The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1869-03-18

bushels lett tor home use and tor
next years seed, Thus one years
crop pays the whole price of the land,
breaking, fencing, seed, seeding and
harvesting
w. S. Denison, of Appanoose
county, cultivated ftty-five acres of
land, and Of that ten acres were bro
ken last spring, his only help was
one little boy and span of horses.
Here are the figures:
1000 bus he corn, valued at.......... $500
155 bushels wheat, valued at.......... l55
300 bushels oats, valued at...............90
s Ons hay valued ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
bushels beans, valued at..............l II
40 bushels potatoes. valued at...........6 go
2 brs molasses, valued at...............40
Total. ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS 97
john w. Lacey of Liberty, Mar
shall county, had land for which he
was offered $3.50. In June, 1867,
he broke So acres-living in a ent
which sheltered him in the 18th
Iowa, while doing this work. His
fencing cost him $175. His crop
was worth 1000 over and above all
ext enses in producing it. His land
the amount of which our infor-
mant did not state-is worth ST.,
200.
Mr.. Ryal Strang, of the same
county, two years ago, bought his
land at IS per acre. Last season he
raised 2,4O0 bushels of wheat-ave-
raging 20 to 25 bushels per acre. He
is now in more Independent circum-
stances than the majority Of down.
east, hard-pan farmers, become in
half lifetime-and has accomplished
it all in two seasons.
R. E. Carpenter, of Webster
county, Notwithstanding the early
freezing and the grasshoppers, had
the following results from eighty-fve
acres under cultivation: On thirty
FIVE acres he raised 1900 bushels of
good sound corn, all of the work done
by himself and one hired hand. This
at sixty cents per bushel (the present
price of corn), yields 81, 1920 ormore
than $34 per acre.
He raised four hundred bushels of
wheat, of the very best quality,
worth 81, 40 per bushel amounting to
$3.50. Three hundred bushels Of
oats, worth $3.50; one hundred aud
seventy-five bushels of potatoes,
worth $50, and about three thousand
pounds of pork, worth about 5000
making total income from eighty.
Eve acres of land titled, $2.315, or
more than $27 per acre.
The entire work, aside from extra
help in putting in the crops in the
spring and assistance in harvesting
and threshing, was done by Mr.. Car
penter with the help of a hired boy
at$16per month. They began work
in March and finished up in October,
and estimated the growth of young
stock, butter made, and the proceeds
of the garden to be sufficient to sup
port the family.
Gilbert FL. Stanfeld, of Polk coun-
ty, raised last season, twelve hun
dred bushels of Neshaunosh potatoes,
on five acres Of ground. At SO cents
per bushel. the product of the five
acres would bring S60o-which is
S120 per acre, and at least $50 pei
acre, clear of all expenses. By keep
= ing the potatoes till sp;ing, the price
will be twice as much, and the profit
twice as great.
= Rev. A. l. Hobbs, last spring,
planted twenty-five acres which he
had broken up the year before, Will
potatoes, from which he has realized
five thousand bushels. Four thou
sand were sold by him for shipmen
at So cents per bushel, netting hin
$4,000, and the remaining 1000
bushels have been stored away fol
the spring market. The product o