The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1882-07-18
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Special Correspondence Of the Intelllseneer
Dop0E CRY, KANSAS, July Il, 1882
Your correspondent Is out on little airing
expedition In tho West Tired Of smoke
and work and sick, he proposes to test the
refreshing and curative powers oil prairie
winds, prairie chickens "and sich." How
Il Is going TO pan ont is a question wholly
for the future 10 determine, MS In point OF
fact, us Cousin Felix would say, he has
been sick.a.bcd ever since hu left home.
lie IL, however, II wiser II not Il better man,
In that that he will never take another
drink out Of any strange mans pump.
Water, Ms u rule, Is II healthy drink, but
when the thermometer Is up In the nine.
ties Il will not do 10 trust-that Is, II you
are stranger In q strange land.
Well, We came TO Cincinnati, hnd after
hanging up twelve hours for repairs, we
gathered UP our little grip" and he'd
westward OH the o. 4 NJ. This O. & NJ. Is
n bee line from the Queen City 10 st.
Louis, but the road needs ballast or some.
thing else TO tone 1t up, or down, NJ 1t
wants something done 10 # to assist one to
sit on seat. 1t Is IN unusually rough
road, to pass over so level and smooth n
country. From
CtSciSSATi TO ST. LOUIS
the crop prospects arc very promising.
The like OF the wheat was never known be.
fore, either In quantity or quality, The
acreage is greater than in any other single
year, and the yield Is far above the average.
All the wheat has been cut and larye
part OF II thraslicd. The oat crop Ia also
good. 1t has been harvested also. Corn
ID little late, but Is fresh and black in ap.
peamncc, and promises Il big yield. Whit
Is true OF Indiana and Illinois, In regard TO
crops. is doubly irue Of Kansas. In Mis-.
souri,, the rain fall has been much greater
than in the other States named, and the
result is the corn Is almost overrun with
weeds and grass.
The boss farming section that have
ever struck In America is nlong tho Ar.
kansas river valley, in Southern Kansas.
The wheat fields nrc simply immense, On
both sides OF the road, rs far rs you can
sec, the shocks dot the ground far thicker
than autumnal leaves that strewCd the
brooks OF Valambrosa. My friend ut the
right suggests that they are as numerous
as warts Oh the hand OF IN Illinois frog:
Well, the truth is they are like tho, stars
too thick to count.
And when you come down to corn, its
too fine to talk about. There will be
enough oil it raised along this valley TO
feed all Kansas for six months, md have
plenty left TO furnish whisky for q Demo-
cratic campaign besides.
THE pp.wn,Cys
to this splendid country ore loo much wind
and too little water. Wind nnd water nre
essentials in anv kind of business and 90.
peciully in farming. but ther. shonld hc
an equalization OF forces, rs it were. Too
much wind is bad-very bad. Once in n
while cyclone sweeps over these broad
praries and destroys everythiRgin its wake.
Some OF the farmers construct cellars, or
dig holes, and when storm comes along
they run into them for protection. In Il
level country, like this, it doesn't take
much Of storm TO gather fellow up and
carry him section or two away, before he
knows what has hold OF him; and it is not
unfrequent for him toco out in the field in
the morning, and come back in the evening
aud find his house upset, and his beloved
Nancy Jane buried under the ruins. The
reader may take this statement with n
slight degree OF allowance, but my friend
on the right, who lives out here. saws That
it is nevertheless true.
The lack OF regular rain falls is also n
SERIOUS hiiufuiicc 10 larhllhS IN Kansas.
ihcfe are no trees except those which have
been planted by the settlers the last four
years. Now and then you will strike n
little patch OF cottonwood trees about rs
tall as MI Unframed hedge fence Of Usage
orange. Gy the way, there arc no fences
IN Kansas, except an occasional hedge.
LARGE HERDS OF CATTLE
are seen OH both sides Of the railroad. bat
they are carefully watched BY COWBOYS ON
horseback to prevent them from rajdinp.
Along the rivers the lands can be i,ri.
gated and thus prevent drouchts. lint
even this is expensive and unsatisiac;ory
There is no shower SO refreshing and in.
Migrating to field and flower, us fiat which
falls from the clouds. A patent sprinklcr
can be relied on 10 Law the dust in street
or Il garden, but YOU can, run one of them
through cornield. Once the uncultiya,cd
portion OF this State is grown I'M with trees
we would call it brusllwood in West
Virginia-tlere will be fewer storms and
plentv OF rain, for trees arc acknowledged
conductors OF both electricity and rain
H., as, Ill, H. A. ,'t