Omaha daily bee., 1885-10-12


but that the weather will he more like 1t has
always hecn-dry However, whether this
will be so or not all that country heretofore
known as the arid portion of Nebraska is well
adapted to stock-lnising and dairying
and that is what the settler should
turn his attention to- He can in almost any
year whether dry or wet, raise all kinds of
root crops. and nearly everything else that is
needed i'm the house or i'm the baru-yard, eN-
cept corn, oats and wheat, and even If he
could raise these it would not be as profitable
for him as to devote his entire attention to
stock raising and dairying The grass in all
that country produces perfectly pure milk
from which the finest butter and cheese in tue
world can he made. and | look to the time
when CrcamericS and cheese factories will be
started in as large numbers as may he nccCs-
sary all over that country. The settler can
raise his calf upon the whey or skim milk
and the grasses or vegetation which he may
raise and at the same time save his milk for
his dairy. He can also raise colts and other
stock. His market for his dairy is to the
west. and always will he. Even il he could
raise corn or wheat, the freight eastward is so
great rs to render his crop almost valueleSs
For fodder for his stock in winter he can
raise forage by planting or sowing broadcast
corn or sorghum seed or millct, and, Ii neCes-
sary he can build silos and save his fodder in
the form of cnslage believe that method
of making and preserving fodder may now
be considered success. 1t Is Il very simple
process, and that being a dry country, ii Is
one which, In my opinion. will ultimately be
resorted to very generally by the future set
tier"
NV
"What do you call western NeblaskaY'
asked the BEES representative. II refer to
all that country west of the Tooth meridian, or
about twenty-five miles west of KCarney.
1t is altogether likely that as the
country is broken mp, there will be more
frequent showers than heretofore but il is
not at all likely, in my opinion, that thew will
become sufficiently numerous to make it Il re-
liable grain-raisng country. But | repeat
that, in my opinion, it will ultimately be
one OF the most prosperous and wealthy pOr-
tons of the state, and that the time will be
when the farmer adapts himself to the con
ditions imposed by soil, climate, etc, and
turns his attention, us | have indicated, TO
stock raising and dairyng,'
~,
GLOW is the country in the southwest part
of the state settling np?' Very rapidly, and
by an exceedingly intelligent class OF young
men and wOmen,' said Col. Webster. "One
year ago there was scarcely a quarter section
of land west of Culbertson, to the Colorado
line, and between the Republican and the
Platte rivers, that was not what is commonly
called vacant land, that is to say the title was
in the government or the Union Pacific, but
to-day nearly every desirable quartcT-Section
has been filed upon either under the pre-
cmption, homestead or timber culture law,
and many of them have settlers upon them
who show that they have come to stay by
erecting substantial buildings and by begin
ming in earnest the cultivation of the soil"
~
"WhCrc do you live?' In Hitchcock
county. My farm is five miles from the vii
lage of Stratton Let me tell you about that
village Last February it did not have q
single house. To-day it is a thriving town of
$50 Inhabitants Ii has two gon1 hotels, four
or five quite extensive General merchandise
stores, one lArpc furniture establishment,
two dfur, stores, five or six blacksmith shops,
e, harness shop, a shoemakcrs shOp-all doing
good business. 1t has two churches, good
schools, and other Institutions that go to
make up village" ANY gin-mills ~
"There is only one saloon in the
place, and that is enough. Suatton
furnishes convincing evidence of the
rapid growth of that part of the state. But to
return to the settler. The greatest danger, in
my opinion. is that he viii be misled into the
belief by the heavy rainfall of the past two
years that it is going to continue, and that he
will be discouraged if he fails to raise corn,
oats, and wheat, and such other crops which
are so easily raised in the eastern part of the
state