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The best natural roads are found in Kansas. Eailroads generally 

 convenient; ground moderately undulating; about five hundred and 

 eio-hteen miles of railroad in ruuniug order; climate unsurpassed; 

 no STvamps, no bogs, nor marshes. Air rarified and dry — good for 

 diseased lungs. Average winter only three months. Wheat was 

 sown through the month of December last. Soil from one to 

 twenty feet deep, producing great crops of grass and grain; water 

 and stone are abundant. Wood and coal are sparse, but the 

 State pays you for raising your OAvn wood and making your own, 

 fence. 



Where you can cut from two to two and a half tons of the best 

 hay to the acre. Where you raise from thirty to fifty bushels of 

 corn without tillage, and doubled if well tilled. Where the largest 

 yield of wheat is had over any other State {Patent Office Report). 

 Where all kinds of cereals grow accordingly. Where vegetables 

 are grown in abundance, and the highest price commanded at your 

 door. Where all kinds of fruit are grown at pleasure. Where 

 wild fruit, such as plums, grapes and small fruits are plentiful. 

 Where buffalo and antelope abound, and where small game and fish 

 are had at the expense of trap and fishing line. Where stock-rais- 

 ingr is of the hiofhest order, and all who have followed it for the 

 last five years have become wealthy. 



During the last six years I have spent in Kansas, I have had 

 opportunity of collecting many valuable statistics, as well as getting 

 some substantial facts from experiments. I shall be happy to con- 

 tribute to the interest of any who may wish to migrate to Kansas. 

 I am no agent, nor in the employ of any party to send emigrants 

 to Kansas; but believe it to be a great moral duty I owe to my fel- 

 low man, to trj^ to better his condition. 



Mr. A. S. Fuller read the following paper on 



CULTIVATIOX OF FOREST TEEES. 



Eight years ago, I had the pleasure of reading an essay before 

 this Club, upon the subject under consideration to-day. I then 

 called your attention to the importance of not only preserving 

 those forests which we still possess, but to that of rearing others 

 for future need. The hundreds of letters that I have received 

 since that time, asking for further information upon the subject, 

 have convinced me that our people are slowly but surely awaking 

 from that careless indifference which has in many instances not only 

 permitted, but aided, in the destruction of some of our most noble 



