The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1878-02-14


Z Letter from Northwestern
Missouri.
IN REPLY TO Mr.. "a WAY
WH1a VALLEY, Holt Co. Mo, ,
Feb. 1, 1878,
DEAR NEws:-I see a communica-
ton to your valuable paper from a
man calling himself "a. Way, in n.
W. Mo. He undertakes to give the
the people Of old. Highland an &C
count Of n. W. No. Now, I viii
venture to say, Judging by his writ
ing) he knows little about n. W. Mo.
My dear readers, I viii give you
las a Christian many a clear and
true account of n. ". No. Your
correspondent above referred to says,
he "saw muddy roads out here.
How strange This county beats
all, and 'sroads are impossible.
What a PITY The reason the roads
out here are more muddy than in
Highland is because the soil Is a
black, sandy loan. In many places
in N. W. No. the soil is SO loose and
Ioamy that farmers have to use a
'lister" to put their corn IN. They
dare not break It up, on account Of.
its being so mellow
Your correspondent says "MO. is
a great country" Who didn't know
that and if we can get S2,0OO,OOO
appropriated by Congress to deepen
the channel of the Mississippi, so we
can load ships for England at st.
Louis, Missouri viii be as great
State as New York, and the st. Lou
is market will be as good as the N.
York market.
He says the soil is not deep here.
I was walking out the other day
with R. G. Medsker, and we saw the
depth of the soil where the creek had
washed, and it was ocer to1a feet
deep. The soil in n. W. Mo. is from
p inches to 4 feet deep.
Again he says, thousands Of bush
els Of corn spoiled in the pens That
is a mistake, Some few farmers
thought their corn would spoil,
where they had several thousand
bushels piled in one pile, but as it
turned out none spoiled. They
scattered the corn and saved it.
Concerning the corn on the stalk,
| if you let corn stay on the stalk in
any country it VIII be damaged
There was a large acreage of corn
planted in n. W. No. Corn yields
from 40 to 80 bushels to the acre, as
a general thing, tho some times run
ming as high as 100 bushels.
Further on he says, "the wheat
crop here the past season was very
poor" OF course he means the crop
Of rs. Well, the crop Of IT was
much better. You will see by the
statistics, and that is reliable proof,
that we will ship several thousand
bushels more of the crop Of IT than
Of rs.
Concerning politics, We have to do
| like you in Ohio, "take it as it
comes.
Now concerning "the poor.
Christ says, ''the poor ye always
have with you." Now I am travel
ing in n. W. Mo, teaching music,
and I find a healthy, thriving, intelli
gent. weI-to do set Of farmers. They
| live well, talk we'll, and look well.
"Corn and sorghuml" HumPh !!
Just as if it's a disgrace to eat corn
bread! That's Just the way some Of
the poor people talk, as if corn wasn't
good! I only wish I could get corn
bread such as I used to have back in
Ohio.
As to hoop poles I lave never
seen a load of hoop-poles in n. W.
No. and I have been in Andrew,
Nodawav and Holt counties. There
is only one R. R. running through
Holt. and another is under construc-
ton, running from Quincy to Mary
vile, through Wing Valley, terminus
at Brownvile, Ne5.
I would say in conclusion, if any
one from Highland comes out here
we viii treat them we'll, and give
them our best.
Wages for farm hands viii be
from SIS to $50 per month There
are lots Of schools, churches, stores,
plenty Of fruit, music, wheat, corn
pre-. ty girls, big girls and little girls
potatoes, honey, corn, hog and sor
An TrO7Tv
ghum. AL HOME.
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Advice to coIored Men.