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Livingston County, Illinois |
Agriculture News
(Transcribed by: Teri Moncelle Colglazier)
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Livingston County, Illinois |
1865
Beet Sugar -- a fair article of the white loaf -- is manufactured at Chatsworth, Livingston County, Illinois. There can be no doubt that Illinois has more acres emmently adapted to the production of the sugar beet than all Europe. The manufacturers are encouraged by their experience to hope for a very rapid and profitable extension of the manufacture, which we hope they may realize.
[Date: 1865-05-16; Paper: Milwaukee Sentinel]
1867
The beet sugar enterprise has proved a success in Chatsworth, Livingston County, Illinois. Four thousand tons of beets were raised last year on four hundred acres of prairie land, at a cost of four dollars a ton, yielding 400,000 pounds of refined sugar. The returns are as large as are obtained from the rich soils of Belgium and France.
[Date: 1867-03-07; Paper: New Hampshire Sentinel]
1871
Twenty years ago, a farm eight miles square in Livingston County, Illinois, was entered by its present owner at $1.25 per acre. It is now subdivided into thirty-two farms of 1,280 acres each, every farm being run by separate sets of hands, the whole under the direction of the owner M. L. Sullivant. There are 15,000 acres under the plough; 250 miles of hedge fences; 150 miles of ditches for draining. One hundred men and hour hundred work horses and miles are employed on the farm, besides two book-keepers, four blacksmiths, and eight carpenters. An accurate account is kept with each sub-farm, and with each man, horse and mule, the animals being all named or numbered and charged with the amount paid for them and their food and credited with their labor. The entire farm with improvements and person property on it is now valued at about $2,000,000.
[Date: 1871-07-04; Paper: Macon Weekly Telegraph; Date: 1871-07-06; Paper: Wooster Republican; Date: 1871-07-12; Paper: Yankton Press and Dakotan]
1878
The Illinois State Department of Agriculture has prepared a table, by counties, showing the number of hogs marketed last year, their gross weight, and value. The number marketed aggregates 2,115,804, the average gross weight 253 pounds, the total gross weight 536,969,071, and the value of the entire product $22,738,881. Livingston County has of this 62,322 hogs, with a gross weight of 16,515,330, and a value of $696,947.
[Date: 1878-01-30; Paper: Inter Ocean]
1880
Another Heavy Failure in Illinois. Chicago, No. 19. -- J. & W. Hossack, of Odell, Illinois, made an assignment yesterday to John McWilliams and P. W. Kenyon. This is the heaviest failure ever known in Livingston County, the liabilities being from $250,000 to $300,000. The Hossacks are large grain dealers, and owe nearly everybody in this vicinity, and their failure causes great dismay. They will not pay this estimated amount by over 50 cents on the dollar.
[Date: 1880-11-20; Paper: Sun]
1887
Lord William Scully has purchased for $45,000, 1,500 acres of land near Cayuga, Livingston County, Illinois.
(Transcriber Note: $30 per acre)
[Date: 1887-04-01; Paper: Daily Inter Ocean]
1946
An example of rapidly increasing farm land prices was illustrated this week by the sale of the 240-acre Schertz estate in neighboring Woodford County near Minonk, for $416.67 an acre.
