The Tipton advertiser. [volume] (Tipton, Cedar Co., Iowa) 1856-1962, 1867-07-25
THE STATE OF IOWA. IT'S AG-
RICULTURAL RESOURCES.

THE STATE OF IOWA. IT'S AG-
RICULTURAL RESOURCES.
The following letter was written by
our fellow townsman, Mr.. L. 7. An
drews, to the Barre Mass.) Gazette.
Mr.. A. as correspondent of various pa
pers never loses an opportunity to speak
good word for our noble young State:-
State Register.
Ihave for long time had almost sus-
pended from the tip ofmy pen, u letter
to your readers, and to some of the an
cient of my fricrds, in relation to this,
the great West 1t is a notable fact, and
very significant one-that if this
country had not been settled first on its
Eastern shores, the New England
States would be barren and sterile as
when the foot the red man trod their
rock-bound wilds. When one traverses
the broad prairies he can easily sec how
well it was for this nation that its infan-
cy was guarded by people whose hab-
itation compelled them tolives ofindus-
try and integrity-whose very necessi-
| ties laid the foundation Of the nations
greatness. When I think of the del
| wing lives of the farmers i'm Yankee
land, when l remember the broad stone
walls which you and 1, my dear H,
so oft in boyhood days have clambered
over; and their covering nearly half the
farm; and how we wondered where all
| the stones came from, when with ach
| ing backs, the fields were cleared only
to be covered again with each combing
of the plowshare-when l remember on
ly these, and nothing more, / wish you
could be transported to the land of the
praires.
The Mississippi valley is destined to
be the garden of the world. / am not
ali enthusiast when say this. I will
give you few oi my impressions of the
West as l have seen it, and more espec
tally of the Hawkeye State, u state scarce
ly of age, yet far in advance of the
march of progress of the Hub and its
circumjacent surroundings.
This State is destined TO be one of the
best if not the wealthiest States in the
Union. Its surface is unduiating,
beautifully diversified with wooded
streams and prairies.
The soil is black loan, but unlike
pable of enduring a drouth which is
surprising. As an instance of this, q
farmer in this country says that in 1S45
there was not from the time the corn
was up, till it was harvested, sufficient
rain to wet a workman's sleeve in the
field, yet the corn yielded forty bushels
to the acre. To a stranger this is i'll
deed surprising. Its productiveness is
unsurpassed. 1t can be- aud is cropped
year after year. Ihave seen wheat and
corn growing on fields where the same
grains have grown fifteen and twenty
years, without the Use of particle ol
fertilizer. 1t is not to be supposed that
this could be the case for al indefinite
time, but IT will be long enough for the
present generation to get rich and retire
from the faraa.
Such IL the topography of this State
the farmer can ride III his seat and dt
nearly all his farm work from April t.
October. He can ride his gang-plow
driving four horses and cutting two fur
rows; then his planter; then his cultiva
tor, and with two horses cultivat'
eighty acres of corn well; then cal
mount his harvester and cut and shocl
| h; Sn N, I, rs, 4,
and grasses. Labor saving maehiner.
is completely revolutionizing the worl
of the farm. 1t is well that it is so, els
the tremendous tide of emigration
swelling to our shores would reduce til
nation to absolute starvation.
The climate is healthy, and the atmos
phere dry. The range of the ther
mometer last year was maximum
74o. minimum 2O0; Of the baron
eter the mean hight was 29.37. TIL
greatest heat, July II, was 94o; tn
greatest cold, Feb. 25, 2Oo. The atmos
phere is very pure. Persons affiicte
with colds at the East are surprised t
see how much they can expose them
selves here and be free from them
There are no prevailing diseases in thi
State. Malaria is seldom met with
while fevers are less frequent than q
the East, indeed, many types of Eastern
fevers are never seen here. Nature ha
designed this to be one of the healthics
States in the Union. Its rolling SUI
face, numerous rivers aud streams, an
porous soil will make it SO.
Abont one-fifth Of the State is timber
and this is so wei, scattered over its sui
face as to meet the wants of the people
Coal also abounds in almost every cDu,l
ty of tho State. It crops out to the sui