Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, July 3, 1892, Page 12

| ¢ E— 12 I —— e BOUNTIFUL BUFFALO! Where Corn and Currants Thrive Equally Well with Wheat and Flax, A COUNTY THAT NEVER KNEW A FAILURE Refusing Fifty for Land Bought a Few Years Ago for Four. INDUSTRIES ABREAST OF AGRICULTURE Cotton Marufacture on the Very Steps of King Oorn's Throne. MERCHANT, FARMER, MECHANIC PROSPER Kk Cou Nebra ty Can Yield What an —Farms that Averago Never Less ho than Two Thousand a Year Clear Profit Lo the Attentive Tiller, Of the many counties in Nebraska which have made rapil and substantial progress in tho vast ten yoars probably no county has advanced moro rapidly or been improved more substantially than Buffalo. It is bounded on the north by Custer and Sher- man counties, east by Hall county, on tho south by tho Platte river and on the west by Dawson county. The soil 13 a rich, black loam, with a heavy clay subsol, which per- mits it to withstand an aoundanco of rai fall or a long continued drouth without serious results, as the history of the past domonstrates, a failuro of crops baving uever beon experienced in this county. The dry season of two yoars ago was the soverest tost over oxpericuced, yet Buffalo county coutributed soveral hundred bushels of grain to her neody neighbors, vesides pro- viding for the more unfortunute within her own borders. The county 1s thirty-seven milos lonz, east and west, and twenty-four wilos wide, north and soutn, containing a httle over 5i5,000 acres. It is peculiarly favored with stroams, the Loup running through the northern’ tier of townships, Wood river ruuning through the center of the county, and the Platte forming the southern boundary. ‘These aro fed by many lesser streams ~and crecks, so that there are but fow sections which are not supplied with running water. With the exception of a small tractin the north- eastern part of the county and another i the northwestern, almost every acre of ground can bo successtully eultivated. The Wood river vatloy is osp rtilo, but as tho surface of - the county adunlly from this valley into the the Loup and Plaute ivis dificult which is the most desirable. County O Early Days. The county began to be settled first near what is now the village of Sbelton. Governor Bovd and bis brothers Joseph and Samuel and Patrick Walsh, now assistant adjutant gen- oral at the Soldiers Homo in Grand [sland, were amonyg the early pioneers, commng hero 1n 1850 and '60. Buffulo county was organ- ized in Jauuary, 1570, and_Governor Butier appointed the following officers: Treasurer, Henry Dugdale; clerk, Martin Slattery; pro- bate juage, Patrick Walsh; commissioners, Thomas K. Wood, Kd Oliver and Samuel Royd. These commissioners appointed John Ohiver sheniff and assessor, ‘I'he first eloction was held in Octobor, 1870, Mr. Walsh was elected probato judgo und p pointed county superintendent by the com- amissioners, The clork and treasurer-elect failed to qualify and cach of the oflicers ap- pointed oy the board to fill theso vacancies avpointed Mr. Walsh as his deputy. As the work was uot very heavy, Mr. Walsh per- Zormed the duties of county treasurer, clerk, probate judie and superintondent of schools all at the same umo and so far as we can_ learn gave satisfaction in oach position. Whother he drew four sala- Ti08 Or HOL WO Cannot say The first lund patent was issued to Joseph Boyd in 1366, and was granted for military service, It conveyed 160 acres of land half'a mile from the presout village of Gibbon. The first tax list was made out in 1570, and contains thirty-eignt names. The highest sssessment is returuod by the Boyd brothers und amounts to §15 The Union Pacitic Railroad company wus assessed §13,762,10, and the total asses mentamounted to $14,- 597.06. The tax list for 1801 shows the valua- tion of real estato to be §2,012,5%0; personal property, §%54050; railroad and telegraph, Fi54,705.47. There are 107 9-10 miles of rail- road now in the county, divided botween the various lines, returnea by the state auditor as follows: Union Pacitic main line, 38 19-100 ieys of 1 decide anization wiles; Omaha & Republican Valley, 19 -100; Grand Isiend & Wyoming Contral, 60-100; B, & M 6 16-100; Kearney & Black Hills, 25 7-100. Property, Keal and Personal, There are cleven towns and several ship- ping stations located along these roads, aud four postoftices scattered through the county wway from raiiroads, ‘The county’s assessed value of real and per- sonal property, outside of the rairoads, is supposed to about one-seventh of the netual value, This would give a real value of §19,374,510. ‘There are eight national and aine state banks in the county, with a capital of over §U0,000 and a por capita deposiy of & little over #30, the pobulation of tho county being wbout 25,500. Tnere are 117 school aistricts in Buffalo county, with 121 schoolliouses and 150 teachers. = Mr. N. P. McDonald looks after the county’s edu- cational iuterests, and 13 & very oficiont ofti- cer, Farm lands are worth from $10 1o $50 per acre, but the cheaper land is boing rap- idly taken, aud there is more breaking oeing done in the county this year than has been done before in five or six years, As would naturally be expected, the first settlers locatod in the eastérn part of the county, but us soon as the B. & M. formed ® junction with the Union Pacifie at Kearnoy, tho town of Koarney Junction be- wan to grow rapidiy, and in u shory time was Tar aheud of the older settloments. The county seat tvus first located at Gibbon, but in 1874, after o bitter fight, it wus voted to remove the sume to Kearney The rairoad companies offerod to donato & block of ground and crect building if the county commissioners would locate the county oftices on tho south side of tho track. The offer was accepted, and the site has been used for counly purposes ever since. In 1857 the work of 1he county hud grown so that 1t could not be satisfactorily conducted in the old building, aud the board of supor- Visors votod to bulld a new court house, and tho contract for th present large and com- modious building was wwarded to W, Scott of Kearnoy. ‘The building comploted and furnished cost §00,000, is an ornament to tho city, nud an indication of the prosperity existing in oue of the best counties o tho state. State 1 il Sehool, In the winter of 1870 the state legislature approvriated $10,000 for tho purpose of build 1ng & Reform schoul. ‘The citizens of Kear- uey bousht & quartor-section northwest of town and offered it to the state for that purpose. Tho offer was accontod, and o lurge building was erccted on the brow of a hill commandiug a fine view of the Plutto river. aud also l00king down upon wOUNR, srowlng and energetic Kearuey. 3inco then a barn, granary, five family suildings and ! added. Oun the 15th of March last, all ihe girls who bad been sout 1o this schoot were transferred to the Girls Industrial ichool at Genova, and there are now 200 boys At this fnstitutiol t On the farm worked in connection with the ichool there nre now in the neighovortood of Thirty acres have 150 acres under plow. 2000 put into oats, seven acres into corn, \bout forty acres in various kinds of garded iruck, and oighty sores into sugar Phere are 50,000 cabbage plunts and * jomato plants now set out. Itaaishe luoe, ouious, olc., are set out at intervals About Lwo weoks apart, 80 us to have thom ming on for use during the eutire season, Some idea of the amount necessary 1o satisty 00 hupgrey boys may be bad from the state- aent that it tukes 2,000 radishos aud two aad of land lyig o dopurtment” building huve A half bushels of set onions, after they are cleaned and trimmed, to make one meal. Rut while a great deal of time and attention Is de voted to gardening, experienco has demon straied that the state is gainer by making a specialty of the sugar beet. Last v their crop neited them $28 per acrs, after deduc ine all exponse for seed and froight. Since then Mr. Smith, who has charge of the acri- cultural work of the school, has given a great | by electricits, The huge motor1s run by a | deal of thought and study to their cultiva- | spocial wire aad thy scrvice 15 most satis tion, and he believes that this year the in- [ factory. Mr Bartlett in spoakinz of the comp will be av least 95 per cent greater. | service said: ‘‘I'his is tne only flour mill in Tho state has recently purchased a new | tho World run by electricity. and thore is no | sugar-beot driil which plants theseed ia rows | powor like it.” The mill hasa capacity of | eighteen inches apart and twenty pounds of | 200 barrels per day, but the presant output seed to the acre. Tho ground is plowed ten | is only about eiz barrols. ‘This repro- or twalva inches deop (the deeper the bet- | sents 40) bushels of wheat. They nave ter), and the sead 1s drilled in onc-half or | shipped several cars ol flour to Livernool, three-quarters of an inch acep. | Kngiand, but their sucplus is now <ent into | The dnil is followed by o farm | the southern scates. I'hey also grind from | roller, and the ground 18 rolled per- | fifty to 100 bushels of corn into meal and fectly smooth, After the beots have come | 8,000 to 5,000 pounds of feed per day, Tho up sufliciuntly they are thoroughly cultivated | officers aro K. L. Downiug, president; W, and perfoctly frec from weeds, Mr. [ C. Tillson, troasurer; John J. Bartlott, Kept Sioith s beon highly complimented by ox- perts in sucar beet culture, and parties de. | siriug to start in this industry will do well to correspond with him or visit the state farm. Reason for Big Returns, Auother growinz industry at the school is pickhiug and cannig, Last year they put up over 3,000 bottles of grated horseradisnh and pick the product of tfour acres of cucumoers, North of the wmain building torec acres are devoted to grapes and black- berries. The Alvira and Concord grapoes and | Schueider blackberry are the principai vari- | eties now set out, South of the school build- iugs and between the road and canal Mr. Stmith has had sot out five double rows of | colery with 1,200 plants in each double row, | making 6,000 plants for early use. The variety set out is the white plume,” 1The s0il hero is peculiarly adapted to the raising of this delicaey, ana the canal furnishes water for irrigating purposes, which is quite un essential feature in the culture of celery. Alougside of tho celery is a patch of cauli- flower, containing 3,000 plunts, all looking fresh and thrifty, This year the school has fivo acres of cucumbers, which are being raised for the cbraska Seed company of Omaha. The question 18 sometimes asked, *'Why does the industrial school raise so wich more and better garden truck than anywhere else in the county?’ The unswer sometimes i8: “They have an army up | theer to take care of it but Mr. Smith says that is not the true reason, as the amount cultivated is only in propor- tion to the Lelo: that oue reason is because the land is well and firmly rolled, and auothor because itis frequently and ' hor- | oughiy cultivaled. Land rolled as soon as | the seed is in retains the moistare and | wurmth and seads generate botter and faster; | then, when the erop is up, a freaueut and thorough stirring of tho soil brings the mois- turo nearer the surface even in the arest | 1sons, and the ground does not becomo baked und packed. “Oue trouble with farmers in Nebraska,” says Mr. Smitn, *is that land is cheap and thoy try ‘to farm all creation.’ As a result, much of their time, strength and crops are lost.” Two years and a half awo tho fish commis- sioner put some bass, pike and pickerel 1n one of the sehool’s fish pouds, und in another | pot: orman carp. A yoar axo the carp were transferred to_ anothor pond and somie of them weighea five pounds each. It is qaite probable that by this tumo they will weigh at least eight pounds. “The agricultural aeparvment of the school, as a department, is much more than self-sus- taining. Itis evena sourco of revonue to the state. One other improvement being made oo the farm this yoar is in redeeming a lagoou coutaining about ten acres of land and making it tillable. ‘This is voing dono by a ditch which Mr. Smith has had cut from the heretofore wet piece, through the ridge on one side and running 'the water off into the sewer drain. ‘I'he ditch will per- haps use nalf an acre, but will make avail- able ten acres which is worth wmuch more than the time occupied in digging. Enterprising Kearnoy, The city of Kearney, as it is today, con- tains 10,000 inhabitauts. It is located on the main line of the Uniou Pacific railroad mia- way between Boston and San Irancisco— 1,733 1m1les from either point. The citizens are largely Americans, many coming from the New England s Ouo of tho princi- pal features which has brought it intona- tional notice is its unique, never failing and mageiticent water power. The water is brought from the Platte river, seventeen wiles north of west from town by means of u canal twenty-five feet wido and five feet deep. There re two reser- voirs, or lakes, along tho lme of the canal and oue at its eastern terminas in the uorthwestern part of the city, This is tho smaliest of the tarce, and its surtace covers an area of about forty acres. A power house costing $10,000 has been built on the edge of the luke, sud the water has a fali of 70 feet 1to the waste-weir below. While tho water for the canal 15 drawn from tho Plutte rivel, it is u fact tuat tho bed of the river may bo ary aud yet there will be plenty of wuter in the canal. This 1s caused by never failing body of water under tho bed of the river, and it 1s this second strata of water which furnishes a coatinuous supply. There are four turbine wheols in the powor houso of B5U-horsepower cach, and these run the large dynamos from which 1s generated tho electricity running all over the city, pro- ducing light and power. But if Kearney is noted for anything more than her water power it is for her cotton mill. The miil 1s built near the second lako in the canal about two miles west of Ceutral avenue, Tho building is 450 feet long, 100 fect wide, two stories high ana contains 4,000,000 bricks. Tho articles of incorpora tion were filed July 3, 1500, and the incor porators were James Cumnock, G Marston Whitin, George A. Draper, Goorge W. Cumnock aua Honry i baker, sapital- ists and manufacturars in Massachusetts, but the mill is nevertheless a product of Kearney push, pluck and perseveranco, Part of the machinery has alrondy bees tried and tested and found perfect. «One hundred bales of cotton will be here soon after, if not before, this articlo is in typo aud stored in the large warahouse. Ono bale of cotton has already beoa received and the time and expense iuvolved in its dotivery was not any greater than it would huve been to lay it down at the eastorn mills. About 300 hands will be employed in the mill at first, and to accommodute "somo of them forty houses have been built near the mill. A starch and shurt factory are the next buildiugs to be orectod and run 1n councction with the cot- tou mill, Kenrnoy's Ciann & Company, In 1858 o company was organized and a canning and pickling factory was ouilt, The building is 70x100 feet on the ground, three stories high ana provided with sheds and storeroows, The years 1850 and 1840 wore hard yours for a ‘young industry of this nature, but last year tho company aid o ®ood and protitable business., I'nére were put up aud shipped from this factory last season 192,000 2-1b. cans of corn, 144,000 E cans of tomutoes, 72000 b, caus of paus, aud 500 vurrels, or 1,500 bushols, | of pickles. During tho canuing season, aud in one day 600 bushels of tomatoes were canned. ~The vinegar manufacturoa is o pure articie, made from corn, rye and barloy. ‘o capacity is 300 barrels per annum. Lust year D. M, Stocie & Co. of Omaha handlod the entiro product of the plant, From pres- ent iudications the output this yoar will be doable what it was last. The ofticors of thy company wre I, L. Huston, president and genoral manager, a0a Jokn ¥, Huston, seo- retary. In ihe east part of toy railrosa rack 18 o lavgo which 1s paintod “Kearney Oat Meal Come pany." Au oatmesl company was organized and'the builaing commenced about two years axo, but Lho stockuolders were mostly, if not und closo 1o the ed building upou all, furmers without any experience in suel mattors, and for want of proper manage- ment the enterprise wus o failure, 'ho Lor part of lust yoar & new comy BNV Was or- ganizea with a paid-up capital of $14,000, and i January Mr. R M. Ranki ox-county | olerk, was elected manager, Me. Iankin gave tho company his best efforts and care- Tul uttention nud the plant made money from 1ts start. ‘The latest and most 1mproved | machinery was bought uud the mill has & cavacity of soventy-five barrols par day. A Iarke quantity of the meal is consumed in | this county. and some is shipped Lo Colorado, Utah and Wusbington. The company has o cooperage in connection with the mill aud makes all the barrels used. In the southwest part of town is the new plow factory The bullding s or brick, 50x b feet on the zround and one story high, The plow 10 be wanufacturod 1s e Hodg- son - patent, and distributing poluts buve ~ miroddy boon established in the surrounding states. Iu addition w the completo plow & spocialty will be made of soparato pieces for repairs, The shop is | | east and North Platte on the west, and deal- THE OMAHA DAILY BE AN JE: SUND@ X e ——— e e uRdor the manazsment of Mr. W. M. Konn | of $16,000: G. W, formerly of Omaha, Milligan secrotare.V Kunn Bros. have quite | Another manufacturing indastry of which | a larse foundry A8@*machine shop, tura out Koaraoy 1s proad is the Kearney flouring mill. Tho mill hns been in successful opera- tion for avsut fivn yearsand 11s products have always beon of the bost. [t was first managament per to run Fun by finds it more o steam power but the nveniont and secrotary aud manager. Municipal aad Indastrial Features, The brickmaking industrv has wiyen em- ployment to a large numboer of hands each season for soveral years, but, this year more will bo burnt than evor before, dick” Hibbard, as he is familiarly called, has recently put'in what is known as the closure continuous kiln. 1t is composed of twelve chambers, each chambar burning 50,000 brick. ‘I'here is only one larger kiln in'the Unitod States than Mr, Hibbard’s, and that is in California. Ho employs twenty-five lands and 8xpacts to make 6,000, - 000 brick this season. He uiroady bas ordors for nearly that many. ‘This yard occupies four acres of ground and the clay is of the finest quality. Mr. Hibbard intends putting tn two mora kitus, one for making paving brick and ono for prossed brick. Mr. A. S, Hurley has a brickyard near Mr. Hibbard's, and turns cut a vory fine brick, but doos 1ot bura so oxtensivoly While Koarney 15 practically an electric city, having over six miles of elocirie stroet car lines, & groat numbver of arc lights, an fnnumerable number of incandoscent lights and a number of clectric motors, still tho city is not depandont wholly upon electricity forits lignt, as the Kearney Gas company has over six miles of pipe and over 200 con- sumers, In 1583 tho City Water company was or- canizod, and on the 1st of January, 1554, fiv miles of pipa wore luid, the works tosted ana accepted by tho city. There are now twen- ty-one miles of mains and 133 hydrants in use. Tnere has reconty boen o now fire alarm system adopted, and when an alarn is turned in the pressure is run up {rom an or- dinary pressure of fifty pouuds to a firo pressure of ewghty or 10) pounds to tho squaro inch. ‘Tho” water is drawn from a largo woll, thirty-two fect deep, or from forty-cight two-nch drivo -vells, and tho pumps have a capacity _of 3,000,000 gallons per day. Mr. James Wilson is the suporin- cendent, In 1500 the Kearney Opera House company was orzanized and built_ one of tho finest opera houses between Omana and Denver, ata cost of $140,000. It is fivo stories high, built of gray limestone and providod with an clectric clevator. Tho opera house proper bas a seating capacity of 1,230, and is a model in all its appointment “The vanking business of Kearnoy is con- | and ducted by four national banks, ono savings bank and oue state bank, as follows: Wirst National, capital $150,0003 K. Y. Robertson president, 1Y, S, Spafford assistant cashier. Kearnoy 'National, capital $150,000; W. A. Downing _presiaent, W. C. Tillson cashior. Buffalo County National, capital $100,000; Ross Gamble president, A. F. Gamble cashier. City National, ‘capital, = $109,000; H. C. ~ Andrews presidoent, i S. Adair _ cashier. Farmers ' Bank, capital 0,000 Lew Robertson, president, J. A. Boyd cashier. The total d Dosit is §715,000, & large portion of which is tarmers’ money. Press, Pulpit and Pedagogy. The daily and woekly ovents and the ‘‘moiding of public opinion”’ are tooked after by two daily papers, one semi-weekly and three waeklies. The morning and weekly Journal is under the editorial management of i.. B. Cunningham; the evening and semi- wekly Hub are managed by M. A. Brown; the New kra is odited and published by Roy and Frank Rhone, and the Standard comes out each woek with editorials from Messrs. Edgerton and Easterling. The first thres aro ropublican in politics and the last is the organ of tho farmers allianco. IKearney is blessed with a number ot hand- some churches and nighly favored in tho ability of her pastors. Tho largest building is the property of the First Baptist church, Kov. E. J. Bosworth pastor, built two years 0 at 4 cost of $18,000. The Presbyterians, Rov. W.S. Barnos pastor; Cougragational: ists, John Askin, D.D., pastor; First Motho- dist’ Episconal, Dr. Ridgeway pastor: Trinty Methouist [iscopal, Rev. Shingler pastor; United Prosbytorians, Rev. Purvis pustor: Christian churen, Rev. Atwater pastor, and St. Luke's Episcopal, Dr. Oliver recior, have each very neat and commodious houses of worship: The educational advantages to be derivod in Kearney are equal to those of eastern cities. The city schools are under the super- wtendenco of Prof. T. J. Morey, and grad- uates from the High scbool are entitled to enter the rtate university. In addition to the large, handsome High school building, there are threo brick ward schoolliouses, employ. ing in all twenty-five teachers. But 1rom this vime on, the lover of learning who desires to continue his or her studies be- yond the High school course need not leave Kearney. On the 6th of Soptember next will open tho fall term of the Platte institute. The college is located in East Lawn, a resi- dent addition 1o the city, and easy of access. The maic building is ‘a three-story brick structure, 40xt60 feet, coutaining the recita- tion rooms, superintendeat’s privato office and living rooms, teachers' dormitories, and rooms devoted to the business and musical courses. On either side are students’ dormi- tories, lurgo enough to accommonate cighty pupils in cach. Surrounding the buildings is a campus of twenty-five acres, haudsomely arranged and vesutified. The faculty for the oponing term will be Prof. C. A. Murch of Lawrence university, superintendent and business manager; Mrs. Agues C. Packard, from state Normal of Westford, Mass., lady principal und instructor in Kuglish prancues and Normal methods; Rev. Robert G. Os- born, B. A., LL. B.,, of Yale, professor in history, literature and ancient languages and chaplain; Miss Bird Lucy, B. S., of Univer- sity of Minnesota, teacher in natural sciences and mathematics; Mrs, C. A. Murch, art in- stractor and matron; Mrs, Hannah Austin, house mother, ~ While tho institute was es- tablished by Bishop Graves of the Episcopal aiocose of the Platte, the school will not be sectarian. The principal objectis to put a good business, Norial or collegiate educa- tion within the reach of all, and this bus beon done by putting the total expense for one school year of forty weeks, including tuition, board, furnished room, hight and heat, at 8120, H. H. Sydenham, sorgeant oompany A, Nobraska National guard, will give instruction in military tactics, and spe- clal_instructors will be providea to teach shorthand, telegraphy and musio. From present indications tho attendance at first will be quite satisfactory. Kearney Jobbers, Kearnoy & Black Hills road has been in operation quite an active jobbing trade has sprung up. The first flem Lo embark exclusively in a wholosuls lino was the erocery nouso of R. Coddington & Sons. Tne vonture proved successful and uow Daniels Brothers are conducting a wholosalo jowelry store. Harris & Friedman aro wholosuling drygoods, and thoe I, H, Gil- crst Lumver company huve branched out quite ex:eusively in their line. The towas along the line of tho Kearaey & Black Hilis ruilway are varticularly good points und merchants find they can do very woll alons the lines of the B, & M. and Union Pacitic also. Iho Kearnoy Cold Storago compauy was organizod May 1 with a capital of £,000. Its ofticors aro Georgo A. Keck president and teeasurer. Charlos Beaodiot vico president, aud A, Frod Cole secretary. Its business consists of the cash purchuse of all the sur- plus butter aud eggs produced on the line of the Kearnov & Black Hills railway, and tho ion Pacific botwoen Grand [sland on the Sinee the ing in all kiods of feid and garden soeds, 'he company’s facilities for storing theso articles are unsurpassed in this stato, Lho cost of the buildiug was $15,000 snd it is fitted up in every way acsording Lo the lat est and best idows of refrigeration. In Omaha there is 8 cola storaze warebouse larger than this one but uowhere 1n the state is there one auy more complew. Tho cow- pany has purchased in its territory siuce it commonced busiuess about 156,000 pounds of butter und 15,000 dozon egg 1n addition io these, Kearnoy has a num- bor of lessor iudusiries whioh materially holp to swell the vast volumo of business trausacted. Awong these is the Kearney Manufacluriug company, with & capital stock | fitst class work andhave built up a good vusiness. TroroBAk two bottling works and summor drink mAfhfactuross, ono being op erated by T. . Muggmor and the other by tho Midway Bottlfra Works company. The Kearnay fed works, S. C. Ayres mana. eor, do most of thh local work in that line. Kuirney Store wopks, J. R. Hoimes mana- er, manulacture AV ory supsrior stons walk have turned‘out many fino pisces of carving. The Hub Blank book manufactory and bindery, in_chhbection with the offico of the daily Hub, is & growing industry. Prosperous Towns and Vitlnges. The village of Skelton is located on the Union Pacitic railroad a* the onst edze of the county. six miles north of the ’latte river or southern boundary line of the county. Tt has u paputation of woour )0 widuawako, onorzetic, prosteroas inhabitants. Iv has two banks—the First National, capital £0, 0X, George Meisner presidont, A. H. Ste rett cashior, and Shelton bank, capital 25, 000, Goorgo Mortimor president, S. H Graves vcashier. Tho Saelton Clipper, re. publican, is a neat, newsv woekly, edited and publisned by Ieank Rsea. The village is woll provided with storas of all kinds, and is surrounaed by <ome of the wealthiest, thrift fest and pro<perous farmers in the county. Mr. Maisner, prosident of tho Firat N Yonal bank, sottled here in an early day without a dollar, took up a homesiead, and iIs now rated to be worth a quarter of amillion, A large majoricy of the depos itors in the Shelton banks are farmors, and most of them came to this county fifteen, twenty and twenty-five vears ago, with scarccly a dollar. Shelton has a good four- room sehoolhouse and employs ive toachers, Gibbon is situated on the Union | o six miles west of Shelton and_twelve miles east of Kearney, It was the first town settied in the county and some who went there hrst aro still on the old homosteads. populution is about 500, Two IFirst National, capital £50,000, Davis president and H, F. Fant cashier, and the Stato Bank of Gibbon, eapital $50,000, E. Woodruff president, C. C. Holloway cash- ior—take care of the' surplus cash in the township. The Gibbon Flour Mill is located on Wool river at the edge of town, and man- aged by Mr. 1. N, Davis. This mill is run by watei power, has a capacity ot fifty bar- rels per day, and has a reputation for pro- ducing as good flour as any in the state, This thriving village supports Lwo news pupors, The Gibbou Boacon, published by the Gibbon Publishing company and - ditéd by Willlam Reed, is a good, sound républic vaper. The Gibuon Reporter is a tive.col- umn quarto, all ioma print, cdited and pub- lished by W. H. Carson in the interest of the farmers alliance. In addition to the four- room public school building, with its four enchers, Gibbon Las a very successful Nor- mal school and business colloge under tho superintendency of Prof, U.S.Conn. Last year Its present over 100 pupils were in attondance, The builuing now occupied by the Normal school was built for and occupied first as & courthouse, tne county seat being originally located here. ‘The country sur- rounding Gibbon is us fine and fertile as the sun over stone upon. Most of this couutry was settled up by favmers who had vothing but tho land, and as the land was not considered ood security thea they conld not got into debt, and since then thoy have mads enough off of their farms to keop out of debt. The banks have a good deposit and the larger balf is iu farmers’ names. Elin Creek is a good wwn on the Union Pacific 1 the western part of tho county. It has a population of about 400 and supports two banke and a newspaper. The Pirst ) tional bank has a capital of $30,000; Hen! ibbon presidenty I H. Famsworth cashior, ‘The t'armers and Merchants bank, B. H Goodall president J. H. Messick cashier; capital §12,000, he Blm Creck Sun ke the citizens inforfed on local events, and is a very creditable Bix-column quarto ' edited and published by’ Voik. On the Kearfoyy® Black Hills Rond, Leaving Kearn| n the Kearney & Black Hills railroad, th§ tifst town reactied is Am- herst, seventee| iles northwest from Kearney. It has population of about 60 and is growing. F'ive or six business houses are now beiag erdctall as well as quite a num- vev of residences,, The Omaba Elevator com- pauy aud the Fowler IBlevator company aro represented here, and sinee the first of Janu- ary have shippzd 135 cars of grain, A filty- barrel flour mill built on Wood river and run by water power is owned ana managed by k. M. Hecht. ‘The Bank of Awherst, T. E. Spaulding president, (;. B, Monroe cashicr, with a capital of $12,000, is doing a very suc- cessful banking business. Nine miles beyond Amherst is the villaze Miiler, with @& population of S00. The Miller Union E. P, Buraetr, aditor and proprietor, sets forth tho advantages of the Wood River valloy in v glowing terms, and is incroasi.g in cir- T'wo banks look after the aucial juterests of the commuuity and aro well patronized. The First Bank of Miller, of which W. C. Tillson is president and I D. Brown cashier, has a capital of 25,000, ‘The Bank of Miller has a capital of 32,000, M. Maddox, president, and W. L. Maddox cashier. Thereare three elevators, 4 lumber yard and several general stores 1o supply tho nands of the people. There have been 150 cars of grain, besiass a number of cars of live stock, shipped from this station this year. Perhaps the most flourishing town in the county outside of Kearney 15 the village of Ravonna. It bas between 900 and 1,000 in- habitants, is a passenger and froight divi- sion for the B. & M. and 1s only a wile from Nautasket, a postoftice on the line of the Unton Pacitic. The B. & M. company has just completed one of the finest eating houses on their line and Mr. Secley is building a very large flour miil on the ‘bauk of Beaver crook. A buudsome five-room, brick school- house, costing 7,000, g.ves the 200 children exceptional advantages, and the citizens tako considerable pride in the institution, The town furnisnes a good market for farm ers living in the south half of Snerman county und the torth half of Buffalo county, 0 that trade is drawn from wmiles around. ‘T'he ranch of the Nebraska Land and Cattie company, covering two scctions of land, is located hear Kavenna and the compiny makes 1t its shippin, point. I'wo banks—First Natioual, capital, £0,000, O. M. Carter president, i, E. Shaw cashier; State Bauk of Ravenua, capital $25.000, L. J. Dunn president, F. A. Bohac cashier. Tne Ravenna News, C. B. Cosss editor, is the ocly strictly democratic paper in tho county, and is a creditable expouent of its party's principlos. The Ravenna Creamery com- pany, organized four years ago, gave the dairy interests quite an impetus and the creamery is well patronized. Mr. A. W. Wicher 1s mausger, aud the product of the creamery has alwi been in demand at highest “market prices. Two elevators, one lumber yurd, two nardwaro stores aud four goneral stores do & good business. In addition to these towns, Buda and Odessa on the Union Pacifi Glenwood Park on the Kearnev & Bluck Hiils and Pleasanton on tho.Grand Island & Wyoming Central are good“shippivg poiuts for erain and cattlo, Profits of BuftAlb County Farmor. Thera ix an old Iaglish adaga which reads, “tho proof of the pudding is the oating thereof,” So it is'with localities; tho best proof of what a county can produce 1s what iv has produced. Lust year may have been an excoptionsl season, bt 1t at least shows what viio soil in Buffaio couuty Is capavle of doing. ¥ Mr. A. C. Bessie came to Buffalo county fourteen yoars ufojhud took up 160 acros three miles cast of Kearney. He now uns 145 acros under oullvation.” Last year nho haid soventy-flive agees of oats, from which o threshed 5,500 busuels. Twenty acres out of the piece aeraged 122 busbels per uc and oue piece of four and threo-fourths acros, which wus pasturcdnotil June 12, produced 435 bushets. Ho bad seventy acres in corn and husked 4,200 bushels from tho same. He sold his oats ut 20 ceats and ks corn ab i) cenis per bushel, making his total income from 145 acres for one year £2.760. Ho suys he can average 82,000 por year off of this farm, and if there s auy doubt as Lo tue above tigures there are thrée men who will make aflidavit 1o the facts. Mr. Bessie will have some of nis graio at the World's fair, He has no mortgeges of any kind agaiust him. 2, 1), Bessio camowo this county in 1578 and ok up a homostead in Centor township. Last year bo had in 120 acres which yielded : ifty acres of oats, 3 bushols; sixteen acres of wheat, 600 bushels; sixty acros of corn, 8,000 bushels. He roalizod $1,033,0 His oats stood six fect hign aud wore 0 thick a horso could uot bo secn a short dis tanco in from the edge. The varisty planted was the White Russisn, Mr. Bessio has a good house, barn und outbuildiogs on his place, but 0o mortgage. Never troublea with Bt bt once: L. H. Boud came to this county in 1881, bought 160 acres threesnd a half miles of Y, JULY 3. 1892-SIXTEEN PAGES. pitaker prestdont and G. | southenst of Kearney, has 105 aceos under cultivation, foeds all 'he raises to his stook, average corn crop fifty bushels por acre, has raised n groat many hogs but never troubled any with cholora. “Small fruit dossn’t seom to do very well 10 his viclnity. He has paid for his farm, house, barn and outbuildings, besides buying town property from money ho tias made off his farm, H. Salsbary of Center camo hera sixtoon yoars ago from lilinois and took up & homo Stead. ~ Ho has now 820 ncros Al under cultivation, forty acros used for pas- ture; usual yield, fifty bushols of oats and forty-five of corn ver Ho doesn’t try to raisa any wheat. p. ne Hlo makos a alty of Clyde horses and has from twen- ty-five to thiety hoad on his farm all the tunos has made good money handling them and in- tonds to continue raising and dsaling in fine stock. He wencrally has from 200 to 350 hogs on havd and was never troublod with cholera butone year. Ho had a fine orchard but tho bail two yoars azo cut it down. His land is worth from £33 10 $40 per acre, Mr. Salsbury has a od house, windmill, large barn and commodious outbaildings, #nd expects o clear nis place from all incumbrance next year. His corn is now up ready to eultivate. BHught for Foue and Won't Take Fifty, Seven miles northeast of Konrnev ara tho farm and residence of Mr. M. Y. Snavely. Ho came here twelve years ago and bought 320 acros of railroad land at &4 por nore. Ho sinco refusod $5) per acrs for the samoe Last yoar Mr. Snavely raised enough grain from ‘16) acres to foed twenty-fivo norses and sixty cattle through thy winter, rotain enough for seed this yoar and scll tho surplus for §25. He bas 10 mortrage on his land and nas made enough out of this farm to not only pay for it but buy a section of western land bosides. te admits he would Lave been bottor off had he not made somo bad investments, He has a fine lot of young apple and chorry troes, besides an abundance of small fruit, o largo Substantiai barn and outbutlaings, and twenty-five acres of tamo hay, which is looking fine this voat oseph Waters has lived near the sputhern line of Thoraton township for the past nino teen years. He look up cighiy acres asa bomastead and bought eighty acres raliroad land, Last year ho raised tiventy-four bush- els of wheat, fifty-six bushels of oats and for- ty-seven. bushels of corn per acre, He nas a nico grove around his house and last year his orchard yielded more apples'than lie could take care of, besides a large quantity of gooseberries and currants. Ho says: “If farming is oarried on in the tight kind of a way it will pay. 1 have had about as much of the ups and downs as any of them, and 1 don't owe a man a dollar. Never had & thing mortgaged since I have boen in the state, I feed considerable grain and hold the rest for good price: I suffered from the grasstoppers fourteen and filteen years ago and was partially hailed out ten Years ago, but have never seen an entirefail- ure. The smallest crop I have ever had on account of drouth was two years ago, and then I got a little over seventeon bushels of wheat to the acre: had about ten acres of coin sheltered by the timber, and that weut twenty-fivo “bushols por acre. 1 have my bomestead hedged in witha hundred locust has land, trees and locust does very well for a hedge, It scems to stund the drouth and w weather first rate. In 1875 I broke some ground and the noxt spring 1 sowed somo timothy aud clover upon it, sud I aon’t know of any tame grass in the country that stands the weather any better than that has. 1 be- lieve we will raise fruit here and velieve it will grow botter and beiter until we have a very fair frult country. One trouble with farimers is they buy all the machinery thoy can get, then 16t it stand out and_it rots out more than it wears out.” Mr. Waters has an attractive place, with flowers in the front yard, a beautiful grove of his own planting surrounding the house, a nicely painted barn, granary and outbuildings, all ~ denoting good management and strict attention to business. A. H. Pool came to this county sixteen vears ago and sccured 320 acres in Divide township, which is still his home. It is now all uunder cultivation except about twenty acres for pasture. “My ordinary vield,” said Mr. Pool, “is fifty-five busheis of corn, thirty bushels of oats, aud betwoeen fourteen aud " fitteen bushels of wheal per acre. Have never been trouvled av all with drouth but once, aud Lhat was two years ago. Haven small orchard of apple trees and doing very well. Don’t raise much stock. Beliove that where a farm 1s managed prop- erly in this county it will pay every time,” . Never Had a Total Failure C. A, Borders of Prairie Center postofize came-nere eighteon years ago and has now acres, of which 140 are now under culti- vation. fle says: * usually put about half my land into small grain and half into corn. Never had a total failure, and with the ex- ception of two years never had a partial fail ure. Kven then I raised enough to carry me through all right. Never struck by hail but once and then was bothered only a vory lit- tle. I usuully have about fifty head of cattle and from thirty to sixty hogs. Was never troubled with cholera bat once, and then I lost nearly every hog. [ have an orchard of about 150 young appie trees which I think will bear this year. The prospects for crops this v ood. t'reight rates being equal, a farmer cao do as well hore as in Illinois or Iowa. I have lived in five states and would rather live here than any of the others.” B. Turner lives near the center of Thorn- ton towushiv and went there from Missouri n 1574, He took up & homestead of oighty acres and contracted 160 acres from tho rail- road company. He has 120 acres of land under cultivation and an orchard of 240 standard apoles, besides chervies and egg plums. He sets out s fow young trees oach vear, %0 hus & fresh orchard coming along gradually. He says: *My experience is thav au orchard is not 8o lone-lived here as in the east or south, and by setting out trees each year yvour younger trees will take the place’ of the older onss ns they dio out. [ set out the first black walnut tree in the township in 1874 1 have never given it any attention or cultiva- tion whatever, and itis now six inches through at the buit. 1 I had given it proper care it would undoubtedly have been much larger, My strawberries are in full bloom and my trees all promise well. 1 had five-year-old pple trees that bore well last year, and are 10 blossom this spring. The ordinary yield is twenty-six busuels of wheat, sixty bushels of oats and thirty-tive bushels of ‘corn per acre, Have raised a groat many hogs, but never had one die from cholera. I havo paid for all my land, raised all my stock and bought 160 acres in Colovado und don’t owe a dollar for any of it. It has all boen mado out of my farm here. There has been no land sold around me iately, but the last pieco wus a tract of raw land and that brought $15 per acre, When I ianded here, all in tho world I had was a team, two cows, $40 in money and good health. The rest I huve ac- cumulated sinco ana $50 will cover all my doctor's bills in tho last nineteen years. T, 1. Lineberger camo out here a few vears ago from lllinois, but got homesick, rented his furm for a terw of years and moved back. In @ YOAr or two he came back, gave his tenant $100 to vacate and he has boen lving hero contented ever sinco. It scems that every man who woes away, whether bo is a renter or not, wants Lo como back again. 1 never saw such a placo for that.” Alntors, Not Farmers, May Lose, When your corvespondent visited tho gonial, hardworking I'rauk Lice, who lives and owns 830 acres on tho east ling of Divido township, be found him prntivg the end of a corn crib'he bas just built which will hold 15,000 bushels of corn. Mr. Rice camo to Buffalo county ten years ago, aud the second year after put 1n 500 acros of wheat. [t did not pay as well as some other crops and sinco thon he has given & great deal of attention to flax. Lasyyoar ho bag in 500 acres and raised ubout nine bushels of seed Lo tho acro, Hoalso bud 300 acres of corn last year und has now on hand, after feeding all winter and putting in this scason’s crop, 900 bushels of nice, brizht, yellow corn growing and 200 acres of small grain. Heisa firm beliover in listing corn, us he gets bolter resuits tak ing one year with anothe Ho suys: “\Where farmers have lost mou o this county and are still losing 11, is Ly specy ing and going in dobt. I'héy ses land 1n- creasing in value and buy more than they cau take care of with the expectation of sell- g ot an sdvanced price. As 5000 63 thoy do this thoy coaso to bs farmors strictly and become speculators, and then if they lose tue ouutry is to blame for it.” Ho bus & smull apple and poar orchard and believes that where a mien gives proper time o it fruit rasing wi.. do well here. Laad around him is hoid at 820 por acre. Tho ferulity of tho soil is unlimited, sug afwr raising flax for Dinw suCCEssive sLasons it seeins Lo be Just as rich and productive as over. C. . Iirink came to Kearney eight yoars ago and noW owus and rents Hve farms in different parts of the county, Lasi year one of bis farms of 140 ucros, on & valuation of por acro, paid bim for ono-third of the crop which he got, 10 i#-10 per cent. after payiog bis taxes and ull expenses, In reat ing farms the usual custom is for tho reater 10 got Lwo-thirds aud the owuer one-third of | the crop. The renter also has his garden | large as the end of my thumb. Cherries are pateh which the owner does not take into consideration, Hon. A. G. Scott smd: “I have a quarter section valued at 8,000, ana last yoar my | third of the crop paid me 14 yor oent on the | fnvostment. 1 never had anything in the state that has paid mo a bottor porcentage on the vestment than my farm." I P. F. H. Schars, ‘ex-shoriff of Buffalo county, has boen here thirteen yoars, and has 480 meres around his home noar Prairie Cen ter, of which 400 acres are under cultivation, Ho says: *“Thore is no roason on oarth why a farm in Buffalo county won't pay 1f it is takon caro of. Last year was but atrifle bot- ter than an average year, and I think it will bo botter this vear than last. Ono great trouble is tho class of men who farm. One class hang around saloons anda never work, and antoher olass come hero with nothing to start with, and never farmed beforo, and be- cause thoy don't get rich right away thev got disgusted with the country and say all thoy can against it. This vear I expect to got twenty bushels of whoat, forty-five bushels of corn, thirty-five bushels of varley and fifty bushels of oats to the acre. Last vear | had A pioco of oats that wont seventy bushels, and 1 ot 317 bushels of flax from eighteon acres. Have a small orchard of apples, cherries and plums, but this country isu't fairly opened up for frut yot. There is a groat deal of now land being broken this vear. . Y. Robert- 800 1s breaking 400 acres; John Brady, 400; John Roe, 200, and wmany other smaller tracts,” Always a Sure Thing to Count ¢ Wiliiam J. Smith of Sheiton settled on his homestead in 1572, and now has 160 acros under cultivation, with good house, barn and outbuildings, and no incambrance, “Nover saw soil more productive: can usually depend on forty bushels of racre and about the samo for corn; try to raise much wheat, and never could make much money raising stook."” herifl Nutter camo to this county thirty s ago and sottled in Shelton township Ho was a succossful farmor unul elootod to oftico last fall, and savs ““there is no question out what farming will pay as well here as anywhere in tho United States. Buffaly county is as ood as any county north of tho Platte river, and 1 don’t know of any better south of it.” Lyman Cary came to this county from lowa six yoars ago and has 1,240 acres in Schneider townsbip; 760 acres are under enltivation, “Never bothered with hail nor seriously b drouth; not at all except two years ago. Tho crons are almost absolutely certain, and wo always count on forty bushols of corn, oighteen bushels of wheat, thirty-fivo bush- ols of oats, and one yoar I rased twenty-five bushels of rye 1o tho acre. Last your it went a little botter and I ot 1,550 bushels of rye from fifty acves. I feod 'a great many catile and selt littlo or no_grain. 1 consider this a fair fruit country.” Georgo Witmerof Elm Creek settled on his place ten vears ago and now has 200 acros under cultivation. “Land is worth $20 per acre and is just as good land as can be found anvwhere. If a man can make money any- where on a farm no can make it i Eim Creck township. Small fruit does very well but trees seem to bo short-lived.” Nathan Campbell of Kearney came to Buf- falo county 1872 and has farmod ever since; has now five farms covering in all two scetions of land. “Corn and oats have avor- aged forty to forty-five bushels to tho acre each, and wheat eighteen. Winter wheat does well some vears, but,” says Mr. Campbell, *'the two yoars I'tried it, it driod right out. Potatoes yieid from 150 to 200 bushels per acre. Handlo considerablo stock and never sold a bushel of corn in my lifo. Always feed it. Have raised as high as 4,000 bushels of wheat and 16,000 bushels of grain in one year from 500 acres. Have 110 acres of low land near whe river in tame grass—timothy and red top—and it does first rate. Have raised a great many hLogs but was nover troubied with cholera. The best remedy 1 kuow for hog cholera is to feea them plenty of raw potatoes and coal ashes. Have tried raising fruit some, but do not consider it a sure crop. In rexting my farms I usually got one-third the crop; cash ront is $2 por acre. 1 farmed for a number of years in Wayne county, New York, but can make more money off of the same number of acres bero than I can thore and with loss labor. Never had o mortgage agalust one of my places.” After Twenty Years' perlence. H. J. Allen settled in Shelton township in 1872, Has 220 acres of which 150 are under plow: the balance is pasture land. ““Tame pasture does very well. Land is worth from $30 0§40 per dere. Somo is hela much highor. T'here is quite a wood deal of frut all around me and does well. Had one hail storin about ten years ago. Two years ago, when it was so dry, I piowed deeb and got thirty-five bushels Lo tho acre; prices being high I made as muct that year as 1 do in an average year. Am quite a boliover in decp plowing and thorongh cultivation; the land secms to thrive under iv. There haye been 10 other partial failurcs in the past sixteen years, 1have good improvements ou my place, nover had a mortgage against it and now of a good many others in_tho townsbip in similar circumstances. Many of them came here in su early day without a dollar.’ Brand Cole came o Lho state in 1854 and settiod near Piattsmouth without a dollar, As the country has settled up ho has kept buying further west. A short time ago he bought tho section of land known as section 25, in township 9, sauge 15, and paid for it. He would not even let tho final payment_due tho railvoad company and drawing ouly 6 per cent interest stana against thetract. Ho has made every dollar of bis money farming. Herman Reiter, who owns three-fourths of section 4, 10 township 10, range 15, camo here a poor man and now owns this land, well im- proved, and a fiue lot of stock free from all incumbrances, He originally owned only half the section, but mado enough out of thu 10 buy the third quarter and pay off a mort gBge that was against 1t. He now bas money in tho bavk and his last yeat's crop in the bin. T.J. Parrish came to Bu 1874, Ho now owns 430 acros 1 Riverdale township and 1,640 acres in Sartoria town- ship near the northwest corner of the county. On his Riverdale farm he has 223 acros undor cultivation and his average vield is fifty busbels each of corn and oats o tho acre; doesn’t raise any wheat. Has 100 head of cattle, all Herefords or Jorsoys. Tuo Hero- fords ho feeds and ships, the Jerseys ho alo county 1n kaeps for dairying purposvs. Has raised u great many hogs and always with goou suc coss. RRaw land is worth about 20 and im- proved iand from &5 to §10 peracre, In Sar- toria township ho has 250 acres undor culti vation and his oat and corn crop for tho past ten years has averagod sixty bushels each per acre. Kaw land in this township is worth 510 por acre and improved places will aver- age about $20. He hus 350 fine looking beef steers on this farm and last year raised 250 hogs. He nevor sells any corn, but foeds 1t all to his stock. Fruit bas not'yet been tried toany extent in this township. He has xood houses, outbuildings, wind mills and foncos around his farms, aud says “if farm- ers would diversify thoir crops more they would bave better succoss, Thoy raise n great orop of corn mua nofhlnz olso, ana curao because thoy don't got a good price for it. or they raise mostly of just ono thing and if it fails or there is no market for it, they lose. Aud then, if they try stock raising, they got the common grade aud moot with no botter succoss. It don’t cost any mora to koop @ good animal thau & poor one, ana thoro iv # good deal more init. A fow days ago I sold u Jorsey cow for $i5, whon if it had been @ common grade animal, §15 is all 1 could haye got for her. 1f I 'bad @& small place I should raiso wheat, but now I run into other channels. For soveral years 1 was in tho hardware business and there is no question but what, on the amount invosted, farming pays a much botter 1terest on tho monoy than it dovs wuvested in other busi ness.” > I Hurthorn came to this covnty seventeen yours ago and Las paid a groat deal of wttou tiou to fruit raising. e says: *‘I'ie best varioties of apple for this country are tho Beu Davis, winesap, genatin, fMissouri pippin, Walbridge, woalthy, snow, Duchess of Oldenburg, Cooper’s early white and Colo's quince, sltholgh othor variotios do very well, ‘ho Hyslop, Whitnoy No. 20 sud Martha pe Fruit Farming. crabs huve given good sausfaction. Plums are quito hardy, espeeially the wild goose, forest garden, Da Sota and Miner are all tosted varioties. ‘Ihe Russia apricot is vory promising fruit. I raised & nico lot of poars last your uud think thoy will do reasonably well in this county. In grapoes, the Concord stands ot the head but the warden, a sooediiu of the Concord, the Klviea, o light colored variety and Moora's early do very well. All leading vari- ety of red and white currants do well. The Houghton and Downing goosoborrics as well as uil kinas of raspborries aund blackborr: yield plentifully. Last voar I raisod as flue | another, and so on. 1 | wusrantooto r immense. tho early AN standard varieties, espeoially Richmoud, do very woll. I had plums on my trecs last year that I planted threo yoars ago. 1 follow D. B. Wier's avs. tom of planting plums, and that is, throo or four of one variety and then three or four of have an orchard ana nursery of about twenty acros, and this year overything promises woll. The greatest trouble has been that too many trees have been shipped here from the east which were simpiy culls when they camo here, and othors aro damaged in transit. Somo farmers take care of their trees, but the majority don’t give them any care whatever, They have sc much else on thelr hands that they don't tako caro of their trees and if thoe troos don't do woll tho trouble, in their opinion, is in the country. Strawberrios do grandly, and thero is no reason why a person with 'a plot of ground two rods sqiure can't have all the strawborrios thoy waut if they take any care of thom at all," Mz George S, Kook of George 5. Kook & Co., among tho largest and most extensive farmers in Buffalo county, says: “While the spring has not been such as would lead one to believe that our corn crop will bo as heavy ns it would have been had we oxperi enced a warmer and earlier spring, neverthe less, thero is nothing to lead one te believa we will not have an abundant crop of small grain and & _corn yield equal to if nol above our general average. ‘I'ho past two s navo been very favorablo for corn, and with the exception of tho vory eari plantod corn is now showing nicely, I the prosent prospocts our small grain crop in this county will bo enormous, equai to, if not surpnssing. our last year's crop, which was the record breaker. Buffalo county, and os pecially that portion of it immediately tribu- tary to Kearney, is oxperiencing a largor oponing of now lands than 1 have seen befora in tho six years 1 have beon in this county, The Kearney cold storage, commission and sood companies have placed ovor 2,000 bush ols of flux socd this sprine, all of which i being planted upon ground broken this year, This probably is not over one-third of the new land broken n Buffalo county this spring, and 1t is safe to say that sod crops will wave this fall on 10,000 acros of land where lust year prairio grass nodded in the wind. Winter Wheat Makes the Wise Ones Wonder, “‘We have now in cron nearly 1,000 acros of land in Odessa and Riverdain townships and were foollinrdy enough last year 1o place out 250 acres of winter wheat, a’crop hereto- fore unknown and untried in Buffalo county. The wise men and prophets in town and in tho country shook their heads and said it this firm kuew mors about farming they would not huve beon so rash. But time works many changes and now the scenes havo shifted and in ptace of all thatacroage frozen out and blown out, as they prophesied, thero stands today a tield of wheat that would gladdon the ove of any farmor secing it. ffor ono milo it strotchios away, and tho boads just boginning to appear show that unless somo accident oceurs it will be an enormons crop. The heads as they now are run from five to eight inches in length, and one plaut taken from the field within the last fow days stuowed twenty-one hoads, being tho growih of a single grain planted last Uctober. From all prospects this will bo tho greatest yiold of wheat over known in Buffalo county, aud it will all be threshed direct from the shock and sacked from the machine, From the in terost taken in this erop among the farming community around Kearnoy, thore is uo quostion but what every bushel will bo scld for seea this fall and planted in Buffalo county, A winter wheat crop grown by every farmer 1n this county, yielding whal this crop promises, will increaso the valua- tion of Buffalo county §10 per acro; it beiug beyond dispute that a \inter wheat crop comiug to successful fruition will yield frou ten to fifteen bushels per acre moro than the spring wheat, and the advantage derived from that increased yield, and tho conyon- ience of both planting and harvesting the winter wheat crop, will cortainly raiso the value of land in this county 10 per acre. BufTalo county never looked fairer than she does today and it may be said about her as n celobrated divine once said about the straw- berry, *That God might be able to make a fairer one, but he certainly never had dJone so.’ Stock of ail kinds bas wintered well and is now rapidly gaining in woight upon the grass. T'his year promises to be a banner one for this couuty. Wo have now upon our pnstures 500 head of tuo of differont ages and their condition when last seen by me verities the statoment as 10 the condition of the stock.” In addition to the above Hon. L. Keck says: “A few vears ago L bought s section of lund for 85 por acro. 'L nere are 410 acros of it under cultivation and last year's crop vaid for tho land, cost of planting, ana al taxos and interest.” But roports similar to the above could bo quoted without end. Ifa porson doybts ity © wants a farm, let him “come ang seo.’ eerng is belioving. WUDUBURY’S FALIAL SUAF For the SKIN, SCALY aud CONPLEXION, T LestE O bemees oo dON, ) koo Soap wind 115 1 'K on Der i At Warta, e by eier JOHNH. WODDBURY, D. 1., 125 W. 424 5¢ . New York FAT FfiLK§ REDUCED DR. SNYDER, THE SUCCESSFUL OBESITY SPECIALIST Mrs. Etta Mullican, betore and after treatment by Dr. Snydes As 1y well known, to a large number of ou fricnds we have boon under the treatment of 1 0. W. F.Snyder, tho colebrated spectalistof Chicage since the 15th of Janunry, 1812, for obesity vory grotifylng results, as the followlng state of welght and moasurements boforo and after 60 dnys’ troatment wiil show: Bofore. Weikht 345 pounds.. 279 8 pounds Chest.. .55 Inchow... 41 Inches 13 tnehos Walst % Inchex.. 45 tnehos. L0015l ine Hipy.....6 lnches... . 4 lnchos 0 inehe “AlLthe time we havo atended to our regular business, suffered no fnconvenlence whateyer and have been Improving every day. We would advise aftill atoted with obesity to writo to Dr. Snyder. Wa will bo pleased to wnswor il lettors of Inquiry whero stamp Is luclosed,”—Rlce Luke (Wis.) Timoes, April 1, 1592, PATIENTS TREAT%D ¥o B I, Ircutie 0nd Cose No starving, no inconvenience, auects. Btriotly confide timoninls address with wimps, DR. O. W. F. SNYDER, McVicker's Theatre Bldg., Chicago, Il nz of also in Jo¢ Intorny ment in Capauls uro for katern i, Chronie, oo it or Horodls tary Pllos. Tiiy lemedy has nover boon known Ly £ndl. $1 por box G for &2 senthy mall. Wiy sufler frou this torriblo dixoasa whon i wrllbsn gan rantes | positively gleen with 0 boxes or Fofumd thi mon .y s not eu, ad stamp for froe Samplo. Guaratliof wauod by Kulin & Co., Drugglats, Sols Agents, corn e GEhundDougls steaast O nass Ny) and Plils: blind or Blowding Itohi DR. 1.0, MISN'L. i wpucitic for Hystoris Dizzin y ralgl V. 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