The Andrew County Republican. [volume] (Savannah, Mo.) 1871-1876, 1873-03-07

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ment of the cold weather | have read
and heard so much about during the
past winter. Here one can hardly re-
alize that it is or has been winter.
Our winter has been so mild that we
have raised two crops or paintings of
potatoes since last November: have
vegetables fresh and green all the time
i'm our garden, and flowers of all kinds
constantly in bloom. Tobacco plant
cd last June is yet green and in bloom,
Towering and seeding all the time;
corn growing all winterin the fields or
elsewhere wherever it got scattered
and covered Oh the ground, ami no
frost hard enOughto kill l.; with peas,
turnips, lettuce, onions, cabbage, eau
FLOWERS, celery, tomatoes, fresh and
green from the vines all the year
round. We have in the garden toIna-
to vines now growing and fruiting,
that we're planted two years ago. and
have not been void of fruit and bloom
since they grew into size for bearing.
Our flower garden is constantly in
bloom. There are perhaps twenty
different kinds of roses constantly
forming buds and blooming, with
pinHs, geraniums-O, well. l can't
mention half the flowers by name
and there is the big white lily, called.
l believe, the Gala lily. constantly in
blooln-and all out i'll the garden. We
need 10 hot-hOuse or shelter of any
kind. For farming, l don't think |
ever saw so easy and productive q
country; 10 hurry in anything. You
plant and SOW at your leisure, and
harvest when it is ready, or rather
when YOU are ready, and thrash in
the same way. There is no danger of
rains and cold weather. and it is V
hot. People here cut their grain and
stack Tor heap, rather in great ricks;
and haul to market at your leisure,
or garner 1t for another Season, and
for seed and use when needed. There
are 10 rains except from December to
June ut the outside. The farming is
all done before seeding II planting;
none after. aud no rains until harvest
cd and ~thrashcd, or shucked and
cribbed. This is certainly the natural
home of the barley, andtwo crops
of il will mature in one season, as
well az potatoes, the latter of which
we are using of the third planting for
last wear, the last two planted
from seed raised last March, or pos
sibly late in February. l AIN telling
you what l have e e and done my
self. and will leave you to judge Of
nv satisfaction with the country. Our
average Weld of wheat was forty-four
bushels per acre, barley about seventy,
and corn from seventy to ninety, and
the corn had no rain from the time it
was planted until it was gathered and
cribbcd. The wheat and barley are
sown as soon after the rains set in rs
it can well be done. People generally
are about OH the close of that part of
farming here now. The whole earth
here is in a complete verdure. Stock
of all kinds are luxuriating in grass
of the finest kind, and have been for
months. All the s~emi-troplcal fruits
do nicely here, the climate is so cqua-
bic. 1t is u delightful place to live.
So even and regular IN temperature is
the climate that you wear the same
clothes the year round-i. e., you a
if Won don't wear them out or get
them dirty, but the same kind will be
comfortable all the time if they are
warm enough. The nights are cool
enough for two good blankets winter
and summer, and the days are never
hot like they are i'll Missouri some
times. would not advise any to
come here, however, without first
coming to look for themselves, be-
cause people wishing to purchase pro-
perty here would find it difficult TO
desirable locations on account
of so much of the best lands being
locked up in the estates of deceased
old rancheros, whose heirs are many
Of them yet minors.
We are all well. With my kind re-
CARDS to yourself and family, l still
remain Truly Yours, &C.,
A. 6. HOLLISTER.