Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1874-08-27
Farming and Farmers Prospects In
Nebraska
By A GEORGIAN OBSERVER


Mr.. Samuel A. Echols. of ofGeoreis. VIII,
has spent some time in Nebraska. On
which State the Burlington and hissour
River Railroad Company has considera
Die land for sale,) and who proposes I,
locate in the State, describes farming anc
farm prospects in Nebraska, in lette
printed in the Atlantic (Ga.) Herald. Hi
observations are worth reading. Mr.
Echols says:
The most level and highly cultivated
garden in our State (Georgia,) is in nc
better condition for cultivation than mil
lions OF acres in Nebraska, after the first
or sod plowing. The soil is of a rich al.
luvial character, dark colored, easil,
worked, of great depth and of inexlIausti
BILE fertility. There is no need of com.
mercial fertilizers TO stimulate il to pro
ductiveness, nor doses ofcostly chemicals
10 supply plant food" for corn, wheat OF
grasses
The cost of cultivation 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 per day. One hand can, and does
cultivate from fifty To sixty acres in corn
which will yield on almost any land here,
from thirty to fifty bushels per acre. In
stances are numerous where eighty bush
els per acre are made. Corn and small
grain are, as rule, seeded, and the latter
harvested, 10y machinery. When farmer
is unable TO buy corn planter, grain
dril' guilty ator or reaper, he will. perhaps.
ind one or more new settlers in the same
fix, and the two or more clubbing togeth
er purchase the machine, and all have the
use of 1t until each is able to buy for him.
seif
A very little while is required for any
farmer To be Independent who will only
attend TO his business He raises Mt home
his corn, oats, wheat, barley, rye, hay.
cattle, hogs. turkeys, chickens, butter.
eggs, fruit and vegetables. His expenses
are light IL costs comparatively little TO
feed his live stock, as they can Craze upon
the farm the greater part of the year, and
the labor Is the only cost of saving, in
Summer, an ample supply Of as fine hay
as grows anywhere, for Winter feeding. |
visited farm on which the owner Of it,
with young son and one hired man, cul-
tivated last year, one hundred and twenty
~.
besides taking care OF one hundred cattle
The surplus OF the corn and wheat crop
was marketed, and netted the farmer more
than $1,000.
1t is pleasant to 60 among the farmers
and note their contentment and thrift
ness. There are men comfortably situated
upon farms OF their own, and out of d sbt.
who three or four years since came to the
State with absolutely no means whatever.
Such men had to trough il" 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 wita less
Ihan 5000. The amount is sufficient to
give any industrious man hold upon
eighty or one hundred and sixty acres of
and, room 10 live in and some sort of a :
cam To work with. But man coming
o Nebraska with $1,000 need know very |
lite hardships: and any one with much !
'yer that amount with no hardslips at |
III.