The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1876-01-28
vENrILAroK COMES AGAIN.
The Herd Law-Reply to ga. PA
Powerful Summing up.

The Herd Law-Reply to "A. PA
Powerful summing up.
AGNES CITY, January %, 1876.
EDITORS NEWS :-Feasts are the Or
der of the day and night at Agnes
City-twO or three week, gotten mp
on the mutual stock association princi-
pie.
Spelling school ct the school house
every Tuesday night. Well attended,
and no laggards-all take part.
we're well pleased with the
logical reasoning Of A. v. on the herd
law question, and commend it to the
careful reading OF all persons interest
ed in the subject.
We were somewhat amused when
we read A. Prs manifesto. From its
bombastic introduction. we supposed
all the defense in favor of a herd law
would be knocked int "pi." We pre-
same he feels relieved now, and the
world and things still jog on as usual.
A. p, after an insinuation at our real
estate agents, who, by the way, have
done, perhaps, as much for Kansas as
any other class of men, asserts that
our statement about the cost of fenc-
ing is false, and says if anybody can
find GO acres of land, with $500 worth
of fencing on it, he will have a big
job Of ventilation. If 4. p. will come
to Agnes City he can see fencing that
cost more than that, and only a part OF
of it is worthy the name of fence
that is built of rock.
Let us see what fence will cost pei
rod, 1--WE don't mean any of your
shang-high' shams, but a good one that
will do its owner some good-one that
he can sleep by at night and get up in
the morning refreshed), and see whose
statement is false. Rails are out of the
question-there is not the timber tc
spare. Boards and posts, then. Five
boards, six inches wide, will make 6
fair fence. Five boards 6x162S=sk
x5.4125 lumber to the rod-S2,OO pei
mile=S315 cents per rod cost of lum.
Der; two posts,1 10 cents each, 2Oc.; dig.
ging hole, 10 cents; nails and putting
up, 5 cents per rod. Total cost of fence
(say nothing about freightage of lum
Der from railroad from one to twenty
miles) 831sc.+20c. +1Oc. +5c..$1.1s1s pei
rod, or $473 1873 for 400 rods.
One-half of this money $4,000, says
A. p, will build a good fence
We do not wish to intimate that we
even suspicion A. P. of making FALSE
statements. Oh, no; he is too willing
to shoulder that on some one else. We
know a man who wants fifty acres
fenced for a sheep and hog pasture
wants a good fence around it. Please
send on your $500 man, and he will gel
the job.
A. P. further says that the mex
statement is as false as the first. Mr.
A. P, how do you know that it is false
Have you been through a sufficient
number of herds in your own an6
other townships throughout the coun.
ty to justify such a denial? Have you
noticed the number Of calves, and the
long-horns in such small lots thai
would fall far below the price stated
How much more than $12 per head
will you give, and take q number Of
small herds? $40 or $22 per head, you
say, for an average. Pooh! Fat cat
tie only bring that. Large herds car
rying great many steers, of course
average higher.
If he had said one man could herd
two head, instead of 24O head, he would
have come near the mark. Shades OF
departed Veracity! One man herd two
head nearer the mark What do you
take US for? One man, Joe Philan-
der, herded, last summer, the Roberts
g Slisher cattle, numbering 420 head
The summer before that Mr.. Love, an
old gentleman, herded the same cat
tie. The Lee g Hinchman herd, $40
head, was managed a considerable time
by Frank Strong. We know OF double
the minimum number he speaks OF, be-
ing taken through the streets of EN-.
poria and on out twenty miles into the
country. This by one man, who had
also in charge a wagon and team.
"The acre patch here and there, thai
belongs to some unfortunate" Sup.
pose this is sneaking way he has Of
sneering at some OF his less fortunate
neighbors, who have not been able t.
protect larger fields from meanderIns
stock. A man who could not herd 24(
head of cattle, would be considered
here, q very ordinary herder. The in
florence is, Mr.. A. p, if it is such
trouble to get stock to water, and man.
age small herds, that you have too
many sham fences, no herd law, mol
free stock privileges, and all the evils
of one side of this question, with none
of the blessings of the other.
"Sneaking way to speak of ouI
stock" We never thought OF such
thing. We put the price at about what
we thought the market was. We an
happy to say that we have noticed 9
general feeling, in this part of the
county, to breed up and improve ma.
tive stock. Several of our leading
stock men have purchased as fine
bloOded young bulls as the country az
fOrds. To-day we DO not know of :
scrub bull on the creek. It should mo-
be-"How do such things sound out.
side the State ?'' but 'twhat can we do
for ourselves 90 that should be the lead.
ing impulse. We have had enough O
''what will the Priggs' think of us %
-HHow will the Boggs' vote ?''-Anf
.fWhat Is Major Freelinghysen's opin.
ion !'' Let us think for ourselves. hav.
ing also due respect for the opiniens O
all those who are not over hastv n
condemning the motives Of Others
ssIf the herd law Is such q great heI,
why has not Lyon county longago ,,a1
is2" Lyon county has a great mar,
OF the good things, but not all of them
The herd law is one Of the 3Ores
blessings" that she has not had.
VViIli0sa Cffneon of A1noz 1,,.