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Wheat Growing In Nebraska

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Parent Issue
Day
17
Month
July
Year
1874
Copyright
Public Domain
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This State is now attracting considerable attention as one of the best fields for aettlement in the Union. In climate and soil it meets the conditions required for the successful cultivation of all the produotions of the températe zono, and also some of the sub-tropical. It it not often that corn and wheat thrive equally well in any country ; but as it is in Nebraska, corn is the first staple erop, of course ; but bo soon as the farmer is well settled upon the land, he puts in wheat. The wheat of Nebraska is in good favor ; and in St. Louis and Chicago markets, its price averagos several cents per bushei more than the wheat of the neighboring States can command. In bread making qualities the wheat of Nebraaka only ranks second to that of California, with which it does not come into competition. The agricultural triumphs which have been achieved in Nebraska are the work of little more than ten years, and, as the country is settled, and the psition of the farmer becomes easier, wheat ranks higher among the crops of the country. In 1860, when the population was 28,000, the wheat erop amounted to 147,867 bushels, or about 5 1-4 bushels per head ; and, in 1870, when the population was 122,000, the wheat erop was 2,125,085 bushels, or a little under 17 1-2 bushels per head. The population of 1873 can only be estimated, and therefore it is best not given ; but the wheat erop of that year, (which was an unfavorable agricultural year,) amounted to 3,000,000 bushels. The record is therefore still one of advancement for the young State ; and it is to be remembered that stook raising, fruit culture, corn growing, and all other agricultural work advances equally with wheat raising. Nebraska is therefore a promising State for the settler ; and the more especially since it has good markets both east and west and south.

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Old News
Michigan Argus