Cedar Falls gazette. [volume] (Cedar Falls, Iowa) 1860-1895, 1869-03-19
THE GAZETTE.
FALLS, MARCH 70, 1869.
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hooking over the January reports or
the Department OF Agriculture has
called ont some official and reliable
figures In reference 10 the average
WELD per acre Of the principal crops
I'll The United States, for 1868. 1t
contains a nattcring showing for our
State. Read The figures as given by
the Register 2ud then send your pa
pers To your eastern friends. We
want the people in the east to know
the many advantages Iowa offers to
settlers.
1.-THE average yield for Iowa is re-
ported at 1i,--an average cXcellcd
lay Vermont, Nebraska, Minnesota
and Kansas, the highest OF which,
Vcrmont-is rs. Indiana, Ohio, and
!ilinLis imagine themselves better
States thau Iowa, anil all fertiliZe
their lands n great deal more but it
happens somehow tlrat the first has
only an average yiell-and fall wheat
Mt that of liz; the second II; and
fair Illinois, lis. III Barley, Iowa
hos the highest average yield as it
marks % OH the becr-grain-n fact
temperance people will not he proud
Of, but which compliments our soil
after oil Illinois is next to tall fig
urcs, 25.3.. In tire oats column we
are second Minnesota being first,
with 38-our average, So; Missouri
follows us close, only one-tenth Of q
hushel behind.
"On raising corn, Indiana and 1lii-
n0is beat the world. Thinking and
doing are often two separate things,
and so I'm this case. The average OF
indiana on this crop is SO; Illinois,
3i2; Iowa 81. The newspaper blow
crs Of Mo0sierdom and Suckerdom
will please notice the figures our
farmers have ehaIked out, and pipe
their horns accordingly. Nature has
declared that Iowa Is to be the corn
State i'm the Union. We have always
contended that this was so-now we
have the figures 10 prove It; so we
Put In our claim for the honor, feel
proud Of it, aud propose TO ''sit up rs
straight as cob" at the head of the
corn growing Commonwealth. The
Miami bottoms and Illinois fats arc
very good places for farmers to live,
but they can't throw corn at the
magnificent prairies of Iowa.
"The buckwhcat figures do not
show very big for Iowa, but rs we
lead Illinois even in that, we are sat
isfied our average on that crop is
IT.2; Illinois, l66-the difference of
good many pan cakes. West Fir-
ginia Is the buckwhcat champion,
showing an average of 2l.6. We arc
willing to let some other State have
that honor. Duckwheat is ruinous
to soil, and don't make nearly as good
slap,jacks rs wheat -four or corn meal
so we lose nothing thereby, and we
hope cur average this year will he
still less.
I'VE are fifth on potatoes, which
shouldn't he fact, and wouldn't be,
hut for the rapacious bug which has
appropriated our potato crop pretty
much to itself for the last four years.
But as long as our average is SO,
while that of Pennsylvania Is So and
that Of Illinois II. we can stand it
without sorrow or starvation. Min
ncsota is the brag potato State, hav-
ing an average of ISL. While she has
hes ten US on potatoes, she is now
getting her stock and meat-hogs from
IOWA. We can we'll afford to trade
pork for potatoes, during these times
that hog is so high. On sweet pota-
toes we are ahead Of all the corn
growing States but Missouri, cempar-
ing with it rs So compares with l04.
"When it comes to Sorghum, Iowa
leads out second to Florida. Our av-
erage yield of gallons per acre is I27
--Florida's 100; Nehraska's 126 ; the
next highest States are Texas, l07
Missouri, 1906; Ohio, ll2. Indiana
marks o6, Illinois 03.
"These official figures compliment
one State more than any. other, and
that State happens to be Iowa. Com
pairing our averages with New Eng
land agriculture, where the soil is
fartiiized and fostered like a garden,
a. Ct. yxyh,l,ik Ul,c.n "A
farmer has but few acres, and dc
votes his whole time TO farm too
Email 10 be called farm in the West. !
What polishcG us more proudly than -,
anything else is the figures we set
aut ahead of our rich sisters Of the |
West. Tt Is not . little remarkable |
and no light honor to our glorious
young Iowa that she eycels Illinois, I
Indiana and Ohio ia all the priuci- |
pal crops. The first two have boun- !
tcuus soil and a husbandry' which !
promotes cultivation in higher de- !
gree than we lave yet anywhere |
hear approached, aud the last has
sofi titled by farmers who claim that
they can teach Iowa agriculture for |
several years yet. But the whirli-
gig Of time has been unraveling the
question OF agricultural supremacy |
at rapid rate, and has solved it sulii- !
GENTLY far To show that Iowa is pre-
destined to wear the envied crown.
The millions who are looking for |
homes cannot overlook this fact and |
when we present In addition to this
glory, u broader freedom to every
nIan, q fuller citizenship with less
taxation, ard Il healthier climate, |
than any other State. we know we
are offering attractions too immeas-
urably grand aud good to be resisted,
and too honest to he disputcd.n |
Justice at Last.
Congress has recommended the
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