Some of our neighbors get fifty bushels to the acre without any cultivation, but our best land with proper work will certainly produce from eighty to a hundred bushels to the acre and other things in proportion. I suppose you understand that this is a Prairie country, in fact the great draw back is the great lack of timber. At least so it appears to me, but the inhabitants of this country say there is timber enough. There is a law to prevent hogs from running at large, which is a great advantage when timber is scarce, as all we have to do is to make a fence to turn cattle. In fact all the fence we need is just enough to preserve our crops as our stock runs out on the Prairie.
Sheep does remarkably well, the climate is peculiarly favorable to sheep as it is so high and dry.
I was not expecting to see so fine a country. I supposed it was a rather a level country. But is is entirely the contrary, the country is remarkable high and the streams have considerable fall and in many places run over solid rock bottoms. It reminds me of the neighborhood of Brownsville, Ohio, though the springs are not so good as they are there, though the water is as good here as it is any place. It is my opinion that this will be as healthy a country as there is in the world as the country is brought under cultivation and the superabundant vegetation is eat off by the different kinds of stock.