Rensselaer Union, Volume 9, Number 4, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 October 1876 — Nebraska as She Really Is. [ARTICLE]

Nebraska as She Really Is.

lien who visit Nebraska turn IRinole and ether states, arc astonished at what thay see aa compared with what they have heard. lathis year, 1878, Nebraska has an enormous crop of wheat, barley, cate and rye, and not aura than five per cent, of the oorn baa been lost through the “hoppers,” which peat, the men of asieaoe and those posted say, may never again visit the state. The ridiculous and almost laughable stories that am being circulated ae to the bad condition of the state are without foundation ia foot, being started by parties directly or indirectly interested. The beet thing for the land-hunter to do, is to refuse to listen to these ‘iy*™*.” and examine Nebraska for himself. He will thus be convinced, that with energy and a little capital, he can do twice as well in filming and stock-raising ia Nebraska, as anywhere east of it. It is not by chance that two-thirds of the population es America are found la the latitude of Nebraska. Agriculture forms he hasie of true wealth, cad where agriculture is prosperous there will be a people es manifold resources. It is la this very belt that the intelligence, strength and week es the United States are auriaty found. It is in this latitude only, that we are free from those extremes of heat and cold, whieh go to make forming so precarious elsewhere. , It is in this latitude only, that the Gulf Stream of immigration flows, bringing np rfludly than aaywhsie else. Things in Nebraska have reached *«bedrpek.” Those going in now will got the advantage of the lowest figures, with s certainty of better times sad large advances % the immediate future. 9-3