Nebraska Products

The New Turk Economist says: "Durmg the pcsrioil embraced between the years 186ö and 1872, Ohin, Indiana, Illinois, Michigan, Wisoonsin and Missouri, although growing immeosely in population and in general productiveness, feil off in their rehitive yield oí' wheat ; while Minnesota increased its productiou froni 3,000,000 to 13,000,000 bushels; lowa trom 13,700,000 to 20,600,000.; Kaasas trom 200,000 to 2,000,000; and Nebraska trom 166,000 to 2,500,000." The wheat yield of Nebraska then has -i ucreased taster tliau that in any othor State. is it surpassed in the yield per acre moro than a triHu over ono bushel (1,2) by any ot' our thirty-seven States. The frontierstnan's n'rst erop flnds a home market at high. prices among the whitetopped wagons, eaeh holding a family, which are always pressing to the front iu order to get the first piek of homesteads. Soutli of the Platte, wheat need not be oarried t'ar tbr flouring, tor the mili privileges not only on the three Blues but on niany of their tributarios make milis follow close on the hoels ot' pioncers. Wheat also forma the bulk of freight exported from Nobraska, whether by rail orsteamer. But tho favonio erop of most farmers in southern Nebraska is Indian Corn. , Tuis tiuly golden grain ia the firet erop on new breaking, It is sometimos sent with profit to California, oftener to Salt Lakt' and Colorada. But it goes east inlargerquantities, though almost always stowed in bags of hogskin and eowhide which have been discovered to hold ten times more than any canvas bags ever woven. High freighis also are thus dextrously dodged. Beforo the close of May 400 cars of cattlo had gono east from Nebraska City, this seasou. The first" corn raised on the Big Blue at Beatrice in 18Ö8 was sold at Ft. Kx-arney at five. dollars in gold a bushel. Such fabulous prices soon vanished, butfarmers still abound who, buying land of the Burlington and Missouri River Eailroad, have found it paying tor itself and their iniprovements on it by the crops of a few years. A. II. Vanee, of Bamden, Nebraska, writes to the (jtaté Journal that 33 acres "which be has tilled only two years have alreaiiy paid fer cighty acres which lic beught at t!ii dollars au acre. Edward Jones of Pleastuit HUI, on harvcstiiifr nis tirst erop, estiiuated that it alone would i'ully pay tor bis land, if fud out to stock. But he failed to obtain hogskin and eowhide bags onough to hold lus oorn. However, he was not disappotnted. Few men can be as lucky as Éd. Jones, but it must bc a good thins to live near a man so lucky.