Sioux City register. [volume] (Sioux City, Iowa) 1858-1871, 1865-11-25

abundant rain. The industrious farmer
has the present season reaped an ample
harvest. l see nothing to discourage the
tiller Of the soil. Most new countries
suffer at first from insects, drought, sick
ness and laziness. Twenty-,hree years
ago settled in the State of Michigan;
that State was then considered "away out
west" For several years it seemed i'm
Impossible to raise sufficient produce to
feed the scanty population it was too wet
or too dry, too bot Or too cold the wheat
shrank Or s~elled, and the only reliable
crop. FOR export, wa, the Fever aud Ague.
The settlers became 50 poor they could
not get away. AS a last resort, they stop
ped shaking and went to work, and as
roads were opened. bitches constructed,
railroads commenced, the crops common.
ced tho courage of the people rose with
their fortunes, aud to-day in the produce
ton Of corn, wheat ana wool, lumber and
salt, iron, copper, coal, plaster: and almos,
every other element of ma.eriel wealth,
tho State Of Michigan, yet in it, infancy,
takes rank among our first producing
States. 4 Il this has been accomplished by
energy aud will, aroused by the s,ernest
necessity, and under many Disadvantages
which DO not exis: in the Valley Of the
| Upper Missouri. 1t required years of Toll
to clear up and improve a farm ia Central
Or Northern Michigan--clear of the TIM
Der, pick up the stone, aud dig out the
| grubs. Here, twice poughing is suili
Gent to subduo the soil, and place farm
under complete and easy cuItivalion.--
| There was no market either ia Micbig
| until the Railroads were completed, except
upon the eastern border of the State
Here you have noble river navigable for
steamers =, 900 miles abave this point, and
furnishing at al the towns upon its banks
a market for sLipnen. East, or to the
mining regions of the West. You have
health too, borne upon every breeze-no
swamp lands sending forth the deadly
uiasma, no stasnant waters poisoning ull
| who como within the influence Of their
invnciblc, yet fatal exhalations.
Stock raising il undoubtedly The most
profitable farming in this valley, as it re
quires little labor in proportion t. the
value OF production, ANA there is no lin
it to the maraet. Cattle, sheep and hogs
will transport themselves to al eastern
market, or TO the different military psi.
aud agencies above, requiring large sup
| plies Of meat. Meat, broomcurn and TO
bacco will bear shipment 10 an eastern
| market, az the expense Of lreish, from
this place to New York or Boston, does
not, AN Informed, exceed two cents per
pound. Farmers get rich in the eastern
States, raising wool npon land worth
| f,.y 10 one hundred dollars per acre.
Here the pasture costs nothing, and the
hay for winter'ng your stock, mere! ~ the
expense OF cutting and securing it.
have had some experience in wool
growing, and as merchant purchased in
lo43 the first wool ever shipped to an
eastern market from the Stale Ut Michi-
gan, 1000 pounds at twenty cents per
pound, amounting TO 800, it being the
Nashsanaw. Michigan, was in ls6O tho
fourth wool growing State in the Union,
probably now the third, and the c.unty Of
Washtenaw sells annually more than Eve
hundred thousand dollars worth Of wool
and sheep.
One thousand ewes well managed.
which can be delivered here ut a cost Of
three to four Thousand dollars, vii. with
ordinary luck, make Il man worth 800
Qo; in ten years. Of course he must give
his business close attention; he can 1t
lord to. lie will, il prudent, have no
notes to pay, no lawyers fees, if he stays
al home aud minds bis sheep. What more
delightful occupation, Or more surely prof
liable, when The green hiiI,idos surround
ing your town are whilened with sheep
and lambs; when WOODEN and morocco
manufactures are established here, as in
| all sheep growing countries You will be-
gin to appreciate the value Of The grass
now annually desoured by the fierce fires
OF The prairie.
Cattle raising, and the manufacture Of
butter and cheese, is also very profitable.
One hundred cows can he delivered in
this valley for $500. After the third
year, $500 worth Of youny cattle can he
sold per annuu. A farmer in Dakota of
moderate means, one Of the industrious
members of the Syracuse colony, has the
presen. season received an average Of
ST. per day for the cheese from twenty
cows, has raised his calves, aud have no
doubt il far richer aud happier than if be
| had sought Office, Or auarreed Tor con
| tracts OH the government survey.
| There is untold wealth in these pur.
| suits, free from The cares aud perple kites
! Of trade Or professional life, and their en-
ergetic prosecution creates ii great sas.e-
| ty Of other business, directly or indirect
| y connected with them.
| As n sample Of wha. eau be done in
| agriculture III this valley, point sou 10
the French settlement, 50 called, in In
| ion county, Dakota. Ia 1861 there was
not one new cultivated improved profta-
| BILE farm, in what now constitutes that
county. The lew inhabitants snbsisted
chiefly by hunting aud trapping. These
French settlers came in 1862, bringing
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