Western Reserve chronicle. [volume] (Warren, Ohio) 1855-1921, 1866-01-10
an average for any comparative

school system, ana mere ScDOOlS are eQudl
to the best in n town or city in Ohio
We nave the Union Grade School in sue
cessful operation, With a Superintend
ent and a corps of Teachers, equal in ed
ucational experience to the best. There
are schools this winter in every school
district in the county, and there is a lib
eral Public School Fund, which will sup.
port schools one-third of the year. The
population Is yet so sparse that the dis
lance children are compelled to 60 to the
school houses, is a great drawback; but
this will be removed as the country fills
up. To obviate this difficulty it would
be well for a number to settle in the same
neighborhood, so as to give greater facil-
tiles for school privileges.
In Chillic0the there is a Methodist Epls-
copal and a Southern Methodist Church,
Congregational. Baptist, Disciple and
Catholic Churches. There are Churches
all over the county, but no very stylish
or costly church edifces.
9th. How do sheep do in your county?
Ans: Sheep do well-better than IN
Ohio, fifty per cent. 1t cost Nh. Drake,
an Ohio sheep man, only 20 cents per
head to keep his flock of 600 head,
through last winter and this spring he
clipped 5lbs. per head from his Ohio sheep,
and 4 lbs. per his native Missouri sheep.
Mr.. Henry Baker, of Cleveland, bought q
flock of fine wool sheep in Summit Co,
O., in 1864, drove them through to Mis-
souri,, and last spring, clipped from $50
head, 735 lbs, making over Abs. to the
head. He sold this wool to a Licking Co.
Ohio, wool dealer at 70 cts. per Id.
1t only costs the price of salt and a
flock master in summer, and the prairie
grass from our broad savannahs furnish
the feed.
Sheep are very healthy here; mortality
is less than one hundred per cent. that OF
Ohio focks, and the cost of wintering and
keeping is about one-third as much as
there.
10th. Are there any that make cheese
for a business? And would that pay
Aus: ] have heard of one man in
Grundy Co., who makes Cheese, but 9TH
ers are preparing to go into it. 1t would
pay well. The price of cheese is much
higher than in Ohio; the market is better,
while the cost of keeping the stock is not
ore-half as much as it is there.
llth. How does your climate compare
with ours?
Ans: About as a sweet, ripe, luscious
peach does with a sour c~rab-apple; in
deed there is no comparison at all. The
climate is delightful, healthy and pleas
ant the atmosphere clear, pure and bra
cling, and the sky is as bright and as pure
a ~cerulean as ever Poet saw and sang OF
Italian skies.
There were but two or three periods
last winter, of two or three days at a time
when it was uncomfortable to work out
of doors. During the rest of the winter,
outdoor work could proceed as well as
in any part of the year. This winter we
have had two weeks of pretty sharp
weather. Once the Thermometer indica'
ted Is degrees below zero; but it was only
for one morning. 1t is now very pleasant
Two or three time snow has fallen which
has lain a day or two at a time. Though
we had q rainy season, yet we have had
none of the malignant fevers and dyson.
terry which were 50 prevalent in Indiana
) and Ohio, this season.
In the winter there is no frost flying il
l the atmosphere as in the damp climate O
5 the Lake region, and in the summer the
atmosphere is so dry, and the breezes 81
refreshing that one does not realize tina
? the thermometer is ranging from 9O0 t.
1902. There is nothing of the sultrines!
1 of the humid atmosphere nor OF the de
e pressions or exhaustions which such
condition brings. Men car labor here
: more than in Ohio, and with less fatigue
Building continues steadily on as in the
: summer,-houses are constantly being
I raised and covered-everything can b'
done as readily as in summer, except
$ plastering.
The roads are as smooth as at any time
in summer, and sometimes dusty. MuC
S is but little known here, and the muddies
roads dry up in two or three days.
D 18th. Can you raise peaches and other
fruits, and cultivate grapes successfully
Ans. Yes. Peaches were plenty thi
summer wherever trees had been planted
and sold here from wagons at from g t.
So per bushel. Apples are successful 81
of all kinds of fruit-grapes excel here
4, Nothing in Ohio, o even the favored
: Lake region, can compare with this re
e gion for grape growing. A native o
l. Switzerland. who resides here, has a hal
. acre in grapes, from which he has pro
. duced wine that is much superior to any
thing | have tasted at Sandusky City o.
5 Kelly's Island. Along the Missouri rive
t the native grape of the forest makes ex
cellent wine The Catawba will ripper
J, ffty miles north of this, two weeks soone
e than at Cincinnati. The clay, mari, lime
:, and magnesia of the subsoil are the very
r elements which the grape delights in
which, when united with the dry, no
s atmosphere, make the best chemica
/ combinations in the world to produce the
best wine grape which Gan be grown any
where. Mildew, rot, and the disease
which are such serious drawbacks t.
grape growing, are, as yet, unknown here
a Fruit IS not generally cultivated here
|, because the first settlers did not plan
the trees MOI cultivate the vine. All va
s rieties of fruit are o being planted
with a liberal hand.
In the older settled portions of tn,
country fruit is more general. Along til,
Mississippi and Missouri rivers. frui
growing for the St. Louis market is
e profitable business. The Germans il
Gasconade and franklin counties, nortl
e of the Missouri river have made grape
growing a very profitable business. The
. average from $500 to $500 per acre profit
/ and they have been known to make a
o high as $1,000 to the acre.
q About st. Joseph some attention j
y nov paid to grape culture. They hav
already advanced far enough in the bus
ness t. know hat it is very profitable
An attorney, a friend OF mine, ID. d
If Worries, Esq, is now putting out 10 acre
e of grapes, and he designs to extend it (
40 acres.
Fruit growing will, in time, becom
very profitable here. 1t will not b
many years before a railway will rul
north frum this town to Fort Desmoine
in Iowa, and extend up into Minnesota
Above Fort Desmoine, $50 miles directl.
north of this, fruit cannot be raised witt
RS success, and it is not certain as far mort
n as Desmoine-so that all the north cour
try will look for their fruits in the Mi:
D souri, and Grand river valleys. The shiI
ment of apples, peaches, grapes and ott
er fruits north will be many thousan
to tons annually, and of curse it will be
profitable business. Whoever goes int
the fruit culture as a business now, wi
as be in the way of getting the flush of
st great trade when it opens. Meanwhile
le the local trade, the western trade, an
l. what will be hauled to the north in wal