The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1874-07-22
FARMING AND FARMERS, PROsPgCTs
IN NEBIAskA,
BY A GEORGIAN OBSERVER.

Mr.. Samuel A. Echols, of Georgia,
who has spent some time in Nebraska,
Gin which State the Burlington and
Missouri River Railroad Company has
considerable land for sale,) and who
proposes to locate in the State, des.
eribes farming and farm prospects in
Nebraska, in letter printed in the
eAtlanta (Ga.) Herald. His observa-
tions are worth reading. Mr.. Echols
says:
The most leveland highly cultivated
garden in our State Georgia. } is in no
better condition for cultivation than
millions Of acres in Nebraska, after
the first, or sod plowing. The soil is
of rich alluvial character, dark col
cred. easily worked, of greet depth
and Of inexhaustible fertility. There
is no need of commercial fertilizers 10
stimulate it to productiveness, nor
doses of costly chemicals to supply
plant food" for corn, wheat or grasses.
The cost Of cultivating is light. The
plowing of corn is usually done with
two-horse sulky cultivators, with which
one man and team can plow from six
TO eight acres pei day. One hand can,
and does, cultivate from City to sixty
acres in corn which will yield ON al
most any land here, from thirty to fif.
ty bushels per acre. Instances are
numerous where eighty bushels per
acre are made. Corn and small grain
are, as a rule, seeded, and the latter
harvested, by machinery. When
farmer is unable to buy a corn planter,
grain drill. cultivator or reaper, he
will, perhaps, find one or more new
settlers in the same fix, and the two
or more clubbing together purchase
the machine, and all have the use of
it until each is able to buy for him
SELF 80 ..
A very little while is required for
any farmer to be independent who will
only attend to his business. He raises
at home his corn, oats, wheat, barley,
rye, hay, cattle, hogs. turkeys, chick.
ems, butter, eggs, fruit and vegetables.
His expenses are light. It costs COM
paratively little to feed his live stock,
us they can Craze upon the farm the
greater part of the year, and the la
Dor is the only cost of saving, in Sum
mer, IN ample supply of as Gne hay
as grows anywhere, for Winter feeding.
l visited farm on which the owner Of
1t, with a young SON and one hired
man, cultivated last year, one hun
dred and twenty acres in corn and
one hundred in wheat, besides taking
care of one hundred head of cattle.
The surplus of the corn and wheat
crop was marketed, and petted the
farmer more than $1,000.
1t is pleasant to 20 among the farm.
ers and note thier contentment and
tbriftiness. There are men eomforta-
bly, situated upon farms of their own,
and out of debt, who three or four
years since came to the State with alb
no means whatever, Such
men had to trough it" for the first
year or two; but there are hundreds
Of just such instances. and will be
many more. Still would not advise
any one to come to Nebraska to farm
with than less $500. This is sufi.
cieDt to give any industrious man
bold upon eighty or one hundred and
sixty acres of land, room to live in
and some sort of team to work with.
But man coming to Nebraska with
81 900 need know very little hardships
and any one with much over that
amount with no hardshins nj all.