COST OF CULTIVATION. 331) 



and my tenant places the entire crop at fifty bushels to the 

 acre. 



As to the 



COST OF CULTIVATION 



and production of crops in Kansas, I believe they can be pro- 

 duced with as little labor in this State as in any other State of 

 the Union. One pair of horses and a man can plow and pre- 

 pare the ground and 'tend thoroughly sixty acres of corn. One 

 good team and man, having no hindrance, can work a farm of 

 one hundred and twenty acres, half corn and half Fall wheat, 

 by having help in harvesting each of the crops, and do it all in 

 a good, farmer-like manner. 



THE VALLEY 



lands of this county are good enough to please the most fas- 

 tidious land-seeker. The uplands are well watered, and of 

 superior quality for pasturage. Grazers of large Southern and 

 Western experience say that stock of all kinds put on flesh 

 more rapidly here than either north, west, or south of us. 

 More 



SHEEP 



have been brought into the uplands of the county the past two 

 years than have been kept here previously. Merinos seem to 

 be the favorite sheep, as they herd easier, are equally as healthy 

 as the coarser wooled sheep, and produce more wool. 



STOCK. 



The improved Berkshire is the favorite hog for early mar- 

 ket, and is a cheap and easy feeder. The light Western horse 

 or pony is fast being superseded as a work horse by good, heavy 

 draft horses, Norman Percheron stock being preferred by 

 our best farmers. 



A cross of the Short-Horn and native is looked upon with 

 the most favor, and raisers of fine cattle seem to be as much 

 divided here as in Illinois as to the merits of the Short-Horn 

 and Hereford for beef. 



Thus far in this county we can not claim success m the 

 production of fruit. I have tried from foreign nurseries nearly 



