The McCook tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 1886-1936, 1897-09-17
GREAT is NEBRASKA.
PROSPE RITY IN USTi-
BILE QUANTITIES.
Threshers Running Night and ray Even
In the Early Part of the Harvest
A Tremendous Yieid-Scbraska
Samples Being shown at the
County Fairs In Illinois.
Tie Speaks From Experience.

Tie Speaks From Experience.
A Red Willow county correspondent
OF the Omaha Bee gives the following
account of the situation in that section
of Nebraska:
Harvest lasted five weeks in Red
Willow county, and some machines
ran day and night, only stopping long
enough to change teams. The whis-
ties of the steam threshers are heard
long before sunrise, calling the men to
work. They have been at it five weeks
and it looks as if snow would fly be-
fore they get through. From what
has been threshed it is estimated that
100000 bushels were raised in this
county this season and the land is not
half under cultivation yet Some
farmers have 1000 to 5000 bushels.
There are thousands of acres where
the crop this year on one acre will pay
for three acres of nice, rich land. One
fine quarter, all under plow, lay idle
this year. Had it been sown to wheat
the crop would have paid for the land,
built house worth 5000, barn worth
$400, sunk well and erected wind
mill, paid for a team, harness and
wagon, a stove, three cows and a dozen
shoats.
A man rented some land last fall.
Seed wheat was furnished and he got
half the crop. He sowed fifty-four
acres, and his share brought money
enough to pay for nice eighty-acres
and had $1OO left. Where seed is not
furnished the renter gets two-thirds of
the crop.
There are good many fields where
the renters share of 100 acres will
more than pay for 16O acres of nice
land. have farmed here fifteen years,
but never saw SO much wheat raised
here in any one year. Some seasons it
yielded a little more per acre, but the
area sown was not nearly so large.
Corn indicates yield of forty to sixty
bushels per acre. Alfalfa will be cut
three to four times. l have cut mine
twice and the third crop will be cut
soon. This is on upland, where it is
200 feet to water. l pick apples fresh
from my trees for pies and dumplings.
NEBRASKA CROPS LEAD.
The Burlington has an exhibit of Ne
county fairs in Iowa and Illinois and
reports from these gatherings show
that the Nebraska exhibits excel those
the products shown is declared better
than any grain in the states named
this year. Especially are the small
grains and the garden products at
tracing much attention.
In this connection it can be stated
that the nine land buyers who were
brought here from Illinois by K. N.
Johns of Pontiac, a Burlington land
agent, this week and taken over Ne
braslla were we'll pleased with the out
look and several of them made pur-
chases. September Z Mr.. Johns will
bring another party into Nebraska
from Iowa and Illinois with view of
buying land. He states that the
farmers of the middle states are very
much interested in Nebraska land, and
that he expects that this fall there will
be many of them come here and locate
Not Holding Up Insurance Companies.
Lincoln dispatch: 1t has been ru> !
mored lately that insurance companies |
were being charged illegal fees by the |
state auditor, and that some of the |
money thus taken was pocketed by in |
dividuals instead of being turned into |
the state treasury.
II just heard of the rumor today |
said Auditor Cornell this afternoon,
land L understand it is being widely |
circulated in Omaha. l wish you would |
say that any story that 1 ana holding |
up the insurance companies, charging
more than the law allows and putting |
the Surplus in my pocket is untrue. If !
anyone is interested enough to go to |
the trouble to inquire at the auditors |
Office in reference to the charges made |
to insurance companies, he will have |
free access to the books and the as
sistance Of the office force. that lie may |
inform himself as to the matter. 1t is |
true that sometimes the clerks in the |
Office make copies of the records at |
the request of the companies, but it is |
no part of their official duty. and when |
done after hours the clerks are entitled |
to pay for the work. If any of them |
have made overcharges L have not |
heard of it,