Alpena weekly argus. [volume] (Alpena, Mich.) 1871-1893, 1879-09-17
acre. From eight and a half acres

n acre. From eight and a half acr,
Il of wheat w. T.. Jones in the lowe
: burning-who, by the way, has
4 fine orchard started with sewers
1 trees In bearing, who grows sue
y cessfully and with prodigal yiel
| every vegetable in the marke
: gardens of Saginaw, as also blacl
: raspberries, currants aud othe
: small fruits,--raised from eight an
: half acres Of land, sown TO whea
: after wheat, and this the third crop
two hundred and fifty bushels O
Clawson wheat, concerning whicl
on investigation sample Hon. Dal
p. Foote, the farmer-lawyer o
Saginaw, remarked, "that is nigh
ty fine wheat wherever it was rails
ed" Robert Black raised from
eight acres two hundred and thir
teen bushels of fair wheat, from
three acres one hundred and fifty.
four bushels of peas, and from five
acres ninety bushels Of spring
wheat. Threshing has but just
commenced and / cite but q few
points not over the general aver
age from the machines books to
show by a letter what a good
deal means.
Five miles in the westerly course
beyond the region where the
first burnt land farm experience
was had is the record of burnt
lands called the upper burnings,
whereupon the oldest operations
date only four years back. Albert
Pack, to his credit he is said, hav-
ing become bondman for con-
tractor who died, made good his
endorsement by building five miles
of excellent state road, which con-
meets through lightly timbered
district the two burnings, and to-
day man can go thence all the
way from Alpena if his steppers
have the foot and festitude at ten
mile gait and not be disastrously
jolted. In the upper burnings
are probably fifty farms under Gull
tivation, the principal of which is
that of Sheridan 4 Holmes, lum-
bermen, which has three hundred |
acres under cultivation and without |
a stump in the clearing. Products
this year, $50 tons of hay, 1000
bushels of grain, potatoes and
roots and several thousand other
bushels, and the farm is four years
Did. AS to the lay of the land on
his farm, there is nothing like it
N Michigan broad and beauti-
'ul slope toward the south a grade
elevation and then another slope
hat comes within the line of view
IT to one standing at the farm
rouse, making visible the smallest
object at the nearest corner or at
my other corner or point. This
indeed spread to tempt the buco-
ic enthusiast that a correspondent
# an eastern agricultural journal
emarked this is the handsomest
arm in America, and IL is as good ,
s il is handsome.
Most soil will not bring good
rops without lection. The burnt
egion is about three weeks behind I
aginaw with it's latter spring frost !,
nd its earliest fell frosts, thus Civ +
ng the same space through with $
ut that intensity of heat which
marks our midsummer period,
lany attempts at raising fruit {
ave proved abortive on account y
the severe weather in the winter, n
+ it may be the severe freshness
I the soil, but enough has been
ttained to prove that with care ?
he hardy fruits that thrive, but in
aginaw may be raised there.
'lums have done exceedingly well
] the timbered land farms, and
here are as yet no circulios vines
ven to melons have ample tune to !
nature and produce and Of moisture !
ven this year there was, though !
OF any surfeit, an abundance, {
I'd from the lake influence or !
ONE other influence the early fall {
'ost seems to be strangely kept. !
D nearly hundred miles of buck A
GARD travel | saw not even a fin
err mark of "Jack" who has done v
ich nncanny work in parts of =
aginaw, Gratiot and other central
'unties, and the experience of the S
dest settlers demonstrates that l
etween May 18th and Sept. 18th |
lere is seldom any frost, light or i
eavy, in all the region mentioned. i,
Happiness, without desire or at d
'mpt to be too precise / have, /
link, shown that there is farm :
q district abaft Alpena worthy of 4
,spect and consideration. say a
DIV, as have often said before, Ii
he farm capacity Of the northern \
ounties Of Michigan is no more c
Understood nor appreciated than d
as the farm capacity of Saginaw, o
be metropolitan, must by and by g
Jaw from these northern counties, y
I'd if show just a little that by b
I'd by these counties will have
to draw against, and by n
Id by Saginaw may grow to be a.
etropolitan, that is q good show e. !,
r Saginaw, and that was a
HAPPINESS. d
oFFICIAL. II
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