Lamoille newsdealer. [volume] (Hyde Park, Vt.) 1860-1877, 1867-09-18
FROM THE WEST.
Batoholdcr, Riley Co.. Kansas !
September, Z, 1867. I
Mr.. EDITOR :---

| doubt if you arc havin
more windy day-wherever you are, =
than we are having here Winds arc ve
ry plenty here, and in summer they ar
quite agreeable, but in winter they ar
rather too severe
| suppose that in Vermont, harvesting
is not yet all done. Here it is all done
and many of tho farmers have got thei
threshing done. Harvesting here come
between the 4th and last of July, and fal
wheat is sometimes a little earlier. ASS
general thing, farmers have their grair
all stacked by the LIST of August. The
grain crop this year is very light. The
whcat'in this county will not average Is
bushels to the acre. Corn ia rather light
especially that on sandy ground.
The first of the season was wet and
cold, and crops were drowned out in many
places. Streams were the highest they
have been for years. Since the Goth of
July We have not had much rain; but
Kansas men will not starve. or need to beg
if the crops arc light, and what they have
to sell will bring good price. Corn is
worth 81; oats, 55 cents; Flour, $1l to
$l4 per Dbl; potatoes, 25 to rs per
bushel, and other things in proportion,
except melons, which are from 3 to 10 cts.
according 10 size.
Kansas is a great place for vegetables
Fruit must be plenty in few years, tho
the winters are rather cold for peaches 49,
One man near here has between one and
two hundred bushels of peaches this fall.
We get fruit from Missouri at fair prices.
The hay crop is good this year. Farmers
arc putting up large quantities at cost Of
2 90 to 90 per ton. Scythes and hand
rakes arc not used here by one man in
twenty. Moving machines are very plcu.
ty.
The principal items Of interest, are
ague, Indians and railroad. The aeuo Is
quite prevalent, yet is not dangerous
disease; but very disagrecable, and can.
not be described to one who has no. had
A
i. 1t is caused by dccaying vegetable
natter The air seems to be pure, but
here is poison in it that affects the
Whole system. Lung diseases are quite
carco, and consumption (savo of vituals
s not known, and | think that many cas-. ,
ern men who are suffering with asthma
md other lung diseases. would be cured
y coming here. !
Perhaps one reason Of our mol having '
ung diseases, is, that the houses are not b
8 close here as in The East; but if tho o
ousos are small, Gas mos. Of them are) o
g enjoy life in them; and as a general |,
hing, the people are as free hearted and c.
enerous in keeping travellers as eastern n
oople. Houses here arc built for use k
o. to look at. Lumber here is worth al
ON 40 90 to 800 90 per thousand, and a
matter of course, buildings are ex. a
'nsive Stone for building is plenty and So
UGH better than any in Vermont, and n'
any of the farmers are beginning to OF
I'VE good houses. nj
hail roads are going ahead rapidly 81
Q are twelve miles from the Union Pa.
DO r. r., and in ten years Kansas will
we an abundance Of railroads in eyery us
rection. :.
we are not entirely out of the WORLD. Of
re- Though we do not have all the ad. ST.
ntages that can be had in the East, but nh
are fast getting the good things Of this co,
Q, such as churches. schools, etc. on,
We are 20 miles from Manhattan.
'ce as large % Stowe; IL from Port
icy, an important military post ! IA As
m Junction City, lively business town IA,
toheider is small place as yet. There
. few dwelling houes, store, black. pa,