The Wichita city eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1872-1883, 1876-04-06

much more shipped from here yet
There arc now on the town site over
10000 bushels, owned mostly by ono
OF the stockholders in tho town site,
Mr.. John L. Carpenter. There was
also quite a large amount Of wheat
shipped..from this little side-track dur
ing the shipping season. Surely it
looks as though we should be honoretl
with depot, and we will. They may
stave it off for while, but sooner or
later we see the railroad making that
promise good. Now, to some OF your
readers in tho eastern States, this
amount of shipping may look large
when they know that six or seven
years ago this whole country was COW
cred with countless herds of buffalo,
and the only human dwellings Gf l
be allowed to call them such) were the
wigwams of the "Noble Red Man."
scattered promiscuonsly along the
girts of timber which line the banks Of
our streams. But wild buffalo, wild
Indians and half civilized whites must
give away when those sturdy farmers
from the east and north (for we have
but few from the southern States) be-
gin to emigrate westward.
Our society here is principally from
Indiana, Illinois and Wisconsin, mixed
in with those from Michigan, Ohio
ETC., who mean business, letting con-
tracts for from forty to two hundred
acres to be broke, and ready for wheat
this fall. There has, within the last
two months, been some fifteen fami-
lies landed here from Illinois, with
stock and farming implements ready
to go to converting the praIries into
fine fields Of golden grain. May Sue
cess crown their every effort. There
are now, i'll course of construction,
within sight of the Center, some ten
or twelve dwelling houses. Every
farmer has, within the last six months,
added some improvements to his farm
in the way of buildings, which shows
some mark of contentmcnt. Land has
raised within the last six weeks at
least one-third, and yeu can all talk of
your peaches and cream or big sap
pie dumplings," but for fine soil, good
water, good location among the best
of people, come up and try Valley
Center. Socially and morally you
have no better in the east, or any
where else, not pretending perfection,
for we have some trading men here as
well as other places in civilization, also
our black sheep, but smaller proper
ton than usual.
You may wish to know something
about how much TO the acre can be
raised OH this productive soil; and by
way of explanation | will say, just as
is necessary to insure man to get
rich soon, or, perhaps, sooner, accord
ing to the amount and the way you
farm. Last year, you know, was our
grasshopper year. Aid societies were
in session during the entire winter, to
the satisfaction of great many of our
most thrifty farmers. Seed wheat was
very scarce. Those who sowed wheat
got seed just where they could and
not pay cash for it. This caused those
who had wheat to let on shares all
they could spare. The most of those
who sowed borrowed seed sowed one
bushel per acre, but Joe Devices, of
Park township, sowed two bushels
per acre; while others reaped from
fifteen TO eighteen bushels per acre,
Joe got thirty-tour and some pounds.
Sow the seed here aud you will get the
crop.
Stock is doing well considering the
great amount of rain and sleet.
brought into this county late last fall
small bunch of Missouri sheep, which
had been badly grasshoppered, were
very poor, etc., had poor shedding;
hay was badly frost bitten before cut
ting, and one thousand other things to
their disadvantage, including lambing
time commencing January goth and
lasting till very lately. have lost
but one old sheep and have ninety-five
per cent. of lambs doing well.
Kansas against the world and Val
ley Center at the top.