Cedar Falls gazette. [volume] (Cedar Falls, Iowa) 1860-1895, 1870-12-16
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A Farm in Black Hawk County.

proposed to make on it at that time,
he went to work and broke it up,
and had i'm return for his labor (lS6O)
twenty-nine and half bushels of
wheat to the acre and forty bushels
of sod corn. He lived there five
years. when he purchased for five
dollars per acre the eighty on which
he made his home farm, where he
produced O crop, from the proceeds
of which he was enabled to pay for
another eighty adjoining, that is also
embraced in the home farm, making
in all 100 acres. We call it his home
farm. to distinguish it from other
farms which Mr.. w. owns in the
same township, containing in all
nine hundred and forty acres, all.
excepting forty acres, under cultiTa-
ton, and one hundred and twenty
five acres of timber land.
A COUNTRY HOME N IOWA.
Home farm there is something
very pleasant in these words, as they
also give the impression that there is
something substantial to back such
q home. The accumulation of AN
average of one hundred acres year
of the best quality OF land, put un-
| der cultivation, and on an average of
each 200 hundred acres an excellent
twO~story farm dwelling house for
tenants, and a sufliciency of other
| buildings to store away all the grain
produced on them, and shelter for
all the farm tools and stock-altO-
! gether paid for from the product of
these lands-is only such an evidence
of thrift, as industry, skill and per-
severance have secured for many an
| Iowa farmer, and she offers thOuS-
ands of places where the same OPP
pOrtunities present themselves now.
4 home IN IOeCd. equal in comfort to
nine. tenths of any in the Eastern
| States-that can be made in five
years, with every essential comfort
and much more-is not dream, but
a reality-but 10 visit many OF these,
after an absence of five years, where
the spot which they now SO graceful
~ ornament, it seems little short of
magic. but it is so cold i'll Iowa"
say those who hRow but very little
about our cOmfOTts-"we wouldn't
live there for the best of their
homes" We can laugh at the cold
i'm Iowa rs well as they can in New
England or New IOrk-thOse Of US,
at least, who have homes built so as
to keep out the cold blasts of winter,
both Tor man and beast-and all
should have them, and can have, 10y
Il very small additional EXPENSE
Mr.. Winters having made his dwell
ling all that is required in these re-
spects and constructed il with those
cOnveniemces which greatly econO
mize room, as are seldom seen in our
farm houses, can point with pride tn
this, his home, where he can ell 10Y
the society of his cultivated and
family and that of his
friends.
IMPROVEMENTS AND PROTECTS.
The quality of land, owned here
by Mr.. Winters, is first rate, ana It's
location of drainage not eXcelied III
that portion of the State. Tie aver ,
age crop of wheat per acre for sever
al years was twenty.thTee bushels,
lowest II bushels, highest 3l3 bush |
els per acre, an average of corn of !
from thirty-five TO forty bushels per |
acre, and of oats this year fifty !
bushels per acre. Mr.. w. has up !
wards of twelve thousand bushels o:
grain, the product of tire land under |
OF this years crops. His !
pastures are fifty acres of clover and |
and of fruit of several
kinds he has on his home farm an
for summer and fall use. |
His fine plum orchard has produced
His young fve-year
old orchard of apple and pear trees
have not yet borne fruit, but for
storm in May which cut the buds off
they would have produced, this year,
q considerable amount. The cherry
trees had full crops, and his Clinton
grape vines gave him from ten to
twelve bushels this year. The Orch>
ard IS protected by trees all around,
averaging Il feet in height, many |
being from twenty to thirty feet high.
His farm is nearly all enclosed with
a live fence, having near two miles,
principally English Lomhardy pop
lar, willow, aud Usage orange. Be-
sides like fei.ces there are on the
home farm five acres more of timber
trees, principally of maple, and pop
lar, from four TO five years old, which
average six inches in diameter
There are also more timber trees on
the other portions Of Mr.. WIS land.
as we'll as another orchard of five
acres. Indeed he appears TO be max
ing homes equal to his own wherev-
er he has control of lands, as his
principle is to make everything pay,
which we doubt not he intends to
dispose of when he can fad the .
right purchaser. a man who wants |
a country homeland where can |
there be n true home unless it is in |
the country ?-and not sufficiently !
familiar with prairie farming
could not do better than to secure a |
piece of land contiguous to such n |
man of experience as Mr.. w, whose
advice would he nearly of as great
value to him as The laud itself.
SUCCESSFUL RESULTS,
Mr.. Winters, by pursuing a gene
raj system of farming. including tile
rearing of horses, cattle and hogs,
and purchasing stock to- feed, upon
his farms, with clOTe attention 80 his
business, watching all the corners"
as every farmer should, and ecouo~
my, has worked himself into prop.
erty, within ten years, with little OF
no money capital to begin with To the
value Of some fifty thousand dollars
an example worthy of
imitation, and one TO which his fell
low citizens. who know him, point to
with pride.
OIL-WHEATGROWIN G-RECLAIMlNG OF
SLOUGHS,
The soil Of Mr.. WIS land is veget-
able loam about two feet deep, yellow
clay sub soil, with two or three
inches of gravel intervening. and
from eighteen inches to two feet be-
low the yellow clay. There are two
most excellent beds of peat on his
premises, in extent about five acres
in all.
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