The Kansas herald of freedom., 1854-10-21

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the following letter, written by a gentle
man well known by the country and
upon whose opinion reliance may be placed.
INDRPENDENcE, No., july IL, 1854.
Dear Sir lin my sanderings to ani
fro in this region, | find myself, tonight
in this beautiful town, where are some fine
building, good land, and enterprising citi-
zens.
The Court House, situated in the CEN
ter Of the square that occupies the center
of the village, is truly an elegant building.
There are also at least two large and we'll
kept hotels, as well as a great number Of
stores, good dwelling houses DC, in the
town. The land like that in Kansas Ter
ritory is rolling, rich and beautiful, and
yields immense crops of corr, hemp, sobac
co, and almost anything else that can be
raised in the United States. I have pass
ed cornfields, to-day, where some of the
corn was so tall that the tallest man sit
ting on the tallest horse in Massachusetts
would be unable to reach the top and
that too, when it had just commenced to
tassel out, and before the stock had COM
pleted its growth. | am told that when
the corn is harvested, only the tallest of
the laborers can reach some Of the corn
without breaking down the stalks
Judging from the present appearance of
the corn here and of that in Illinois when
/ passed through that State, the yield Of
this will be nearly or twice as much as
that. In fact / never saw anything like
the corn here, nor dreamed of it in my
philosophy" A very intelligent and
lsystematic Belgian farmer in Kansas, few
days since gave me some of his experience
/ in farming, with hired slaves for his labor
ers. According to his experience, last
year, which was not as good as some, on
account of the dry weather, he will have
this Fall, when harvest is done, as follows
! Corn, eighty-Gye acres, with siSty-ive
bushels to the acre, at 30 cts bushel
Amounting to $2,762
Wheai 10 acres, 90 bushels to the
/ acre, at 81 90 making 200
Oats 26 acres, 40 at so cts. making 3l2
Timothy grass, IL acres-2 tons to
the acre $1,000 making 24O
Clover a actes for.the swine.
Potatoes, ! acre, 200 bush. at 4Oc.,
making 80
! These products amount to $a,594. In
addition to this, he had I 40 swine, which,
when ready for the knife, will weigh $50
lbs. each. if as good as last year, and which,
lat six cents a pound, will come to 5000.
Dedneting ls bushels Of corn at so cents
a bushel for each hog, will leave $720;
which, added TO the first, makes "a, 4,3T4.
The work on his farm, including the gar
den, general Improvements, DC, is done
by FIVE men, or hired slaves, while the
owner simply superintends it.
From ten to fifteen hundred pounds of
hemp to the acre is an average crop for
this land, and the price the year past has
been from l2O to $50 dollars ton.-
Pumpkins, melons, apples, peaches, and
fruit of all kinds grow here in abundance
| if planted, Such is the land in Kansas
town, aud such, also, is the land in Kan
sas territory; for it is of the same general
character Let it be remembered that
such crops as the above are raised without
spoonful of manure, and that, too, from
year TO year for all time to come, for aught
I know. / have seen corn growing on
land that has been planted for twenty
years in succession, and there was no ap-
parent difference between it and the corn
on new land. Also let the New Eng
land farmer remember, that to raise from
60 to go bushels of corn to the acre here,
no hoeing is required. The only work
requisite after planting is 20 plow amongst
| it few times, and such work as :sweed-
ing" ahalfhilling," and shilling" Is an
known. The price of this land is, for un-
improved, from 25 to 40 dollars an acre;
and for improved land, from 40 to 100
dollars This is the price Of all the land
bordering on the Territory for several
miles south of the mouth of the Kansas
river, and it will soon be higher-for there
| is comparatively but little such land in the
United States as this. The land ali fhro'
the Kansas river valley, in the Territory,
| is equally as good as that above described,
and worth as much TO the acre, and will
produce as large crops. Is it to be won
dered at, then, that every young man in
Missouri, and every old man, also, who has
not already farm Of the same quality of
his own, should be rushing into the Terri
tory to secure l60 acres, for 81, ,25 an acre
when he knows it viii be worth from SO
to 800 the moment he gets his title p
Rather is il not strange, and wonderful
that, at least, one hundred thousand per-
sons from New England, are not on their
way to this garden Of the world, at this
moment That such would be the case |
have no doubt if the good qualities Of the
laDd, climate, de-, were understood BY them
as well as they are by those In Missouri
on the borders. The rush from this State
| to Kansas territory, is aof so mach to &C.
cure footkold for slavery there, as to
secure q forfuae, notwithstanding what
the newspapers say about it. No; most
who 90 from here ara yonng men, in want
of farms; and slavery to SAY tbs least, Is
secondary matter with them, if indeed
| they are not opposed to its Introduction
into Kansas, which Is certainly the case
with many.
You ask, when Is the best time for New
England men 10 goto Kaasasg Unanes-
tionahly the best time Is this Fall. By
coming aes, they can select from the best
Iof the land now opess 10 settlement, as
well 81 get their cabins asd isaces made,
and theit land plowed fesay for Spring
wosk. gl,e winters. | sn told. ars 80
mild, thal outdoor work can he done With
comfoss such as splitting rails, fencing,
Iaa;lding houses. dc, during most ef the
season. BESIDES, Il they would be rspse:
ssniei in the fisrt, Territorial Legislature
| OF Kansas, they must be On the groansl
soon. -
The valley Of the Neosho OF Grand
river, in the soush Of Kansas Is sid % Be
lsery produetiss- -