The Frankfort Bee from Frankfort, Kansas • 2

-rr---; THE FRANKFORT BFE. an advertisement for the country. If he, who has been a prosperous man here and wants to add more land to his already vast fields, why would not an eastern farmer bo equally as anxious? We expect to be out of town before Charlie sees this, hence we fear not his anger and stuffed club. The oil, slow people bade there, thinking that this in a sparsely nettled community, where the Comanche chiefs dance over the the scalp of a fat settler every morning, do not realize that within the folds of Marshall county there are breathing the air of nature to-day 25,000 people, all of the best class. Indians are here, but instead the country resembles the- highest grade of civilization and prosperity.

Amid all this grand scenery is it any wonder that Inst September, as the eye-glass money leaner of Wall street, and the straight-laced, bean-fed maiden of Boston, as Mrs. P. J. Cummings is a renter but speaks well of Kansas. John Ahem wo did not see but did behold a fine lot of stock on his place.

Labette county, this slate, had in acreage 44,121, acres more than Marshall, but did not raise by bushels as much oats. hye The county had out this year in ryo 2,005 acres, and reaped from the same 05,2:30 bushels. Rye this year lias demonstrated to the farmers that it is a profitable cereal. FLAX. Three thousand two hundred and forty-four acres of llax were sown in the county, and produced 25,902 bushels.

POTATOES. As we sit here and write this we can gaze through the window of the hotel and see Sidney Morton, a fanner living four and one-half miles from Frankfort, unloading a big load of the "Blush" variety, as fine a large potato as we ever saw, for which Col. Blodgett paid him 40 cents per bushel. The average. A.

H. Smith was at homo and was making some saur-kraut. The scribe be ing a Pennsylvania Dutchman, this was is neat and well kept fine buildings and mi air of general prosperity surrounded the place. S. L.

Podson was at homo and happy. His farm shows good care. A. C. Peining was husking corn.

Mr. and Mrs. James 13. McConchio and their two sons were out in the orchard picking the last of a big crop of apples. We sampled some and know they are good.

They have a very fine orchard and artificial grove surrounding their home. Pr. A. L. Curtis, who came here a very few years ago for his health from Ohio and was in very bad condition when he came, was out husking corn.

Mrs. Curtis informed us that Kansas could not be beat as a health resort. They have a splendid farm. David Parr, an old at home and enjoying life. William Kelley, you know, is still struggling with an over dose of single blessedness, but when we got out to his place we found him grading up a nice yard around a mammoth new residence structure.

William means business soon, and he proposes to have another too much for us, and we got out of our buggy and staid a while. Mr. Pniilh md family are pleasant people and live many miles is rolling prairie lands interspersed with beautiful well watered valleys. The Vermillion river runs through the center of this valley in an easterly direction, upon which stream is located Frankfort. The writer of this article is a stranger and sees the country just as any stranger will see it who comes here.

We spent one week in the country riding over it and will now toll the reader what he saw and learned there. We first took a drive out northeast to a place near to Don Farrar's residence, upon a high prominence and sighted the country for miles and beheld the undulated prairie, the rolling hills adorned in every direction in residence structures, neat in architectural design; most of them are large and substantially built, of cut stono that set off the beautiful landscape in shades of architectural grandeur. These with the mammoth frame farm residences reposing cheerfully amidst dense foliage from artistically arranged groves, with back grounds of expansive orchards and vineyards of the most luscious fruits, the grazing herds, and this year's enormous crops, made us feel as if pen or pencil could but portray these beauties to the eastern world that we beheld here we would be doing a good work, and determined to make the attempt provided we the same. Their farm and home is on a delightful piece of high ground. T.

F. ISproul is a native Kansan and was husking corn for dear life. He has a farm of only 40 acres but his wife has a henery on the place which is a beauty to see. She raises probably more fine iff condition of tne potato crop of this county is So per cent. chickens and sells more eggs than any one person in the west.

She gets as A Mr. Morton informed us that he had 5-fi se, 400 bushels of this same kind of potatoes in his cellar, and wouldn't have sold the load to the hotel, but he had no room for them. Last year he sold 000 bushels at $1.25 per bushed. naze with him from the high piece of I ground upon which his handsome new house stands upon the towns, miles away, of Beattie, Home City, Axtell Marysville and Frankfort. "William is SUM.UAHY OF CONDITION'S.

Per Cent. Sorghum 7fl cotT.T norsE. one of the progressive men of the com Broom corn Oii could get the assistance of the editor of Millet Si) high as $1.50 per dozen for her eggs and lias a big foreign demand. They also have quite a fruit farm. Thomas Bisbing was busily engaged on his marvelous invention, that of perpetual motion, when we drove up to his residence.

In a good sized tent is his model, where it runs from sun to sun without a single rest. The philosophy of the invention is based upon the inevitable draft of a flue. The wheel is horizontally arranged in a hollow tube about 20 inches in diameter which curves outward and then extends some thirty feet perpendicularly. The draft or suction gives the wheel perpetual motion. A very wealthy company has been organized at Aurora, 111., to take hold of this invention and Mr.

Bisbing's they respectively Hew along these valleys in the comfortable vestibule railway coaches, should both arouse from munity. M. C. Warner was having a race with a fine large milch cow when we drove the Bkk and the people. This effort will fully show that we succeeded in the Millet is an excellent feed for stock The above figures are based upon the.

np. He has several of the same kind. their sleepy reveries and assume airs of latter, but we fear our faber will not do He is a goodfarmer and a money-maker the country justice, especially this year most reliable sources and also upon a low, safe basis. All the different varieties of wheat, corn and oats are sown here, and without any fertilizers being 11 It It R.VII E.TTTI H.X used. XO CROr FAILURE.

Since the county has been transformed from a stock grazing country into a renewed life, and gaze in supreme wonder at the grand picture so suddenly placed before their eyes? Then, in the smoking car of the same train, sits the home-spun eastern farmer, lie and his wife Eliza, whose optics are focused to twenty, thirty, forty, fifty and sixty acre lots back east; and now that he beholds these miles of growing splendor, outlined in the neatly built wire fences, and not the old "stakc-and-rider" ones that consume half the land on his small place, with hundreds, yea, thousands, of round-bellied, slick fortune is assured. Mr. Bisbing is a Pennsyl vainian by birth and here we had the plecsure of pertaking of a genuine old fashioned Pensylvania dinner pre pared by his wife and accomplished daughter. Mr. Bisbing is also a pros perous farmer.

THE SOIL. short -horns and other high grades of MgjbMfljlU TiTft OH4JK vt i 1 iN.i nj i jTf JyVjgfi The reader may by this time wonder why we visited all the above farmers so widely apart as to locality. We will now tell you. We wanted first to ex cattle, in their fatted laziness, browsing on the rich verdue on the easy sloping hills and broad grass lands around Frankfort, and he starts up, rubs his eyes, raises from his seat, gets his hands half way from the elbows out of his pockets, adjusts his broad-fall amine the soil and had ample oppor tunity in this way. DARK BROWS LOAM.

combined grain raising and stock district, it has never known what a crop failure is. The farmer hero feels perfectly secure when he sows that he is sure to reap a bountiful harvest. The moisture assures this, and the condition of the farmer here proves it. GRASS LANDS. Xo finer grass lands, both for pasturage and hay, exists in any country.

The former cattle man was loth to be driven from the elegant grazing when the homesteader made his appearance. TAME GRASSES. It is useless to comment upon the tame grasses. It has been our pleasure to behold some of the most luxuriant fields of and clover around Frankfort that we have ever seen, even in old blue grass Kentucky. These fine grass lands account for the mammoth herds of high grade cattle we see over the landscape.

We have attempted to show what the country will produce and we feel safe in saying that if the above discription is correct (and we court a personal in The soil is a dark brown loam which varies from two to three feet deep, and this is fed annually from a substrata which extends some sixty feet deep in most places. Earth taken from a depth pantaloons and with glaring eyes protruding under the pressure of such unexpected, mammoth scenery, nudges Eliza and yells until he arouses the whole car, in his life-partner's left car: "Wall, I'll be gull darned, Elizar, if we mustn't a slept cumin' acrost that Kansas Injun country we heard so much consarnin', and thim James boys stop-pin' the kecar (cars.) out of that Kansas City town; and here we are, away fewi-dc'uCn-cTt I tl LU A 1 of sixty feet and exposed to one frost, will yield as fine cereals as the top soil, which is solid proof that these lands Nil I I will never wear out from constant use t.f rl O. II 1 i GO ctta v.r j-. Scho-tl Ch'yvJ This deep subsoil creates a moisture which, makes the land capable of withstanding the extremes of dry weather. The producing qualities of this soil is past our destination, right the harden of the paradise of the gods.

iS'ow that corn-blasted conductor-man obeiiomemi! and its general ierlilit "William Iloundtrce was out gathering corn. He has a fine farm and sleeps each night in a large stone residence building. His farm ami buildings show olV handsomely. He is a rustler and prosperous. will list sind r.s back to Frankfort fr vestigation by any eastern reader who doubts it, and have the hacking of the leading business men of Frankfort in this ehallange) is not this the Garden of Eden of America? FII1ST DAY OUT.

On the first day we visited the following farmers' residences and found them all especially good, social fellows and residing in elegant residences and surrounded by all the. comforts of life. They belong to the progressive farmers of the west: W. P. Huff, whose pleasant residence stands out lirominentK- and from what we know, excels any thatthe writer has yet investigated in the west.

It is rich and easily tilled. One man can easily prepare the ground, plant, and work four times, 50 acres of corn in one season. There are no fertilizers met Abralicm Koeli on his way Frankfort to trade. He said he was used or need to be Used. il f1 a 4 I Hi of charge." And he and Eliza goon talking until the conductor on the Missouri Pacific comes along, who is a big, fat follow, "hail, hearty and well met," for a man gets that way if he only gets three siilhs of Marshall county air throe times a day before meals, kindly disturbs the old couple from their visions of fancied ln-avons by saying: "Next station is Frankfort: stop twenty for health and live years '-to get rich." The old folks are abound Our next aim was to see what these lands were most adapted to raise, and here is the results of ourobservalions.

1 by all lie conveniences of a well regulated farm, was at home. Mr. lluli'j came to this country tvvcral years ago wiili his familv, and has buil! himself I I'OIIX, course is king and it is a grand up as to this world's 'goods by honest sight to oohoiii me nines oi uiis mapiu well satisfied with his pursuits in life, that of farming and also with the grand old county of Marshall. llieh.ird Fox is another prosperous: farmer we visited also. ti.

P. Curry is a native of Illinois. Mr. Curry lives in a fine large stone house situated on a beautiful site and surrounded by a well kept rich farm. J.

E. Lemon was away from home, but from the appearance of his handsome residence and other general appearances we should think him thriving. A. P. Brock we noticed to be one of the thrifty farmers.

SECOND PAY OUT. We will now endeavor to show the reader the advantages of this country as a stork raising district. It has already been seen that the best feed in quality and abundance of it can be raised here without fear of failure, at small expense. There is always an air floating around a rich cattle, hog and corn country that inspires a manl This class of husbandry is, while the most legitimate, also the most remunerative in the agricultural world. Everything in the community assumes a solid air, and when a man can find a location with all the combined advantages as this coun toil.

He is one ol the best of citizens and a practical farmer. T. J. Snodgrass we found head and product. As we heretofore have shoivn that the average yield per acre of the is 127,02 bushels, we are safe in ears in the apple picking business.

To busv to talk. say. ng owing lo lue liict uii. hum is the banner corn raising county in the state, that the average yield here this Don Farrar whom wo found husking earsol corn almost too large lor one man year is ror.TY nrsuET.s per acre, and an immense acerage some fields going from seventy-live to to throw in the wagon, has one of the' finest residences on his farm in the stale and we should present a cut of the same but Mr. Farrar's extreme mod- eighty ousiieis 10 ineacie.

xoe com esty prevented it. lie gave us sonic I useful pointers, as ho knows all about! ed, in fact, bewildered. They can not believe thai they have landed at Frank-1 fort, and the old ladv insists thai there must be some of "thim tliar Jemes boys or Injuns hangin' around," but her attention i directed to a busy city, throngcl struts, towering business blocks, and she reniaiks: "Well, if I had n-known this, would hev bin out to see our el U-r son John long ago; but I was afcrd of thim tarnal, pesky Injuns." At this juncture John appeared in an (-legal barouche with two spanking blacks in hand, and wends the aged paternal couple out to a handsome Kaii-ir'. huine near to Frankfort, stir-rounded with all the modern conveniences that ailluence will afford. The Easlern C'ro sns and money leaner can scarcely wait, in fact he shortens his visit through the gold lined canyons, over the silvery crested peaks of the old and hoa'-y rockii-s, to hasten back east to prepare to make investments' in Frankfort and vicinity's fine property.

C. 11. Butler, probably one of the most extensive fanners and stock raisers, was not at home when the timid scribe drove through his mammoth corrals and confpletely arranged stock shells. Mrs. Butler a lady of pleasing address was at home, however, and entertained us in her accomplished way for a brief period.

We afterwards met Mr. Butler at the Hotel Pe Blodgett in Frankfort, and in order to show how the farmers who have lived here for some years farming and has made a great success at il. T. S. Warner was at homo r.nd hard at work.

Mr. Warner has a nice farm and is prospering. We saw E. A. Murphy who by the way is not a Jew and we knew it before we got to the house as he was out view the value of the hind, we give his own words.

He said: "I don't want a farm boom here." We said we were not aiming to create any boom. "Well, you aim to bring in good farmers don't von?" AVell, we responded if our show try uffords, he can assured that he will soon be rolling in the same atUu-e nee as the old time resident hero now enjoys. CATTLE One will find roaming over the extensive pasture lands or lolling lar.ily in the capacious red painted barns, herds of all species of standard bred cattle. In beef cattle are Short -horns, Herefords and Folangus, while the Jersey and Holsteins are the milchers. The farmers are fast discarding their inferior breeds for these highbred ones, as they see it pays when they have such feed for them, and then the prices a third higher.

houses Xornian, llambletonian and Clydesdale horses are the principal grades of horses raised here. There are a number of big stables of horses throughout the county. There is no town in the east, west, north or south where one can see as many largo and line looking spirited teams as he can see in Frankfort any day in the week. Hundreds of fine horses are sold hero to men who come to buy them, knowing their good qualities. in a three acre potato patch raising two pound potatoes imirphys you know we at once knew his nationali-ly.

He has a splendid farm home. M. L. Lindsley was over visiting his neighbor A. II.

Keal, who are both prosperous farmers. It. E. Trosper was not at homo but his large house and barn spoke for his here is shelled on the farnisby shelters, which shells from 100 to 150 bushels per houi-j and the farmer gets the benefit of the cobs. WHEAT This having been a great stock country the farmers have not gone into wheat so extensively in former years, but this year there were thrashed in Marshall county 30-1, 17!) bushels of A 1 wheat.

It is a good yield, going from eighteen to twenty-two bushels. The general average being twenty bushels per acre. A much larger acreage was sowed this year. OATS The soil is peculiarly adopted to the production of oats. In quality the oats of Marshall county equals the celebrated Montana production.

Marshall county this year on 117,873 acres raised bushels, the greatest yield of any country in the state. This makes the average yield of over thirty-six bushels for the county. It is safe to say that the average yield for twelve miles immediately surrounding Frankfort is this year forty-live, bushels per acre. The Boston maiden, for the time gets her pomi-adored mind off the ing of the country warrants it we would be pleased to see a number of good fanners locate here. He said "Well double destilled extract of bean, belle-letters and just the exact caper iu" female I'll tell you right here that I am not ready for tVat yet.

I want to buy up a lot more of this fine land while 1 can get it cheap." Mr. Butler is a royal good fellow, social and a gentleman to prosperity, T. J. Monce was out feeding his fat porkers when wo drove up. Wo found him a very intelligent gentleman and well-to-do.

He gave us some valuable information concerning the county. W. II. Ceaser was out in the field husking corn, but we conversed for a the core, but he displayed a little bit of costumes for wet weather," to get some healihy vigor in her classical shaped cheeks from beholding such inviting scenery and such has been the scenes this fall, metaphorically speaking, presented to the eastern tourists ns they peregrinated through this valley of natural wealth and beauty. Tol'OOHAl'lIY.

The country around Frankfort for selfishness about the choice lands here and no doubt he thought he was dis couraging our project, little thinkin few minutes with Mrs. who is a lady I of many accomplishments. Their homo that ho was giving us the best kind of.