Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1876-04-17

which always brings ram mere, theh'
Kansas fashion. it would change into the
northwest and snow awhile; and then
we would have few days of warm
weather. when, for a change, we would
have the same thing over again. As
consequence of two weeks of this kind
of weather, we have about two feet of |
mud and water, and all kinds Of bust
ness at a stand-still.
On the whole, we have had a very |
mild winter. November was cold, but |
during Dec, Jan. and Feb. the weather
was warm and dry, which was fortunate,
as the acreage and yield of corn was I'M
usually large, and the warm winter gave
farmers ample time to husk their corn
without much expenditure for hired help
1t may seem like exaggeration, but there
were days in Dec so warm that it was
uncomfortable husking corn in the field
| think the ground has not been frozen
so as to prevent blowing more than two
or three weeks during the winter. Near
ly all the spring. wheat, oats, etc., were
put in in February. Potatoes left in the
hill, as they grew last fall, kept through
the winter without freezing. The lakes
and streams have been frozen over but
small part of the time, and the ice men
are obliged to send to Nebraska for their
supply of ice. 1t will be scarce arti-
Gle in Kansas next summer.
Stock of all kinds is wintering very
well-all kinds of fodder being plenty
and cheap. Hay is selling now at from
fifty cents to one dollar per ton; corn at
twenty cents. Cattle have been winter
: ed to great extent in the stalk fields,
which are better for cattle than hay.
We kept hundred and fifty head of
steers in stalk fields three months and a
half, at an expense of little over one
hundred dollars. Kansas is full of corn
) fed beef steers, this winter, which help
:, to make market for corn. About one
IS thousand head of steers are being corn
:, fed in this township. From present IN
a" dications, cattle will go on to the range
s this spring, in better conditions than
usual.
1t Is being demonstrated that Kansas
is favorable for sheep. There are sever
al large focks in this part of Kansas
! that in the last few years have brought
fortunes to their owners; and many art
beginning to talk sheep" in earnest
One of our near neighbors has just loca.
ted a sheep ranch. He selected the high
> est bluff in the vicinity-that Is no
" very high, though-and got flock o
u four hundred to begin with. This is
L" business that would not require mucl
= capital here, as land most favorable TO
% a she5p ranch car be had for about tw
dollars an acre, while grain is generall
ng plenty and cheap. The prospect is tia
he the southwest will be great wool-pro
set ducing country, as sheep are fast IL
at creasing in western Kansas and Colora
The do, while it is stated there are four mi
re- lion in New Mexico.
sh- The faculty and friends ofthe Norms
School at Emporia, are groaning in spil
Ills it just now, because the legislature hs
ats refused to vote thirteen thousand dollar
the to pay the teachers and janitor for tt
an next year. The State built and furnish
alb ed the Normal building here at an e1
on pense of sixty thousand dollars, and
INST is one of the most elegant and substar
tial buildings of its kind in the Stat
I'm and has hitherto paid the running e.
A. penses, so the school has been free. No
ri+s the teachers have agreed to 60 on wi
-. the school, and charge tuition of fro
h, FIVE to ten dollars, according to Il
=. course of study, and on this account tn
o+;o say many students will be compelled
=. leave the school. If they are not willil
to employ their vacations in little ph
seal effort to help themselves. l THU
OF they have no excuse in calling on t
aer' tax payers to do it for them.
De The wheat crop of this State, the P;
fOs' year. has done more than anything e.
on to help the farmers out of debt and ?
ven them in fair way to live. 1t is alwa
VI cash. and this year it was pretty 60
ner- pile of cash to the acre. Corn may yit
never SO well, but raising it for twer
n in cents bushel is an uphill road to
lgle- fortune. The price of winter wheat {
nag eraged about one dollar bushel, anC
title great part of the crop was shipped Ea
his The Arkansas River valley, | thil
and yielded the most to the acre of any .
Con- of the State. The following is from
Re paper printed in that part of the Sta
but The Augusta Gazette publishes af6da,
t be. to show that Jariel Wilday raised &c,
n be Drop" wheat on his farm adjoining
gusta, measured bushel Of which wei
tn.1 ed Ga IL pounds that 39l bushels
IT, eraged so pounds to the bushel /;
a. that the said 39l bushels were raised
ind; six and one-ifth acres. making the
,s,.d erage 63 bushels and 4 pounds to
acre. In the Northwestern States
do wheat crop is liable to be injured by
that frost heaying it out Of the ground Z