Cedar Falls gazette. [volume] (Cedar Falls, Iowa) 1860-1895, 1867-06-14
Asriraltnrai Department.
sheer, in iowa.

sheep i'm iowa.
On a late journey to Des Mones. I
found a copyof the State gCenshs for
1865. The number of sheep owned and
sheared in Iowa i'm 1854 was one mill
lionq @ Tbs average Weight OIL their
feeces was 2.9S pounds, not quite three
pounds per head; that average will not
pay. The number towned. in Iowa in
1865, was one million four hundred
thousand.
All the flocks that I saw on the road
Were in bad order; the were poor !:
they had foot rot, and scab. The nnm,
berOf lambs1wasi very, very small, we
were told by welP Informed persons,
that the mortality among lambs this
year was very great. Feed during the
long winter was scarce and not fed in
suffclent.quantity. The shelter pfovi-.
ded does not deserve the name. Al few
posts or poles covered with straw or
prairie grass, open at the south always,
and rains, on the east and west, will be
sure toinvite the soab, and early feed
inf In the sleughs, because there Is no
hay, will produce foot rot. But few
lanabs, and three pounds of wool ut 40
cents pound, will soon convince the
most incredu.ous, that stray shelters,
dryand harsh prairie hay aud corn,
though fed in abundance will not make
sheep raising In Iowa, as profitable as
cattle, horses, hogs, or grain. The
and as 1t prevails everywhere, no other
breeds will become common, though
the long wool eombing fleece is worth
ten cents a pound more, and the carcass
for mutton twice as much as the meri-
no; nefghbor and friend of mine |,
last spring took eight hundred meri-
noes to Poweshiek CONT they were
pastured on prairie grass, which is un1
fit for feed after August and fed corn
and prairie hay during the winter He
has for his year, three hundred. live
sheep and five hundred hides III
My flock of Cotswolds and coarse
wooded sheep were wintered on timo-
thy hay, had firstrate barn shelter and
about haifFas many SwedishtIrnips rs
they ought TO have HAD I lost one
twentieth Of the old sheep and one
twentieth of the lambs; most of which
came in March,; the lambs are healthy
and strong. They went on to blue1
grass pasture on the 10th of April, and
have had oats occasionally in cold
weather, andSwere Kept under slfalter
in the rain; I may have paid so much
for food that / lose money, but think
not. / attribute the good condition of
the flock, as com pared with others, to 1
better shelter, better pasture and better
food, than can be had on prairie grass, 4
r,hay and pasture and CORE for their
feed, without proper Shelter.
.vmoraLzzz-...E. so .lstAl 9kEEh1pREHF'
Does Farming i'm iowa pay.
IL The Dess iMoines Register ranswers
the question, by referring to what has
been accomplished by gentleman in
Grundy county, Iowa. He commenced
on farm of 640 acres, in the year 1856, |
and his. sales of produce the last .year
amounted to the very comfortable tit |
tie sum of $4,000. But we will let the |
.Register tell the story in its own ~way.o |
" He commenced by pitching d mus
lin tent on the centre OF, the tract, inn |
mediately started In his break ing |
teams,' and put out what, is called a |
crop off, sodha corn--and succeeded |
in planting over two hunrded acres
IN this manner. This was fenced |
only by constant watching, but when |
the harvest came the corn was sold for |
lumber which put q fence around the |
entire farm in time to protect the next |
seasons crop. The following season saw |
more improvements, and the pillow was
kept moving until over 400 acres were |
put in annual crops, and Until the re-
turn had made their owner abundantly |
able to buiid him a splendid residence, |
the finest add largest barn in the, State, |
and made other Improvements cores
The Figures given above |
show, what this farm brought its pro-
prietor last year i'm produce alone. |
Other sources of income, such as stock /
growing and speculation will increase |
this Income at least one-half. These \
figures speak for themselves, and need l
no comment from us. The farm is sit /
uatsd on high rolling prairie, aud from
it can be seen a beautiful panorama 4
twenty-five miles in circuit. There are /
at present, thirteen miles of fence di-
vfa the farm iRte different fields =
The barn Is sixty by one hundred Il
ton underneath it all affording splen-
did stabling for stock On the wall
are sixteen feet posts: the siding is of
matched pine and the roof-l06 feet
long, l56 feet wide running measure)
$4,000, shingles, which with
hlaAlne siding and finishing lumber
were hauled n distance of Atty miles
by teams-the barn having been con-
before the extension of the
ID. d S. G. r.. II. from Cedar Falls. The
inside arrangements of the barn are
and, q description of it, and
athef interesting features of the farm,
such as the machinery used &C., wouId II
show its thorough equipment, had we
the space. Rude and imperfect as our
sketch of it has been, the reader will Il
be enabled to see that farming In Iowa
DOES PAys''~w -
- ALL 4 Il
BUTTER, The other day, fine lookr
,.ag rcountryman--one 'ofSthe .kindI Of
farmers who raise big crops, drive. good
andfat horses, and WELD great influence
among their neighbors-came into the
,anetam swith,a big pail covered -with-a
y hite cloth, and SAID he had some Bsat<
Ter which he t'wishedl to trade for the
Hegister.n At the time, we were alone,
therefore upon. as dcpendadr hoffman
siering of the .sdiekes ~ and 10 make
he n1attar woraa Mrs Rot uvaS ayyax