0 THE TIMES,;. NEW BLOOM EI ELI), PA., MARCH 5, 1878. pC IJloomfidi) inus. HOUSE, FARM AND GARDEN. We invite, communication from nil ncrnon who are lntt.resteii lu matters properly belotiKiuic to tula de partment. Barms and Free Homes In Kansas. A writer In the Chicago fimet has given the following relative to the fer tility of Kansas lands : Let the tnvveler throughout Kansas who from twenty-five to thirty years ago was familiar with the facts of agri culture in the now great states of Ohio, Indiana, and Michigan, with their pre sent large population of wealthy farmers, contrast the comparatively slow rewards of years of severe toll required in clearing those rich farms and in re alizing their enhanced values, with the magical results of three or rive years of well-directed effort in this young and marvelous state. I am not old enough to fall into the category which the Ko man poet describes as " laudator' acti tempnrit," praiser of the times gone by, but the American Farmer in the older States worked witli an energy and .will which, if the tillers of the soil cm the far western prairies would moderately emulate, we should bear less of the ter rors of the grasshopper pest or other ob struction to agricultural profit. Ohio justly boasts of the singular fer tility in her soil. In that state thegrain product per square mile is three and a half times that of France, about three times that of Australia, and nearly twice as great as that of Great Britain. If the comparison be extended to include population, and three European coun tries named raise only a fifth as many bushels of grain to eacli inhabitant as does Ohio. The following table insti tutes a similar comparison between Ohio and Kansas, the population given for Ohio being that of INTO, and that of Kansas being for 1875. The figures In clude only the organized counties. At the same time it must be remembered that field culture has been undertaken to but a very slight extent in many of the counties included in the urea given. The crop in each state is for the year 1875. Ohio. Kansas. Area square miles :w,w4 66,441 Population 2VTft,S bh.f.f! Crop ot 1S76 bushels. .. . 4i),Stir,()nO llO.olO.SKil Population per sip mile.. 0i8 P.S3 Crop per sq. mile bus.... 3,760 2,U3 Cropperinltabitant bus 60 220 Figures do not lie, but they often . as tonish. They certainly make a surpris ing exhibit in the above table. Among other objects of personal in quiry I have interested myself to collect certain data In regard to SALINE COUNTY. Sal in a, its county seat, is one hundred and eighty-five miles west from Kansas City, on the line of the Kansas VacKic railroad. The General Land oflice of said Company located here. Settlement and agriculture in Saline and McPIierson counties practically commenced with the entrance of the Swedish colonies in 1808. They purchased from the land grant of the Kansas Pacific railway twenty-five thousand acres oft he land on the liberal terms of credit offered by that company. They have paid in full for their lands and have become a rich settlement. Their general appearances, as I have seen them in Salina, is that of farmers of snug means. They are well clothed, their horses, wagons, and harness of the best and best kept. In personal appearance they are like the members of the wealthy Aumna society near Iowa City, in Iowa. From these original settlements Saline county, like its neighbor, Dickinson county, has when its population is considered, be come with astonishing rapidity one of the richest and most productive counties in the State. At Salina are three eleva tors and three flouringmills. From the railroad depot there were shipped during the year 1876, as exhibited by the books in the auditor's office of the Kansas Pacific Hallway company, 34,181,570 pounds of the following named agri tural products; Of wheat there was shipped 2(19,706 bushels ; of corn (i6,0(K) bushels ; of flour, meal, and bran, 1,900 tons; of broom corn, 2,457 tons, the latter a very valuable product, worth $90 perton. There were also considerable shipments of live stock and other pro ducts. Of the products thus shipped, the two most valuable, that of wheat and broom corn, aggregate a value of $500,000. Saline county has a present population of about 11,000. ELLSWORTH, ELLIS, AND RUSSELL counties west of here offer, I should say; inducements to settle on cheap farms scarcely equaled elsewhere in the State. In them the lands are fully as favorable for wheat production as those of Saline county. In each of them limestoneand gypsum abound, the latter a very valua ble plaster for wheat fields, and efficient ly retaining moisture. A considerable portion of intrinsically the most valuable unoccupied lands in this State and of those most desirable as being continuous to market are included in the LAND fill ANT OF TI1E KANSAS PACIFIC HA1LWAY. The competition in thesaleof railroad lands belonging to the grants lying west of the Missouri river is remarkably ac tive, and the companies are exercising great liberality to purchasers. The present year will doubtless witness a largely increased activity in the sale of Kansas lands. Her magnificent Cen tennial exhibit is reawakening inquiry and stimulating personal visits to the young and lusty state which so success fully challenged comparison with her other sisters at Philadelphia. Accepting no man's judgement for my own, and speaking from observation. 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