The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1868-07-03
AMONG THE FARMERS OF
LYON COUNTY.
WHAT THEY ARE DOING.
HOW THE CROPS LOOK
THE FRUIT PROSPECT.
improvements and New Settlements.


DIR. j. I'll Page owns and occupies the {
next faYm we came to up Dry creek.
He settled it in 1857, and after remain
ing upon it for short time returned to
New York. He came back to Kansas
last season and commenced improving
his place. He has fenced so acres, and
broken 90, all of which is in corn and
potatoes, which are making a fine
growth. He has set out 60 peach trees.
On his farm 500 apple trees hAve been
destroyed by rabbits. He will break
25 acres more ground this summer, and i
will also put up new frame house |
16x24. The Doctor has a beautiful To- |
cation, and fertile land, and he will
make it blossom as the rose" in a short |
time. We wish him abundant success. |
Half mile above DIR. Page we found
c. F. and o. II. Loomis, pitching into
the work i'll earnest, with fine crop
prospect. They are cultivating 10 acres
of ground, of which 90 acres are in
corn, IA in spring wheat, 10 i'll oats, and
big potato patch. They have planted
the seed and will hedge 200 acres next
spring. They have comfortable build
ings, good fences and considerable stock.
This being the last farm on Dry creek,
we struck across the prairie TO the east
to visit some fine looking upland farms.
/ After riding a mile we came to the
| place OF Jacob Jacobs, ST., OH the high,
rolling prairie. Mr.. Jacobs settled here
six years ago. He has q acres of corn
IL acres of wheat, two acres of rye, Is
acres of oats, and ~ acres of potatoes.
Abort the place is a fine lot of shade
and fruit trees. The peach trees are
bearing, and the crops generally look
ing as well as they do Oh majority of
the bottom farms.
A couple of miles farther on in q
| southeast direction we found another
excellent upland farm, with an indus
trious and intelligent man running it,
i'll the person of o. F. Richmond. He
has been upon this place for three years,
and has had splendid success in farm
ing every season. He has Is acres of
land in cultivation-1S acres in corn,
oats, Is acres i'll barley, seven acres in
sorghum, five acres iii hungarian, two
acres i'll millet, and = acres in potatoes.
All these give every promise of an
abundant yield. The barley makes
good feed for stock. Mr.. II. is doing
considerable, also in the dairy business.
Last year he sold 1900 pounds of cheese
at from IA to 20 cents per pound, mostly
at the latter figures, and 300 pounds of
butter at from 80 to so cents per pound.
Mr.. Richmond says that the upland, if
properly farmed, will yield abundantly.
All that is needed to prove this is to
visit the few upland farms which we
have mentioned in this article, especially
those of Mr.. Richmond and Mr.. Jacobs.
The idea that our up-lands are fit for
nothing but stock ranges, is an errone-
Gus one, and may as we'll be exploded
first as last. Mr.. Richmond has implic-
it faith i'll his upland farm. He is all
intelligent farmer, and one of these
days not very far distant, will show us
Il model farm.
. We should have mentioned the farm
of Mrs. LOOMS, which we passed be-
tween those of Mr.. Jacobs and Mr..
: Richmond. 1t has upon it a very COM
Portable white frame house, and some
nice looking wheat fields.
Bidding friend Richmond "good-day,'
= we started south for the Neosho. Call
ed upon Lyman Fry, a new conner from
: Michigan. He had been on the place
but few weeks, and only has IA acres
: of corn and half acre of potatoes.
! Mr.. Estes is located on hill east OF
Neosho Rapids, but his farming opera
tons are rather limited.
, We visited, i'll this neighborhood, a
regular wide-awake gentleman named
n. A. c. Wilder. He informed us that
he was '.just from behind the counter
. He purchased the farm formerly be-
longing TO C.. Van, east of Neosho
, Rapids. 1t had been greatly neglected.
, A fine orchard of apple and peach trees
had been planted some years ago, but
owing TO inexcusable neglect. have been
badly worm-eaten. Mr.. W. proposes
to bring "them out of the kinks, and
: one needs only to hear him talk to be
; convinced that he will do it. Wewrite
him down decided success, in the not
; very distant future, and if our predic-
: ton don't come true, somebody can
come and tell us we are no judge of a
live man.
We next called upon our old friend
Godfrey Schwartz, the last man III Lyon
county, on the road from NeosIIo Rap
ids to Ottumwa. Mr.. Schwartz place
furnished the materials for good To-
cal. He settled here in 1858, with about
$1,000 in cash, cattle, etc. Mr.. S. has
not had the smoothest time in the world
:; since he came here, having had his full
share of crop failures, and so on, but
. we will guess to-day, that no man could
get into his financial shoes for less than
$4,000 or $4,000. Most folks will adj
nit that this is good interest on the
original investment, to say the least.
There are plenty of men in Lyon couu-
: ty who have done as well as Mr.. S., and
/; some who have done better. Mr..
Schwartz has provided himself with a
! comfortable frame house, 27x30 feet. IL
stories high, built all of pine. 1t IL
: painted white, has a fine lot of shade
: trees about it, and is one of the incest
I country residences in this part of Kan