Daily Ohio statesman. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1855-1870, 1867-09-27
M. Il. suIliyaat, t,iarIIlinois.

NJ. L. Sullivant, late OF Columbus is
known to many people in Ohio as gen.,
tleman of .Gfeats entefPf ise, long time con-
nected with the State Board of Agriculture.
A late, writer. in, the Prairie Farzaer, who
haSheen at the present location of Mr.
Stliivant- furnishes the following items of
his farming operations: bglisfzss li3a l5io
sItSwill be remem bered that Mr.. Sulli-
vaht, has for several years occupied farm
insChampaign county, containing about
23SO0O acres, that he had brought under a
f1ue state of preparation for stock farm.
hutIast year sold it to Mr.. Alexander, of
Kentucky, for q very handsome price, with
the s.ihtenti6n of improving & the. land in
Ford county at which we had now arrived.
MIf Snlkvant owns in one body here about,
10000 acres, most judiciously selected and
located at an early day its altitude and
position may be judged Of when I'VE, IN
form the reader that the Yermillion. the
Mackinaw and the Sangamon rivers of
Illinois ma5ealf be traced to this body Of
laIfd, thus giving sit sure and permanent
draiffa9e IN every needed direction. It Is one
vastprairie,swithl the exeepti0nCOf a mag.
nificent grove of about 100 acres, situated:
neaf the centre and where the homestead
buifdiAgs and shops are now located.
'alE SuIlfFant having been upon the
farm hut about year, of course has made
butIlittle impression on the place; his FIRST
Object being TO aience it, he decided to use;
the Usage. orange for the purpose; his plan
embracing a line of hedge around the out.
side,stien dividing lit into sections of $40
acres, and knowing that eventually roads
woufd be needed, has laid out roads each
way,to be enclosed by hedge on either
sider;1 the whole embracing over two hum
dretl mileslof hedge, about eighty miles OF.
which have been put out the present sea-
son on land broken, up last summer-the
prepafatiop being TO plow tour 10 six fur
rows, throwing them to the center and set
tingSo the ridge; all low places beng bro
ken wider and thrown up to form ridge,
out. OF the Influence of standing water. The
balance of the rows are plowed this SUM
mer, preparatory tolsetting next SPRING
apart and when grown up to q suitable
size, VIII be cut or "plashed," and laid
down IN the line of the ;row,-The plants
set afeA generally hooking veryZwellA It
forms, veEyspretty. sight from some of the
higher eminepces, to see the checqueredl
scene laid out-the dark lines prepared for
the dgeemtrasting with the deep green
of the bprairie.t From some points, single
rows OF hedge could be seen seven miles
longas straight as an arrow. a 49, : i'
ON many of the more prominent ele-
vations of the farm, which will eventually
be desirable for building sites, he has set
out fine groves of fast-growiDg, g, deciduous
trees. In addition to this vast work of
hedges, there have been a thousand acres
of land broken and put into corn. Should
Mr.. Sullivant's life and health be spared to
developthis yasttract of land as proposed
by him now, it will form one of the won
ders of the world. isesqo ri liR s5f5 81
''There Is little doubt but this tract of
land is really the finest body of equal size
in the United States" .s55isiml