The Jackson standard. [volume] (Jackson C.H., Ohio) 1847-1888, 1877-04-19
Letter from Kansas.

Letter from Kansas.
To the Editor OF the Standard:
We now reside near Sterling. Rice |
county, Kansas We LETT jackson coun-
ty. Ohio March the Eleventh, and after
long and wearisome travel Of six days
we arrived at this place, where we ex-
pect to stay this summer
We have had great deal OF trouble
and sickness in our family since We came
here. We are all well at present except
Ma who is troubled with nervous debil.
ty very much.
We have lost our youngest child since
we came out here, lit;le girl. She died
with lung fever, April the first, age eight
months and sixteen days
Before we lett Ohio great many OF
your readers requested me to write to
them about the country, and as / thought
this would be the easiest way for me to
write to them all providing you would
publish iD about the country.
The soil here is from two to nine feet
in depth. 'tis very rich and produces
well
Production Of grain and vegetables per
acre
Winter wheat. 20 TO 30 bushels Price
per bushei. 81 % to 81 p.
Spring wheat, 10 to 20 bushels Price
per bushel, 50 cents to 81 10.
Rye, ID to ~ bushels. Price per bush
el, 40 to 50 cents
Barley, 20 to 30 bushels Price per
busEel, p To 30 cents.
Oats. 40 to 50 bushels Price per bush.
81, 35 To 40 cents
Corn. Jj to 50 bu. Price nsr blshel,
40 to - cents
lrirh potatoes. 100 to lT5 Jush,ls.
Price per bu-hel. 81 % to 81 40.
Sweet potntoes. 100 to l25 bushels.
Price per Lu-hel. - Oh to 81 50
Reader asks the qurstion, Il there is %
much grain raised there why is it worth
80 much?
The question is very simple There
are so many emigrants coming in that
have to have grain, and consume -
much, that it can be sold for a good price
Emigrants are coming in almost every
day by car loads.
Our buildings here are sod or dug outs
there are some frame and stone build
ings.
Lumber is worth SO per hundred tim
Der is very scarce; there is some timbei
along the creeks. but, If you get a sticl
four feet long, straight, you are doini
> awful well.
Our iuel here is wood, coal, corn stalk
and COW chips. Wood per cord, 50, Goa
per ton, Sc.
[ As to timber for fences, people CLAIM
they don't want il. You can buy hedg
seed for 50 25 per bushel, and | am sur
that bushel would plant as much hedg
as almost ony farmer would want.
, Common farm wages here is from &
> teen to twenty dollars per month. Hal
q vest wages from one and half to tw
+ dollars and half per day. Now this
: another difficult question why harve'
8 wages is so much larger than oths
. wages. The reason is one man can pU
e in more grain than he can take care o
e and when harvest comes on there
4 plenty OF employment and every LAHORE
: will work for the largest wages.
Horses and mules rate about the sam
as in Ohio, from seventy five TO one hui
e dred and twenty five dollars.
:, Cattle rate very high. Cows fror
y twenty to forty dollars. oxen per yok
g from eighty to one hundred and ter
D Hogs on foot five cents per pound. Dr
p goods and groceries are about the san
'e as in Ohio. calico six cents per ysr,
. coffee twenty-five cents per pound, drie
- apples ten cents per pound.
> Terms of renting Renter gives on
third We have rented Joseph Tyrrell
"a plaee--a son OF Dr.. Tyrrell
IN Pa has taken a claim in Barton count
\. about thirty miles from here. lie 81!
10 he likes It on account Of the buildir
n stone. II is the white Gag limestone
- abundance
Pa says this is the fnest country
ever saw. Ma likes IL very well tut
Is Tor myself. don't like il very wrl
le Every thing looks desolate. aud seen
oi unhomely; in fact, it dos nj look 10
'r home
d You can see buildings on the prair
r. from ten 10 twelve miles.
almost forgot 10 mention about a
grasshopprrs They are Matching ou
and in places they are 20 thick that th'
almost cover the ground. They al
, about the size of a large ant
Yours truly,
/, G. W. CASTOR.