The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1868-02-14

Mr.. STOTLER: At your request, propose to
give you some points about Kansas, for your
immigration paper:
LIST. AS TO WuEAr.-Nearly all of the up
land of Kansas, so far as have observed, will
produce a No. article Of Fall wheat, and fair
article of Spring; and that kind of upland
which is rather inclined TO be level and for up
land here decidedly fertile will most generally
produce very large yield of wheat. There is
Il part of the bottom or valley land that is Il
kind of rich loan, which is entirely too rich for
wheat; but the greater part Of the bottom lands
viii bring immense crops of Fall wheat. BY
experience III wheat is i'll the bottoms generally,
and is as follows:
| IN the fall of the year of 1860, had on hand
about eight bushels of Fall wheat; / had no
land to sow it upon, and my neighbor, James
H. Pheanis. proDoscd to furnish me the land to
SOW upon the shares. Mr.. Pheanis. took the
wheat, eight bushels, and sowed it upon bot
tom land, four miles west of town, and in the
summer of 1861, at harvest, we cut and took
care of the wheat, each taking half in the shock,
and at the time of threshing my part of the
wheat amounted to III bushels! Mr.. Pheanis
allowed a part of his to be destroyed by hogs
and chickens, and think had about 100 bush
els. The wheat was sOwn broadcast, and har-
rowed In. 1t was sown about the middle of
September, and one bushel to the acre. Our
actual yield was about % bushels TO the acre.
IN the year 1861, James o. Way, who was then
| living two miles south of town, on the south
side of the Cottonwood, and in the bottom,
sowed field of wheat about the middle of Sep
tember, and the following summer, 1862, cut
and threshed from that field rs he told me-
forty-two bushels and peck to the acre. The
variety was the common Red Winter wheat of
this country, commonly called May wheat. In
1860, 1 Sowed on upland, where now live.
mile east of town, six acres of wheat. sowed
that about the 10th to the 10Th of October, and
the next year harvested over % bushels TO the
acre of rs good wheat as ever saw. The same
year man by the name of Cook. an Arkansan,
owned farm on South Fork of Cottonwood.
which had about sixty acres Of improved land.
a part of which was in wheat. Cook sold the
farm with the crop to Mr. Croker, for $3.50:
Croker got wheat enough TO pay the $500. and
all expenses for cutting and tbreshing. and had
a margin left, TO say nothing of the oats raised
on the same field that year. The same year
Mr.. Ice, on Cottonwood, above the Falls, IN
Chase county. raised over fifty bushels to the
acre. of wheat. have been told that his crop
on eleven acres over hfty-fye Dushels TO
the acre. a family living three miles south OF
town, from crop sown on the place IN 1900;
paid for the farm and had a margin left, and
yet there was not one-half of the land under
cultivation.
AS TO OATs.-There is no country better
adapted to oats than Kansas, and especially
Southern Kansas. From fifty to sixty bushels
TO the acre is q common yield. As TO rye, MI.
Patton. Register of Coffee county. and MI. +.
e. Duke of Greenwood, and Mr.. Joseph Peak,
and Nathan Davis, of Lyon county, have all
been engaged in the growing of rye, and they