Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1866-09-26
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Letter From Kansas.

Letter From Kansas
FRIEND WILLARD = Although but little
tr4nspires in ta= !aiIy routine Of farmers life
t9 be ofIaterest to the world outside, yet | ven-
ture, a.te- waiting 50 long, to ssnd you word
tr1m tais portion OF the Far w est"
We re I'll busy p1t.;ng in our winter
wheat. a larger breadth of wheat will be-
s1wn TINS fall II this Safe, than ever before.
" had sucl good SUCCESS with our last crop
that every body i, encouraged. and many viii
double their diligence in wheat raising In
iced, W have had good reason to be encourag-
d. We have raised large quantity of wheat,
act cta get j good price for it. Providence
has mtlsd upon the farmer the past season,
anG The farmers are smiling in CONSEQUENCE
= e nad . good time ID harvest our wheat, a
good time thresh il, End good article when
" hld threshed it Mr.. Henry Flu had
SIX hundred bushels, " hca be raised on eigh-
teen scres, and some II that he weighed, had
sxty-six pounds % the bushel. Nearly all of
my ueighb1Es have raised from one hundred to
thousand bushels apiece of the staple articv
Of bread7tuf, Ussides more less OF other
crops. Wheat sold for two dollars per bushel
up 10 me time Of threshing, when there were
SOM sales made Tor fifty cents les. bu: il is
not expected that the price si remain much
below two dollar. The mlIke-s for our pro-
ducs l. principally among arrivals. Set
Tiers are continually coming IN from the old er
States, and these have all their provisions to
buy for the frs year, at least In Neasho
county, and south Of Us, i is estimated that
10 900 nave been added to the population this
year. These settlers will doubtless start a crop
this IA. for another year, but until then they
must depend those who prece led them for
their wheat four. Then We have some mar
ket west of Us. Tne mines have to be sup
p.isJ, aad the immense trading teams that are
continuity crossing the pl.ls to Santa Fe and
California, help make market for produce as
we'll a. cattle. NJ one fears being unable to
turu his wheat into money.
The corn crop is also good. In some places
il Is reported uncommonly heavy. Oats are
ablnd4a, this year This kind of grain is not
usually considered Sd reliable as wheat, but this
year It has yielded all that the most exacting
could require.
Those that have peach orchards, will have
plenty of peaches this season. Every peach
tree old enough to bear is loaded with fruit.
1t will perhaps be years yet before we
shall raise all the apples shat We shall want
but there are many young orchards growing,
some Of them beginning 10 bear already, and
before many years there can be no reasonable
doubt but that we shall have an abundance of
This prince Of fruits.
As tor weather, We have had about cur usual
quota If dry, if anything little more than
IN average quota. We have in fact had reg
uar Kansas d-outh. 1t IS, | suppose, what We
must learn to expect every year. Old settlers
sly that Il has been as severe this year as ever
before, except in 1860. We have had no rain
ot any consequence, except showers, since the
first week in July. Owing to the heavy rains
pre- vious 10 that lime, which packed y the
ground, as lney call it here, the soil was more
easily damaged. The surface became hard and
cracked, the apertures opening down to the
roots of plants, and damaging them more
less severely according to circumstances
Many parts of the State have had plenty of rain
however, from showers. | have MT, IN our To-
cal newspaper, noticed auy complaint, nor
heard Of any other wise except in Cofey and
q part Of Allen county. In other parts Of Allen
county they have had abundance of rain. A
l1.a and humboldt they have had several very
h4Ed showers, bat although they came pro-
y5kngly near. We never got drop. In the
vicinity OF Lawrence and other places near
they have had almost TOO great an abundance
Of r.in all through tn. summer. But it wa
not until 4 week ago last Sabbath that we had
any ram, when we were visited with regular
north-eastern storm, which covered the Who'll.
country Notwi. hstandirg this locality seems
ia BE- almost the only one that these capriciou
thunder showers failed TO visit, we shall, never
theess, raise corn enough for our own con
sumption and some to spare. Some of th
upland prairie corn IS injured, but that on the
river and creek bottoms has suffered but yer,
little. Mr.. Manses. q thorough going German
f-rner, VINO planted field of corn on tn
lish prairie, unusually dry and hard at that
told me yesterday that he thought he shoult
which Is a great deal better than nothing. MI
Manges had been told that Kansas was subjec
10 drouths, and he cultivated his grouod viii
reference to il. II every one would do tn
same, there would be less complaint and NOR
Crops. Kansas has hsd The name Of being
drouthy STATE, but if she deserves 1T, she oer
tainIy has many red eniDg qualities.
WMIUR.