River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1873-07-25

iy wealthy, counting your estates by
hundreds of thousands.
MARKET GARDENS
All you need here is about twenty
acres of good land in FIVE miles of the
city, with six colored men at ten dollars
month, and run market garden,
raise early peas potatoes, snap beans,
cabbage. tomatoes, turnip greens, etc,
and ship to Louisville, Cincinnati,
Chicago and st. Louis, and you will
make money enough. This kind of
market garden can never be overdone,
as the demand flor early vegetable in
northern cities will always be in excess
OF the supply. And then it gets so hot
after the middle of summer south of US
that the gulf aud other southern cities
furnish a good market, the most of
their vegetables having dried up or
died, so they look to us for supplying
them.
SMALL FARMING PAYS.
Even small farms, or farming on a
small scale, can be made to pay here
from one hundred to three hundred
dollars per acre, if managed properly,
for we are right at the shipping point
north and south by railroad. This
gives to skilled, industrious men with.
out capital, advantages that they can
lind no where else. / work eight men,
have eighty acres in corn, thirty In
oats, and will make more than two hun.
dred tons of hay. l also run market
garden, employing five men.
WATER POWER PROFITABLE.
| built my dairy on my spring
branch, have an overshot water wheel,
doing all my churning by water power.
besides running pump throwing
constant stream Of water through the
milk troughs up to the house, and
thence to the market garden for irrigat-
ing, if needed, where | intend to build
reservoir that will be ample 20 sup
ply several thousand barrels of water
to irrigate the whole garden in times
Of drouth, for / am a great advocate of
irrigation. | believe water is the
cheapest manure we can procure.
FARM MANFRED.
Last winter | hauled out fifteen hun
dred two-horso wagon loads of manure
to improve the lands of the farm, with
view to making profits hereafter full
~ three-fold, though l will have to
labor aud wait for the fruits.
TENNESSEE AN OLD SETTLED STATE
You must know Tennessee was set
tied nearly hundred years ago, and
her oldest fields are good yet. Her soil
cannot be surpassed, a cline not to be
bettcred, just suited to health, comfort
and to assist the industrious, skilled
man to make plenty of the comforts of
life and the stamps to lay up for a
rainy day.
TIMBER AND MINERALS
Our hard wood timber for manufactur.
ing purposes, and all kinds of timber
for all other use, together with our
coal and iron, covering thousands of
square miles, are unsurpassed and in
exhaustiblc, and Notwithstanding all |
these facts, when we buy manufactur-
cd Article or implement, whether it be
made of wood or iron, the stamp upon
i shows, with few exceptions, it is man
in some other State. Thou
sands Of two.horse wagons, made in
Wisconsin, are sold here, and there is
no chance for changing this until we
get set of people mixed up with the
population here to act on the principle
If yeast in a tray of dough; the raising
element wants necessarily to be Of very
superior quality to have the desired
fleet, and such men as | have named,
With Libby, of Hudson, ! think would
10 we'll to minglc in
THE PEOPLE FRIENDLY.
The people here are extremely Jrjenoi-
b aud very anxious for another skill
md enterprise 10 come and settle
amongst them. Now. | have this 10