The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1870-01-18

central ILLINOIS, during the winter.
1t seems the people out in this land of
slosh and mud" had neither wood nor
coal for fuel, and had to burn their fences
to keep them from starving and freezing.
Who ever knew the like of this in New
Hampshire
He then goes on to say
." But whether two feet Of mud, once
in five or ten years through n winter, is,
or is not preferable to being showed in
under snow ten feet deep, as they are in
Canada, Minnesota and Wisconsin, at
the present is yet an open question"
The Lord be thanked We are never
daubed up with two feet of mud or
plastered over with ten feet of snow
Mr.. johnson says:
1.-The cost Of growing wheat is not less
than one dollar per bushe to the farmer,
on the newest and cheapest lands of the
west and northwest, and not less than
half dollar more in the eastern part of
the country"
A week or two since received u Wis
consin paper, giving the prices Of wheat
in different parts Of the state think
the highest quotation was eighty-fve
cents, and in large number of places it
was quoted at forty cents per bushel.
Mr.. johnson tells us that under the most
favorable conditions it cannot be grown
for less than one dollar per bushel. From
this data it will be seen that for every
bushe sold at 40 cents the grower suffers
loss of 60 cents. Well, if this is not
working for nothing and boarding ones
self do not know what is
Central Illinois is not healthy place
for our New England people to emf
CRATE to. In his letter of April 21st, he
says
Though the amount OF sickness has
not been unusual for the year past it is
a significant fact that a much greater per
cent of those taken sick have died, and
here let me take occasion TO say, that the
climate of central Illinois is trying one
to the constitution, especially to those
coming from almost any region further
north
May DIST;
on the actual cash value of property,
and money in good demand at not less
than two per cent.a month, and frequently
three per cent q month, together with the
low price Of corn and wheat are among the
bad features of the present situation"
And do not learn that things have
mended much Ont West since last
April,
a neighbor OF mine few days since
received letter from brother residing
in Iowa. He writes:
q Hard times; wheat forty cents per
bushel and that any amount of money
can be loaned there at from twenty to
twenty-five per cent. per annum.'
This state Of things operates to make
the erich richer and the poor poorer
September Odd;
1.-The land is shaking with the ague,
nowadays, as il always shakes in wet
season when few weeks Of cool weather
suddenly succeed Il previous period of ex.
cessive heat"
November llth, he says;
THE drouth increases, and the want of
water is felt on every hand. In nine
cases in ten, the wells put down in the
fall Of 1869 have proved failures"
December Sth, they had their ninth
snow storm. In the matter of snow and
early winter they are far ahead Of us
But, on the other hand, we beat them
out and out in 1868 and go, in well RI
pened crops Of Indian corn.
e a week or two since, received Il
paper direct from the Office of publication
in Kansas 1t had much to say respec-
ting the show of fruit exhibited in Phia.
delpha, and also of the fertility of the
soil of that State But, rich as Kansas
, claims to be, that paper also contained
six columns of advertisements for sale of
farms, ranging all the way in price from
, $3.50 to S25 per acre Many of the
, farms could boast Of a log house - by II
feet | suppose some 81 the families con-
tain ten or Il dozen members How these
:. families manage to stow themselves away
for sleep is n mystery to US ankees never
a having had any experience in this kind
f of packing. Many of us can remember
the destruction Of all the farm crops in
, Kansas, a few years since caused by the
: ravages OF grasshoppers That was not
the first, nor probably the last, visitation
Of grasshoppers that will ravage "once
bleeding Kansas "
n The only time within my recollection
that grasshoppers occasioned any serious
loss TO our farm crops, was in 1896
II Texas is highly spoken of as grazing
y country for cattle and sheep. recent,
Is saw statement, In the Boston Traveller
Ne that any number Of cattle could be pur
L. chased in Texas at sl00 per head
IF About twenty months ago W. II. Gage
d Esq, Of Baskerville, sold two yoke of OK
en- for $4,000 in ereenbacks. A TexaI
herdsman would have 10 raise and sci
~ 800 head Of cattle to realize as many dol
b. lars as Esquire Gage obtained for fou
10 oxen.
" According TO the statistical reports o
'' the Department of Agriculture for 1867
=, there were but four States in the Uniol
~ -, that gave a larger average number o
- bushels per acre than New Hampshire il
~" 1867. The two last were rather unfavor
, able Seasons for the corn crop, but New
Hampshire farmers harvested fair crop
Of sound corn while in both years scarce
~ hail the corn was merchantabe III
portion Of Illinois, and some others of til
- Western States