Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1873-06-16
LETTER FROM KANSAS.

EDITOR MONITOR.-kanSaS has been
having its wet season for the last two or
three weeks. The weather was warm
and dry in April, giving the farmers a
good opportunity to get in their crops
but since the first part of May it has
rained nearly all the time. The coun-
try is flooded every where, and the old
est inhabitants never saw the like before.
Since I have been here [ have seen the
Neosha so low that at one step I could
step across the water IL the channel
but yesterday morning it was twenty
seven feet deep on the ford, and from
half mile to three miles wide Nearly
all the people, living on the river bot
toms have been obliged to move to the
high prairie with their stock, the water
being so deep that cattle could not get
their living, and in many instances COM
ing up into the houses. Dry Creek on
which we live did much damage on sew
eral farms, washing away the growing
crops, and the soil as deep as plowed.
No trains have passed over the road
down the valley for several days, much
of the track being under water.
The amount of land planted with corn
this year is larger than common, but the
prospect for good crop is not flattering.
mo peaches this year" is the cry from
all parts of the state, and scarcely a
live tree is to be seen in any of the peach
orchards. Many think this is owing to
the immense crop borne last year. There
is no question but what Kansas is one Of
the best fruit-growing states in the coun-
try. Apples do very well, and many of
the farmers here are starting orchards
of from one hundred to one thousand
trees.
Our Wind Mill from England has
come to grief. Evidently it was not pre-
prepared for Kansas blowing ; as one
stormy night tie wind sprung an iron
rod which manages the sails, setting full
sail, and before the sails could be taken
in, the wind stripped them clean from
one side of each arm. It will cost sew
eral hundred dollars to repair the dam
age. Prolific Missouri is turning off a
crop of swarthy men, yellow haired wo.
men, and white headed children this
year, and the object of their destination
is Colorado. "Outfts' pass through
here almost daily, with four or five teams
and a herd of cattle, going where they
can keep cattle without feeding in the
winter.
} The Kaw Indians are jubulant over al
anticipated visit to the Vienna Exposi
} ton. A gentleman of this place, VIII
was formerly their agent, having receiv
7 ed information that Barnum was to TAX
) twenty or thirty of the tribe to the Ex
r position, and afterwards to exhibit Their
i over Europe. / think it will go har
: with them to be deprived of their usua
0 rations of deceased Texas beef. If thei
: wants are properly appreciated, dan
!, aged beef and fat puppies will be i
n good demand when they leave New Yorl
S June 4th. We have had no mail fc
It week, as the railroad down the vale
; has been badly cut up by the water
5. The damage done to crops is great'
s. than was at first supposed. The watt
n stood on the bottoms long enough to XII
l. the greater part Of the growing crops
J. One farmer, who usually plants from f
e. ty to one hundren acres of corn, told n
s, that his corn was all killed, and that
II the case with many. On some farms Il
o. water raised high enough to wash aw;
al the corn cribs containing old corn Ty
III formers on the bottom, lost four hun
O. red bushels each in this way. Mu
al corn on the upland has been drown
u out by the continued wet weather al
IL the prospect now is that there will 4