1883 .] 
AMERICAN AGRICULTURIST. 
427 
^Important Publishers’ 
Announcement. 
At no period since its organization have the 
Company publishing the American Agriculturist and 
the American Agriculturist itself, been in so pros¬ 
perous a condition as at the present time. The 
great improvements of the paper, and the largely 
increasing advertising patronage, speak for them¬ 
selves, while the sales of our publications, nearly 
doubled within a few years, tell their own story. 
Notwithstanding the great success and eircula- 
lation of the American Agriculturist, we propose to 
make still further improvements, and to extend 
the circulation of the paper over the entire Western 
country. To this end we are enlarging our staff 
of editorial writers, and perfecting arrangements 
for increasing the circulation, so that everybody 
west of Chicago will not only feel that the paper 
is adapted to their wants, but that it can be had 
without difficulty. We have secured the services 
of an editor beyond the Missouri, in the person of 
Prof. S. R. Thompson, Dean and Professor of 
Agriculture of the Nebraska State Agricultural 
College, — thoroughly familiar with all the 
wants and requirements of the great West. Many 
years of residence and agricultural experience, 
have admirably fitted him to give just such 
counsel and advice as our Western readers may 
require. 
Other announcements of new writers will be 
made in the October issue. All of our subscribers 
and others, who may desire to engage in the work 
of increasing our subscription list, will please im¬ 
mediately address us. The campaign is now open¬ 
ing, and we hope to enlist thousands of co-workers 
In every State in the Union. We greet you. 
Middle ftansas.— Mr. H. C. McCarthy, 
one of our old Kansas subscribers, living at Wreford, 
Davis Co., informs us, in a personal visit, that the crops 
all through that portion of Kansas, are looking remark¬ 
ably well, with the exception of corn, which is about a 
month behindhand. Notwithstanding its backwardness, 
however, it promises a full yield. The farmers generally 
through Kansas are feeling well at the prospect of an 
abundant crop. M my of those going to Kansas from the 
older States, arc buying improved property, as the best 
of the wild land is generally taken. In Davis County, 
every acre of Government and R. R. land has been taken. 
The wheat crop has been unusually good in all this sec¬ 
tion. Mr. McCarthy mentioned one farm of over two 
hundred acres of wheat, which yielded fully thirty-eight 
bushels to the acre. Land is steadily advancing in value, 
and improved farms are now selling at from twenty-five 
to thirty dollars per acre, and wild land in counties 
further West, for grazing pnrposes, is held by the Rail¬ 
roads at from four to six dollars per acre. Sheep have 
proved a success in this portion of Kansas; whereas, the 
prevailing impression ten years ago was that they could 
not lie successfully raised there, herds of sheep are now 
scattered all the way from Salina to Denver. A few 
years ago it was thought that fruit could not be raised to 
advantage in Kansas; now, however, in this portion of 
the State, all fruits have proved successful, especially 
apples. The apple crop promises to be very heavy this 
year. Last winter the Kansas Legislature passed an act, 
making the uniform rates of faro on all rail roads of the 
State three cents per mile; this decided reduction of fare 
has proved gratifying to the farmers, enabling them to 
travel back and forth. There has likewise been a reduc¬ 
tion in freights east to Chicago, which has also proved 
very advantageous to the farmers. 
STRAWBERRIES 
if planted in Sept’er will give a fine 
crop next June. Bidwell— the finest 
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m THE LIVING- EXPENSES 
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BAND CATALOGUE, t 
for 1883, 5.00 pages, klO Engravings 
of instruments, Suits, Caps Belts, 
Pompons, Epaulets, Cap-Lamps, 
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