Star of Empire du lieu suivant : Topeka, Kansas • 4

3 IS jL IE3 I IR, JED 12 9 9,500 acres part hot KANSAS OFFERS INDUCE MENTS TO IMMIGRANTS. OLD ITEMS, BUT TRUE ONES. We had such a demand for our I'tom with water and timber, balance high DICKINSON COUNTY. 11 1 12,000 acres; rolling prairie, gravelly soil. 12 1 10,000 acres; broken land, travellv anil.

An Act to encourage the growth 1 last issue, that we could not by any Dr. J. V. C. Smith, one of the most intelligent men, upon this subject, in the United States, says, in alluding to Kansas: After traveling through most of the grape countries in the world, I of Forest Trees.

Approved eb- means satisfy it, although the edii high WHEAT. In of this Company can be seen specimens of grain raised the past year in Kansas. As usual, it is understood that our State sent the best wheat received at the Agricultural Bureau of the Patent Ollice in Washington. Farmers, rolling upland prairie, 13 9 8,100 acres seme val- ley land with timber, but mostly high prairie. 11 10 4,700 acres hi-h OUR KANSAS LIME STONE.

Labohatory Rush Mepic.il College, 1 Chicago, Oct. 28, 1S63. C. W. Buhrock.

Lawrence, Kansas: Sir I would respectfully report the following as the result of rny analysis of a specimen of limestone submitted to me by you, and represented to have been taken from the ruary 15, 1866 tion wes one of 12,000. Of this number we shall probably issue Section 1. Every person one acrc or more of prairie land, am of the opinion that thfe region 00O ronies. We therefore have de voted tM onlnmn nmW tli aSnv becorre a greater wine producing: within ten years after the passage of country tnan any otner on eartn. who at our office daily examine the this act, with aiiy kind of forest trees, little tii, 1 and water.

13 10 7,000 acres mostly high broken prairie, some fair valley land with timber. heading, to clippings from the last Star, as the articles Selected show same quarry from which the stone grain, pronounce it superior to any and successfully growing and culti- was taken tor tne erection ot tne ra.seu in me sections irom wmcn State House at Topeka, Kansas, they come. The yield also is very DROUGHT. Paola, Miami October 30, 1865. which quarry, as I am informed, is good, sometimes averaging thirty-six bushels to the acre, fall wheat located near Junction Citv, about rating trie same tor three years, or one-half mile or more of forest trees, alofig any public highwaVj said trees to be so planted as to stand at the end of said three years, not more than one rod apart, shall be entitled to receive for twenty-five years, commencing three years after said the opinions disinterested travelers had of Kansas.

A. D. Richardson, says: I wonder if the Almighty ever made a more beautiful country than Kansas Those green prairies, rolling like gentle swells of the ocean, starred and gemmed with flowers, 12 11 8,200 acres high and broken with stony bluffs. 13 11 5,700 acres; high I broken arid stony pasture lands, with some timber and water. 12 12 2,300 acres; high broken prairie with a little timber.

13 12 5,700 acres high broken prairie, some water and good broken, and stony pasture land. I 12 10 4,900 acres some val- Prof. G. C. Swallow I have cultivated my farm in this county for thirty-five years, and have raised good crops every year, but one, A.

L. 1860, and have" had no serious injury from droughts pre It is probable that Kansas will maintain the proud position, fairly won, of being first in the production of this cereal, and be able alone to supply the immense demands of the non-producing mining regions. grove or hue ot trees has been plant four miles from Fort Riley, on the line of the Union Pacific Railroad, Eastern Division. The analysis of the rock results as follows PER CKN'TAGE. Hygrometric moisture, given off at 212.

Fahrenheit 2,1870 Orpanie matter anil combined moi-turo Carbonate of Lime Carbonate of Majrnesia 3,0550 Alumina a Peroxide of Iron Silica and other insoluble matter 1,9494 ed, an annual bounty of two dollars and threaded bv dark belts of tiui- per acre, for each acre so planted, ber, which mark the winding stream, "UY ear: xne Pern The let blat ot otber 1 m-v tnbe9' JS th? vious to that year. The experience j. ley land, balance high prairie with a uitMio a.l uituniifl. ana two dollars tor one-nan nine, ior are a joy lorcver i each mile so planted, to be paid out soil appears fathomless Ajypt, irom the earliest periods i j. i P'1 rr i ot the I reasury ot tne county in i rain has cut ravines History, has been spoken of as a A iL i 1 and two dollars for one-half mile, for are a joy forever history, has been spok Where the I uune, j.i iu crops anu droughts, twenty feet; stone.

of Olgueu DAl'llMK 1 tOEIA. gently which said grove or line of trees may deep, the same rich loam is found at 14 12 500 acres rolling prairie, good soil. the bottom. In the vallevs, I have UNITED RAILWAYS IN THE STATES. be situated.

The bounty to be paid so long as i said grove or trees are cultivated rainless region but since Mehemet Ali has made his immense plantation of trees, showers hare become frequent. The controlling influence 13 13 1,900 acre3 mostly gently rolling upland prairie, part high and broken. seen the grass so high that men ri-ding upon tall horses, were quite hidden from view, at the distance of a few yards. tit ir ond in rrr 1 1 rr fii i kt I i OUM -Vl tJhtl 11-1 V-l AAA Vw of forejfes over rainfalls is shown, by the fact that countries fc County Assessor shall once supplied with forests, and hav- Here, the settler plows up the rich sward, plants corn upon it the Wo gather the following facts from Mr. tt.

V. Poor Manual on Railways The first railway chartered was the Raltimorc and Ohio. This was in 1827, and in 1831, 62 miles were 18 B11S, 3500 acres mostly high prairie, with eravelly soil. 14 1 E' 3800 acrc3 part finc bottom land in Smoky Hill Valley, balance smooth, rich prairie. 15 1 8,700 acres fine rolling prairie.

If 1 10,000 acres; broken prairie, gravelly soil. 11 1 10,700 acres; mostly good rolling prairie. 12 2 9,500 acres fiae ing prairie, good soil. 13 2 900 acres; part good bottom with timber and water, on Smoky Hill River, balance fine prairie. flPS 14 2 7,600 acres part fine bottom land with timber and water, Turkey Creek running through it, balance gently rolling prairie.

15 2 9,500 acres some fine land with water for stock, some rolling prairie, good, balance broken prairie, thin soil. 16 2 9,600 acres; part smooth prairie, rear Turkey Creek with stock water, balance broken prairie, gravelly soil. 11 3 3,500 acres part finc bottom on Chapman Creek, timber and water, balance broken prairie. 12 3 4,700 acres; rolling prairie. 13 3 6,400 acres part valu- 'wn lanrl on Smoky II II I River, balance rolling prairie.

14 3 11,200 ictes some rolling and some smooth prairie gjod soil. 15 3 11,200 acres; part Bmooth and part rolling prairie, good soil, and some stock water. 16, 8 8,000 acres; on divide between Turkey and Carry Creek, arit 4 5,900 acres; rolling prairie, gravelly soil. 15 S4 4,500 acres; part smooth upland prairie, balance broken, 2d quality -oil. 16 4 3,700 acres some fair bottom land, balance rolling prairie, 2d quality soil.

abundant inrr hinr mnt Pttna an el unmimittr I from frosts, their trees having tk same day tiiat season raises a partial erop, and the next produces from 50 to 100 bushel to the acre." 1 1 tll 11JI1II II ii, I'll ilV.UilllL twwi fli-ISTrrilOf hn7fv man cimn To' I i fe i ot the said hinds H'lmr Ol so encum- Total 100,1980 One of its most important features is, that while it is apparently an amorphous lime stone exhibiting no lines of stratification, it has so small an amount of siliciims matter, and no sand or grit. This is the reason why it can bo sawed into blocks by ordinary wood saws, without di'tri-ment to the saw. From its composition I would confidently express the opinion that, as a building stone, or for other purposes when the stone is to be submitted to atmospheric agencies, it would endure for a long period, without decomposition. Respectfully submitted. Jamks Braxey.

Prof, of Chemistry in Rush Medical College and Consulting Chemist. by drouth and frost till their forests bcred. SIIAWNKE COUNTY. 12 14 600 acres fair roll- ing prairie. 13 13 E.

1,900 acres gently roiling unbind prairie. 13 fci 14 113 acres good smooth I prairie. 13 15 40 acres upland prai-j rie. 13 16 80 acres prairie and good valley. KROM HISTORY.

Nothing can surpass the transcendent beauty and grandeur of the natural r-enerv in Kansas. These- were restored, when they once more became fruitful. The Cape de Verde Islands, so named from their greenness, have been stripped of their forests by the improvident inhabitants, since which time they suffer terribly from periodical drouths, sometimes An Act to encourage the growing of Hedges and building of stone fences. Approved February 20, 1867. -M Sec.

2. That any person planting an Osage or Hawthorn fence, or who shall build of stone, a fence of the height of four and one-half feet, around any field, within ten years operated by horse power. The sec-j ond was the railway from Albany to Schenectady, ad the third was the South Carolina iu lM-35, which was at that time the longest in the world. In 1831 we possessed but little over 100 miles of railr ad in 183, 11,098 miles: in 1867, 39,244 miles. In 1837, 224 miles of new track were laid in 1866, 2,227 miles of I new track.

In 1S43 only 159 miles were laid in 1866, 3,643 miles were opened, which is the largest number of miles of new track laid in any no rain falling for three years at a time, and 30,000 inhabitants, or one third of the population, have perished. Thus famine cuts down the i questered streams and stream-j lets, the gentle and evenly sloping ridges, which at the confluence of i water curve around so as to form a circular valley of e.xouisite loveliness, while over the whole, strctc.es a carpet of green, ted with prairie flowers, as if the maiiflA Vi l.ot I ji in OSAGE COUNTY. 14 14 450 acres fair rolling prairie. 14 16 200 acres prairie with a little bottom. 14 7 80 acres high rolling prairie, ami good valley.

and a irom tne passage ot tins act. inhabitants as piteouely as they cut i successfully growing and cultivating The Number of Trees, Required to Set an Acre. down the protecting trees. the same, or keeping up said fence one year. In 1870, Mr.

Poor thinks i i kiv i vi uii iiTii ill I -iii Distance. 1 ft. by 1J ft. until it success fully resists stoCK. shall receive an annual bounty two dollars for every forty rods so FACTS.

li i w'e sua; nave miles in oDera- folus upon tlic earth, forming a pic- L. x- lvansas nas one ot ttie finest cli- nKntrd nA m- hnt JACK; 13 with COUNTY. 1,000 acres upland a little timber and ture upon which the eye may gaze with unwearied vision. The far-reaching landscape, which seems lost in heaven's embrace, the broad ex 7 prairie water. mates known.

up. tjic bounty to commence as Land is cher.p and rich. soon as said fence will entirely re in the agricultural reports of the i sist cattle, and to continue for eight a ii. p. a i i 2 3 1 3 3 4 3,938 miles laid the Middle States, 9,552 the Southern States, I and the Western States and Pacific coast, 15,226.

Massachusetts has the most for her territory one mile I for every 5i square miles; New York I has one for every 14 A square miles. panse of country over whic the eye uc' regarumg me prouuc- years tncreaner. oaia county to runs oUt iu vaiu tw fiiul a limit, ret tion oi wncat to tne acre, lvansas he nam trom tho 1 reasurv ot the ders the scenery inexpressibly grand. Nttmbek. 43,560 19,360 10,890 6,970 14.520 7,260 4,840 2,722 1J42 1,210 537 3C2 194 134 103 70 40 27 ranks first county in which said fence may be 1 2 "i 1 2 3 4 5 6 9 12 15 18 20 25 30 40 We also have the testimony of The gross earnings of all the rail- Its superiority in the production situated LINCOLN COUNTY.

100,000 acres, Iving on or near Saline river a great portion of it rich bottom land, with considerable tind er. Large crops are raised annually in this county; an execeding- it CI ways is per cent, ot the cost. The expenses consume 70 per eent. of the earnings. The whole railway system has cost $1 ,600,000,000, or two-thirds of cur national debt.

If all the country were furnished as (hose'who have lived in this state for the last thirty years or more, that there has been no serious drought, in their memories, previous to I860. Prof. Madge, in his geological survey, says 6 9 12 15 18 20 25 30 40 fertile valley. SrMAcn. This conspicuous shrub whose bronzed foliage and crimson fruit tufts emblazon hill sides, possesses considerable commercial value.

Its roots are used in medicine as a febrifuge its juice forms an indeli- ot corn, is even mere marked. It is pronounced by the French to be almost, if not q'uite, equal to France for the cultivation of the grape. The last year has shown it to be unsurpassed for fruit raising, rot DAVIS COUNTY. Nl 3 3,500 acres; rowing and broken prairie. 12 3E, 3,500 acres rolling prairie with some bottom and timber on Chapman's Creek.

11 4 8,600 acres rolling prairie. 12 4 5,000 acres rolling prai tt OTTO A COUNTY. 70,000 acre? beautiful vallev well as Ohio, we should have 1 1 1 i i a Die Drown a ye us dots yieuis ana mildew being afmost unknown. purgative and diu.ctic gum its The humus, or vegetable mould, 800 miles and if as well as Massa-of the high prairies, is from one to chusetts, miles, three feet in depth. It is the usual development of the prairie features Rivkhs.

The most important ris ivrr irotitoes and all vegetables are wood produces a fine yellow color, 1 i'J 1J tU 47 111 Ui VJJ rie, good soil some bottom on Smoky rani ro lusion. lounjr Kansas is now takinc such under the name ot young tustic land, along tho Solomon, and trilu- taries, wiih rich soil, and sufficient timber and water. This offers rave inducrtwmt-3 to Also 1,000,000, acres on the line of road between Fort Harker and Sheridan. 13 4 10,300 acres rolling It is the same fine, blaf-k. rich loam, which has become noted as the a proud piace among the States, that During the spring, Kansas has two it is difficult to believe how rccentjy inches more rain, and in the summer she was a territory.

The following the same amount, as western Now were the Territorial Governors efjYork. The winters are very mild, Kansas: and cattle sometimes g- aze out the the gaudy fruit clusters are exren-sively used to produce the brilliant crimson in that species of leather popularly known as red morocco." have a constant market value of about one hundred dollars a ton. fertile soil in the world. ers in this State, are the Kansas, Republican, Smoky Hill, Neosho, Arkansas, Solomon, Osage, Big Blue, Verdigris, Great Nemaha, Cottonwood, Saline. Stranger, Grasshopper, Pottawatomie, Marmaton, Little Arkansas, Wakarusa, and Cimaron, all of which aboutid in a great variety of fish.

The valleys of these streams are very rich. A 1 A AVERAGE YIELD OF CUOI'S PER ACRE. Andrew lieeaer, trom Uctober the average tempera- entire tune ture of the 1854, to-July 6, 1855 Wilson Shan Winter months is three A GOOD BUSINESS. Stock rtifiBg, jiromii-cs to foon be carried for-truiil on an immense scale, in our state. Cattle Crn from 50 to 80 bushels.

Wheat from 20 to 40 bushels. Barley from 40 to 70 1 Oats from 30 to 50 bushels. Potatoes from 100 to 300 bushels. son, from September 1, 1855. to August 25, 1856 John W.

Geary, from August 1856, fo June, 1857; Robert J. Walker, from June, 1857, to December, 1857 J. W. Denver, 1857-8 Samuel Medary, 185.S-9. Of these, Recder, Geary ar.d Walker, were from Pennsylvania, Shannon and Medary from Ohio, and Denver from California.

can be more easily wintered here than further I cast, not onty on account of the mild climate, but excellent raiiire. We have some very fine stock farms for sale, I consisting of tracts, part bottom and balance land, with never failing water and fine grazing i country surrounding. The price per acre is low, i aT'eraglaa -eneraliv Sorghum from 100 to 300 gallons. 1,1 beginning, woman consist-Hungarian from 3 to 5 tons. e( of a rib.

Now she is all Prairie Hay from 2 to 4 tons. from her beIt to the rim of her Tobacco, hemp, flax, are petticoats. degrees less than at Cincinnati. There is a great deal of valley or boctom land, and fanners can purchase that or upland, as they may desire. This is very fertile and convenient to timber, and the soil often has a depth of thirty five feet.

Travelers pronounce our bottom lands superior to those of the Nile, Amazon and Shenandoah. Ka-nsas is well watered four large rivers, whrch are fed by numerous tributaries, taking their rise within her limits. Every few miles the traveler will cross a creek or river. raised iu large quantities. Fortunes are being acquired rapidly here in stock raising, and many farmers bare now large herds, who started but a few years ago, with two or three animals.

prairie, gravelly soil. II 5 1,500 acres some bottom on Republican river, balance rolling prairie, fair soil. 12 5 1,200 acres part very fine bottom land, balance bluffs. 13 5 8,00 acres bluff land, and stony, good for pasturage. 12 6 6,000 acres some good bottom land, some high paririe with timber, balance bluff.

13 6 9,000 acres part bottom with water and timber some good, smooth prairie, balance rolling. VL 7 6,000 acres part good bottom with water and timber, balance rolling prairie. 12 S7 9,600 acres some valley land, balanco upland prairie. 13 7 10,600 acres part fine bottom land with water and timber, balance rolling prairie and some springs. 11- 8 12,000 acres some fair bottom land with timber and water, balance broken and stony.

12 8 12,000 acres most of this gently rolling upland prairie, balance high and broken. 13 8 12,000 acres gently rolling upland prairie. IMPORTANT. yonr address for the Star of TREES. mi distinctly, the name empire, write piaril and Post Office addr is especially adapted to the jrrowth of the grape, and no oceupatiun could te 1'olloned with more remunerative r- -turns than its culture.

The cost of estal- isliing a Tineyard, and the roduotii of an ordinary The following is about the average growth in twelve years, of the leading desirable varieties, when planted 1-WiTKIES. elts or groves, a id cultivated: WHY KANSAS FARMERS SHOULD BECOME RICH. In a season of plenty over the States, the crops of farmers may sometimes, as in a few years of the past, be hardly worth transportation. An immense distance from their market on the seaboard, with a thousand or more miles of costly transportation, the producer necessarily gets but a small fraction of what grain finally sells for. From this drawback Kansas is free.

We do not send our products eastward. West of us lay the immense non-producing mining regions, and the large government posts. The demand, is and will be greater for twenty years than the supply. Hitherto these consumers have gone east of us to purchase, as the present crops are rapidly exhausted by such hungry customers as our mountain neighbors. Kansas farmers should, in seasons of great plenty, obtain at their farms from one-third to one-half more per bushel for grain than their brethren in Illinois.

Added to this, is the fact of our immense yields per acre, and the sum total promises well filled purses for our people. In exchange for our tributes of golden grain the miners will give golden bars. Kansas offers a fine climate, rich soil, and good market at her doors. crop may be summed up as tiliows l'lowins per acre. The Osage Orange eroWS luxuri- I Seven vines at ten cents, i SfiVfn bundled sralfni at fmireenlB.

7o.ti 0 20 t0 60.IKI antlv per acre. Cultivation three years, A man who has been traveling in Texas, says It is the hottest and the coldest, the wettest and the dry-est, the richest and the poorest, the best and the meanest, has the best women and the meanest men, more sickness and less health, more streams and less navigable waters, more corn bread and less corn, more flour and less biscuit, more cows and less milk and butter, more hogs and less pork, more deer and less venison, more chickens and less gold and silver and less money, more negroes and less labor, more Bureaus and less furniture, than any country in the United States." It is there that house flies always live, and mosquitoes never die. Total, 184,01) Wc receive shout a pek of letters a day trom a'l parts of the minent, asking ijucstiona about our lands. These are ail andiron-J in the 8tb, aud any one wishing the paper mailed to them, can have it by senitinc 'heir u-im-s. We hive had sev from th Eastern States to tr, our laud a of patent articles.

Milking Ma hin- s. Waahiag Machines, Potato Diggers, Hair Uesrora'ives. Rheumatism Balms. Ac, are all offered in exchange forafaw acres of our riuh prairie. Sorry, but we can not tralc.

Farmers out this way, prefer female mi kins and washing machines, and have a parriBlity for raisingtheir own potato disttcrs. In this climate, work is healthy, and not consider: degrading. White Maple, ove foot in diameter and thirty feet high; Ash Maple, one foot in diameter and twei ty feet high White Willow, one and a-half feet in forty fcer high Yellow Willow, one and a-half focr in diameter, and thirty-five feet high; Lomnnrdy Poplar, ten inches in diameter, and forty feet high Blue and White Ash, ten inehes in diameter and twenty feet high; Chestnut, ten inches in diameter, and twenty feet high; Black Walnut and But- Say the expense would reach $200. the third year with proper care, a return could be realized from fruit eight hundred to one thousand dollars, while th second year' quite an increase eould be made by propagating vines. Coal, which exists in inexhaustible quantities, will supply all demands for fuel.

Fruits reaclr a delicious maturitv, to which they do not attain in more eastern States, and on account of the purity and dryness of the atmosphere, are never affected with the rot. AVood is cheaper than in Ohio and Indiana, and so is native lumber. The State has the temperature of Virginia, Kentucky and Missouri. SCRAPS. OUR TRIUM- The Salina Herald Fays "Wanthb Two thousand practical farmers and stock growers to i .4 ii in KANSAS ROAD II ANT.

luuutu in oiiitue, UHft. I'lta iieiou e-'uu- ties, and to make frtiines for t.hftinftel vp.s and ICU ItlCilCS diameter and It has been an apnarent fact ever since the assis country- itrv us in developing the finest section of twenty feet high; Elm, ten inches in the in over shone on. The valley-soil i- the hills furnish tho Hnest natural Pas- diameter ano us eiity fert high lute fir 1 TT" 1 two road-- were started, tht the E. D. Pacifie, liaiatBMfr th-micli ITsnttse nr.is nMAl.

is rich WablUt or IlkkorV, eight inches in I ble winter route across the continent. And turage in tue world, and ihero is no opening where a remunerative reward of hsncst industry is more ct. iain." "fes. diam-etec an-d twei.fv-five feet hih Pen' government i sunsidv. tve l-n lit lintlm" nut The New York Tribune extends a very cheerful salutation to a number of young Treasury clerks who have resigned in anticipation of the reduction of the force in the department.

It says: Young gentlemen, MORRIS COUNTY. 14 5 5,200 acres; high broken prairie, gravelly soil. 15 5 7,900 acres rolling prairie, gravelly soil. 14 6 9,500 acres; gently rolling upland prairie, good soil, with water and some timber. 15 6.E, 10,000 acres; on high dividing ridge between head watei-s Neosho river and Clark creek little timber, soil medium quality.

14 7 8,600 acres some valley land witii timber and water, balance fine upland prairie, good" soil. 15 7 1,200 acres; rolling up tne ornerent varieties ot Jvercreens wasb.na -ouhee d. will make an average growth of i THE UIS1TED STATES. I communicated. SHEEP RAISING IN WESTERN KANSAS.

teen to twenty inches in height an nually. This is the richest country in the we congratulate 'ou Y'ou are free A colored firm in Newark. X. having suffered some pecuniary embarrassments recently, closed business, and the senior member gave to the public the following notice "De dissolution of co-parsnip heretofore resisting twixt me aud Moses Jones in de barber profession, am ir.rt.t tF' rit foil lJuriin- wrtin mil Mir world. The accumulated capital of I You no longer croan under the bur CROPS.

Scott and Seamen, on the Saline Head the foi.owini telcrair. from San under date of Deo. inth The President i Overland Central R. R. telegraphs as follows, from salt Lake to-day: I thinli it in vitable.

We niu-t pa-s through this valley and a-u. eessi of fine valleys south, and make connection with the Smoky Hill Route as the practicable winter line as but a hort distance will be passed through deep snow, which we can easily pa-s by covering a small distance, hot the distance and great elevation on U. P. R. R.

are too long to make the crossing practicable. Now let Congress give our road a subsidy, and make a practicable route across the River, in the Western part of Saline Je scriber. Dein what de firm oes must eall on county, have a large and veiy fine Jones, as de firm insolved." Kansas produces from 40 to 112 bushels of corn to the acre. From the British empire may be one third thens of office The free West awaits larger, although it is probable that you Its boundless prairies yearn the results of the United States cen- for your coming with the shovel and BUS in 1870, will make surprising the hoe Better raise a dozen ears revelations but the annual pro- 0f good corn than twist a thousand ducts of the United States are now yards of red tape Happy bovs. Sheep Ranch." They have dem 20 to 60 bushels of wheat, from 30 land prairie, some water and timber, 14 8 3,300 acres gently roll- to 8U of oats.

onstrated that sheep raising, like almost everything else, is profitable ing upland prairie with some timber and water. tax greater tnan tnat oi tne liritisn go and enjoy your freedom, and know "in the western portion of our State. the felicity of that work which brings In tne fall, of 1867, thev drove 300 A PiunriE Ice-Hovse. Make a platform of rails close a big, dry, straw heap cover it a foot deep with straw set crotchet! poles and mako a shed of rails, covering it with straw enough to protect it from the weather. Pack the ice in a circle twelve feet in diameter, and build the pile eighl feet high, very close and snug; then pack it all around with straw, doing it slowly and thoroughly, and finally cover it with six or eight feet of straw on ali sides.

Such a stack will keep ice well. the sweat to your brows and makes sheep trom Ohio, to their farm on the ITEMS. sweet your daily bread Saline River. During the winter, thcirincrease was 160 lambs, of which number they raised 153, and did not FRUITS. Kansas is one of the finest fruit producing regions on the continent.

All kinds of apples, pears peaches, cherries, plums and grapes, usually grown in the west, yield remarkably. Unimproved lands are covered with wild fruits, such as plums, cherries, crab-apples, grapes, strawber- Give a quart of meat daily to each of yonr young animals, an-1 you will soon be praising tbem to your neighbors. A boy who had, happily, read about to be spanked lose a sheep during the winter, 1 The to land for some offense, when he called out iiock was turned to grass on tlie zt 12th empire. On the most moderate calculation, our population doubles every twenty-three years. In the decade immediately preceding the civil war, the ascertained value of property in the country increased more than 125 per cent doubling, therefore, in less than eight years.

At a moderate estimate, the population fourteen years hence will be 00,000,000, and the valuation of property J. Lothrop Moiley. It is said to be a great damage raise two crops a year, and yet farmers do it. One crop is weeds. the A late Kansas paper asks: Why don't some ot our enterprising Yankee farmers gj into the business of, raising hops? Hops jrrow wild in this countrv, and many of day of March at $7 A.

boy 00 per the sum- dogs, do our people gather them from the neighboring i ries. blackberries, rasi iberrirs. rrnrwn- month, and two mer herding. WABAUNSEE COUNTY. l0 S.E, 900 acres little bottom, balance high pasture lands.

11 8 2,000 acres some fine bottom land with timber and water, balance upland prairie. 12 8 2,500 acres some valley land with water and timber, balance upland. 13 8 3,000 acres some valley Land with water and timber, balance rolling upland. 14 8 800 acres rolling up- iand. "TO 9 acres fair up- .1 ti .1 1 nr 7 1 berries, pawpaws and haws.

Messrs. Scott I 15 UO 1-111C1 lil lii' i.uiuuv vi frost, as there is in New York, Michigan, and Wisconsin, where all the hops made use of in the United States are grown. and Seamen sav solemnly, "Pause!" The uplifted hand of the schoolmaster hesitated in mid air. and the boy said "Do not disobey Cardinal Wol-sey's beautiful injunction 'What do you mean?" asked the master. 'Tie replied the boy, that they can aTord raise wool at In England, phosphorus is extracted from guano for making lu.

ifer matches. Many American farmers have made light of guano for seeral years. It is ad to relate, that when mechanics hare land, they gtnerally give it betjer cultivation than farmers; they have more grapes, pears, strawberries ami watermelons, and earlier potatoes and cucumbers. NATIVE WINES. ten cents per pounu, and make mon- R.

II. B. ev. Immense amounts of wild grapes, gathered along the streams through- 1 1 1 1 1 1 Vt .11 i In a German work called '-The History of the Rose," the writer mentions that the largest rose tree known to exist is in the Marine (Harden at Toulon, France. It is of tho species known as the Bunks rose, bearing white flowers.

The branches stretch over a length ot sev-entv-fivo feet high The stem near to the root measures two feet eight inohes in circumference, aud the plant yields fifty thousand roses during the months of April and Mar. A young lady who was rebuked by her mother for kissing her intended, justified herself by quoting the passage, "Whatsoever ye would that men should do unto you, do ye n. n-airie. -Be just and fear not; 1 A bo7 at Lisbon, fired a hay Let all the ends thou aim'st at be thy country's, mow a few days ago to "break up" Thy edf and a jn" JTe was ampiy suc. The boy's end was no longer cessful, and his father will proceed aimed at, to rebuild the barn.

1 1 l) E. acres; some choice rtii "hen the latmrs of the dav are past, let lhe trees were loaded with the rich, good books and newspapers invite the young-dark clusters, and in many instances sters t0 tbc sittins room. boys made six and seven dollars a apv1" keep perfectly when packed with day from the bountiful harvest, pkea0ff mm hungry bottomland, balance high and broken prairies? Ull Ul.LU llltuii ty trftiliWrlriitf.