Nebraska advertiser., 1868-12-31

YORK. Inc missouri river taxes the
pains to come all the way from our
northern borders along the British
possessions, over three thousand miles,
/ thrDugh much miserable country, and
many hostile Indian tribes, to make
an eastern boundry for Nebraska
with Kansas south, DakOtah north,
Wyoming and Colorado territories
west, it makes out to be thoroughly
bounded.
The soil of Central and Eastern Ne
braska is unsurpassed and unsurpass-
able. Clay, sand, vegetablemoId, and
all essential elements, are so harmo-
niously blended as to produce q soil
/ light, friable, free from Jumps and
stone, dark colored, easily worked,
and eminently productive. The finest
I garden mold In the State Of New York
is not a whit better than the average
ofNebraska soil. 1 advise my friends,
Ellwanger & Barry, Of the Mt. Hope
Nurseries, to import car load of it to
grow their most delicate plants in.
/ Take no precautiOns-send your order
to any postmaster, and tell him to dig
| the first dirt he comes to and send it
along. viii guarantee the quality
probably any Congressman would
! frank it ''Public Documents" if you
will send his wife occasionally a bO-
quet of your fine flowers.
Some of the river bottoms have san
dy and porous subsoiI, generally the
| subsOil is clay, but not too retentive of
moisture. Hard rains do not subject
Nebraska farmers to vexatioUs delays;
they can soon go out without loading
their boots with mud, and start their
plOws without the burrows filling with
water, after the "hard pan" style. AS
| in other portions of the West, they
get several weeks the start of New
Workers in sowing their spring crops
"a very material advantage where
life and the seasons are short at the
longest.
The chief product Of Nebraska is
! prairie grass, uncut and uncared for
Millions of acres that yield from half
q ton to three tons per acre, and that
is about as good as New York mead
Ows will do, are giving back to the
winds and the soil the banquet that
nobody will accept.
! Near the Missouri river corn of the
southern variety leads the cultivated
crops, averaging forty to fifty bushels
per acre, and growing eight or ten feet
high. The first crop, planted on the
sod, is frequently light. The first
breaking is about three inches deep.
Wheat, the great prop of human
life, the main substance that men are
made of, the only indispensable thing,
is just what Nebraska was fitted and
fashioned for producing. It's climate,
! frequently too dry for other crops,
brings wheat to great perfection. A
miller of large experience assures me
| that the finer varieties deteriOTate in
many of the States, but in Nebraska
preserve their peculiar excellence. By
a iudiciOus use of fertilizers and by
blowing in grass and some green crop,
! / think Nebraska may maintain its
present position as the head of all
wheat growing sections. Its average
is greater per acre than any other
State of this Union.
Excepting a border along her warter
courses. Nebraska is treeless; she
needs timber. Good luck to her-she
can grow it. Cuttings of cotton wood,
seeds of soft maple planted in June,
black walnuts covered three or four
inches deep in the fall, grow with sur
prising rapidity. Very many farmers
have planted small groves near their
dwellings, but they don't begin to re-
alize the vast importance of the timber
question. One-third of all Nebraska
should forthwith be planted to forest
trees. There is some mistake i'm the
making up of any country without
trees-it needs mending; but am not
sure but it is easier to supply forests
where you want them than to remove
them from where you don't want
them. l saw on John ]. Paynter's
farm, near Plattsmouth, fifty thOus-
and black walnuts, q year old, grow
ing finely; he expected to plant as
many more this fall. I predict that
Nebraska will grow timber, and man
ufacture lumber for the New York
markets. No crop will pay her as
well. BY blowing two-thirds of her
surface, and planting the other third
to trees, she will grow more grain and
grass than by eultivating the whole.
Trees are earth's great regulators
breaking the force ofaustere winds, ma
king the dry air salubriOus, distilling
gentle showers, keeping the rivulets
alive throughout summers heat, trans
forming the parehed desert into fruit
full fields.
! Good water is generally obtained by
digging a fair depth, and stock are
watered without much difficulty at
the streams and slughs.
l. Wild grapes, of fair quality, abound
on the streams and timber borders,
land I would most earnestly recon-
mend a very large planting of hardy
Igrapes. ! do not believe that apples
and peaches will flourish In any prai-
rie country; the planting of forests
may help them.
Fine quarries of building stone are
scattered all over the State. Lime
stone is abundant. Salt is manufac-
tuFed at Lincoln from springs that
furnish an abundant supply Of brine,
said to excel in strength even the
famed saline waters of New York.
Like all other parts of the world, Ne
braska thinks she has any amount OF
cOal-sOmewhere.
What most concerns my readers to
know, Nebraska has yet millions Oi
acres of excellent land subject to entry
under the Homestead act, or by pre-
emptiOn. / doubt whether any other
State or territory has as much good
land that can be so cheaply obtained.
have never seen anywhere pOpula-
ton more orderly and intelligent.
The State is settling very fast, and
landsis raising. Improved farms, in
good locations, can be bought for from
ten dollars to twenty-five dollars PEI
acre.
Nebraska is a new State. Thrifty
towns have sprung up on her Mis-
souri, border; Fremont and other pla.
ees of large. expectati0ns are growing
on the Pacific Railroad lincoln, hei
txtempore capital, With its eight hun
dred Inhabitants, is selling city lots
on the wide prairie; Eastern Nebras-
ka has many cultivated farms, and q
. few adventurous settlers are scattered
through the interior; but in the main
the State is one vast unmOWn mead
Ow. 1t has very little waste land, nc
marshes too wet, and few hills toe
steep to plOw. Bordering most of heI
streams are rugged bluffs, or banks
rearing thirty, fifty or one hundred
feet high, aud taking all the shapes
matter is capable Of assuming. FROM
these, stretching away in the distance
are the grass-eoyered prairies, gently
Il undulating like the sWeIIs Of a mighty
ocean, and presenting IN thIaiF varied outline