20 INFORMATION FOR EMIGRANTS. 



be disease and suffering among the stocky but farm industries will be- 

 retarded. * 



A few extracts from county returns to the board will convince any 

 one that the above report stated the case very mildly. I leave the- 

 names of counties blank, as they represent no worse condition than 

 many others not named : f 



county. 517 persons in need of help; few can 



find employment for themselves or teams to earn any part of a living. 



county. Probably one fourth of our people will need help of 



some kind. Large fall immigration now coming in. 



county. Commissioners state that about 500 families will need' 



assistance during the winter. Many of the people need present assist-- 

 r ance, their crops having entirely failed. 



county. I think about two thirds will have to be assisted to 



some extent. 



county. The county clerk reports 600 people as requiring 



assistance ; a good many leaving, and more will go without assurance ■ 

 of aid. 



: county. Three fourths of the inhabitants actually destitute ; 



need immediate aid. 



county. 750 individuals will need assistance; crops a failure ;. 



nothing to feed domestic animals ; about one fourth of our people will 

 return to the older States. 



county. It is stated that from 1,000 to 1,200 persons will need 



assistance. 



county. 469 families, averaging four persons each, will need 



assistance Not less than one half will require to be sup- 

 ported until another crop can be made. 



• county. At least one half must have help or suffer materially. . 



county. Having traveled over the largest part of the county, 



I find that about three fourths of our people are almost entirely destitute 

 of food, fuel, and clothing. 



= — county. 1,350 in destitute circumstances that the county wilt 



be unable to provide for. Agents have been sent East, with indorse- 

 ments of county societies, to solicit aid. 



county. 600 families in this county in need of help 



People say they will suffer before increasing taxes, which are already too 

 heavy to bear. 



The reports to the Kansas Board of Agriculture for 1876 are but a 

 repetition of the quotations above from the report of 1874, and the 

 extracts quoted on page 21 from the Atlantic Monthly, showing the 

 destitution in 1S79, demonstrate that these are not exceptional years; 

 but that the emigrant to Kansas and the Northwest must calculate on 

 encountering such years very frequently. The eastern limit of the: 



* Third Annual Report Kansas Board of Agriculture, page 53., 

 tSame Report, pages 17 to 52. 



