The Kansas herald of freedom., 1856-11-15
The Hssala Of Freedom.
Lawrence. Saturday, nov. Is, 1855.
Agricultural.


The resources of Kansas are simple, |
andeasily developed. At present they |
are agricultural. The soil is fertile,
and of that quality which viii last SO,
for many years, without manure.
WHEAT.-Those who put in winter
wheat last fall, raised from 20 to 3d.
bushels per acre, on the sod. The
earliest sowed did the best. Septem-
Der is the right time to sow-as early
as the middle of the montl. We saw
some spring wheat; but it yielded only
Toto II bushels per acre. We rather
suspect the first crop of wheat, on the
SOD, will be the best. If it is not, we
have an uncommon country for the ar
ticle. Wheat is now worth S150 per
bushel.,
Coas.-The country is natural to
this, everywhere. OF course, the bot
toms will produce the heaviest crops.
We have seen none measured yet, to
ascertain how much it viii produce per
acre, but have heard various estimates,
at from so to IS bushels per acre, on
the best crops. A friend of ours, who
understands the value of deep plowing,
bought one of the Michigan double
plows, manufactured by John Deere,
of Moline, for which he paid $40. He
plowed about an hour with it, with two
large horses, and broke the beanl-thus
losing the use of it for the season. But
still persevering, he took his prairie
piow and team and broke up his last
years breaking 8 inches deep-four
inches deeper than the sod was broken.
The result was, the drought did not
affect it. The corn leaves did not roll
up from the heat, during the summer.
He has promised to measure one acre,
and give US the quantity. We wish all
farmers would send us their expert
ennce, for the good of the whole. Corn
is selling at from 45 to 55 cents per
bushel, and corn meal is retailing at the
stores, at from so cents to $100. We
think there is enough in the Territory
to supply the demand for food, with
the small supply of flour which our
friends are sending US.
PoTAToss.-We have never seen
better potatoes than those now supplying
the market. So far as our observation
goes, the late planted Neshannocks
have done the best We have heard
one man estimate his crop at $50
bushels per acre. A part of these he is
selling at 81 per bushel; the remain
der he is saving for seed, expecting in
the spring to get 80 per bnshel for them.
We do not know whether potatoes do
best on sod, or on old ground. Will
some of our farmer friends tell us?
PUMPKINS, SQUAsHEs, MELONS, AND
ToaAToEs.-All you have to do is to
put them in the ground. either on
sod or on old ground, and they viii
produce most abnndantly. The quality,
also, is excellent.
TuRNIps are large and prolific. Farm
ers have been selling them in the
streets at from 15to % cents per bushel,
by the load.
PEAS, BEANS, and black-eyed peas
grow prolific.
APPLES, PEACHES, PLuMs, AND
GRApEs, in avid state, thrive and pro-
duce abundantly. In the oldmission-
ary stations the cultivated varieties do
well.
BEES are easily raised, very prolific,
often swarming twice year, and have
no worm or moth to trouble them. Ev-
cry farmer may easily indulge in the
luxury of good honey. 1t is easier
raised. and more profitable, than almost
any other article produced for the mar
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