The Kansas herald of freedom., 1857-04-11

corn grown here at fifty cents Q bushel
In the cob. while it has frequently sold
as high as seventy-fve cents and one
dollar a bushel. While the heavy en-
igration continues, these high figures
can be maintained. Taking the low
est estimate as the yield, and the low
est price as basis for our figures.
and we have 1900 bushels Of corn,
worth %, 400. the amount of our en-.
tire Investments.
Some viii be inclined to doubt our
figures, and viii set them down as
the result of book farming, for which
they pretend to entertain supreme
contempt. Such persons we refer to
w. Y. RoBERTs, Esq, whose expert
enee in farming in this Territory is
of practical character, and who will
inform the reader that our estimates
are wrong each way, by several hun
dred dollars; that the cost will not be
as much for raising crop; that the
yield, in all human probability, will
be still greater; and that the sales viii
amount to one-third more than we
have supposed.
The farmer, then, at the end of the
season, has the same amount of funds
in his pocket which he had when he
commenced it in May, and has his
claim under high state of eultiva
ton. If he has made a judicious Sc
lection of lands, by his own improve
ments, and those Of his neighbOrs a.
round him, his claim has increased in
value to from ten to fifteen dollars an
acre. Adopting the last figures as
approximating to correctness, then,
in six months, our pioneer has doubled
his money, and has the same amount
he commenced with in his pocket for
future operations. If the lands come
into market, in the fall he pays 5000
for a title from government, leaving
him $4,000 for next years expendi-
lures.
| Next spring opens, and We find our
this years pioneer on beautiful farm.
we'll fenced and in a high state of cul-
Itivation, and susceptible of yielding
him seventy bushels of corn to the
acre. The cost of running the plow
over his broad fields will not exceed
$3.50 an acre, or S400 for his entire
farm. Another hundred dollars will
plant it to corn. Two hundred and
fifty-six dollars will set out row of
Usage orange plants on the line of his
fence, on the inside; and little labor
will be all the care it will require to
insure him lice fence in three years,
| or by the time the posts of his wire
fence begin to decay.
l What amount of labor will be re-
quired for cultivating the corn through
the second summer, we are not ad-
vised; but suppose it equals 5000, ,and
the harvesting $500. This, with 9TH
er expenses mentioned, consumes a.
bout S2,350; leaving $1,000 out of
the 50, ,300 to be expended in beauti-
flying his fields, in setting out shade
aud ornamental trees, not forgetting a
row of apple, peach and pear trees,
besides ounces, cherries, DC, on the
inside, which will serve to break off
the winds, being somewhat protected
iby the hedge which bounds it on the
outside.
Allowing so cents a bnshel again
for corn, and the autumn of the sec
ond year finds our Kansas farmer with
| S5, 600 in his pocket, and he is IN a
fair way to become independent
Thus far he has only superintended
his business, hiring his entire labor
by the job. We might follow up
these figures for several years, but
each of our readers will be able to &C
the work for himself. We take it for
granted, however, that he will not al
low his money to remain inactive; nol
engage in wild speculations where
there is danger OF sinking the whole
but will invest it on his own soil, la
boring to maks his hundred and sixty
acres what kind Providence design
ed it to be through industry-just such
another spot, barring the ignorance and
the serpent, as the garden of Eden was
when our first parents were elected
therelrom.
As years roll on, splendid mansions,
costly ontbuildings. groves of fruit
and locust, and all the paraphernalia
of well-ordered home, are seen by
the traveller; and turn which way he
viii, he observes indications OF edu-
cation, taste, refinement, and, we may
add, the evidences of well-direetet
ienergy. Such home is worth labor
ling tor-such a home may be secures
in a very few years in Kansas by those
who settle out upon the bsoad prairies,
where the sunshine and the breezes, anu
the suiinds, too, can have fair play. Il
those who settle in the bottoms, IN ra-
vines, or along the borders OF woods
we promise no such Gilded future
Though luxnriant fields wave In th'
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