Cedar Falls gazette. [volume] (Cedar Falls, Iowa) 1860-1895, 1867-08-30

From the Country Gentleman. ai,liss8io3f
How the West fs Settled.
Practical Hints to western RmlgraRts
sr,, yaren Years Resident. 'I, I'M
How to Choose Pyai,ie Farm, and
Ho,u to Improve it, The Cost Of Tim
Der The Kind of Crops and fruit to
Rnise- The Kinds Of Farm Stock 10
Rear, and HoW to Manage II.
The steady rise in the value OF farm
landslin the middle and eastern States.
are having the effect To drive, many Of
the young men westward where homes
are cheap, and where industry Is early
Twelve years ago the principal por-
tion Of western en1isrants round homes
In Illinois and Wisconsin,, securing
choice locations at So TO SO per acre, for
prairie, and SO TO SIS for improved
farms ~ Now these saife farms hle seif-
40 SIS to $40 per acre, and even tile two
States above named, are to-day furnish
ing large share of the increase Of pop
ulation with which Iowa is filling up
men who q few years since, having
small families and no capital but what
was Inherent In o strong arm and an
unbending viii, now find themselves
sustained by grown up sturdy SONS, and
increasing fiocks and herds. Hence the
little iarm of eighty acres, considered
ample at the outset In life, does not
now satisfy the increased working force,
nor furnish range for the accommodating
stock. These are In brief the circum-
stances under which large numbers are
now selling out In the two States named
above, realizing $50 TO $40 per acre for
farms that ten to fifteen years since cost
S5 to $40 per acre. So G.ttl Il
III Railroads are the great power in the
West--the means through which vast
expanses Of beautiful prairie Is trans
formed into titled fields. The absence
Of timber seems no impeachment. The
eye has been accustomed for years To
look overa beautiful piece of rolling
prairie, Us you pass along on the train,
or by the wagon road. You wonder
who that land belongs TOP perhaps to
some speculator in Wall street, or may
be to some sturdy son not yet quite
ready to pitch his tent In the Vest.
You pass that way again In day OF
two, and observe a long black liie
across the green grass. AS the train
whirls along, you follow the line with
the eye till IL rests upon pair of me-
dium sized horses attached To twelve
inch breaking plow, moving steadily
along, perhaps under the guidance oi
some new conner from away down In
Maine-perhnps from a point not so re-
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forty rods n dav' Thus in eight ID
twelve slays tho thirty or forty acres a.
hrcnkino wiji he encircIed bv noats
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three rails or ii, ROC nine bonr,is In nInce
or n wire is used haif the 'tine onIy
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