Land Buyer from Emporia, Kansas • 1

TTT 1 TO 11 No. 2. Vol. 1. EMPORIA, LYON COUNTY, KANSAS, JULY, 1S78.

LYON COUNTY AGEIOULTURAL Sedgwick, Oowley and Butler, The Walnut Valley Times compiles the following figures from the assessors' re STATISTICS. turns of the above-named counties. When it is remembered that, with the excentlon Oostof Fencing and Breaking Prairie, The cost of breaking prairie is now $2 per acre. F. E.

Smith, ol this city, has this season fenced a 160 acre tract northwest of the city, at a' cost of $250. He bought 670 posts at nine cents each, paid three cents each for having them driven with a pile driver, sixteen feet apart, and put on two strands of heavy, twisted Our Population, The last full census of the population of Lyon county was that, ol 1876. This year the assessor of Emporia took no census of our population and hence anything of that kind in regard to Emporia has to be guess work. All agree that our population has increased considerably since 1876. This failure to take a census of the city is a general disappointment to our c'tizens.

The figures: Assessors' Census, for Year 1878. We have from week to week published the various assessors reports for 1878 by townships, and now give them In the ag- 4 of the northern part ot Butler county, the country composing these counties has only been settled bTx or seven years, the figures are simpty surprising, T.ie three counties would almost make an empire by themselves: greeate, for Lyon county. We see, and barbed wire. The account stands thus: any reasonably well Informed citizen cf $320. 250.

Breaking 160 acres, as above, 1876 1 878 Gain 287 122 429 04 .716 Total $570. Americas Townsh ip 1,186 Centre do 4:56 Elmendaro do .771 Emporia do .........1.589 Emporia City 2,784 Fremont 676 POPULATION So Igwick county 14,209 Cowley 15.300 Butler 14,430 Population of three 44,139 ACHES UNDER CULTIVATION. Sedgwick county 161,222 Lowlev It thus costs $3.56 per acre to break and fence a 160 acre tract of land in this coiin 1,423 558 1,200 1,683 8,500 7(56 1,271 1,150 461 767 335 986 Jackson ty. The fence costs $125 per mile. A 40 do do (JO 25 408 88 172 53 acre tract would cost $125 to fence, an 80 742, 373 595 Pike Reading Waterloo Agnes Citv do do do acre tract, $187, a 160 acre tract $250.

These figures will be handy to keep f. reference, as they will be about the aver Butler 127,401 TotaTacves Improved .421,276 ACRES IN WINTER WHEAT, Sedgwick county Cowley 61,987 Butler 43,872 Total 182,291 ACRES IN CORN. Sedgwick county 53,696 I ninlnir AO CO 1 age cost of a two strand barbed wire fence, driven posts, 16 feet apart, throughout 10,390 13,134 2,744 Many of oar citizens claim that Emporia has now 4,000 population, but we place it at 3,500 which we feel sure would be verified by a thorough census. No census being taken last year, we have to compare the increase of population with tbe county. Counting land fenced and broken as worth $4 more than the raw prairie, if the fence is in good condition, is about as low an estimate as the buyer Butler 54,553 1870.

The figures show an increase of could fairly claim or the seller afford" to concede. A better fence, posts nearer together, one or more lines of boards, more .....157,073 NFMBER HORSES AND MULES. Sedgwick county 6,614 Cowley 6.187 Butler 6,004 our county will agree with us, that In many cases the assessors must have failed to gather the full statistics. Take, for instance, the report on clover In cultivation and how absurd It is compared, to the real uumber of acres. We believe It sale to add one-fourth to many of the figures to get at the real facts.

The assessment ought to be full, complete and accurate in eyery respect and in every item, and every 6lack, inefficient assessor ought to give way to somebody who will do the work thoroughly. The figures are as follows: No. of acres improved land, No, cf acres sown in the fall of 1877, winter wheat, rye, 2,225. No. of acres planted or sown in 1878: Spring wht at, corn, barley, 200; oats, buckwheat; 119; Irish potatoes, Sweet potatoes, 128; Sorghum, 392; Castor beans, flax, hemp, 10; tobacco, 29; broom corn, 274; millet and hungarian, 2,820.

Number oi bushels old corn on hand March 1st, 1878, 447,916. Aggregate acres of grass io cultivation Meadow-timothy, 316; clover, 74J4; prairie, 23,115. Pasture timothy, 137; clover, blue grass, 187; prairie, 9,222. Value of product of gardens $10,690, of poultry and eggs sold during the year, $8,220. rounds of cheese made in factories, price per pound, 10 cents; pounds of cheese made in families, pounds of butter, 271,370.

Live stock-number of horses, mules and asses, 423; milch cows, other cattle, sheep, swine, "strands of wire, or hedge, ought of course about 1,400 per year for 1876 and for 1877, and it Is going on faster now than during either of those Kansas Orchards. The State Agricultural Keport for November and December last lurnlshes the following interesting figures concernig the fruit trees of Kansas, and the value of to have additional value over this estimate. Add to the breaking and fencing the value of growing crops, trees, vines, water, and buildings and the fair valuation ol improved over unimproved land in any locality can be easily arrived at. The value of buildings is generally more Total 19,705 NUMBER OF H0G8 Securwick county 21,053 Cowley 27,290 Butler 33,521 Total 82J64 NUMBER OF CATTLE. Sedgwick county 8,422 Cowley 11,1160 i Butler 16.900 the fruit product of this State for the under and over estimated than that cf Total iiT 283 It must be remembered that thee kre year 1877: 1,203,274 Apple trees in bearing in Kansas.

8,448,915 not 2,408.548 bushels of apples at- 2 bu. per tree. 8,593,708 Peach trees in bearing. 3,681,690 not 1,796,854 bushels at bu per tree. 845,591 Cherry trees in bearing.

480,126 not 1,884,396 quarts at 4 quarts per tree. 28,648 Fear trees in bearing. 134 096 not 58,919 Plum trees in bearing. herd law counties, where there can't be ally cattle raised; you know. BUSHELS OLD CORN OH HAND.

Butler county 472.002 Sedgwick .....282,300 any other Improvement on a farm. Their real value to the buyer is just what they would cost him to build now, if they suit him. If they will not answer his use, and he'iia to build new ones in their, place, they are worth only what service the material they contain might be to bim. If he can alter or repkir tbem into a satisfactory building, they are worth their ghare of the renovated structure. The seller" 19 apt to overestimate the value of poor and insufficient buildings; buyer to underestimate the value of good and adequate buildings.

The value of land and other improvements is more easily agreed upon as a general thing. Good Cowley 260,140 1UU.11V UVII Total number of trees of all kinds, 13,112,083. Total bushels 1,020,544 Bi-iuo acies oi raspoernes 1.369 89 100 blackberries '450 40-100 8,304 67-IOq grapes improved farms in this county are offered Thousands of acres of grass within plain sight of Emporia going to waste every year and no cattle to crop the lux-v uriant growth. Ample pasturage ul over the county, free to every settler-who exercises any judgment in for a good range. How can stock raising" tail to pay under such circumstances, it.

the stock is given any reasonable No county in the State can offer any bet-; ter and more permanent inducements for -stock farmers-very few counties offer-equal inducements. Our markets and shipping facilities are first-class, and no; for sale in various localities at from $10 to $25 per acre, This is the average range of prices, though some are lower and some are considerably higher Good Unimproved land runs from 5 to $15 as the aver-age, with tracts (railroad) dowfl to $1.25, and heavy Umber land up to $40 or more. Betwtten these ranges of prices, every reasonable buyer can be suited, and get 39,558 number of iuw? JniW b7 70; number of animals slaughtered or sold for slaughter during the year, 14,204. Number of pounds of wool, crop of 1877,28,264. Horticultures-number of acres in nurseries, number of bearing tiees in orchards pear, peach plum, cherry, 13,313.

Number of trees not in bearing apple, 95,800, pear, peach, plum, cherry, 12,248. Value oi' fruit product of 1877, sold-apples pears, peach, cs grapes, fruit not Otherwise named, $2,905.50. Number of acres. of small fruits raspberries, 85; strawberries, 22; other small fruits, 37. Number of mulberry trees, 209; acres of cultivated forest trees, (not mulberry) miscellaneous trees not otherwise named, 10,919.

Number of acres In Gallons of wine made in 1877, 489. Number of stands of bees, 603; number of pounds of honey produced, num. ber of pounds of wax, 78. Value cf all kinds of agricultural lm-plements on March 1st, 1878, $43,393. Number of rods of fence stone, rail, hedge, 201,153: wire, board, 90,909.

The article in this issue upon hedge growing, has valuable advice on that subject. Mr. Wllhite has five miles of pig tight hedge on bis farm, and his experience will do to follow. YALtTE 01? HtoitiT FOR 1877. 2,084,548 bu.

apples at COc $1,445,128.80 1,796,844 bu. peaches at 80c 530,056.20 quarts of cherries at 10c. 138,239.60 Vineyard products 19,498.49 Value of pear, plum and small fruit product 707,060 $2,884,953 9 This Is a good showing. It exhibits wonderful growth. And the value of the fruit crop of the State for 1877 nearly three million dollars will doubtless surprise many "of our Citizens, Plenty of good building stone all over this county, a few feet beneath the surface, and often cropping out to show where it is.

ork Will make stone fefrces and buildings, vt Good Product. We learn ttoc lollow- ing figures ot the wool product ot some of Capt. Webster's sheep. His place, it will be remembered, ia at Dunlap. The clip from his elgth jkefino bucks was as follows: 18,19, 19 and 26 lbs.

each. Three younger ones yielded as follows: 14, and lb4 pounds each. These we call good shearers, and it evidently pays to raise such sheep. Many farmers do not care or need to sell. Others do, and the latter generally put their farms into the hands of a real estate agent, to find customers as soon as possible.

Their figures are apt to be very low. The quickest, easiest and most business-lite way of buying a farm Is, therefore, to see what real estate agents have to sell. Most buyers know this, and hence go to the agent. cheaper land can be had in any ranroau. county.

Come and see. Upland farming In Kansas is a succes3-beyond a question. The anti-upland the-ory is exploded. There Is upland too-ropky to plow, but it makes good pasturage. Except this, which Is a mere fraction to the entire amount, our upland i-easily tillable, and is fast being transformed into beauUlul and productive farms.

Fruit trees do best bh the high, gravelly knolls and slopes, where Uje wind keeps out the frost In eariy spring. For health, scenery, good roads, land that drains readily, and good range, upland farms will be sought after more and more every year. There is no mistake about this, and our oldest and most sue. cessful bottom farmers are acknowledging the facts to be as we state. the fnll worth of his money.

The same quality of land thit costs $5 to $10 per acre within a few miles of the city, can be had at from $2.50 to $6 per acre by going to more distant parts of the county. There is no first class bottom timber and water land adjoining the city limits for $1.25 per acre and never was but land and farms are now as cheap or cheaper here than In any other railroad county in Eansas, and it is a good time to invest in them. Edwards Brothers are now at work on a very full and complete atlas of Lyon county and of every township in it showing every tract of land in the county. Eastern owners of land here will find this atlas very useful. It will be issued about the end of the year, but orders must be sent in soon to secure copies.

It will cost ten dollars, and will be a splendid work in the atlas line, Address Edwards Philadelphia, or Emporia) Ks. Good R. Holderman has been elected cashier oi the First National Bank. i.