Cedar Falls gazette. [volume] (Cedar Falls, Iowa) 1860-1895, 1868-05-08
R.-And excellent wnter2

W.--And excellent water?
H-Yes, pure and plenty.
W.--And q healthy atmosphere?
|. H--Yes, as ever was breathed.
W-And an intelligent people?
H-Yes, as smart as they make
them.
W.--And good society?
H-Yes, first rate.
W.--And we raise good crops7
H-"Well we do"
Wand we have good markets?
H-Yes, and growing better every
day.
Wand cheap lands7
H-Yes, SO cheap that any man
who will .'half try" can get farm.
Wand, now, all you complain
of is the bleak cold winds?
H.-That is all.
W-Well, now, tomorrow morn
ing, just as soon rs you get your
breakfast, / advise you to harness
your team and start for the nearest
place where you can find cottonwood
slips, and cut and bring home enough
to plant out five acres for timber, and
just as soon as the time comes, which
is the last of May, gather soft maple
seeds to plant for acres more, and If
you get enough to plant handsome
belt around each forty acres you will
never regret 1t; and it will be but a
very few years until you will have all
the protection from the winds you
desire, and but four or five more
years before you can cut your fuel
and fencing from your own premises;
besides, don't you know, that the
last Legislature passed an act MAX
ing it n great inducement to plant
out groves and timber belts. In a
week or two Holt & Snyder will pub
lish this law i'm the GAZETTE, and
know you will like it.
no, yes, I knew that before,
but I can't spare the land this year.
W.-Can't spare the land? Better
let your wheat, your corn and oats,
and everything else, go. Timber
viii grow into money faster than
grain. se #.,.Hs s 5es.G
H-Another year and I will have
my land ready.
W.-That has been the stereotyped
cry ever since we have been here.
Now, for Heavens sake don't delay
this thing one day longer. We have
been here 10 years now and have not
averaged 10 trees year since We
came here. 49,
H-Well, ] can't do everything at
once. ~ B. ara@f G.ro4aTE
VI know that, but you can
plant out a grove of acres this very
spring, which will not only be useful
but profitable and ornamental. If
every settler would do that, this
would be the most beautiful land
that the sunlight of Heaven ever
shone upon, and we would have a
home of which wo could be proud,
and which would be pointed out by
passers-by as the farmhouse with
the grove around IL. f.-t
H.-Well, If you will say no more
about 1t will get up tomorrow
morning and "git." . Esssf PA
SEQUEL. he got up and got.
Got full two-horse load of cuttings,
and working one day like they do in
New England, had them planted out,
and hiswife has been singing "Home,
Sweet Home ever since; and in less
than five years they will have a
sweet home, one they can keep or
sell with advantages. One that can
be seen and admired i'm the distance.
One that will add ten prices to their
farm. One that will show that
somebody lives there" One that
cause his envious neighbors to "cussn
him, and his loving wife to "buss"
him, and grateful children to pluss
him, because he planted out the trees
that throw their delightful shadows
over their pleasant play grounds, and
warded off the sweeping winds
which alone prevents Iowa from be-
ing the paradise of the world. t&