The Minnesota pioneer. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn. Territory) 1849-1855, 1852-06-10
MINNESOTA AFFAIRS.

WHAT FARMER CAN Do.-Two miles
out Of ST. Paul, on the road to St. Anthony, is
the farm of Mr. Larpcnteur--a man who is a
farmer Of the right sort--who lives on his own
land and cutivates IT,; and who is as jealous an
advocate we are, Of Minnesota. His farm is
gem Of beauty. lie does more work, and does
1t better, and more prohtab'y, with less labor,
than any other farmer. With the help Of his two
sons. sixteen and seventeen years old, he has
put n and ,ceN put in, this spring and summer,
thirty acres Of oats, dozen acres Of corn, ten
acres OF potatoes, an acre of beans, half an acre
Of vines, and large field Of wheat, beside cult
waiting large garden. and splitting out the rails
for, and laying up. than mile of rail fence;
and Mrs Lnrpenteur has done all her own house
work and sewing. and everything has moved
/ along as quietly as a clock, and there Is not
week tia, they do not also find time TO ride into
town. Iiany strangers visiting Minnesota, wan,
10 find out what our territory is capable Of, in
the way of practical agriculture, they will do well
to look q, Mr. Larpen,eur's farm, and talk with
hun about il. for he has been cu'tiva,ing his farm
now three years, and has tried a sorts Of crops !;
and that too, without ever ,nanuring an acre Of
his ground; for he says his crops grow stout,
without manure, that they are damaged by
lodging.
We forge; to mention in the list Of labors at
tended 10 this season, on Mr. Larpcn,eur's farm,
the raising Of swine, the raising Of twelve calves
and the rearing Of hundreds of chickens, guinea
hens ard turkeys. Last year, Mr. Larpsn,eur
sold an immense quantity of produce from his
farm--sent mauy hundred bushels Of pink eye po-
tatoes down the river, which Melted him fifty
cents per bushel-and amongst other items, raised
SIX hundred bushels of spring wheat; much of
which is yet unsold, for want Of good mill in
Minnesota, TO make flour Of it. We DEFY any
man, who has the least taste for agriculture, TO
visit Mr.. Larpcnieur on his farm, withou, be-
coming enamosed offa'mlng, as people do who
read Nirgil's Georges or the Prairie Farmer,
published at Chicago, at S 90 per annum; and
which is almost as Indispensable to every North
Western farmer, as plough
A MARKET HoUsr-Ths is one thing
greatly wanted in 81. Paul, not only Cor the con-
veDence of purchasers, but also of sellers. There
would tie twice as much produce brought into
town for sale. if producers knew where to meet
those customers who most want their produce
and who would pay the mos, for it, Eggs, veg
etahles, and a great variety of things now
broush, from below, ard sold a, profit by the
stores, would soon be supplied from the couuuy
around Us, if 4 market were once established so
that those who want to buy aud sell would know
when and where 10 meet together and trade The
agency Of the merchant would then be dispensed
with. The farmer would get cash instead of
callcoes, and the consumer would get his money s
worth, fresh from the farm. Nothing would more
stimulate Turning here, than a marke,-house ::
and no trade is 50 advantageous and profitable 10
both parties, as the exchange made between the
town and the country. 1t is better than any
tariff to pto,ec, home Industry. Then the prn-
ter, the blacksmith, the cabinet maker, get eata-
bes and give their own wares in exchange; and
town and country are mutually enriched.
/ EXCITEMENT OF ST. PAUL.--In one par
ticul,r, our town eScels any other of its size we
ever knew; and that is, in excitement. 1t full
of hustle, incident, stir something to take your
attention. This is the charm, that attachc, SO
many 10 our town. 1t is exactly that thing, Of
winch all your little old towns IN the cas-, and
south, are destitute. No person. can live for il
year, IA the excitement of our to~n, and after
ward be conten, with The quiet method, dulness.
stiffness and stupidity of another place. Oar
blood is red, not the black blood of melanc holy :;
although. even here, III the words of terse VIII
ter, 1.-The tedious WEAKNESS and oppressive mo-
notony Of lfe-monen,s which are at d loss
to employ when we are uneasy and discontinued,
and ''lfe is dull and spirits low '-occasionaIIy
weigh heavily upon every heart; for into every
heart, according TO i iancifuI conception of the
Turks, there is originally infused drop of black
blood, which conta,ninates ne whole BODY, and
is the nascent germ Of all our secre, and nmos;
pains and suilerings.
IiURRIcANE.--Last Sunday was warm
day, such day breeds young whirwinds
About noon, it hailed, and the wind came sweep
ing through town, whirns away dirt and boards
and shingles, papers, limbs Of trees, ever, thing it
could touch; bu, the chief tract, Of the whrlwi ind
was down through Ki,,son's addition 10 81. Paul ,
where it tramped upoa and crushed to splners,
the large three story frame Of Borup's new hotel
! The kit,son house, frame as substantial and
stiff, could be made Of pine lumber. The
frame was showed partly # of the solid rock wall
on which it stood. The damage was considera-
bic, but the hotel will now be hurried through to
completion without delay. Orders were given
to all the mills around, to help cut up new bills
of Lumber for Il new frame.
! SUICIDE ArrEMPTED.--I.astN Monday eve
ning, the wife Of Frenchnan, in ST. Paul, &C
tua'ed, IT is said, by jealousy Of her husband, ran
across Bench street, down the bluff, and Jumped
into the river up to her neck, determined TO
drown. But The water too cold for drowning
comfortably; and the woman came cut or was
, hrOuolt out, when the r,ter nat. ,,,,r, nh