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are free from foot rot, and no scab is seen in Kansas. They require 

 close shelter from the rain and winds of winter. Prairie hay makes a 

 very rich feed for them, and they keep fat on it during cold weather. 

 But this grass should be cut before it is frost-bitten, better in July 

 than later. In newer neighborhoods it is necessary to herd the fold 

 every night, in consequence of prairie wolves. Dairying would also 

 pay well in Kansas, and first-class butter sells readily at thirty or forty 

 cents. The prevailing grass is the blue-joint, and early in the season 

 no other is so fat-producing. Later it dries up, and Kentucky blue is 

 being introduced to take its place as autumn forage. 



Mr. F. D. Curtis — The facts are, that a man with proper notions of 

 life, and with a disposition to be industrious and frugal, can better 

 himself by going west. He can go to Ellsworth county, about 238 

 miles west of Kansas city, and for five dollars an acre buy a farm of 

 the Kansas Pacific railroad, or fur three dollars an acre in Russell 

 county, just beyond, locate himself on a farm anywhere within twenty 

 miles of the railroad, with six years to pay for it in animal payments 

 of one-fifth at a time. I consider the climate there as good as any- 

 where in our whole country. It is a buffalo region, and covered with 

 a rich carpet of this luxuriant grass, and well adapted to grazing, and 

 not unfitted for butter and cheese making, as there is already estab- 

 lished there, near Hilton's Station, a dairy of thirty-two cows, where 

 this industry is a success. At this point I saw recently the largest 

 growth of trees from the seeds I ever saw, and so said Mr. Douglas, 

 of "Wakegon, 111., an experienced nurseryman. Land can be secured 

 under the Homestead act with an expense of only fourteen dollars, 

 and five years 1 occupation, to the amount of eighty acres, within the 

 limits of the railroad grant, for any citizen, and 160 acres for soldiers. 

 While it is true that the thermometer rises high in this section, there 

 is always a breeze, and one does not feel the heat as much here as in 

 New York, at least such was my experience during one of the hottest 

 days of the season. Kansas is modeled after Massachusetts, and con- 

 tains a superior class of people, who are determined to lift theirs to 

 the top notch among States. 



Farming in Oregon. 

 Mr. Charles Barrett, "Wester, Oregon, sends the following commu- 

 nication : The locality of the point of which I write is in latitude 46° 16' , 

 and 210 miles east of Portland, bordering the Blue Mountains skirt- 

 ing the basin made by the Columbia river. This basin is about 100 

 miles wide at this point. Near the center rolls the Columbia, from 



