The Smoky Hill and Republican union., December 05, 1863, Image 4

About The Smoky Hill and Republican union. (Junction City, Kan.) 1861-1864

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wMfiiral Column.
Things that Farmers Should Know.
Everything that tends to increase the
profit of farming must directly or indi
rectly benefit the farmer by raising the
value of his land. Every 'effect has its
cause, and there are unfortunately so
many preventible losses in agriculture,
that I propose one by one to enumerate
them.
Animals differ in no degree from our
selves in the appreciation of a dry bed
and a dry skin, a -warm corner in winter
and a cool one in summer. How im
ploringly will cattle and sheep stand at
at the field gate in bad weather, when
they know there is shelter for them else
where. How quickly sheep will avail
themselves of a wooden hurdle, a hard
rqad, or even a wheelbarrow or a piece
of board to lay upon, so as to avoid
contact ;ith the wet ground: to them
damp sheets. It is :i well known and
admitted fact that a saving of one-third
in food icsults from providing shelter
when required. Add this gain, or de
duct the 08 per cent of loss over fifty
six millions of acres, with their tens of
millions of animals, and you arc as
tounded at the sumv total.
Exposure, even in dry weather, to a
sharp wind, extracts an immense amount
of caloric from the body, which must
be made good by the fuel or fat of the
food. Even with well-wooled sheep
this takes place in degree, and it must
interfere with their repose, for we can
not rest well when cold.
It is surprising how easy one may
extemporize effective shelter. I find it
undesirable to house animals and turn
them out in the day ; the extreme vari
ation gives them cold. I therefore,
after threshing my fiist wheat, stack the
straw, thatch it ready for next harvest,
place it on a pasture, surround it at
some distance with hurdles, throw down
a, little straw close to the stack, and
make this the night fold yard for my
cattle. Here they get their cake, bran,
or dry food. Bullocks soon establish,
by rubbing and grooming themselves, a
comfortable arcade of straw on either
side, or at each end, according to the
wind. Under this they lie comforta
bly ensconced, free from driving rains
or strong cold winds, and in the day
time, weather permiting, go to their
feeding ground.
The act of grooming themselves gives
cleanliness; and timulates circulation in
the skin, and pays well in the health
and condition of the animals. Prof.
Mcchiy England'
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Agricultural Machinery. It is
estimated by the editor of the Country
Gentleman, that a horse's labor is
equal to that of twelve men. The wri
ter then proceeds to show the effect of
machinery, were it employed as exten
sively as it should be. Among a mil
lion of the best farmers in the Northern
States", he shows that a hundred million
dollars might be saved by the use of
machinery, that is not now saved.
Farmers arc rapidly realizing this fact.
Ic is incredible how many mowing ma
chines and harvesters are in use, and to
what extent they are multiplied each
year, to say nothing of the lesser ma
chinery used. Who that has a mower
or reaper but will get another, if the
one he has used is worn out or destroy
ed ? A fair test is all that is necessary
to secure machinery.
Salt tor Kansas and Missouri.
The completion of the first hundred
miles of the Pacific Railroad will be of
immense advantage to the western coun
try, in opening a new supply of that
important commodity, salt. There are
abundant deposits of this material on
the upper branches of the Kansas river.
Salt works will be established as soon
as there are facilities for transportation.
It can be so readily obtained as to be
furnished here much cheaper than tiiO
salt we now use. The settlers in West
ern Kansas now get their supplies of
salt from that rcnion. Many farmers
from counties as remote as Osage, Wa
baunsee, Shawnee, &c, go up into the
neighborhood of Saline, and manufac
ture their year's supply of salt. We
believe the salt business will be so
extensive as to make an important item
of transportation for the railroad.
KansaCity Journal.
Corn Wanted. We will pay until
further notice, thirty-three cents per bushel for
Corn in the car, delivered to the Quartermaster
al Fort Riley. Streeter 4 Strickler.
Wood-choppers Wanted. We want
ten bands to chop wood on the Fort Riley Res
ervation, at $1.50 per cord. Streeter & Strckler.
Teams Wanted. To haul Wood to
Fort Riley, at $2 per cord. Can make two trips
each day. Streeter fr Strickler.
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General Order No. 2.
r Headquarters 4tu Rej., N. D. K. S. M., 1
Junction City, Kansas, Nov. 16, 1863.
Pursuant to instructions from Maj. Gen.
McDowell, commanding Northern Division, K.
S. M., the several Companies in this Regiment
will meet at their usual places of parade, for
drill, on the first Saturday of each month, un
til further orders.
i
Company commanders will enforce a full
and prompt attendance of the members of their
companies.
By order of Col. J. T. PRICE, Comd'g.
R. E. Lvwbenson, Lieut. Adj't 4th Reg.
Tlie Frontier 3SPursery!
PATRONISE HOME INDUSTRY !
COMMENCE AN ORCHARD THIS SEASON
The proprietor of the above Nursery, situat
ed five miles from Fort Riley, on tho Fort
Riley and Fort ATearncy Road, six miles due
west from Ogdcn, now offers for sale
80,000 Choice and Reliable Fruit
Tr jos !
Consisting of Apples, Pears, Teaches and
Cherries ; also Chestnuts and a large collec
tion of grape vines and small fruits black
berries, strawberries, currants, gooseberries,
and rhubarb and shrubbery; roses, peonies,
tulips, snowballs, lilacs, flowering quince and
honeysuckles ; Lumber I)' poplar, maple and
locust trees; all of which I will sell at the
following rates, or exchange for young stock
at fair prices:
Three year old Apples, ten dollars per hun
dred, foily-sevcn dollars for 500, ninety dol
lars per 1 00; large, for immediate bearing,
fifteen dollars per 100, seventy dollars per 5L-0,
one hundred and thirty-five dollars per 1000.
Peaches, seedling, two and three years old,
four dollars per 100, nineteen dollars per 500,
thirty-live dollars per 1C00; choice budded, ten
dollars 100. Pears, Cherries and Chestnuts,
2" to "0 cents each. Grapes: -Delaware, five
years old, transplanted and root-pruned, $1.30;
three years, $1.25; two years, $1; layers, 25
to 50 cents ; Concord, 25 cents to 1.00; Cataw
ba, Isabella, Clinton, Idon, 20 to 35 cts ; Frank
lin, Diana, Northern Muscadine, Harford Pro
lific, 50 to 73 cents, Blackberries, Lawton, $1
per dozen. Currants and Gooseberries 15
cents each. Strawberries from 25 to 40 cents
a dozen. Rhubarb from 10 to 25 cents each.
Everything else in proportion.
Having for a long time been connected with
the well known nursery and extensive test
orchard of Cutter & Sons, of Western Illinois,
I was enabled to select all the best tested
Western varieties, which fact is worthy the
notice of all men. Communications promptly
answered. Stamps for return mail never re
fused. Address SAMUEL CUTTER,
nlv3) Fort Riley, Davis Co., Kansas
KANSAS FARMER.
The Journal of the Kansas State Agricultur
al Society will be published MONTHLY, com
mencing with May, '03.
Each number will contain at least twenty
four pages (octavo) of reading matter, composed
principally of such portions of the transac
tions of the State and county Societies and
communications on the subject of Aguicul
tuiik in all its branches, Mechanical and
Household Arts and Industry, and Natural
History, as may require early publication.
All premiums offered and awards made by
the State Society will appear in its columns.
Officers of county Societies and the people
generally are earnestly invited to contribute
to its columns.
Arrangements have already been made for
valuable (and brief) essays upon Texas or
Spanish Fever in cattle a complete cure, and
also upon Grape, Tobacco, and Hemp culture,
Stock Breeding, Wool Growing, &c, &c.
To place The Kansas Farmer, within the
reach of all, the subscription price has been
FIFTY CENTS A YEAR!
Or to clubs of ten or more at forty cents
per year for each copy, barely sufficient to
defray the cost of publication payable invaria
bly in advance.
ADVERTISEMENTS
Will be inserted for one dollar per square of
ten lines, for the first insertion, and seventy
five cents each subsequent insertion.
One thousand copies will be issued from the
commencement.
Nurserymen, Seedsmen, Implement Dealers
and Stock Growers will find The Kansas Far
mer a valuable medium for advertising. All
subscriptions and communications should be
addressed to the undersigned, Topcka, Kansas
F. G. ADAMS,
Secretary Kansas State Agricultural Society.
STATE JOURNAL
BOOS BINDERY!
JOURNAL BUILDINGS,
ISTeav Elclriclso House,
LAWRENCE, - - - - KANSAS.
0
Any order for
PRINTED, RULED or BLANK BOOK WORK
completed within our office, and under our
superintendence, thus insuring accuracy,
dispatch and reliability.
JKSy Magazines, Pamphlets, Newspapers and
Damaged Books neatly and substantially bound
at reasonable rates.
We promise a faithful and prompt execution
of all work forwarded to our office.
Orders arc solicited from Public Officers,
Merchants and good business men everywhere,
by mail or express.
Address,
TRASK & LOWMAN,
State Journal Office,
nll-2-ly Lawrence, Kansas.
AMERICAN SUNDAY-SCHOOL UNION.
o
Eev. O. C. MOOEE,
MISSIONARY,
AUBURN, SHAWNEE 0n KANSAS.
?" All communications relating to the organ
ization of Sabbath Schools, application for the
purchase or donation of books or papers, funds
to aid the work, etc., will receive careful at
tention by being addressed as above.-
Libraries selected, anu an m puimuuuuua
of the Society at Philadelphia Prices.
R. D. MOBLBY;
District Clerk of Davis County
REAL ESTATE AND LAND AGENT,
JUNCTION CITY.
WILL do business in the Land Office, and
give strict attention to paying taxes for
non-residents. Office on Washington street,
Taylor's Building, opposite .the Eagle Hetel.
nStf
DANIEL MITCHELL,
LAWD AGEJVT, SURVEYOR,
AND
JUNCTION CITY, KANSAS.
rllVD WARRANTS for sale for
i CASH, and on time. Land Warrants
located. Collections made and Taxes paid for
non-residents. nltf
GRAPE VINES BY MAIL !
OFFER, FOR SALE THIS FALL
and next spring over ONE THOUSAND
hardy, acclimated, (layered) Grape Vine Roots
of the Delaware, Diana, Concord, Taylor, (Bul
litt) To-Kalon, Franklin, &c., &c. I also We
several hundred Isabella and Catawba Grape
Vine Roots for distribution. Send for a "Price
Current List, enclosing a two-cent stamp to
pre-pay postage. A. M. BURNS,
2n4fyl Manhattan, Riley co.. .Kansas.
nSBSTEi & STRICELER'S
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COLUMN.
LADIES' DRESS GOODS :
Latest Fall and Winter Styles.
Shawls5 Hats & Hoods.
DOMESTICS
WmWH MJSSILMfgEaiD
Large Assortment.
JACONETS, SWISSES, STRIPED,
AND BARRED MUSLINS.
PANTS STUFF,
SATINETS, TWEEDS, DENIMS
Jeans cfe Drills.
IN LARGE VARIETY.
WHITE. RED. YELLOW.BLBE & BBAY.
PLAIN AND TWILLED.
and una
Mens' & Boys'
HATS AND CAPS,
OF ALL VARIETIES.
EEST ASSORTMENT IN
SELLING AT FROM 15 to 25 CENTS.
GLOVE ?,
Ladies' Men's and Childrens'.
GOOD ASSORTMENT.
Iron Nails G-Iass-
AND GENERAL STOCK OF
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QUEENSWARE,
AND L OOKIJYG-GLASSES.
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AL OIL LIMPS !
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Oil cfe Cans.
Very Cheap.
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FRUITS:
(DY$ra
Pine Apples, Blackberries,
mimm, CATSUP. IN
: mattoes
ffiCH&Ml!
Hoop Skirts,
BOOTS & SHOES
For Men, Women & Children
ALL OP WHICH
WE WILL SELL AT THE
LOWEST PBOFOT.
STREETER & STRICKLER.
Junction City, October 31, 1863. j
liftRllWflFl
IN
WATSON & RINEHART,
NollTDeUware Street,
LEAVENWORTH, KANSAS
HAVE ON EXHIBITION A VERY LARGE
and complete assortment of
Foreign tian Domestic
DRY GOODS,
BOOTS MD SHOES,
HATSr CAPS, CARPETS,
Oil Cloths fc IMattings.
ALSO: '
WINDOW DAMASKS, WHITE
OIL SHADES, BUFF,
GREEN & BLUE WINDOW HOL
LAND AND PAPER.
Curtain Fixture! , Cornicei,
Cnrtain Bands, Hooks,
cfec. cfeo.,
Retailers who wish to buy Goods at BOTTOM
PRICES, mil do well to call and examine our
Slock. jeSTREMEMBER THE PLACE:
No. 12, Delaware Street,
Leavenworth, Kansas
WATSON & RINEHART- " "
GROCERIES & PROVISIONS !
M. II AC! EM AN. W. H. BAIBD.
M HGEMJST & Co
wholesale GROCERS AND r
Produce Dealers,
SrSHAWNEE STREET,
(Between 3d and 4th,)
LEAVENWORTH, KANSAS.
II
AVE NOW IN STORE THE FOLLOW-
lowine Fresh Groceries, to which they
invite tho attention of purchasers :
SUGARS,
Crushed, Powdered, Granulated, and New Or
leans Sugars.
COFFEE,
Java, Rio, Pure Ground Rio, Dandelion, and
Essence of Coffee.
TEAS,
Young Hjson, Gun Powder, Imperial and
Black Teas.
MOLASSES,
Sugar House, Golden and Union Syrups, and
Plantation Molasses.
. TOBACCO,
Boxes & Cadies, Smoking and Chewing, Cigars.
FISH,
-To. 1 and 2 in bids., ft and bbls., also in kits,
Cod Fish, Scaled and Pickled Herring.
CANDLES AND SOAP,
Cincinnati and St. Louis Candles and Soap.
OYST ERS,
Best Baltimore, in cans and half cans.
SRDHSTES.
Every Variety of Canned Frnit.
ACTS, PICKLES, SPICES,
WOODEN WARE, Sec.
Country Merchants and Outfitters for the
Plains will find it to their interest to examine
our stook.
TENTS $ WAGON COVERS.
HAGEM AN & Co.
UNION FOREVER
JOHN" P. WILEY, or JUNCTION CITY,
keens at his old stand.
The Claim House,
a eood assortment of DRY GOODS & GRO-
CEIUi:S, and PROVISIONS, as well as BOOTS
and MIOES ; and he natters himself, as he has
no rent, clerk, or hauling to pay, that he is
.ible to sell as cheap as can be bought at the
retail houses in Leavenworth City.
Having traded in St. Louis with Morgan &,
McClung to over $50,000, and with Hensley &
Russell, of Leavenworth City, and now eelliag
for prominent firms in Leavenworth, I flatter
myself that I am regarded as a prompt and
well posted man, prepared, if necessary to sell
goodj for others on commission, on fair and
reliable terms, as well as to be able to sell
quite as cheap as they can be purchased in
Western Kansas. Farmers, bring ob your
HIDES AND PRODUCE, .
and exchange with me, and hunters, bring me
your FURS of all kinds, and I will prove my
proposition. I also keep a small amount of
LUMBER and COOPER STUFF
on hand for sale.
H. L. JONES,
FOB
SALINE COUNTY, KANSAS.
ON HAND TO TRADE FOR STOCK OR
CASH, several improved Claims in Saline
County; also a house and lot in the town of
Salina. I bur and sell land and stock at a fair
Commission, and assist emigrants in making
eligible location.
Tke Homestead Bill has Pajitd,..;
And now is the time for emigrants to get GOOD
HOMES. No land in this conntv has been
offered at Publio Sale, and will all be held
' under the Homestead Act
Call upon or address me at Salina, Saline
Co., Kansas. n36tf H. L. JONES.
.A. COHEN,
TCTHOLESALE DEALER IN
CLOTHING
AND ALL-KINDS OF
Oents'FiinushuigOoods,
HATS, CAPg, INDIA RUBBER GOODS,
Trunks, &c,
NO 21 DELAWARE STREET
Thru Doors below Scott, Kerr $ OoU Bank.
I,tTtawort&; KftnfM.
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liBADB
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Carney & Stevens,
WHOLESALE 6!0Cffi
Forwarding
AND
Commission Merchants,
Corner Levee and Cherokee Streets,
LEAVENWORTH, KANSAS.
Have in store the following stock of
Fresh Staple and Fancy
Groceries !
To which we invite the special attention of
CASn PURCHASERS:
3000 SACKS OF FLOUR;
200 HHDS N. O. MOLASSES j
500 BARRELS LOAF, CRUSHED
AND POWDERED SUGAR j
100 BARRELS CLARIFIED SUGAR;
100 BOXES HAVANA SUGAR ;
200 BARRELS S. II. AND N. O. MOLASSES;
100 BBLS. PLANTATION MOLASSES;
500 Bags Rio Coffee ;
100 MATS JAVA COFFEE;
1000 KEGS ASSORTED NAILS;
500 Boxes Star Candles;
100 BOXES MOULD CANDLES;
100 PKS. MACKEREL & HERRING ;
50 COILS CORDAGE;
100 BARRELS S. C. SODA;
100 bxs BABBITT'S SALARATUS ;
900 BOXES YEAST POWDERS;
300 BOXES RASINS;
400 Bxs Manufactured Tobacco;
lOO BOXES OW SCXAJ;
100 HALF CHESTS OF TEA;
1000 BDLS WRAPPING PAPER ;
250,000 SEGARS!
Wo have also on hand a fine assortment of
PURE BRANDIES.
WINES AND OLD WHISKEY,
IN CASKS, QUARTER CASKS & BOTTLES.
FRUITS, PICKLES &NT7TS,
of all kinds.
SPICES OF JILL KIJVDS.
And in short, everything connected with the
GROCERY BUSINESS
CAN BE FOUND AT OUR ESTABLISH
MENT. Outfitting for the Mines
will consult their jntcrcstsby purchasing at
our establishment, as
O UR STOCK IS COMPLE TE,
aad our
FRIGES SEASONABLE!
BEMEMBER THE PLACE:
CORNER LEVEE AND CHEROKEE STn
WCATEIfWORTH CITY,
K&lSiHIMAHESlEi!
AND EMIGRANTS' GUIDE,
For llie Year ISS4.
On the 1st of January, 1S'J4, and Annual
thereafter, a work will do published under tUr
direction of tieJvaus.as, State'Agricultural So
ciety, which will exhibit from vcar to vear the
' growth, resources, present condition an&pro3
I rccts of our young aud vigorous Common
wealth.
It will comprise a handsome volume of from
800 to 100 pages (octavo), illustrated with por
traits of several of our mo3t distinguished cit
izens and soldiers, executed in the best style
of art, and will contain besides the usual cal
endar pages, and a great variety of general
statistics, the following as leading features:
I. The State: A complete (condensed)
history of Kansas from its organization- as a
Territory in 1S-3 1 to the present time, with a
complete list of State Officers, Executive, Leg
islative aud Judicial, with a sketch of all
State institutions such as the State Universi
ty, State Agricultural College, State Xormal
School, with their endowments, &c. Railroads
projected and in progress, Societies, Publio
Libraries, &c.
IL Tux Counties: A condensed historicl
skeich of each County in the State, stating
population in I860, topographical character,
distance and direction of the county seat from
Leavenworth and the State Capital, chief
Towns, list of County and Township officers.
&c. Also the Agricultural statistics as furn
ished by the County Assessor, and the number
of acres of land in each county subject to en
try under tne Homestead Act, Kailroad Lands,
&c.
III. The Military: Embracing (1) com
plete rosters of the several Regiments of Kan
sas Volunteers, with a brief historical sketch
of each embracing so far as practicable a list
of the actions in which each regiment has
taken part with list of casualties. The sol
diers of A'ansas have achieved a world-wido
celebrity for coolness, dash and daring, and TL
is designed in this and future volumes of the
Register to preserve the memory of their gal
lant achievements, and each volumo will con
tain portraits of some of the most celebrated
of the Kansas military men. (2) Tho Kan
sas Militia organization by Divisions and Reg
iments. IV. Professional GuinE: Comprising com
plete lists of Clergymen, Physicians aud At- "
torncys at Law arranged alphabetically, with
Post Office address of each. The denomination
of each clergyman, and the school of practice
of each physician will be carefully designated.
V. Business Directory: Containing a full
list of all the leadingBankcrs, Merchants, Me
chanics and business men in the Stare, conven
iently arranged for ready reference.
VI. The Cities and Cuief Towns or Kax- .
sas: Under this head, we design to give an
historical view of Leavenworth, Lawrence,
Topeka, Atchison, Fort Scott, Emporia, Man
hattan, Council Grove, Junction City, &c, with
list of county officers, and statistics, showing
present population, trade, &c.
VII. The Teskitokies: Sketeli of the settle
ments, present population and development of
the new Territories adjacent to Kansas with
an account of the best routes from the chief
cities of the East to each new Territory, ac
counts of the new gold mines of Colorado,
Idaho, Arizona and New Mexico, and other
matters of general interest.
VIII. An edition will be published contain
ing a complete sectional map of A'ansas, show
ing the location of Counties, Towns, Raifroads
and projected Railroad Routes, Telegraphs and
Public Roads, with tho various Indian Reser
vations, and comprising the recent survevs,
and lands open for settlement and sale, alon
worth S1.0U each.
The work will be prepared under the direc
tion of the Executive Committee of the A'ansan
State Agricultural Society, and is designed to
exhibit for the information of emigrants and
others a complete view of the immense re
sources of Kansas with the inducements it
presents for immigration, as well from tho
older settled States as from Europe, and also
to furnish a convenient Hand Rook of refer
ence for business men at home and abroad.
A limited number of advertisements will bo
conspicuously inserted at reasonable rates.
All persons- to whom this circular is sent
will confer a favor by promptly forwarding
any information deemed to be of interest, and
all desiring early copies of the work, are re
quested to send their orders with the prico
(witli map one dollar and a half, without map,
one dollar). Address
PUBLISHERS KANSAS ANNUAL REGISrB,
Topcka, Kansas.
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Its success thus far has been greater than any
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The proprietors arc experienced newspaper
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wants of the people of this State.
There are three editions of this paper, via :
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Tue Bulletin is a new-paper in the best
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It will endeavor not to deceive its readers by
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fullest and most reliable information that can
be had, accompanied by such comments as
truth and not prejudice shall seem to warrant.
Especial attention will be given to the local
and commercial news of Leavenworth City
and the State generally. As a commercial
journal The Bulletin will be found unexcelled
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of the paper i under the charge of a eestpe
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columns of our Weekly edition will be devoted
to Agricultare.
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BURNETT'S COCOAINE rot iqiHAIR,
For Sale by HALL.