Lamoille newsdealer. [volume] (Hyde Park, Vt.) 1860-1877, 1867-01-09
For the Newsdealer.
FROM SOUTHERN IOWA.


AMI warm. September. up to the Goth.
was very wet, which kept the corn grow
ing without ripcaing off. as It should have
done The night of the 10Th terminated
with big frost. which injured the corn
crop mors or less. Throughout most Of the
western country. Many fields, poorly ten.
del under the slack system Of "too ma
n.y. western farmers, we're nearly ruined !;
while others which were "well cultivat-
Ell" were Injured but little. After the
frost, We had some me- weeks Of 6ue' yarn
dry weather; drying aud curing the eoru
in the best possible manner under the cir
clrrinistanccs. if thc.Hight Of The TWEEN
tclh of September had not been : left
out in the cold" We should bayc 'had, /, 2
frst rats corn crop! As it is, We have
some good corn and some poor corn, but /
think take It altogether, with the amount
of old corn Oh hand. there will lie plen-
ty, without running prices to cytrcme, f.
CURES. The crop in this vicinity has been
husked and cribed in good order and
but very li:tle win be left Oppt through
the winter. 1t is too much the, custom ~
this western country, to Leave corn cpt in
the frld until spring, and then haye. t.
hnsi it just ahead of the teams whieh are
blowing the ground for another crop. The.
practice is bad ose, for, two reasons, !;
first, there is a. loss of more or less grain
from TrSottsg' and from from being eaten By
geese, turkeys, prairie chickens, quails,
birds, &c, which abound in this country
IN a wild state; Secondly, 3 man has 30
time in the spring, when he is putting IN.
a new crop, to take care Of On Old one.
Perhaps some of your readers wis, haye
never been out vest, Do not know, the
method of gathering corn hSere,, tia
mostly louc in this wise; q span Of horr
see and Wagon are driven astride Qnc
row, aud there are usually two rows husk-
ed on each side of the Wagon, mixing
five rows in all the rens are tied to the
wagon, the horses sopn Learning to star.
and stop at the word, and also to follow
,.lslHH D.i 4.tfTH N.t.3 u E4.s "a
the row--they are driven along just as
last as IS necessary to hunk and throw the
corn in the Wagon The number; Of J,
hands most convenient to huSk in this
manner are two mon aud boy !; one man
on each side of the Wagon. taking two
! rows and boy taking down row." be.
hind the Wagon. Of course the horses
Peat all thev want from the centre. row,
aud it is also broken down and picked up
behind the Wagon. This would seen,
rather wastcful to some of the New Eug
lind farmers, but nothing is thought Of
it here have been thus particular in
speaking Of the corn, crop, because it is
Itho main and staple crop Of the country
the crop Which fatteps the beef and pork
of the weSt--fceds' the hocks through
winter, and also forms Che principal food
tor' work horses the year round. Perhaps
at some future time will give you the
western method ofPrcparing the ground,
planting and cqlttiyatlpg this grc4, Apcr;
lean 5 4'olP&'0&, o G]!,fa grPatg kiag than
cotton. .,.............
| FRS, snow Of the season fell Dee. ,8th.
! The population Of our County has ill.,
creased one thousand in the past twelve
months, II would astouish an eastern
raan to see the amount Of emigration
which is, hpcking in and through lhis,
county. 1t Is one. Of the main travelled
rputs from Burlington, Keokuk, So west
ward to western Iowa, Northwestern Ais
souri,, Kansas, Nebraska, Fixes Peak,
Utah, and the overland route to Califor.
MIA, Covered Wagons are passing thro'
almost every day, in the year, aud at
somo seasons will average from twenty to
forty per day. Que man who was travel.
ling east told me that he had COUNTED
about one hundred emigrant Wagons
which he had met within the last Two
days, Ho, westward the tide of emigra.
yiop rolls ~ ,'y.'l''" 'a"' 'u''''.7'D
The Iowa and Missouri State Line
Railroad has Just, been surveyed through
This county, This road will GcSonnNcect Die
Mississippi With the Missouri river s''1 Tie
east end will have CO conp pi a. with Vi f.
three or four different points j' en- the Mis-.
slssippi, One branch starting from Az
oSandfia, Missouri, just below the mo mouth
Of the 'Des Aloiue river; another from
Keokuk, aud third from Burlington BY
the way Of Fort Madison 70 'Farmdiiinngtou,
on the Des Moline, anu all forming 90 con. :.
nectiohiab0ut forty or fifty miles west ~
the Mississippi, aud running principally
through"ths south tier ofloeouhties id
Iowa toiNcbraska Cry on the Missouri.
Although this county isdqdite rolling.
stillthere is running nearly across the
county what il CALLED n ,J;,ido II ba;no a