History of Andrew and De Kalb counties, Missouri : from earliest time to the present; together with sundry personal, business and professional sketches and family records. besides a condensed history of the state of Missouri, etc, Part 18

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POPULATION OF MISSOURI BY COUNTIES.


The annexed table shows the population of the State by the counties in ex- istence at the several periods mentioned. The population of the Territory in 1810 was 20,845.


COUNTIES.


1821.


1830.


1840.


1850.


1860.


1870.


1880.


Adair


2,342


8,531


11,449


15,190


Andrew


9,433


11,850


15,137


16,318


Atchison.


1,648


4,649


8,440


14,556


Audrain


1,949


3,506


8,075


12,307


19,732


Barry


4,795


3,467


7,995


10,373


14,405


Barton


1,817


5,087


10,332


Bates.


3,669


7,215


15,960


25,381


Benton


4,205


5,015


9,072


11,322


12,396


Boone. .


3,692


8,859


13,561


14,979


19,486


20,765


25,422


Buchanan


6,237


12,975


23,861


35,109


49,792


Butler .


1,616


2,891


4,298


6,011


Caldwell.


1,458


2,316


5,034


11,390


13,646


Callaway


1,797


6,102


11,765


13,827


17,049


19,202


23,670


Camden


7,852


7,430


9,359


13,912


15,547


17,558


20,998


Carroll.


2,433


5,441


9,763


17,445


23,274


Carter


4,693


6,090


9,794


19,296


22,431


Chariton.


1,426


1,776


4,746


7,514


12,562


19,135


25,224


Clark.


2,846


5,527


11,684


13,667


15,031


Clay


5,342


8,282


10,332


13,023


15,564


15,572


Clinton


2,724


3,786


7,748


14,063


16,073


Cole.


1,028


3,006


9,286


6,696


9,697


10,292


15,515


Coope


3,483


6,910


10,484


12,950


17,356


20,692


21,596


Crawford


1,709


3,561


6,397


5,823


7,982


10,756


Dade


4,246


7,072


8,683


12,557


Dallas.


3,648


5,892


8,383


9,263


Daviess


2,736


5,298


9,606


14,410


19,145


De Kalb


2,075


5,224


9,858


13,334


Dent.


5,654


6,357


10,646


Douglas


2,414


3,915


7,753


Dunklin


1,220


5,026


5,982


9,604


Franklin


1.928


3,431


7,515


11,021


18,035


23,098


26,534


Gasconade.


1,174


1,548


5,330


4,996


8,727


11,093


11,153


Gentry


4,248


11,980


11,607


17,176


Greene


5,372


12,785


13,186


21,549


28,801


Grundy.


3,006


7,887


10,567


15,185


Harrison.


2,447


10,626


14,635


20,304


Henry .


4,726


4,052


9,866


17,401


23,906


Hickory:


2,329


4,705


6,452


7,387


Holt.


3,957


6,550


11,652


15,509


Howard


7,321


10,314


13,108


13,969


15,946


17,233


18,428


Howell.


3,169


4,218


8,814


Iron.


2,822


7,612


14,000


22,896


55,041


82,325


Jasper.


4,223


6,883


14,928


32,019


Jefferson


1,838


2,586


4,296


6,928


10,344


15,380


18,736


Johnson


4,471


7,467


14,644


24,648


28,172


Cedar.


3,361


6,637


9,474


10,741


Christian


5,491


6,707


9,628


2,338


4,975


6,108


7,266


Cape Girardeau ..


1,235


1,455


2,168


Cass


7,371


8,162


11.130


Bollinger.


5,842


6,278


8,183


Jackson


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HISTORY OF MISSOURI.


POPULATION OF MISSOURI BY COUNTIES .- Continued.


COUNTIES.


1821.


1830.


1840.


1850.


1860.


1870.


1880.


Knox


2,894


8,727


10,974


13,047


Laclede.


2,498


5,182


9,380


11,524


La Fayette.


1,340


2,921


6,815


13,690


20,098


22,628


25,710


Lawrence.


8,846


13,067


17,583


Lewis


6,040


6,578


12,286


15,114


15,925


Lincoln.


1,674


4,060


7,449


9,421


14,210


15,960


17,426


Linn.


2,245


4,058


9,112


15,900


20,016


Livingston.


4,325


4,247


7,417


16,730


20,196


McDonald


2,236


4,038


5,226


7,816


Macon


6,034


6,565


14,346


23,230


26,222


Madison


2,371


3,395


6,003


5,664


5,849


8,876


Maries


1,907


4,839


9,623


12,230


18,838


23,780


24,837


Mercer


2,282


3,834


6,812


6,616


9,805


Mississippi


3,123


4,859


4,982


9,270


Moniteau.


6,004


10,124


11,375


14,346 ·


Monroe ..


9,505


10,541


14,785


17,149


19,071


Montgomery


2,032


3,900


4,371


5,486


9,718


10,405


16,249


Morgan


4,407


4,650


8,202


8,434


10,132


New Madrid.


2,445


2,351


4,554


5,541


5,654


6,357


7,694


Newton. .


3,790


4,268


9,319


12,821


18,947


Nodaway.


2,118


5,252


14,751


29,544


Oregon


6,704


7,879


10,793


11,824


Ozark .


2,294


2,447


3,363


5,618


Pemiscot


2,962


2,059


4,299


Perry.


1,599


3,371


5,760


7,215


9,128


9,877


11,895


Pettis.


2,930


5,150


9,392


18,706


27,271


Phelps


2,677


6,122


10,646


13,609


18,417


23,077


26,715


Platte


8,913


16,845


18,350


17,352


17,366


Polk.


8,449


6,186


9,995


12,445


15,734


Pulaski.


6,529


3,998


3,835


4,714


7,250


Ralls


1,684


4,346


5,670


6,151


8,592


10,510


11,838


Ray


1,789


2,658


6,053


10,353


14,092


18,700


20,190


Ripley.


2,856


2,830


3,747


3,175


5,377


St. Charles.


4,058


4,822


7,911


11,454


16,523


21,304


23,065


St. Francois.


2,386


3,211


4,964


4,249


9,742


13,822


St. Louis


8,190


14,909


35,975


104,978


190,524


351,189


382,406


Saline


1,176


2,182


5,258


8,843


14,699


21,67%


29,911


Scotland


3,782


8,873


10,670


12,508


Scott.


2,136


5,974


3,182


5,247


7,317


8,587


Shannon.


1,199


2,284


2,339


3,441


Shelby


3,056


4,253


7,301


10,119


14,024


Stoddard


3,153


4,277


7,877


8,535


13,431


Stone ..


2,400


3,253


4,404


Sullivan.


2,983


9,198


11,907


16,569


Taney


3,264


4,373


3,576


4,407


5,599


Texas.


2,313


6,067


9,618


12,206


..


2,000


3,148


5,313


8,029


8,384


10,390


Schuyler.


3,287


6,097


8,820


10,470


Putnam


1,657


9,207


11,217


13,555


Randolph.


2,942


7,198


9,439


11,407


15,908


22,751


Reynolds


1,849


3,173


3,756


5,722


St. Clair.


3,556


6,812


6,747


14,125


Ste. Genevieve.


3,181


1,432


3,009


3,287


5,721


Marion


2,691


9,300


11,557


14,673


Miller


4,901


5,916


7,304


Osage


5,714


10,506


12,568


Pike. .


4,859


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HISTORY OF MISSOURI.


POPULATION OF MISSOURI BY COUNTIES .- Concluded.


COUNTIES.


1821.


1830.


1840.


1850.


1860.


1870.


1880.


Vernon.


4,850


11,247


19,369


Warren ..


4,253


5,860


8,339


9,637


10,806


Washington


3,741


6,779


7,213


8,811


9,723


11,719


12,896


Wayne


1,614


3,254


3,403


5,518


5,629


6,068


9,096


Webster


7,099


10,434


12,175


· Worth


5,004


8,203


Wright


3,387


4,508


5,684


9,712


Total


70,647


140,304


383,702


682,043 1,182,012 1,721,295 2,168,380


CITIES AND TOWNS.


The following table shows the population of cities and towns in the State with a population of 4,000 and upward in 1880, compared with the census of 1870:


TOWNS.


1870.


1880.


TOWNS.


1870.


1880.


Carthage


4,167


Moberly


1,514


6,070


Chillicothe


3,978


4,078


St. Charles.


5,570


5,014


Hannibal


10,125


11,074


St. Joseph.


19,565


32,431


Jefferson City


4,420


5,271


St. Louis


310,864


350,518


Joplin ..


7,038


Sedalia ..


4,560


9,561


Kansas City.


32,260


55,785


Springfield.


5,555


6,522


Louisiana


3,630


4,325


Warrensburg


2,945


4,040


..


CONCLUSION.


Such, in brief, is the History of Missouri, one of the foremost of the States of the Union in everything that goes to make up our Commonwealth. While there may be spots and flaws in the early records of its pioneer settlers, yet with them all this early and later history is one that must stir the blood and quicken the pulse of him who reads. Its institutions of civil and religious freedom, guaranteeing the rights of citizenship, education and worship, extending the blessings of beneficent law silently and extensively as the atmosphere about us, demand our love. Then, too, it is a' State of innumerable and as yet undeveloped resources. Its soil yields almost an infinite variety of production. Within its bosom lie hid many minerals, and its forests are rich in ex-


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haustless stores of timber, while its prairies are made to "bud and blossom like the rose." It is a State of the free school, the free press and the free pulpit, a trio the power of which it is im- possible to compute. The free schools, open to rich and poor, bind together the people in educational bonds and in the common memories of the recitation-room and the play grounds. The free press may not always be altogether as dignified or elevated as the more highly cultivated may desire, but it is ever open to the com- plaints of the people; is ever watchful of popular rights and jeal- ous of class encroachments. The free pulpit, sustained not by legally exacted tithes wrung from an unwilling people, but by the free-will offerings of loving supporters, gathers about it the thousands, inculcates the highest morality, points to brighter worlds, and when occasion demands will not be silent before po- litical wrongs. Its power simply as an educating agency can scarcely be estimated. These three grand agencies are not rival but supplementary, each doing an essential work in public cult- ure.


Above all this is a State of homes. Here there is no system of vast land-ownerships, with lettings and sub-lettings, but, on the contrary, the abundance and cheapness of land gives a large proportion of the population proprietary interests. To all this, add the freedom of elective franchise which invests the humblest citizen with the functions of sovereignty, and is there not reason for loving such a State ?


The Missouri of to-day is not the Missouri of a decade ago. A dark period followed the close of that bitter internecine strife, so fatal to this locality, but notwithstanding all this, prosperity and progress beyond former precedents are now her portion. The area of land under cultivation is greater than ever before, and the census of 1890 will exhibit an astounding increase in every department of material industry and advancement; in a great in- crease of agricultural and mechanical wealth; in new and im- proved modes for production of every kind, in the universal activity of business in all its branches; in the rapid growth of cities and villages; in bountiful harvests, and in unexampled material prosperity prevailing on every hand. Colleges and schools of every class and grade are in the most flourishing con-


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dition; benevolent institutions, State and private, are well main- tained, and, as one has aptly said, "In a word our prosperity is as complete and ample as though no tread of armies or beat of drum had been heard in our borders." Surely these are not the ordinary indices of exhaustion! As to resources for the future struggle, the resources of the State will meet each legitimate call. Guiding all these is the intelligent purpose of a people whose ambition, laudable indeed, is to make Missouri in reputation what she is in reality-one of the very richest States of the Union.


PART II.


HISTORY OF ANDREW COUNTY.


HISTORY OF ANDREW COUNTY


TOPOGRAPHY.


A NDREW COUNTY is situated in the northwestern part of Missouri, in nearly the same latitude as the cities of Philadel- phia and Sacramento, and about the same meridian as the Lake of the Woods and Galveston. It is nearly square, being about twenty miles from one boundary line to its parallel, and embraces a superficial area of 4,423.63 square miles or 273,035 acres bounded as follows: Nodaway County on the north, Gentry and De Kalb on the east, Buchanan on the south and Holt County on the west. The county may be said to be composed of two-thirds timber land, and the remainder prairie. The prairies lie east, northeast and north, but even they are handy to an abundance of timber that grows along the various water courses.


The general surface of the country may be described as roll- ing or gently undulating, although there are exceptions to the rule in several townships, where, in certain localities along the water courses, are to be seen abrupt hills and deep ravines. That part of the county bordering upon the Missouri River is consider- ably broken, the bluffs at Amazonia being from sixty to over two hundred feet high, and of romantic boldness. From the summits of these majestic hills, far above the water, a general view of the noble river and beautiful scenery for several miles along its banks can be obtained.


That part of Nodaway Township contiguous to the One-Hun- dred-and-Two River is also much broken in places, and, in the vicinity of Savannah, is quite a number of hills and undulations, none of which, however, is too abrupt for cultivation. Monroe Township, in the southeast corner of the county, and Rochester


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Township, in the eastern part, are characterized by a gently roll- ing surface, and near Fillmore, in the township of Jackson, is a diversified surface, hills and valleys alternating. The prairies are beautifully rolling, and characterized by a black loam soil of great depth and fertility, the remains of decayed vegetation that have been accumulating for centuries. This has for a subsoil a calcareo-siliceous clay, known as marl, which, when thrown to the surface from the bottoms of wells, and allowed to stand the freezing of one winter, has produced, without the aid of fertiliz- ers, almost as well as the black mold itself.


Empire Prairie, in the northwest corner of the county, is quite level, and presents as fine an area of farm land as can be found anywhere in the State of Missouri.


Similarly situated are the prarie lands of Benton and Clay Townships, which, in point of fertility and general productive- ness, are unexcelled by any like area in the West. In fact the soil throughout the county may be described as rich and inex- haustible, and it has never yet failed, with proper cultivation, to produce good crops, even under the most unfavorable climatic conditions to which it has been subjected.


STREAMS.


Andrew County is exceedingly well supplied with living streams of water, which are so admirably distributed that the people could not possibly make an improvement upon the arrange- ment, even if they were allowed the privilege of and endowed with the power to make a readjustment of the system of water- courses. Nodaway River forms the western boundary of the county, and affords ample drainage for a large and fertile area of country. It flows a southerly direction, receives in its course a number of tributaries, among which are Peddlar, Arapahoe and Lincoln Creeks, and empties into the Missouri a short distance west of Amazonia Village.


The One-Hundred-and-Two, so named from its being one hundred and two miles in length, runs parallel with the Nodaway through the central part of the county, and with its tributaries. Neelys branch, Upper Neely branch, Long branch, Riggin branch and Kelley's branch water and drain a fine region of country.


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The Platte River runs from north to south through the western part of the county, passing in its course through Platte, Empire, Rochester and Monroe Townships. This is a stream of consider- able size and importance, and it was along its banks that many of the first settlements in the above named townships were made. The other streams of the county worthy of mention are Muddy, Third Fork, Caples, Hickory, Crooked and Niagara Creeks, all of which play an important part in the drainage of the country through which they flow. The outlet of all these water courses is the great Missouri River, which forms the southwest bound- ary line of the county. Some of these streams have excellent mill sites, especially the Platte and One-Hundred-and-Two Rivers, and within the past forty years these privileges have been extensively utilized for manufacturing purposes.


" In addition to the water courses, perennial springs of the purest water are everywhere abundant, and it may be said with proper regard for truth, that there is scarcely a section of land in the county that has a spring or running stream within its bound- ary affording water sufficient to supply the demands of a stock farm."


TIMBER.


A circumstance, which more perhaps than any other favored, the settlement of Andrew County, was the abundance and variety of its timber. A large portion of the county was originally covered with a dense forest growth, much of which has been utilized for manufacturing purposes, and much ruthlessly de- stroyed by the early settlers in clearing and developing their farms. At the head of the varieties composing this forest growth may be classed the black walnut, a tree highly prized in all countries for the value of its timber for manufacturing purposes.


" Timber of this kind was very plentiful, and of excellent quality, but the high prices paid for it presented itself as a temptation to destroy it, which the people frequently, in straitened circumstances, could not resist." But little walnut is now to be found in the county, though quite a number of farmers have of late years been giving some attention to its cultivation, there being at this time several large and valuable groves in different


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parts of the country. The different species of oak were formerly very plentiful, and there still remains a sufficient amount of this timber for all practical purposes for years to come. Ash, hickory, elm, maple, sycamore, cotton-wood, cherry tree, crab apple, linden and other varieties are also found in abundance, and, taken all in all, Andrew may be said to be one of the best timbered counties in Northern Missouri. A line of timber follows the course of all the streams, while isolated groves, both natural and artificial, are to be seen in many localities throughout the country, which serve not only to vary the monotony of the prairie, but are useful in that they appear to exert an important effect upon the climate.


STONE AND COAL.


The rock strata of Andrew County embrace a vertical thick- ness of about 220 feet of the upper members of the coal measures, and are included betweeen Nos. 224 and 174 of the general sec- tion of the upper coal measures. Although some parts of the county are well supplied with rock, in many others no outcrop appears. On the Nodaway River and its tributaries it is occasion- ally found, also along the Platte River, in the eastern part of the county. Limestone in vast quantities is found in various parts of the county, and at this time there are several quarries in suc- cessful operation. About one and a half miles northeast of Savannah is quite an extensive quarry, from which the finest quality of building stone has been taken and shipped to St. Joe and other large cities. There are also quarries in Benton Town- ship, and on the One-Hundred-and-Two River, all of which have been extensively worked, much of the stone being utilized for foundations, chimneys and general building purposes.


That Andrew County is underlaid with vast beds of fine coal will hardly admit of a doubt, as outcroppings are to be found in several localities. Near the village of Amazonia has recently been discovered a three-foot vein, and the indications are that the country in the vicinity of Rochester is especially rich in this important mineral, large quantities of which have been found a short distance beneath the surface. Energy and capital are all that are necessary to develop the rich coal fields of Andrew


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County, and the prediction is made that before the lapse of many years the county will teem with many successful mines.


MINERAL SPRINGS AND WELLS.


There are several mineral springs in Andrew County, the waters of which have been tested as to their medicinal qualities, and found to possess rare curative properties. A more complete and perfect combination of the most essential minerals, with less waste matter, would be difficult to find. The water is clear as crystal, and of singular purity. The two most important of these springs are found short distances northeast and southwest of Savannah, respectively.


Bethesda Mineral Well .- This well is located in the city of Savannah, and was formerly owned by Dr. J. G. B. Ferguson, who was the first to advertise its superior curative virtues to the world. The peculiarity of this water is its pureness, and yet it is said to contain all the essential minerals. From an analysis made by Messrs. Wright and Merrill, analytical chemists, of St. Louis, it was determined that one gallon of 231 cubic inches contains the following ingredients :


Specific gravity.


REACTIVE ACIDS.


1011.5 Grains per Gal.


Calcic-Carbonate


1.852


Magnesic-Carbonate


.813


Ferric-Carbonate


2.516


Sodic-Chlorididi


3.196


Calcic-Chlorididi.


144.845


Magnesic-Chlorididi


45.584


Alumnia.


4.014


Silica


.740


Calcic-Sulphate


2.022


Organic and Volatile matter


1.320


206.902


The waters of this well, say Profs. Wright and Merrill, greatly resemble the St. Catherine's Well, of Ontario, Canada, and the Kreutznach Spring, of Germany. It has been fully tried, and found an effectual remedy for dyspepsia, scrofula, gout, rheuma- tism ; also a specific in neuralgia, an alterative and purgative.


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AGRICULTURE.


The agricultural productions of Andrew County are as varied as the most exacting could ask of this latitude, and for general farming purposes it ranks among the very best counties of the State. The following from the pen of Benjamin R. Vineyard, Esq., relating to the agricultural interests of the Platte purchase can be relied upon as presenting the facts so far as the county is concerned:


Almost the entire physical contour of this portion of the State is well adapted to the highest degree of cultivation. Along the water-courses are broad valleys, reaching generally far out to the wide, rolling prairies, covered in their unculti- vated state with an exuberant growth of vegetation which springs annually from the fertile soil. We are blessed with a temperate and a healthful climate, where the rain falls and the sun shines in such seasonable proportions as to make it a country where the agriculturist may gather the fullest returns for his labor.


One of the principal crops to which this locality is specially adapted is corn. This, the noblest looking of all the cereals, does well on the arable soils which cover our hills and prairies, but grows in the richest profusion and highest perfection in the deep, rich alluvium of our river bottoms. No other crop is more easily gathered, or less liable to damage after reaching maturity. It never fails to bring to the farmer the realization of the hopes he indulges as to the certainty of his harvest. From the stately stalks, with their millions of glittering tassels and pendant blades waving and shining in the summer sun, he knows that a bountiful harvest will come in the later season. Whole fields often yield seventy or eighty, and sometimes as high as ninety, or even a hundred bushels of corn to the acre. The semi-tropical temperature of our growing seasons, and the wonderful success which has followed the cul- tivation of this staple cereal in this locality, point to the great Missouri Valley as the heart and center of the corn-growing region. It is true that our lands need a deeper plowing and a more perfect cultivation than they have yet received, but


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their productiveness is not an experiment, and their fullest development will come with the true hearts, clear heads and sturdy arms of the immigrants, who must ere long troop in here to take possession of these untilled acres. The yield of this grain is usually so bounteous that the price which it has heretofore commanded at home has been comparatively much cheaper than in the Eastern markets, and the farmer has found that he can generally realize more by feeding it to cattle and hogs and shipping the fatted stock than by transporting the grain directly to some distant place of consumption.


Next to corn, wheat is probably the most important and most profitable crop that is raised by our agriculturists. There is probably no soil in the United States better adapted to wheat culture than portions of Northwest Missouri. Timber farms, where the land is not so rich as to make the grain grow rank and become liable to be blown down by the wind, are better adapted, as a general rule, to the successful growth of this cereal, than the arenaceous soils of many of our prairies. Yet, when unaffected by a dry, snowless winter, which sometimes comes, wheat culture on prairie farms has been productive of the most gratifying re- sults, both in the quantity and quality of the yield. Owing to its liability to be injured by rust, and the occasional premature ripening of the grain, produced by the hot, dry weather, which sometimes comes in the month of July, spring wheat is now but little grown in this portion of the State. Fall sowing not only brings a more suitable distribution of labor to the farmer, but can be relied upon with more certainty as to the extent and character of the crop. In fact winter wheat seldom, if ever, fails in this sec- tion, the product in the most favored localities and from the best quality of seed being generally about twenty and sometimes as high as thirty-five or forty bushels to the acre. The quality of the flour produced from the wheat grown in this region is not excelled anywhere, but is shipped to all parts of the Union, and even to foreign countries, to supply the demand for this important article of human food. The use of the drill in the planting of this cereal has been found productive of the most gratifying results, in depositing the grain more uniformly, and in such way as to protect it from the evil consequences that sometimes flow in dry


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winters from alternate freezing and thawing. The success and importance of wheat culture in Northwest Missouri can not be overestimated.


Barley is also grown here most profitably. Though regarded by most agriculturists as a tender grain, which may be easily in- jured in any stage of its growth, it seems to have escaped here from most of the ailments which have rendered it a precarious crop elsewhere. The extent of the yield is generally satisfactory, and the berry is plump and bright in color, commanding a good price, and is much sought after by brewers. As the years come and go, the raising of barley in this locality must necessarily greatly in- crease in the acreage that will be sown, and in the attention to its culture; which its importance and profit will demand.


Oats do well in this and in fact in nearly every portion of Missouri. No crop is more easily raised, or produces a more bounteous return. About the only caution which need be given is to be careful not to sow it upon ground which is too rich, where it may be liable to grow too rank and fall before it ripens. If put in early in the spring, whether sown broadcast or planted by a drill, a large yield is almost sure to follow, and the grain is nearly always plump and rich. As a food for horses, and indeed for all kinds of stock, its importance can not be overestimated; and & country where this valuable cereal can be so surely, so easily and so profitably grown as it can here, should command the re- gard of the farmer who is in search of a locality where he can most successfully pursue his vocation, so greatly honored and hallowed by time and toil.




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