The Kansas Advertiser from Topeka, Kansas • 1

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S5IITII, General Kdilors and Proprietors. TOPEKA, KANSAS, AUGUST, 1870. CIRCUtATIOUT, FIFTY THOUSJLBTIl COPIES- Bounties Glren in Kansas for States of Illinois and New year, or half of it. This makes a animals while asleep, a few nights ago, and one of its arms was se Passed Upon. The motto of our State implies Planting Forest Trees, Growing Hedjres.

fcc. home market, and the settlers who Times and Conservative, Juno 29, 9 1870. verely bitten, while some of our An act to encourage the growth of that we had a rough time but that we are iuhilant now. Why that buys this year will have products to sell next year. jood people have been despoiled of Southern Kansas Wheat.

orest Trees. Approved February 15th, 1866. Every person planting one acre or Since the war the immigration to sentiment should have been expres whole brood? of chickens by these voracious rodents. In view of these Fairmouut -Crops, Rats, Ac. Fairmocnt, July 12, 1870.

Ed. Times: A few days ago farmers were looking blue. The long dry heated period, though most favorable for th maturing and harvesting of the small grain crops, was beginning to tell upon the corn fields, and still the weather clerk seemed to be unrelenting. Well, What State can beat it D. F.

Shep- Kansas ha3 been constant and it is ever increasing. Most of it is from more ot prairi land, within 1 ten sed in a dead language instead of a living one, in a tongue not familiar instead of the strong speech in ard, of Fort Scott, informed us last week that he had received one lot our own country, no effort ever hav PKVOTKB TO TUB DEVELOPMENT OF KANSAS, IS FCDLUaiCB H0STH1.T, At I'fS Cents i-p Annum, lit THI INTERESTS Of THEIR CUSTOMERS, 1 12 KftHMM Atram, foriwr 51 Ii Sired, TOPEKA, KASTSIS. facts, Chinese immigration will not meet with serious opposition from this quarter, if it is true that John is the greedy rat-eater he is said to be. of new wheat' at his mills, which ing been made to bring Europeans daily use, will forever remain one of the Mysteries. If the first settlers years after the passage of this act, with any kind of forest trees, and successfully growing and cultivating the same for three years, or one-half miles or mere of forest trees alone weighed sixty-six pounds to the bush directly here in large numbers, it el, and another sixty-three, and our is not probable that eur authorities will enter upon any' systematic wheat this season is unusually good, John Derby, a Westernized Yan the farmers have nearly finished harvesting, and now comes the rain a steady, copious shower almost ot our btate had been Italians perhaps we should have had English words on the State seal.

But we were about to say that the rough scheme to secure foreign kee of this town, has lately applied of exellent berry, and makes the choicest flour. Every year Kansas is certain of its wheat crop, and her tion, since those who come of their for letters patent for a new inven any public highway, said trees to be so planted as to stand, at the end ot said three years.not more than one rod apart, shall he entitled to receive for twenty-five years, com own will are so numerous that the Katett of Atlrtisiinss time had gone entirely by and taken tion. It is an ingenious contrivance The Sword and Plow. There was once a Count, so Ir'e heard it Who felt that his end drew near And he called. his sons before hia bed, To part them his goods and gear.

He called for his plow, he called for his sword. That gallant, good and brave They brought them both at their father's word, And thus he his blessing gave "My first born son, my pride and might, Bo thon my sword retain My castle on the lordly height, And all my broad domain. "On tlieo, my well-loved younger boy, My plow I here bestow A peaceful life thon shalt enjoy In the quiet vale below." Contented sank the sire to rest, Now all was given away The sons held true his last behest, E'en to his dying day. Now tell us what came of the steel of flame. Of the castle and its kuight And tell us what came of the vale so tame, And the humble peasant wight.

"0 ask not of me what the end may be Ask of the country round The castle is dust, the sword is rust, The height is but desert ground. "But the vale spreads wide in the golden pride Of autumn sunlight now It teems and it ripens far and wide, And the honor abides with the plow." From, the Gernum. State is settling up more rapidly people will alwaya have money. Wheat will always bring money; and in all other grains we know of than any other State has ever done with it all its troubles and uncertainties. Some facts may now be considered permanently settled, and whereby correct couut can be kept of grain as it is measured at the separator.

This machine would ob CuliniiK. I Hov 3 Bins. 8 mHk 12 Oi $06 iM tt 7 The JNew York Herald of the 25th, settled, in favor of Kansas. One of says: mencing three years after said grove or line of trees has been planted, an annual bounty of two dollars per acre, for each acre so planted, and no State that can beat Kansas. Oats and potatoes are turning out well, the orn crop promises an abundant these is that the State does not have tbince the suppression of our late viate disputes and enable all parties concerned in threshing to get their due.

Cor. Leavenworth Times. Southern rebellion, from immigrants rain enough and that our crops are from our older States and from Eu harvest, and the enormous immi subject to failures. daily. Uorn is running up amazingly, and a good crop is already assured, when the planting was done early and the plant3 had attained a gool stand.

A great breadth has been plauted in this part of the county, and the yield will doubtless be better than average. lleturns from some of the largest wheat fields in this vicinity indicate an average yield of about fifteen bushels to the acre. But the grain is uncommonly fine, and will be got to market, as a general thing, in the best of order. It is evident that but for that uncommonly severe and unseasonable frost early in May, the two dollars for one-half mile so planted, to be paid out of the treas gration will consume more than our rope, the increase in the population This may be said with as much Let than column, each insertion, 21) per liuo. BusineM cards of two lines, on insertion, 50 Eitirial ntitfs Hch insertion, 23 cents per line, J- AU charges lens thn invariably in'aJvanc.

Most excellent and gratifying truth of any other State in the and wealth of Minnesota, Iowa, entire crops, so that for the present our market will be at home and one ury of the county in which said grove or liDe of trees may be situa Nebraska, Kansas, Missouri and Union as of Kansas. We have no crop reports continue to come daily. The wheat is yielding even ted, lhe bounty to be paid so lone Texas has been really astonishing, more failures from dry weather than of the best in the Press. better than was anticipated, lhe as said grove or trees are cultivated Arkansas, with natural advantages Illinois, JNew York, or Kentucky; Eldorado Times, way down in But and kept alive and in growing con than France or England. Many of soil, climate and productions, and cheap lands equal to any of these Fine Wheat.

Farmers con ler county, says dition. "We have taken pains to make That the county assessor shall years of experience and observation have so settled that point. It is not doubtful or debatable, but has tinue to tell us that the wheat crop not assess lands planted and encum States, remains comperatiyely at a standstill, because she is deficient in local railway facilities and railway product of this grain would have thi3 year will be far better than it particular inquiry of our farmers in regard to the crops, this year. We been passed upon, settled, and need has been any previous year in the bered with forest trees, any higher than the lands adjoining, on account have inquired of persons residing at connections with the great through never again be discussed. been much greater, lhe best crop that has come to my notice is that of Mr.

John T. Kclley, of this vil a distance, and have received but lines to JNew York. history of Kansas. Mr. Hughes, whose fine wheat fields we mention The excellent quality of the soi' of the said lands being so.

encum' bered. one reply, viz 'Crops of all kinds The immigrant who comes to are When such men as J. D. An act to encourage the growing oi Kansas because his own judgment ed some time since, informed us and the delightful climate have never been questioned by any body. The raids which we were wont to have lage.

From twenty-one acres John harvested five hundred and fifty-two bushels the Red May variety, which weighed sixty-three pounds Conner, who lives a mile below town, hedges and bunding of stone made the choice is preferable to the yesterday that he had threshed one M. Vaught, of Chelsea, II. II. Fow person who is, in a manner, forced from Missouri ended with the war, fences. Approved February 20, 1867.

ler, of Hickory creek, S. C. Fulton, to come here to the bushel. Ue had the good The Indian raids are driven further of his fields, a twenty-acre field, and the poorest one on Ms farm, and that the average is thirty-three bush of Whitewater, and M. A.

Falmer, Any person planting an Osasc or fortune this fine lot. 01 gram west every year, and nine-tenths The wheat crop just gatherd and Tne Working Man. The noblest men I know on earth Are men whose hands are brown with toil Who, barred by no ancestral groves, Uew down the wood and till the soil And win thereby a prouder name Than follows king or warrior's fame. The working men, whate'er the task, Who carve the stone, or bear the hod. They bear upon their honest brows The royal stamp and seal of God And worthier are their drops of sweat Than diamonds in a coronet.

God bless the noble working men, Who rear the cities of the plain, Who dig the mines, who build the ships, And drive the commerce of the main. God bless them for their toiling hands nave wrought the glory of all lauds. of Little Walnut all old and ex our settlements are as free from In and the corn which is growing so through the thresher before the rains, and it is now in our ware Hawthorn fence, or who shall build of stone a fence of the height of four luxuriantly are the best arguments perienced farmers tell us that crops are as good as can be, we are satisfied that it is so. Conner Fays house awaiting sale. A handsomer and one-half teet, around any held, to induce immigration, and they are dian incursions as the centre of Pennsylvania.

And our State is no longer difficult of access. It can To irn IIAXKUS. Oar Advertiser may at any time bo iountl at all the hotels in the city, and persons desiring to purchase real estate, will find it to their interest to examine carefully our price list, and if they see, in looking over the descriptions, any piece that may suit them, and will make the fact known at our office, they can have the heneflt of a ride to the premises, where they can determine, from personal examination whether the property is such as desired or not. JSro charges made to purchasers. It is our tusinesa to show the land on our list.

We do not expect ulways to make a sale should we not we will consider it no hardship; we ask au opportunity, at least, to make the acquaintance of strangers visiting our city, and we assure them we will he able give them information that they could not obtain in weeks by traveling about on their own account. lot of wheat never found its way to arguments which everybody under witnin ten years ot tne passage he never saw better crops in his lite of this act, and successfully stands. The mission of the newspa and others speak in the same posi a hopper, and everybody is pleased that so excellent a neighbor and farmer as Mr. Kelley has been so growing and cultivating the same, oe approached irom the Jiast or West by rail, over many different lines and great lines of roads are per in correcting erroneous impres els to the acre, the wheat weighing sixty-three pounds to the bushel. Mr.

Hughes has sixty acres in wheat, and he says the yield of the forty ramaining acres will be higher still. But, allowing the same average, his crop this season will be 1,980 bushels. Mr. Hughes's farm is about three miles east of the city. Lawrence Journal.

sions about Kansas is nearly over, tive terms. "Dr. McGowan brought to cleverly rewarded. our The facts are now universally under- completed througn the btate in or keeping up said fence until it successfully resists stock, shall receive an annual bounty of two dollars, for every" iorty rods so office, this week, one of the largest The oat crop is being harvested, every direction. Our railroad sys stalks of sod corn that ever grew stoody and neither explanation nor apology is called for.

Kansas can now have no drawback. The past Tall Corn. J. B. Barret, and the yield will be at least fair tem is in its infancy, but it is a very any country.

It was taken from Oiits do not seem to be a favorite large and healthy infant. Many and the future are secure. A State B. F. Gordy'a farm, on West Branch brought in some stalks of corn from his field of 23 acres in the Kaw bottom east of De Soto, which we crop with our grain growers, though planted and cultivated, or built and kept up the bounty to commence as soon as said fence will entirely resist cattle, and to continue for most theui have irom one to the old States have not so many miles of railroad.

These give farmers a market, eastern and western, and high prices for all products. The with half a million people may be permitted to pursue her way quietly. This corn was planted on the sod on the 28th day of May, and had grown over two inches every twenty-four measured on the 28th of June and twenty aeres to harvest. The million will be here before 187 Farmers and poultry womeu are found to be 9 feet 8 inches high now we find from measurement that eight years thereafter. Said bounty to be paid from the treasury of the Farmers who have cut their Nor-way oats inform us that the yield is really astonishing, reaching from ninety to one hnnded bushels per acre.

Champion and Press. and then existence here will become experiencing great annoyance from hours, from the time it was put in the ground until it wTas pulled up annual army of immigrants now num hers one hundred thousand at least rats. A small child ot Mr. Mc humdrum and stupid as matter they are 12 feet high. QOlathe county whrch said fence may be situated.

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