The Kansas herald of freedom., 1858-03-27
prepare for IN Enlarged Harvest.

Prepare for an Enlarged Harvest
The season has again arrived when the
husbandnan finds it his duty to prepare
for his future harvest. If he fails to SOW
he fails to-reap. To idle the time at this
season, is to prepare for necessary idleness
hereafter.
Every farmer, when planting his fields
very naturally inquiries what the prospects
are for a sale Of his surplus products; and
whetherthey VIII command remsine erating
prices. If he IS satisfied the demand for
them will be limited, or that the prices
will be low, the supply will also be i'm
tied. When large number OF persons.
all influenced by the same reasons, arrive
at the same conclusion i is but just to
| apprehend limited supply of products,
and that prices viii be correspondinsiy
advanced.
4 large yield of products of any given
description for one season is always fol-
lowed by falling o1f.of that article the
ensuing season; and, hence, the price of
that article always advances the second
year after it has been SO very abundant
This fact is worthy of observing ard re-
Numbering by all, whether in Kansas or
out of it.
One purpose in this article is to urge
upon our Kansas readers the importance;
yea, the necessity of preparing for large
harvest, though cur Spring emigration
VIII be exceedingly limited, yet it viii be
very heavy in the Fall Thousands are
waitingthe soiutionof the Kansas problem.
"A few mouths viii remove every doubt,
and then viii dawn the era of our pros
perity. The capital and eni grafton, will
pour in upon us their living food; then
railroads, manufactures and commerce
will extend their advantages around us;
and then viii be realized the hopes of
the poet philosophers who have predicted
such brilliant future, for our partisan
cursed Kansas.
Every pioneer visiting Kansas has to
be supplied with the products of her soil.
In the past, Missouri has filed our mar
kets with her produce, and drained us Of
our wealth as consequence. II this, is
continued another year we are in fault
the Kansas husbandman is eensurable.-
We have soil and climate unsurpassed
in fertility bysany other portion of the
globe. Experience has demonstrated that
enlightened free labor is four times as
vigorous and productive as IGNORANT and
debased slave labor. He who plants with
his own hands, looking forward to the
ripened harvest which he will reap to
enrich his own granaries, has stimulus
to exertiou which the oppressed bondman
never fell. Thesone sees toll and lashes,
a scattered family, and dreary future
before him; the other rejoices in a lnxuri-
ant harvest, and builds in Imagination
fairy castles which some day he expects
will be realities.
But it is not to the pioneer alone that
the husbandman looks for purchaser for
his surplus products. Government, dur
ing the next year will expend more than
ten million of dollars in the West for
supplies for its Utah expedition, and in
its engagements with the Indian tribes.
Horses, mules and beeves will 6e demand
ed in great numbers to fit out expeditions
to the Hest. These Should be supplied
from Kansas, as we are nearest the mar
ket.
But this is not all. Soon the millions
of unoceupied domain lying east of the
Rocky Mountains will be teeming with
life. All the supplies to emigrants will
come from Kansas, if we but exert our
selves in the proper direction.
Every incentive is before us to plant
largely this year-not a single additional
acre only, but many of them-conscious
that We cannot glut the market. We are
not dependent upon caprieious commerce
for prices, as every bushel of corn we
raise, and every sack fpotatoes we grow,
are bought.up for home consumption. to
supply the living wave" sweeping west
ward where.
The star of empire takes its way