Rensselaer Union, Volume 11, Number 22, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 February 1879 — Another Kansas Letter. [ARTICLE]

Another Kansas Letter.

Special correspondence to Tnr. Union. McPherson, Kansas, January 21j 1879. —Not long since I read in The Union an extract from a letter written by a gentleman in Kingman county, this state. I think that gentleman was either homesick or dlsiippoinlfd in finding that he could not live out here without working. It is true that Kingman county is a little behind the average, being all new. We do not expect much from first crops. I came to McPherson county five years ago last fall, and am very well satisfied with my location and am doing very well. Tho Kingman county gentleman thinks that it is not best tO’Bome into Kansas wi.h less than S4OO in money. Be that iu it may when I got here I had less than S3OO, but the property I am occupying, all made since I came here, could not be bought for $3,000 ; and, best of all, lam out of debt. But when I came here I did not, sit down and do nothing for six months but curse the country and then tear up and movelrack, but I went to work and stuck to it. Our Kingman county neighbor estimates the corn crop of some of his neighbors at five bushels an acre. Very good. The first year we came here every giben thing we tried to raise was taken by the grasshoppers. They whipped us but did not conquer. My past year’s labor shows 775 bushels of wheat harvested on 25 acres, worth 50 to 60 cents a bushel. I also planted 40 acres of corn, and cultivated it better witji less work than one can cultivate 15 acres in the northern part of old Jasper county in Indiana; 21 acres of this was second sod; I had an average yield of 40 bushels an acre on the whole. Some think the winters are as cold here as in Indiana; but if this is true, it is also true that they are not nearly so long. McPherson