Weekly Chillicothe crisis. (Chillicothe, Livingston Co., Mo.) 1878-19??, 1879-05-15
ELI PERKINS.
From Texas TO characterization of
the Farmers In the respective States.
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the Farmers In the respective States.
Correspondence Cincinnati Enquirer.
Last week rode from Texas to Mime
sofa In riding from spring gardens an,
violets into frosty night had goot
chance to compare the prosperity of tn
Northwest and Southwest.
found different degrees of prosperity
but found about the same happiness ev
erywhere. think the Texan, clad in but
ternut.colored cotton overals and fadeC
slouched hat with holes in the top, abou
as happy as the rich farmer up in Iowa
with his bank-accOunt, warm clothes, and
well.flled barns. found the seemingly
squalid Texan, with no house to live in,
marauding hither and thither, ond sleep.
ing in emigrant-wagons, about as happy
as the rich farmer up in Iowa, who is the
master of big, warm farmhouse, whose
daughters play the piano, and whose feet
rest on ingram carpets. 1t was queer to
note the indication of wealth increase as
the cars rolled Northward.
In Southern Texas there are no barns.
The houses are mere apologies, often
tents. The people are dressed in rags,
and cotton ones at that. They feed on
the commonest kind of food. Corn, pork,
molasses, and coffee, the old slave diet,
seems to satisfy every one.
The average yield Of corn in Texas is
about thirty bushels, which at II cents
bushel would be worth $500. Many
nan pays a bushcl, and sometimes two
bushels, Tor a drink. There is no market
in Texas. The Texas farmer is poor.
Lands have skunk 80 per cent in Texas
during the last two years. There is no
energy in the State. 1t is good grazing
State, but no one wants to work there.
In two years the most enterprising farmer
becomes slouch.
West of Austin the country is subject to
drought Irrigation is necessary in San
Antonio. The old irrigating canals are
there still, showing that the Spaniards
their lands one hundred years
lgO.
found hundreds of young men from the
North in Texas who want to 20 back, but
ant. They came here to make fortunes.
They were deceived, and now they cannot
get money enough to pay their passage
lone.
As rode north out of Texas, up through
he Indian Nation. into Kansas, the indl-
atiOns Of material prosperity increased;
nut even in Southern Kansas | saw that
anne slouchy, negligent, indolent spirit
mong the farmers. saw no good houses
n Southern Kansas; no good barns, and
10 fences, Here, too, if the farmer makes
good crop, there is no market for it.
'orn is worth II cents per bushel. II
Oesnt pay to raise corn or hogs; so the
lrmers are standing around, Just living,
nd waiting for the price Of iarm-produce
D advance. Even eggs are five or six cents
er dozen, or about 81 per bushcl. .
In Northern Kansas houses began TO /
row better, the farms looked more tidy, I,
ig barns appeared, and the farmers them |
elves wore better clothes. An air of c
lrilt and enterprise became more and a
lorc manifest us entered Iowa. Here )
le Missouri sun-bOnnet disappeared. :
cOpc came to town in nice buggies, in
cad of astride offlded horses. Splendid f
hitc farm-hOuscs began TO show them il
lives, Carriages, women in turS, hand |
,me, rOsy-cheekcd girls, and men in a
OOd, warm clothes are seen in the streets. =
l Iowa every farmer tells you how much
e is going to make, not that ne is getting $
living.
81 shall fatten 100 steers, 300 hogs, and :
II l,2OO bushels of wheat this year, says !"
young farmer on the cars. "lll make n
900 clear. v
In low the value of wheat lands Is con. s
lutly advancing Farms that rnull have v,
zen bought tour years ago for 81 per acre Il
e now worth $50, The people are all II
riity and getting rich, ~ ~
why is it, - asks everybody. THAT ~
ire farm-landS in Northern Wisconsin, -.
ound Oshkosh, Horizon Junction, and h,
pom are worth $75 and $50 per acre. i,
lille deep black alluvial soil down in bi
nthern Illinois is going a.begging for st
OF" SIT
"Oh! it is the climate" they all say til
t is in the wheat-belt and the dairy.belt Dc
1t farmers get rich, 1t is here that you 20 t,
; the nice house, the houushing villages, co 60
d the splendid churches, Always sure
a crop Of wheat here, sir" ch
You may travel the country through, en-
i yOu will see the rich farmers all live Sc
Ohio, Michigan, Wisconsin, Iowa, and FIR
These are all butter and TN
sese States, as well as corn and wheat 'ol
S in these States that you see the hand. ms
ne women, enterprising men, splendid A
leges, and wealth lying around loose. an
Ohio farm lands are worth from $40 to the
10 per acre, because it is wheat, corn, bill
| dairy State. wa