Rensselaer Republican, Volume 27, Number 17, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 December 1894 — FROM HUNGRY KANSAS [ARTICLE]

FROM HUNGRY KANSAS

Editor Republican: Please tell my oid comrades of Post 84, G. A. R. that we old boys did :n our very sou s rejoice out herein niiogry Kansas when we received the news of the elections. Our country is safe; we know it is safe in Union men’s care. As to our living condition; we have not had rain enough to sprout most of the wheat sown since Sept. 20th. You would think we must need rain to make stock water. Such is not the case. Generally in this country when it gets cool and freezes a little, water raises in the dry creeks, and where they were dry three weeks ago, they are running today. Old settlers say the ground is the dryest and the wheat crop prospect is the poorest they ever saw it in December. This country for 25 miles west of here is mostly settled as thickly as inmost parts of Jasper Co., Ind. I took a trip twenty-five miles north east in September, to a little town called A hoi on the Rock Island R. R. Just think of the nicest prairie and mce farm houses and barns and groves and orchards, and corn fields as far as the eye can see, no f ences, no corn on the stalk;, it was one of lhe prettiest pictures I ever saw but it made me most heart sick to see such fine farming country with plenty of people and plenty of stock but very little grain or garden vegetables as far as the eye can see. On low land near streams of water there is some corn, and most farmers will find ways to winter over. At Athol, Agre and Cedarville Dr. Golden, [of Smith Center, has provided cribs and has been buying corn two or three years, storing it. He had 105,000 bushels. I', cost him from 20 to 33 cents per bushel. He hired It shelled and sold it back to farmers, at from 50 to 60 cents per bushel. The cobs at ten cents per 100 lbs. It is about, if not all gone back to the people. Think of it; how many of the poor curse the wealthy who take care of all the necessaries of life to keep it in the country where people so often need it. Our first snow commenced with warm north wind which kept misting and snowing all day the 10th, and all night. How we enjoy it. We are as glad to see it rain or snow as Indianians are to see it stop raining. Yours, the old milkman

R. B. WILSON.

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