Mexico weekly ledger., 1880-02-12

Nile valleys, will endure centuries Of
steady cropping, and Is the finest basis
for grain, grass and fruit known to the
world. It Is, too,
THE MOST VERSATILE OF ALL SOILS.
These Audrain County farmers may raise
In perfection everything that grows be-
tween the northern limit of the cotton
fields and the Northern Red River. This
happy combination of alluvial and Iacus-
trine, which obtains throughout the
country, is splendidly suited to
VARIETY FARMING,
the surest and most profitable resource
o~fhusbandry- While It admits of special"
farming, and has often given & prime
account of itself by 40 and SO successive
crops of corn or wheat, 1t Is a very para
disc for mixed farming"
GRAIN GROWING
takes a broad range here, and is well at
tested by 40 years of successful produc-
ton. Corn Ia the staple grain, gives a
yield of from 80 to so bushels per acre.
~aggregating for the county an annual
yield of 1000. 600 to 5000, 900 bushels.
The present corn crop is the largest vel
grown In the county, and will give q
meana average of nearly or quite SO bush.
els per acre.
THE WHEAT CROP
Is exceedingly fine this year both as to
the yield and quality. Henry Leet,
whose farm Is near Ladonia, harvested
lie bushels of No. l wheat from three
acres, and / hear Of many other wheat
growers In the county who harvested
from rs to SO bushels per acre of prime
white winter wheat, the range being all
the way from Is to 40 bushels. Like all
regions that have a limestone basis. Au-
drain County Is G natural TheGt country,
and many a crop Of wheat has this year
paid the full commercial value OF the
land that produced 1t. The
MINoR GRAINS, VEGETABLES n PLANT
do remarkably well here. Oats give Il
yield of 35 to IS bushels per acre; barley
from 80 to so bushels, and rye from l6 to
so bushels, the Yield, as with corn and
wheat, depending upon season and thor
oughness OF culture. Buckwheat, broom
corn, sorghum, millet, Hungarian, flax.
beans, peas, Irish and sweet potatoes,
tobacco, field and garden vegetables OF
/ every variety known to the middle lati-
tudes, and all species of plants and
blooms luxuriate In this wonderfully rich
and versatile soil. Audrain County may
: be denomlnated
LIE TAhAb4SE OF EhtlJo-
1t has the mild, equable and perfect fruit
climate, the proper elevation for success
full fruit growing, and, above all, has In
this Ioess deposit the finest fruit sob In
the world. The apple, cherry and small
er fruits of the garden rarely fail to re-
ward the careful grower with abundant
crops. The peach gives a fine crop about
three years out OF five. The pear does
finely on the heavier white oak and hick-
DRY soils. This Is
A NATURAL YIN COUNTRY.
The forests are fairly draped with wild
grape vines, some of them more than q
century old and of enormous size. ]
found a native vine In the Salt River
forest that measured "a inches In cir.
conference, several feet above the
ground. The standard domestic grapes
are growing In great p%rofusion at a cosl
of two and three cents per pound. Fol
size, flavor and color they are equal t.
any crown In the islands of Lake Erie
or on the Hudson and Ohio rivers, aDc
never fail Of u bountiful yield. There
are many elegant orchards, vineyard:
and small fruit yards in the county tina
are worth a days journey to see ant
fruits of richer hue, liner textur,
or more delicious flavor are grown no
where In America. And there is
NO FINER GRAss COUNTRY
In c~hristendom than Audrain County and
for that matter, all Northern Missouri
Not every good grain country is equal!
good for grasses. It Ia q great de2tin!
to pursue the pleasant and profitable