Nebraska advertiser., 1877-10-25

ing as to the original cost-say from
Denver to New York. We in the
west pay nearer three cents per ton
per mile than one. This, say, you
can all understand. and can make the
same principle apply proportionally
to other crops. THE greater the con-
deEsstion, or compression and the
greater value impaired, the less ex-
pense and loss 10 transportation"
Cotton used to be called king" 1t
was only so because it would bear
transportation better than almost any
other product, being worth twenty
cents per pound. We cannot grow
cotton, it is true, but we can produce
wool, which bears transportation
equal with cotton. We ought to grow
more wool and less corn. We ought
to have millions of sheep grazing
these broad acres, where the principal
cost is mere herding.
Condensation and character Of crops
60 farther toward solving the trans
portion problem than all else beside.
Mr. Morton, who addressed you last
season, was elaborate, s0Snd and full
in the presentation of this question
condensation of corn into hogs.
Therefore, l will not again present
this particular point, however well 1t
may bear repeating. fully, and
would even demOnstratively. if need,
be endorse his porcine aphorisms,
that "eorn is king. and hog heir ap-
parent )" that "hog is an interconver-
tible bond which every farmer may
lawfully utter and make at par, while
the little pigs arc the annual cou-
pons."
Another feature I'm this great prob
lem, is to encourage in every possible
manner, the introduction and foster
ing of
MANUFACTURES
They bring the producer and con-
sumner in close contact. Operatives of
factories are all consumers of farm
products. AS these are multiplied, SO
the demand of the market ia increas-
ed. Home market and home con-
sumption are direct saving to the
farmer. The first furnishes him the
manufactured article at his own door.
The second furnishes him the
best practical price for his product at
home.
1t is estimated that a manufacturing
establishment employing one hun
dred men will support 500 additional
people. One hundred families dis
bursting $3.50 annually will d!sburse in
the aggregate S25.0 900 in a year, and
so on ad intiR5tltna. The great west
being an agricultural region, capable
of producing the bread and meat for
the world, can therefore support a
greater population than the same area
elsewhere. While Nebraska in natu-
raj motive power, is inferior to some
other statef, there is, nevertheless,
water power sufficient to run machin-
cry commensurate with the capacity
to produce, and to sustain population.
No country is better adapted to wool
growing than ours, and it ought to be
grown extensively and manufactured
at home. We ought. in the dairy
business, to be equal at least with
New York, orthe Western Reserve in
Ohio. New York is said to have 250,-
600 COWS in the dairy business, send
ing out $4,000, 900 pounds of cheese
annually. The wealth of some dis
try" is said to "ship annually, over
1900, 900 pounds of cheese, and 300,
600 pounds of butter, worth 81. 500, 900.
Little Falls, New York, perhaps as
much. st Albans, Vermont, ships
100000 pounds of cheese, 2,750,0
pounds of butter, worth In the mar
ket 81, ,25O,OOO
The village of Wellington, Ohio,
shipped 4,OOO,O 600 pounds of cheese in
one year worth S5O0,OOO. The pro-
ducts of the dairy are sold for cash,
and hence the returns are quick
This Industry enables the manufac-
turer to reduce a large bulk of food
into small compass, through the two
processes of feeding COWS and manu-
featuring the productions"
| am glad to know and announce
that quite a number of Nebraskians
have caught the spirit of the dairy
business, and that a number of small
are already in success
full operation in various parts of the
State. An experienced dairyman in
this State Informed me not long since
that one good cow ought, and will,
with proper care, yield 500 to 600
pounds of cheese in one year.
Experiments in our own State show
hat the sugar beet can be grown to
great advantage. Beets raised in Ne
oraska have been found, from actual
analysis by Prof. Aughey of the State
to yield fraction over II
per cent. sugar. France and Germany,
he great sugar-beet producing portion
If the world, show only 142 per cent.
The yield per ton per acre in our State
8 equally encouraging.
In Cass and Seward counties sugar
,eets have been raised, at the rate Of
70 tons per acre. The average yield |
las been about 20 tons per acre. Raw |
,eets are worth $500 to $3.50 per ton.
Statistics show that the U. s. have,
n the past ten years. paid out the en-
'rmous sum of one thousand million
# dollars for sugar, while all the Eu-
opean nations, no more favorably |
ituated than America, are providing
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