408 PAWNEE COUNTY, KANSAS. 



The cans, when filled with milk, are submerged in water, which 

 can be kept cool in Summer and warm in Winter ; that is, above 

 freezing point. Cream rises readily in twelve hours. 



POULTRY. 



Poultry does well here. The chicken I like best is a cross 

 of the Brown Leghorn and common fowl. They make good 

 layers, and are good for table use. My hen house is a sod 

 building, fourteen by twenty feet, covered with coarse prairie 

 hay. This is a warm house for their Winter use, and cool for 

 Summer. I ship my surplus butter, eggs, and dressed poultry 

 to the mining regions of Colorado, where they command a good 

 price. 



SOIL. 



The land here does not need draining, as it does in the 

 Eastern States. It is of a dark, deep, and somewhat sandy 

 nature. Water is absorbed or taken in readily, the sub-soil 

 being of a porous nature. I am seldom troubled by surface 

 water. T^he land is prairie, slightly undulating, and retains 

 moisture, well. It is easily subdued from its wild state. Good 

 wells are abundant. I have two wells, one seventeen, the other 

 nineteen feet deep. They aFord plenty of water for all pur- 

 poses. I have never known a well to fail in this country. 



THE CLIMATE. 



Extreme heat or cold is never of long duration here. Our 

 Winters are short and moderate. I know of no country where 

 a beginner can start in the world more easily, or with more 

 certainty of success than in Southwestern Kansas, any where 

 along the great Arkansas Valley. Homesteads are still to be 

 had here, and improved land sells from four to twelve dollars 

 per acre. I was raised in Central Ohio. Lived thirty years in 

 Southeastern Iowa, and during the late war I traveled over 

 most of the Southern States, but have never found a more 

 desirable place to live in, or one that suited me so well as 

 Southwestern Kansas. 



