, 1870-12-09
THE GREAT PLAINS.

arc 1ney a OEAer& E.eAt&o Dts to Cuts
tivate Them Wtthout :Irrfgnslon-
Sncces1 11al-RcpoFt OF tho INDUS.
fr1al Agent Of rhe Kansas Pacific
Railsghy. -
KANsAs PAe1plc RAnwAY 1sDus1R1iL DKpF, l
BRooKvlI1k, Kan., Nov. 30. 1870.
H1n; nst;' yohn a. ttrrv, Psss'de"s Eansas Pue.fe
sn:, I ihave the honor to. report to the
President Ind Directors Of the company that
experimental plantations hsra bean COM
mEnced on the line Of the road, viz: -
:: /, Al Wilson, 2Ss miles wcst of. .the. State
line Of Missouri, aud 1,5s6 -fsst aDove the
"a AZ Ets. aaa nl1ez west Of Stat. ltne, and
1, IS. Al Pond Greek. 49a miles west -of State
line. and s IT'S feet abovo the sua.- ~ go ~
they aie nit barometrtcal, but from railroad
au1veys eonnecting your road with lines lead
Il Ebs BE- Longitude long i: wilson, about ss degrees
30 m1nuteq west from Greenwich; Ellis. near
iyloo degtees, Pond Crock, nearly 1o2 de-
grees- AL Of the plantations are went OF the
limits heratofofa assumed by most meseoEo-
!ogists a. the limit q cultivation, except by.
osly , few acres Of ground we're broken at
each place :: It ~as 80 late in the sesson when
10 break large areas without dispropoftionate
expense. Nor WAS there, time to gtve:more
than one blowing ;Tand after slight harrow.
4Eg tho ee6df we're Gown. %.
The ground not having boen deeply piowed
nor put in {frst-rate condition, and tno geed
having be4n'cast On the raw soil of the plafns,,
with no iuferyl allowed for the: :rotting Ok TIL.
eetd, the experiments have no conditions which
msy not b eqralled BY ths ordinary farmer.
By their success .hsy will show that tho iuami-
! grant may turn oyer the buffalo grass stanF
TNa "a
| self harvest Of cereals the next summer. 1t
would have been more pleasant to me % have
h1a The work done moro thorouRhly; but as II
| is, the Immigrant will not doubt hts ability to-
| SEEDS soWN.- ~. =: .s..7-'
At Pond Creek 18th September, 187o5
! wheat hc1eF, .t1e s. acres, barley acres,
'aimothv Gown on the wheat. Ohthe, Gth, OF.
November Lueern wss nown aczoss the wheat, |,
1t EhisJ 20th.. October, wheat 8 aeres, rye
8 acres. barley acre. On the 22d OF ocio.
ber quarts Of white Tuuzello wheat and 8
quarts Of Scotch rye, both imported and fur
niehed by the United States Department OF
Agriculture. On the 24th of October seeds
from the came department we're sown us fol-
lows: 1talian Bye :Grass, Lneep, Northern
Luce1n, Province LuceIn, Alsike Glover,
ssint1in, sez1adells, Yitcheatf .Vetsh1!ngs, Per
a Wilson; i1,d November; vhsat' ? aczes;
r. ncsrn 1e H. o fhs ian ~ No1ambsr Nne, ,helo a
and pnIv;nre Tmceri, frfm tina Danartn1ant of
Ao1;rnf,n1s
aiio, on The 18th November, a few nuts sud
seeds Of .ttees we're planted at Wilson burr
OAK. pecan, chestnut, peach End ail4nthus.
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miiii6na o1acres Of i.nds heretofore resasdei @ ie
: a. worthl1ss except for limited rr.zfnE re
eources In favored portions. :. - ~
: Even With the hrsr tril hsye no doubt oi
!, eucctss.- 4 second tsial. With better cultuI.
and i decumpo>e ed sod. will Weld lsr1er Re
q tults, but viii Tot more favofsbly ii,u.trat,
the favorable Climatic: coCi iitions and III,