Cedar Falls gazette. [volume] (Cedar Falls, Iowa) 1860-1895, 1871-06-30
THE GAZETTE,
DOES FARMING PAYa
Familiar Pictures In a Darying
Town.

DOES FARMING PAY2
Familiar Pictures In a Darying
| Town.
A gentleman from Vermont, Mr..
Tinkman, In the Farmers Club or
the American Institute, takes excep.
tion to an example of Gideon Tues
dell, as showing that farming pays,
because he had sl25, 900 to invest in
farm and Its appointments, and
says: What want to hear about
Is the men that have grown rich by
farming only" "Well he shall be
gratified, but IL Is singular that n
man apparently so sharp as this Yer.
monter, should not have seen that
Gideon Truesdell illustrated the
most difficult phase of farming of
any country that of investing large
amount Of money in improving and
fitting up farm with all the most
improved and expensive machinery,
running 1t by a foreman with hired
iabor--makis9 ID pay seren per cent,
upon the whole investment, with
oper 4,OOO surplus for his supertnten-
6eace. AF
LII this does not prove that money
Invested In farming may be made to
pay, then no proof can be sufficient.
But he wants more modest pictures,
and these are close at hand saa5
THE SUCCESS OF GEORGE sIssoN.
The Holland Land Company own
ed large part of Western New
York. covered, in Erie county, with
huge forest trees, that would turn
out so to 100 cords of wood per acre.
These great giants of the forest the
settlers had to cut, log and burn, sim
ply to get them out of the way, with
no compensation except q few shill.
ings for the salts made from the ash.
es. These lands were sold to the
early settlers at stto$5 per acre, with
little or no payment down.
In the town OF Collins thin, wiry
young man, of firm resolution and
whip cord muscles, had assisted one
of the early settlers for something
more than a year before his majority.
and for this service received q deed
of As acres OF this unbroken forest,
much Of 1t rough land on the north
side Of Clear Creek. This was in
1888. Without team, tools or stock, :
this young man "relying upon his
muscle" worked by the month to
buy him ayoke of steers and some
tools, and soon began 10 deliver his
manly blows i'm telling the Forest
Taking to himself wife, this young
pioneer builds cabin and as 3
He hewed the dark old woods away, IA
>b And gave the virgin fields TO the day.
grass springs up, and the gentle COW
brings plenty to the house aud turns
tisss grass 20 gold. He soon adds
another 80 acres of land, partly clear
ed, and more cows, and thus, with
constant industry, both of himself
and his hopeful wife, enable him to
add rs AGREES more land, making bis
farm In 1850 ITO acres.
This look like genuine thrift and
progress In farming under difficult
ties. When we contemplate the
present comparatively high prices of
dairy products, and then go back to
the period of 1888 to 1850. and find
cheese sold at frem 81 to 5 cents, and
butter 8 to IL cents per pound. we
can partly appreciate the industry,
economy and good calculation that
was displayed In supporting q family
and adding 125 acres TO the farm In
II years, under such scale of prices.
In the meantime, Mr.. =. observes
that the land on the south side of
Clear Creek is q warmer. deeper soil,
better adapted to clover and the
grasses generally, carrying more
cows to the hundred acres; and hav-
Ing good opportunity, he sells his
ITO acres and buys 228 acres on the
south side, paying some SIS per acre
more than he gets. !
This farm he has held ever since,
and from IL has procured the means
for paying the debt upon it-for
improvements I'm under draining,
erecting good rboildinss--setting upI
two of his sons as farmers, one of
them now having q farm under good
cultivation q and buildings. with all
the neutrality-suspicious.. ww II
Mr.. SIsson has not secon1plished |
AZ ths withont thlt nie9srSIy econ
cny which sometimes ehk knncterizes
the farmer bnt be has iaken the
broader and noFe -Iineral view which |
holds thst generous .treatment of
land and stock gives the larger re-
iurn. Ii good seasons, such az 1869,
he Is 80 20 produce $50 pounds of
cheese q the COW. besides selling 5s4 |
pounds 81 butter from the herd Of s2 |
cows# ~ rquired su average. that
sseson, Of only nine pone4s Of milk |
for Z Roamt of CHEESE. end if we esti-
utste - pounds OF milk TO- pound
OF butter, this would give q yield of
|, ,le6 pounds of milk per sesw, or ~.
" pounds Of milk per COW per day