Rensselaer Union, Volume 5, Number 50, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 September 1873 — Nebraska Products. [ARTICLE]

Nebraska Products.

The New York Economist says: “During the period embraced between the years 1865atfd 1872, Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Michigan, Wisconsin and "Missouri, alt 1: oi i gligro wi n g immensely in population and in general productiveness, felloffin their relative yield of wheat; while Minnesota increased its production from 3,000.009 to 15,000,000: bushels; lowa from 13,700,000 to 20,600,000; Kansas from 200,000 to 2,000,000; and Nebraska 166,000 to 2,500,000.” The wheat yield of Nebaska then has increased faster than that of any other State. Nor is it surpassed in the yield per acre more than a trifle over one bushel (1.2) by liny of our thirty-seven States. The frontiersman’s first crop finds a home market j at high prices among the white-topped ! wagonsj each holding a family, which I are always pressing to the front in 1 order to get the. first pick of homesteads. South of the Platte, wheat need not be carried far for flouring, for tlie inill privileges not only on the three Blues* but on many of their tributaries make mills follow close on the heels of pioneers. forms the bulk of freight exported from Nebraska, whether by rail or steamer. But the favorite crop of most farmers in southern Nebraska is Indian corn. This truly golden grain is the first crop on new breaking. 11 is .sometimes sent with profit to California, oftener to Sait Lake and Colorado. But it goes East in larger quantities, though almost always stowed in bags of hogskin and cowhide which have been discovered to hold ten times-more than any canvass bags ever woven. High freights also arc thus dexterously dodged. Before the close of May -100 ears es cattle had gone east from Nebraska City, this season. The lirst co: n raised on the Big Blue at Beatrice in 1858 was sold at Ft Kearney at tivc dollars in gold a bushel. Such fabulous prices soon vanished, but farmers still abound who, buying land of the Burlington and Missouri River Railroad, have found it paying for itself and their improvements on.it by the crops of a few years. A- 11. Vance, of Camden, Nebraska, writes to the State Journal that 33 acres vdljeh-he has tilled only two-years have adready_paid for.eiglity acres which lie bought at ten dollars an acre. Edward Jones, of Pleasant Hill, on harvesting, his first crop, estimated that it alone would fully pay for h inland, if fed out to. stock.— Put he failed to obtain hogskin and -eewlnde.bttg*>en<>ugh-io hold his corn. However, he was not di.sarqxnnteff.— Few men can be as lucky as Ed. Joifiis, but it must be a good thing to live near a man so lucky. His luck may be cateliing.

PROF. J. D. BUTLER.