New-York tribune., 1871-09-27
NOTES ON IOWA.
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DuBUoUE, Iowa, Sept. 1.-Iows "a ,uss,.,.
Though hardly more than twenty xe.r, m -.
claims to have produced this year moro WIZ -
any other State, and more Indian Corn Tran IN, ~.
Illinois. Missouri was somewhat ahead ~ -. -
Corn last yeaE but che Ioys Cosnerop Of Nm go.
. 2Hsh larger area than did that OF i'm "a =
nearly quarter heavier per acre, % that Tie 80 =
entirely beyond precedent. Then the award 1. M.
Stste Of the first place In Apple-rowins a a. =.
cent National Pathological Exhibition at Riss~s.a
has still further exalted the horn Of the Hawke.
who seem to me to give that award undue eunuAssar
That they are succeeding admirably with ApplaaT r
cen personally testify. The display at the n.
Moines Fair would have done credit to loeaI
Fair In any State Of the Union. n.
fruit was not only large, fair, and sbup.
dant 1t included most Of favorite varistes vita
several new ones and some that seemed 70 haxs
been improved by trsnsplantation. In Gfspss al,a
Iowa has done well ] Judge that she grows Con.
cords easily and bountifully a. any other Ststa
and that her growers could stford aud would csu
tract to supply them In largo quantities at thres
cents per pound, and would do better at that prios
than at Wheat-growing. OF Delawares and tn
moro delicate varieties the product 10 far less andI
judge moro precarious; still. they all thrive hegs
under careful pains taking culture. OF Pears "a
Peaches little Is said and not many Of them exhih-
tied. learn that the Peach-growing area 10 receA-
ing southward ON this a. on the other aide Of ~
Alleghenies.
Iowa has this day not less than One Million aads
Quarter Of people, with ample space for Ten Miooa
She has attracted emigration more rapidly than any
other State. It seems but yesterday that she hai
only two Representatives in Congress- now she has
SIX, and In tho next House viii have eight And
she Is likely to grow quite as fast during the mex.
decade as throughout the last She Is building Rail-
roads with great energy and spirit, and each lins
opened invites and secures new tide of immigra-
tion. The northwest quarter Of the State had very
few inhabitants up to o recent date; but they no
now pouring in, along the lines of the newlyopened
or half constructed Railroads. in thousands lean
that barely four counties remain unOrganized, and
they will not remain 90 long. If she encounter no
baok-set, Iowa will double her population between
1870 and 1880.
The town Of Grinnen was to me an object Of
greater interest than any of her thriving cities II
can hardly be fifteen years s,nce the Rev. J. B. Grin
NELL then pastor of ongregationa Church In Now
York, resolved on migration to the West, and took
several Of his congregation along with him. Hs
pitched on location in Iowa, perhaps ffty mila
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 perhaps 0 few clumpe Of timber. on ths
water-courses, wheR millions Of just Epch
acres were offered, In every paft OF
this State but the vicinage OF the Mississippi q
Government price, This tract was held In subordi-
nation to the;purpose OF establishing "Grinnel Un
yersity~ at its CENTER and sales to settlers wezs
made from time to time to that end The University
has been for some years in operation, and though
Ofks most American Universities) as yet in tAs
germ, is Of greater promise than most Of its kind
The Common School Is its only rival here In archi-
tectural pretensons, and 1t will surprise some to
learn that these together afford such educational
opportunities that scholarly parents have migrated
hther from the East in order to secure the best in
structon for their children. And doubt II thsre 10
q spot on earth better suited to their purpose.
For Grinnen has one advantage as the dte Of .
College over any other within my range Of observs-
tion in that no glass of Alcoholic Liquor Is
was sold here Though now Q village of some sse
to 5000 people, It has no bar-room, no saloon"
"lsger beer or otherwise; no resort Of tpplef&
even in the most respectable stage Of their dovn-
ward progress. Every deed covenants that the puF-
chaser shall not sell Intoxicating Beverages nor
allow them to be sold on the premises; and any NO
lstion Of tins compact would be sure to costAs
violator more than he could make by it. Need add
that Grinneu has paupers, loafers, no rufSanA
no brawlers, and that her people are equal In No
rality, intelligence and culture, to any community
on earthf go
found near Grinnell the man 1 have long beea
looking for-he who grows Dearly or quito 90
hundred bushels Of shelled Indian Corn per acre ca
a large area year after year. His name is Walias
Clark. and he has grown Corn for the last FIVE yess
successively on the same hundred acres on which
found not less than nine thousand bushels fully rpe
whereof enough had been gathered to determine tn
average yield OF course, Mr.. Clark sells
little Of 1t as grain, but turns 1t into
Pork and Beet, and 30 keeps up tho
fertility of his soil. He informed that by plov-
ing each year an inch deeper than the preceding bs
could in his black prairie mold, averaging moro thsa
two feet Deep maintain the yield Of Corn withous
manure, which he mainly applied to his grass Hehaa
hnd thirty three acres planted in day by one nas'
running planter that planted two rows st nce'
and having change of teams. understood him v
say that he had one hundred and sixty-hve scfss
planted, titled, and harvested by one man. uangt~o
span of horses alternately. On reflection oeiievo
the man did not gather al this 1op'
though as the harvesting may continue Hom somo
time in August, when the grain is In the m'ik'
near the end Of Winter, that would not have peea
impossible. Swine pastured on clover tnrouk.
Spring and early Summer, have Corn cut up soo
thrown to them as SOON as the ears have filed sna
thenceforth till they are ripe for market Many
farmers feed so long as 6ey have Corn TO Usrs
thus converting their great staple entirely into be
and Pork, so that it will bear transportation 70 os
tant markets.
Il am daily asked to remark the rapid grown @
Western cities and villages as though mere ea'x w
an Indictment to sdmifation. cannot 30 resam y
II these cities-embryo and full-fedged-wcfe ~
expanded by the introduction and successfui 49,
lishment of Manufactures, could rejoice In snen
enlargement. Half dozen Woolen or Cotton no-