The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1873-03-29
The Products of the Arkansas Valley
Exhibited Mt the State Fair.

We clip the following extract from the
Kansas City Journal ef Commerce, of Sep
TENDER Is, 1872:
\ feature Unmarked, but unusual interest
at the Exposition, is the unsurpassed pro-
ducts of the country along the line of the
Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railroad,
ranged in tasteful order in the north end of
the hail.
That this should be the cynosure of all
eyes, and elicit deep and earnest attention,
is no more than could be expected from the
people who have watched with undiminish-
ed pride the development of one of the
most stupendous' enterprises that ever
quickened into life and vigor the wilds of
the West, and which will utilize to practi-
cal purposes one of the richest and most
prolific countries upon which the sun of
Heaven ever cast his beams. We refer to
the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Road
which traverses a country more fertile in
products than the wales of Canguedoc, and
upon which Nature has been more lavishly
prodigal of her gifts than were showered
upon the famous valley of the Nile. In
from speaking of the road and the enter
prise of those who, in such brief space of
time, have opened up to our people this
rich and productive country, and placed
homes within the reach of all. They have
along the line of their road three million
acres of choice lands, situated in the coun-
ties of Wabaunsee, Usage, Lyon, Morris,
Chase, Marion, Butler, Mcpherson, Sedge-
wick, Harvey, Reno, Rice, Barton, Stat
ford, Rush, Pawnee, Kiowa, Hodgman,
Ford, and thence westernly through all the
counties to the western line of the State
all lying in what is termed Southern Kan
sas. They embrace among the best lands
in the world, and are offered to settlers on
| terms which are cheap and favorable be-
yond example.
The company is now offering lands lying
between Topeka and Larned, at the most
remarkably low price, requiring in pay
ment only onc-tenth at the time of pur-
chase, with interest at 7 per cent on de-
ferred payments for one year, the second
year thereafter the interest on the deferred
payments for one year, nothing on principal
The fourth year, and each year thereafter,
one-tenth of the purchase money, with one
years interest on deferred payments, until
the entire amount is paid.
CORN AND CEREALS.
| Before glancing at these, however, we
wish to state that all the products embrac-
ed in the collection are the sod products of
the settlers who went to the various locali-
ties last year, and were raised from ground
! first broken in the autumn of 1871, and in
the spring of 1872, being the first crops
produced. There is in the collection corn
that Ceres would delight in, and surpass-
ing the full years and abundant yields
which filled the granaries of Egyptian
Pharoah. The stalks, by actual measure
ment, are from fourteen to sixteen and one
half feet high. They are full of large,
sound, well-tilled ears, that compare favor
ably with any, and surpass much that is
exhibited from the most productive of old
and we'll cultivated fields. The yield, the
sod yield we mean, of corn on these lands,
is from so to 80 bushels to the acre. 1t is
easy of cultivation, maturing fully and per-
fectly. There are also specimens of wheat
oats and barley that we have never seen
surpassed, on the most fertile fields and
best farms of the older States. The grains
are firm, plump, solid and beautiful. No
better articles in this line are to be found
in any market Aside from the grain,
they have specimens of each of these staple
with any to be found by the best of agri-
| CulGullSIs ic dSeIdSc ylclu tI NHcdI vi
these lands is from 25 to 35 bushels to the
acre, with the other grains in proportion.
The only trouble in the successful cultiva-
ton is the sowing and harvesting.
GRAPES AND FRUITS.
The country abounds in grapes of the
best varieties, and is admirably adapted to
! fruit culture, producing in superabundance
the finest varieties. Specimens of young
fruit trees are with the collection that ex-
hibit remarkable growth and hardihood.
VEGETABLES, ETC.
The vegetables consist of all the season.
able varieties, and cannot be surpassed
| Cabbages of large and we'll developed
growth, hard and round heads, fine cucum-
bers, peppers, tomatoes, onions, beets,
beans, potatoes-sweeta and Irish, pea nuts,
ETC., are in endless variety and profusion,
and unsurpassed in quality. We noticed
some Hubbard Squashes, one weighing
sixty pounds, and the other but little
smaller, both of which grew on the same
vine, on land among the furthest west ever
broken along the road. The squashes,
melons, pumpkins, citrons, etc, grow in
the most wanton and lu1uriant profusion
Persons contemplating visiting this de-
lightful country can procure tickets at a
reduced price from Cincinnati, Ohio, also
maps and descriptions of the cheap lands
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