Facts about KansasA book for home-seekers and home-buildersStatistics from state and national reportsFarm lands, grazing lands, fruit lands ... . ern coun-ties, but they contain only a small portion of the whole. * * * A verycommon opinion prevails, that the land lying near the Colorado line con-tains numerous alkali springs, and that the surface is sometimes coveredwith white alkali deposits. This is not so. During fifteen yearsacquaintance with that portion of the State, I have seen but two springsappearing to contain that substance, and never found ten acres of land in 16 KANSAS. one place,
Facts about KansasA book for home-seekers and home-buildersStatistics from state and national reportsFarm lands, grazing lands, fruit lands ... . ern coun-ties, but they contain only a small portion of the whole. * * * A verycommon opinion prevails, that the land lying near the Colorado line con-tains numerous alkali springs, and that the surface is sometimes coveredwith white alkali deposits. This is not so. During fifteen yearsacquaintance with that portion of the State, I have seen but two springsappearing to contain that substance, and never found ten acres of land in 16 KANSAS. one place, where the vegetation had been injured by it.—Prof B. , State Geologist. The soil on the high, rolling prairies is several feet deep, resting fre-quently on gravel, and under that is found the magnesian limestone,which rock formation underlies the whole State. The bottoms along the river valleys and in the creek courses frequentlyhave a depth of from eight to fifteen feet of coal-black humus that hasbeen gradually deposited from the upper lands through thousands ofyears, and now producing, under good cultivation, enormous crops of. HARVEST SCENE, corn; from 50 to 90 bushels have been cribbed. And all this thesplendid soil will do without manure, even without rational rotation ofcrops, though farmers who are wise enough to apply both, before theprodigious fertility of their farms show signs of exhaustion, reap anabundant reward. On mounds, and on the declivities of the bluffs, the soil is thin, some-times making, when sufficiently smooth and free from projectingstones, good mowing lands, where the stock-raiser is cutting and put-ting up his hay; sometimes only fit for sheep pasture. Fifteen per cent of the whole State is in bottom and valley lands asrich as the famous Connecticut, Mohawk, Genessee or Mississippi val- 17 KANSAS. leys, but in this genial climate, vastly more productive and per cent of the uplands is rolling prairie, susceptible in the
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