Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1871-10-06

flc(lcS, With several new ones, ou'
some that seemed to have been i'm
proved by transportation. i
grapes also, Iowa has done we'll.
Judge that she grows Concords a
easily and bountifally as any othe
State, and that her growers coul'
afford and would contract to, suppl
them in large quantities pt. tire
cents per pound, and would do bet
ter ut that price than at wheat grow
ing. Of Delawares, and the NOR
delicate varieties, the product j
far less, and l Judge more precari
Gus; still, they all thrive here I'm
der careful, pains-taking culture
Of pcars and peaches little is sal,
and not many Of them exhibited
I learn that the peach-growing ares
is receding sou Inward on this as OF
the other side of the Alleghanies.
Iowa has this day not less thar
one million and a quarter of people
with ample space for ten million
She has attracted emigration more
rapidly than any other State. L
seems but yesterday that she hat
only two Representatives in Con
gress; now she has six, and in the
next House will have eight. Ant
she is likely to grow quite as fasr
during the next decade as through
out the last. She is building rail
roads with great energy and spirit
and each line opened invites and
secures new tide of immigration
The northwest quarter of the State
had very few inhabitants up to a
recent date; but they are now pour.
ing in, along the lines Of the newly
opened or half constructed rail
roads, in thousands. learn that
barely four counties remain unor.
gained, and they will not remain
so long. If she encounters no back
set, Iowa will double her popula.
ton between 1870 and 1880.
The town of G,innell was to me
an object of greater interest than
any of her thriving cities. 1t can
hardly be fifteen years since the
Rev. J. +. Grinnell, the pastor of
the Congregational church in New
York, resolved on migration to the
West, and took several of his con-
gregation with him. He pitched on
a location in Iowa, peshaps fifty
miles eastward Of the center of the
State, where settlers were few and
widely scattered, and purchased
here some six or eight thousand
acres Of rolling prairie, with per-
haps few clumps of timber on the
water-courses, when millions of Just
such acres were offered, in every
part Of the State but the vicinage
Of the Mississippi, at Government
price. This tract was held in sub
ordination to the purpose Of estab-
fishing "Grinnell University" at its
center, and sales to settlers were
made from time to time to that end.
The University has been for some
years in operation, and though
Qike most OF American Universe
ties) as yet in the germ, is of great
er promise than most Of its kind
The common school is its only rival
here in architectural pretensions;
and it will surprise some to learn
that these together afford such cdu-
cational opportunities that scholarly
parents have migrated hither from
the East in order to secure the best
instruction for their children. And
[ doubt if there is a spot on earth
better suited to their purpose.
For Grinnell has one advantage
as the sight of college over any
other within my range of ebscrva-
ion, and that no glass of alcoholic
liquor is or ever was sold here
Though now village of $500 to
J, 200 people, it has no bar-room, no
Saloon" ''lager beer" or other
wise; no resort for tipplers, even in
he most respectable stage of their
downward progress. Every deed
covenants that the purchaser shall
lot sell intoxicating beverages nor
'llow them to be sold on the prem
ses; and any violation of this COM
,act would he sure to cost the vio-
ator more than he could make by
t. Need l add that GrinneH has
10 paupers, no loafcrs, no ruffians,
10 brawlers, and that her people
ire equal in morality, intelligence,
md culture to any community on
,arth?
found near Grinnell the man l
AVE long been looking for-hc who
grows nearly or quite one hundred
bushels Of shellcd Indian corn per
'cre on 4 large area year after year.
lis name is Wallace Clark, and he
las grown corn for the last FIVE
ears successfully on the same hun
lred acres on which | found not
ess than nine thousand bushels
'ully ripe, whereof enough had been
gathered to determine the average
,ield. OF course, Mr.. Clark sells
title of it as grain, but turns it into
'ork and beet, and SO keeps up the
ertility Of his soil. He informed
ne that, by blowing each year an
nch deeper than the preceding, he
:ould, in his black prairie mold,
averaging more than two feet deep,
maintain the yield of corn without
manure, which he mainly applied
o his grass. He had had thirty
,hrec acres planted in day by one
nan, running planter that planted
,wo rows at once, and having a
change of teams. understood him
% say that he had one hundred and
sixty-fve acres planted, titled and
harvested by one man, using two
span Of horses alternately. On re-
lection, l believe the man did not
gather all this crop, though as the
harvesting may continue from some
time in August, when the grain is
in milk, to near the end of winter,
that would not have been impossi-
BILE. Swine pastured on clover
through spring and early summer,
have corn cut up and thrown to
them as soon as the ears have filed,
and thenceforth till they are ripe
for market. Many farmers feed so
long as they have corn to spare,