Iowa voter. [volume] (Knoxville, Iowa) 1867-1874, 1871-10-12
Greeley on Iowa.

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from the New York Tribune:
DUBUQUE, Iowa, Sept. 25.
Iowa isjubilant. Though hardly
more than twenty years old, she
claims to have produced this year
more wheat than any other State
and more Indian corn than any but
Illinois. Missouri was somewhat
ahead of her in corn last year, but
the Iowa corn crop of 1871 covers 6
much larger area than that of 1870
and is nearly quarter heavier pei
acre, so that the yield is entirely be.
yond precedent. Then the award tC
the State of the first place in apple
growing at the recent National Po-
biological exhibition at Richmond,
has still further exalted the horn OF
the Hawk-eyes, who seem to me to
give that award undue emphasis.
That they are succeeding admirably
with apples, / can personally testify.
The display at the Des Moines Fair
would have done credit to a local
Fair in any State of the Union. The
fruit was not only large, fair and
abundant; it included most of our
favorite varieties, with several new
ones, and some that seemed to have
been improved by transportation.
In grapes, also, Iowa has done well.
l Judge that she grows Concords as
easily and beautifully as any other
State, and that her growers could
afford to, and would contract to sup
ply them in large quantities at three
cents per pound, and would do better
at that price than at wheat growing.
OF DeIawares, and the more delicate
varieties, the product is far less, and
! judge more precious; still, they all
thrive here under careful, pains-ta-
king culture. OF pears and peaches
little is said, and not many of them
exhibited. learn that the peach
growing area is receding southwark
on this, as on the other side of the
Alleghanies.
Iowa has this day not less than one
million and quarter of people, with
ample space for ten million. She
has attracted emigration more rapid
ly than any other State. 1t seems
but yesterday that she had only two
Representatives in Congress; now
she has six, and in the next House
will have eight. And she is likely
to grow quite as fast during the next
decade as throughout the last. She
is building railroads with great ener-
gy and spirit, and each line opened
invites and secures new tide Of inn
migration. The northwest quarter
Of the State had few inhabitants up
to a recent date; but they are now
pouring in, along the lines Of the
newly-opened or half constructed
railroads, in thousands. | learn thai
barely four Counties remainy unor'
ganized, and they will not remain SC
long. If she encounters no backset
Iowa will double her population be.
+uraor IQ-O opd 1890
| found near Grinnell the man
have long been looking for-he who
grows nearly or quite one hundred
bushels Of shelled Indian corn pen
acre, on large area, year after year
His name is Wallace Clark, and ne
has grown corn for the last five years
successfully on the same hundred
acres, on which j found not less than
nine thousand bushels fully ripe
whereof enough had been gathered
to determine the average yield. Ol
course Mr.. Clark sells little Of it as
grain, but turns it into pork and beef
and so keeps up the fertility of his
soil. He informed me that by plow'
ing this year an inch deeper than the
preceding, he could, in his black
prairie mold, averaging over two
feet deep, maintain the yield Of corn
without manure, which he mainly
applied to his grass. He had had
thirty-three acres planted in day
by one man, running planter that
planted tworows at once, and having
change of teams. / understood
him to say that he had one hundred
and sixty-five acres planted, titled
and harvested by one man, using
two span Of horses alternately. On
reflection, believe the man did not
gather all this corn, though as the
harvesting may continue for some
time in August, when the grain i
in milk, to near the end Of winter,
that would not have been impossible.
Swine pastured on clover through