The Minnesota pioneer. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn. Territory) 1849-1855, 1850-10-10
81. panI, nlinnsscta.
Thursday Morning. October 10. 1850,


$500 SuIs1v1tiOu o. tne S0lis s.ee
ItCcan be .lenlonstrnted heynnd a CIVIL
that any Industrious man cRn soon make
fortune IN Minnesota, by farming. The
proceeds of ten acres o.! such lands rs lie
uncul,iva,ed around Sain, Paul, will amount
To mere money than is realized from the
Lusi,ress of any lawyer or doctor in Mime
sofa; and after all, If men win only muster
resolution 10 pun their muscles under contri-
hutton, manual labor is not so very irksoine.
Assuming that the prices OF produce will
continue as high rs they have been, mas
much as there seems no probability that
production cnn soon overtake CONSUMPTION;
lot US make ar estimate Of the profits of
farming here, aud see if we cannot convince
some Of the thirty lawyers in our town, us
well as other professional, gentlemen, in
Guiding the whole Of that genleel class Of
,sfsrs. who are waiting for something to
furnup that the best thing they can do is to
turn up the sod.
We will make an estimate Of the profits of
= crcp Of potatoes--a heavy crop. protected
better perhaps against the competition Of
the farmer below, by cos, of transporting,
than any oshcr crop--a crop which here, in
quality as well as quantity, surpnsses the
potatoe crop Of any other part of The world
An Indispensable article Of food to the In
dian as we'll as 20 The white man; and a
product which we are confident, would al
ways even pay for transportation down the
river. if our own market were glutted, to
ST Louis or TO New Orleans. We viii as
sumo that potatoes here, are worth fifty cts.
ger bushel when dug, for they have never
sold for less than 80 cents in autumn ard one
dollar in the spring. The producer buys
ten acres Of land. near town, for which he
pays sixty dollars. He pays forty dollars
for breaking it, this fall. Ii he is really in
earnes,, he viii go to a tamarac swamp,
next winter, and cut poles to fence il, nj
small expense; otherwise, when our steam
saw-mills are in operation, he can buy fenc-
ing material at $500 or $1,000 per thou
sand and at q cost Of less than 500, he can
fence his ten acre lot, well. Early in the
Spring, If he has no team, he will hire a
TENN and take hold of the plough himself
and cross pIow his field, faithfully, at a cost
Of less than $4,000. He viii pay Larpen-
Ter, Scrgent, Harrington, Sloan, or some
body else, sixty dollars for sixty bushels Of
potatoes, to plant. He will pay two, dol
lar. for hauling them to the ground. Now
if he is really intent upon doing something,
he will take off his coat and 90 20 work and
in fourteen days, will plant the whole field,
without any help. With the assistance Of
a horse and Plow, he will cultivate the
whole field faithfully with twenty days la
Dor. BY the first Of September, he can Cons
mencs digging. The yield at the least cal
cuiation will not be less than $50 bushels
pcr acre and IN six weeks, with the help of
n good hand, he will have them all dug,
$500 bushels; worth, at 80 cents. per bushel,
1880 'a G
Now let US deduct the cost, and see what
our producer has cleared by his summers
work, besides paying for handsome, well
cultivated ten acre lot, fit to plant an or