Nebraska advertiser., 1873-09-18
ERennhlishsd hy Reanest.l
BROwNVILLE AND NEMAHA COUN-
TY, NEBRASKA.


We frequently receive such letters
as the following, inquiring the pres
ent condition and future prospects OF
and Nemaha county. We |
will endeavor to give reply to such
enquiries in ertenso, as we could not
do to each inquirer by letter:
CINCINNATI, O.. Aug. %, 1873.
Messrs. Caffrey & Hacker.
Gents: Il desire to gain some In
formation regarding your town and
locality, present condition, future
prospects, &C., and believing you to |
be the proper persons to apply to !
take this liberty to address you. l
have been for several years editor OF
the Scientific Manual of this city, but
have always desired to emigrate to
some fiourishing western town and
devote my attention to law. Any in
formation you can give ME will be
thankfully received and gladly recip-
rocated. Respectfully, etc.
J. S. ZERBE.
Brownville, in Nemaha county, is
located 400 20/ north latitude, cores
ponding eastward with the latitude
of Keokuk. Iowa. Bloomington. Ills,
Lafayette and Versailles, Ind, Col
umbus, Ohio, Wheeling, West Vir-
ginia, Harrisburg, Pa, and Trenton,
n. j., and westward with Salt Lake
City, Utah.
From the Report of the Agricultur-
al Society to the last Legislature we
are enabled to gain the following sta
tistics and information concerning
Nemaha county. 1t is bounded on
the north by Otoe county, the county
seat of which is Nebraska City, east
by the Missouri River and Atchison
county, Missouri, being the extreme
northwestern county, south by Rich
ardson county, Nebraska, which Is
the extreme southeastern county of
the State, and the county seat of
which is Falls City, and on the west
by Johnson county, the county seat
being Tecumseh. Nemaha county
contains 244,790 acres of land, of
which 241, 400 are tilIable. About 3d.
900 acres are under cultivation. The
crops raised in the county are corn,
winter and spring wheat, oats, winter
rye, barley, buckwheat, sweet and IT.
ish potatoes. clover, timothy, Hunga-
rian and prairie grasses, sorghum,
broomcorn. flax and tobacco. The cav
erage yield of each per acre is winter
wheat, 10 bushels; spring wheat, ii |;
corn, 40; oats. As; rye, 15; barley,
As; buck wheat, So; Irish potatoes,
$50; clover and timothy, II tons per
acre; Hungarian, 2 tons. The soil is
a rich, dark loam, heavily mixed with
lime. and is best adapted to the
wheat, winter wheat aud the grasses.
Aim, st all kinds of vegetables grow
to great perfection, as well as most
kinds of fruit, especially peaches, ap-
piles, pears, grapes and plums.
OF live stock in 1872 there were
horses, 3. .949. of the approximate av-
erage value per head of S45. 90; mules
and asses, 351, value. $4,000; cattle,
1880, value, $500, sheep, 1882, val
ne, S2. 25; swine, II 400, value, $3.50
The amount of. live stock since that
year has, and is-stilf' greatly increas'
ing. Farmers are directing their: at
tention to stock growing very rapidly.
The temperate climate, the abaud-
ance and spontaneous growth ofgrass
es, and the immense crops Of corn
which are grown seem, to adapt the
county peculiarly to stock growing.
Large NUM- bers of Texas and Chero-
kee cattle are driven from the south
and fattened upon our corn for the
eastern markets. A general herd law
is i'm force in this county which re-
lieves the settler from fencing hi:
farm before he may plant his crops
The clinate is good and is less sub
iect to extremes than other localities
in the west. Along the Missouri Riv'
er there is a wide breadth of timber
which will supply fuel for the county
for many years. Skirting the Other
streams which run through the coun'
ty are found also groves of wood.
There has been planted. nearly 6
thousand acres in groves in this eoun'
ty, of cottonwood, maple, black wal
nut and locust. Special attention i.
given to the planting of orchards and
growing of fruits of all kinds. The
climate is so favorable that even in
the coolest winter ever known, thai
of hast year, fruit buds on peach trees
were not killed and large amount o
peaches are now ripening in the orch
ards of this county. Pear trees are
bearing very largely this year The
bluffs along the river are especially
adapted to the culture of grapes. The
growth of wood is rapid and the bear
ing early, and the fruit large and rich
The Usage orange is the principa
: hedge plant in use of which there art
many thousands of miles in the coun
ty 1t can be grown with much les:
effort and greater certainty than il
Iowa or Northern Illinois. No Gov
eripg is needed to protect the plant.
during the first and second winter
from the frost. Raw lands are worth
from S6sto $40 per acre. aud improved
farms frenh $40 to $50, according to b.
cation.
Farm hands are being paid from
SIS to $50 per month and board anC
lodgings. Day laborer's wages arr
S1.50 per day.
The Little Nemaha River traverses