The Tipton advertiser. [volume] (Tipton, Cedar Co., Iowa) 1856-1962, 1867-07-25

this subject which shull ruin the trade. !
There is in this State SO, 900 600 acres Of
arabic land, scarce one-eighth Of which
Is under cultivation. The demand for
wool i'm this country Is immense.
There was imported In 1858, 65,ooOOOO
pounds. The vast immigration to the
West is constantly swelling the num-
Der, of CONSUMERS.
The cost of opening new farm in
this State Is not great when compared
with the Fast and many other parts of
the West. 1t costs from two to three
dollars per acre to get prairie land bro
ken up. A single team can break two
acres day, with gang plow and four
horses man can ride and break four
acres day. Land when broken up, is
ready to be cropped the next season, it
requiring about one year for the sod to
rot. Some, however break up in the
spring, and plant with corn on the bot
tom of the turf. 1t ia not usually nee
essary to fence where the country is
sparsely settled, it being necessary to
guard only against rowing herds. II il
not uncommon to see n farmer raising
one square mile of grain without a
fence.
Does it pay? This is the practical
question to be answered. Does farming
in Iowa pay-and might add the
West?
TO those who live here the problem is
!, solved; but to those who desire to embark
in agricultural enterprises in this
r country, leaving the associations Of a
f lifetime, require facts and figures.
c Wild lands may be had of agents III
from S. to Sl5per acre. The best lands
0 convenient to farms may be had u,
0 so to Sl2. Improved farms may be
q had at all prices, varying from $40 to $5t
y per acre, according to the proximity to
# and value of the market. know o
!, one farm ten miles distant from thi
, city, which can be bought for fifteel
- dollars per acre; and on this farm wa
;, raised in 1865, 5000 bushels Of corn
/, and last year 81 200, which If offered il
a market would bring the sum of SCI 80
No safer investment can be made thai
NJ on lands in this State contiguous to
Is market for the purpose Of improvement
80 I would not advise any one to buy Ian
~ for any other purpose.
40 The time required to develop ne'
farm depends some on circumstances
oo 1t is very common occurrence til,
r,n x,,sl.
% paid for them, breaking, fencing IN
"A cultivation, in three years, with II
W crops alone. Last year good whe,
a crop would have paid for wild farm
M any section of the State.
- One of tho farmers i'm this county toe
II wild land n few years ago, and this Sc
>" son sold it for $l7o0 For seven yea
~ = his corn has averaged from sixty-fi'
- to seventy-tivc bushels per acre, on tv
hundred acres.--Onc man with hor
-- can cultivate eighty acres. His la
io years crop of corn is now in the crib al
so worth twelve thousand dollars, whi,
90 makes nineteen thorsand dollars for Sc
'A Ell years labor.
Twill cite one other case farther ava
10 that of Hon. G. F.. Clarkson, Grun,
|25 county, a good practical man and
IL Ex-editor. His farm consists Of 6
. acres, and his actual sales of produ
hoo last year were ten thousand dolla
'al In 1855 he removed from Indian
We bought his land in its Wild state and d
p, ianJ from any market. He pitched
,ol cloth tent in the center of 1t and in til
lived till he could get upa house. /
IN started his breaking teams, and Il
oo first year put in over 200 acres of -
l0O corn.n This corn was sold for lumh
- to fence the GAO acres. The next s,
90 son over 400 acres were put in GRO
ed and this continued until he was able
build fine residence, and the larg
and best barn IN the State. He /
~ thirteen miles of fence and fine bl
w grass pasture of over one hundred acr
" which demonstrates the fact that hel
w grass ard timothy can be grown.
- - could cite thousand instances wht
.oo poor men have become in few we;
a rich on their farms.
nd The advantages of the West over t
East may be summed up thus:
! The land costs less.
ter 2 1t requires no fertiliZing.
me 3 The land is more productive.
mo Ii TctiulleS lssS Hbuudl iuDOA, Y
man can do vast amount more wo
'nd with the use Of machinery which CO
eet not be used at the East.
nd ) The certainty of crops year af
~, year.
III The increasing value of farm Ian,
This is commensurate with the dew
by opment of the State. Farmers W
came into the State ten years ago "
:, but money enough to enter their laf
the are now worth from ten to twenty tht
not sand dollars, and growing richer eve
ha year, besides being the most indepe
- dent class of people in the world. I
81 experience in this State is that specu
ere tors who held lands to make money
ed the rise in value consequent upon
mo- labor of farmers around his land, ha
s' almost uniformly failed to realize til
nt' expectations. The people Of this ST.
TIA are bitterly hostile to land sharks a
will nonresident speculators. Nature |
ara ordained that while by chance G
:, shall get rich, thousands shall becol
nat poor, but that the laborer ia worthy
SO his hire; that he who sows shall a
ars reap.