The Laurens advertiser. (Laurens, S.C.) 1885-1973, 1910-07-27

year however, IOr dhe corn, ana the
| prospects are good for a large corn
crop. The wheat crop seems to be
| not quite so good this year on ac-
! count of lack OF rain when it was
needed. yield OF some thirty to
| forty bushels of corn per acre seems
to be the average and from eighteen to
twenty-five bushels of wheat per acre
| The price of farming land ranges
anywhere from $50 to 500, the aver
age being, should say between 500
and $50 per acre
| a very striking thing to be noticed
is the relatively large acreage culti-
waited by one man as compared to the
number of acres per man i'm the South
| would say that in the South about
| twenty-five acres to the man and horse
is the general acreage: however. it is
cultivating anywhere from one hun
dred and fifty to three hundred and
hfty acres with no outside help. In
fact, we came across farmer on
hundred and sixty acres by himself.
To do this, it is necessary of course
for them to have the most improved
farming implements; this you will
The scarcity of labor in this country
forces the farmer to get his help from
the most improved implements and
were it not for such implements. etc.
tensively as they do. OF course. the eX-
penSe of such machinery is very great
but in the end the farmer saves money.
and in my opinion. is in much better
condition than we, with our labor
problem etc, are
The State of Kansas is as system
atically laid off as possible. The
whole State is divided in.o sections.
which is Il square mile. There are
thirty six sections to the township.
and twenty-five townships to the coun-
ty, making each county perfect
square. All public roads run north
NJ
places are reckoned in so many miles
north, south etc. There is no such
a thing as crooked public road here
even the railroads run due east and
west; in this vicinity, there is no way
OF getting north or south OH rail
road, except by first going either east
or west. Too, the streams seem to
have caught the habit" and practical
ly all of them run due south. This
coupled with the fact that each house
has Windmill and positively no pi-
aZZas, makes the country very menot-
onous
Most of the people in the State of
Kansas are immigrants. We have met
with very few natives of the State.
Kansas has only been settled some
thirty-iive years. The people come
here to make money and there are
evidences on all sides that this is
what they live for-everything we find
to be Just as expensive here as i'm
South Carolina, with the possible eX-
ception OF milk and eggs-the former
OF which they have positively non eed
for, feeding all of it to the pigs. us
ing only the cream, this habit OF theirs
we South Carolinians are fast check
ing at every opportunity.
On the whole Kansas is a very
thrifty State, the people do not mind
WORKING, in fact, they are forced to do
1t as labor is very scarce, thus forcing
them to do all their own work, of all
xmas, | must say that they think of
little else outside OF money making:
they seem to measure everything I'm
dollars and cents. In this respect how
ever, they are not so very different
from the other sections of the country.
Kansas is to- be congratulated on
her sanitary laws. Among these might
be mentioned law prohibiting the
use OF the public drinking cups; there
are others, but she is to be especially
congratulated on this one.
One striking difference in the farms
here and at home" is the absense OF
the "muie-negro" combination. We
haven't seen negro since our arrival,
and with a few exceptions possibly, all
the farmers use horses on their farms,
There is one thing we have noticed
in our sojourn in the west which
CRATES ON our South Carolina pride
and it is the way the westerners, in
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