New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1859-06-09

ali Iii don't oyeroear the facts toaI' He us ~
rood timber. some Of hi. b-istbors have 1t II
abundance and would be very glad 70 have Inn
WORK part Of il into rails on shares at iar ra'ei
and if be has DO breaking team, he can hire out IN
having and harvest, and get nearly or quite two
acres broken nett month f'r every faithful weeks
work be chooses to give at that b1sy season. The
poorest man ought thus 20 be able - get ten acres
broken, fenced and into crop, each year. For poor
men gradually hew farms ont Of heavy timber,
where every fenced and cultivated acre has cost
twice 70 thrice the work it does here.
And it is sad 10 note that hardly half the settlers
make any sort Of provision for winterag their
cattle even by cutting stack Of prairie hay, when
every good days work vii put up tun OF 1t. II
he has corn-feh, the squatter's cattle are well
come to pick at that all Winter: if he has none,
they must 20 into the bottoms and browse through
NJ hest they can, OF course, his calves are miser-
able affairs; his COWS unfit to make butter from I'LL
the best of the sc ason is Over his oxen, should ne
have pair must be recruiting from their Winters
famine Just when he most urgently needs their
work. And this exposing cattle all Winter 10
these fierce prairie winds is alike inhuman and
wssteful asked settler the other day how he
could do it. al had no time to make shelter for
chem But had You no Sundays did You
"not have these at your dispo-all'' 80, yes!
"don't work Sundays" "Well, you sh'un haze
"worked every one of them, rather than let your
cattle shiverin the cold blasts all Wnter-it would
"bave been a work of humanity and mercy to cut
land haul logs get up cattlestall, and cover it
with praiie-bay, which will warrant TO be more
religious than anything you did on those Sundays"
But the squatter was Of a different opinion
How man located in little squad cabin on
one of these rich claims can sleep moont nights
under the average circumstances OF his class,
passes nv comprehension. should want to work
moderately but retolutey at least fourteen hours Of
each secular day until had made mysef comfort
able with fence around at least eighty acres,
quarter Of this partitioned of for my working
cattle, decent warm shelter to cover them IN
cold or stormy weather. tolerable babi'ation for
my family, at least forty acres 10 crop and young
orchard growing For one commencing with next
to nothing estimate this the work of FIVE years;
after which, he might take things more easily,
awaiting the fruit from bis orchard and the COM
ing up of his boys TO help him. But for the first
four or five years, the poor pioneer shouli work
every hour that he does not absolutely need for
rest Every bours worn then will save him many
hours in after life.
For the farmer who comes in with liberal means,
the task is of course much easier. Let Us sup
pose one to be worth 1000 the day he lands on
the Kansas shore of the Missouri, and see how
quickly he can make farm and home. He ar
rives, we will say, in August, when he can see
Just what the country produces, whether in state
Of nature OF under cultivation He buys quarter
section (Which is land enough for any MANI in
choice locality, including thirty or forty acres OF
timbered river tr creek bottom, say for 3 10 per
acre charges 81 GOO Of the 81 900 thus called for
10 the account Of the Pro-Saeery Democracy for
defeating the Free Land bill, and sets to work,
with two good hired men, lie buys fige yoke of
oxen for breaking team, span OF good wagon
horses COW in fresh milk, and three heifers which
will be cows next Spring puts up cabin that Will
Just do and is ready to commence breaking by the
lst of September. As bis men break, he follows
with the horses, sowing and narrowing IN wheat
80 long that will answer, but does not stop
breaking til the ground is frozen. Now he begins
10 cut and draw timber for filter habltati0D to
which 10 welcome HE family in the Spring Having
done THE he gets good mechanics to finish IT,
while he and his men 60 to work at fencing
by cutting sawlogs for light, narrow boards, II
there be sawmill convenient; if not, then by
cutting for and splitting rails So soon as the
dIy est land Will answer for il, he begins to put IN
Spring Wheat; then Oats; then Corn; and putting
up fence whenever the soil is too wet for blowing;
let him not forget TO have a iew acres seis0nibly
set in ffuit-tTees some Of them dwarls, for early
bearing Thus his money will no, have been c1-
haus,ed by the evening FALL when he will have
crops coming in and more than hundred acres Of
his land broken and subiued for future cultivation.
/ see no reason Why resolu'e, good manager
should not be comfortable after his first year Or
two, and thepceforth take the world as easily as
need be. He who comes in with but $1,000
81 900, or $500 must Of course be much longer IN
working his way 10 position of comfort asd indie
pendencc but if he Will work right ahead, wasting
peither days nor dollars and keeping clear of spec,
ualion anu ofice-seeking, lie can hardly fail to
succeed.
As to the internal spirit Of Land Speculation
and Monopoly, think no State ever suffered from
it more severely than this The spectators in
brosdcl0th are not one whit more rapacious per-
nicious than the Spectators in rags, while the lat
ter are forty times the more numerous Land
speculation here is about the only business in which
can embark with 30 other capital than
easy conscience. For example: rode up the
bluffs back of Atchison, and out three or four mile.
the high rolhng prairie, so as 10 have some hf-