cattle. and the young stock ia every
direction.