Sauk Rapids frontierman. [volume] (Sauk Rapids, M.T. [i.e. Minn.]) 1855-1860, 1855-08-09

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terribIs sslatsfs, will consups naprs food
"A keep shiiiil, salivs thsn llh ~ rssairsdf
n keep shius ina thsoing condi,ioN. ifI
covered Wa protected M cIspal warDS
stable slssE ssSs3 u iasg ssssss sIssa
Ns N IL adSilipn to this enlaggs a consalnp-
Ition, there II 4 heavy vaste NJ fodder
which II ayaidabls. toessAer With %
almost entire loaa ~ a. drsssing Nhich,
a. .has alfeady been ysmsrked. should
hs y carefully preserved and sprsad ssPOn
the lands. ]. i #s3 j 81,
If the business of stock rraiaing can
not be s.I,Sscessfully prepecsted, ia Min
nssota II larnishas \ nost serious Fl
psdimsps ip praspsrij eseaf,EE
when 6noccspied lands M g. abua-
dance % native grasses are tounl eysryI
where, % trouble il this respect seesns
- BE anticipated. But these lands ~
soon to be taken .up. and divided and
sub divided till farmers will 10 obliged
to keep their own cattle within the limits
Of their own farms. This period il fast
approaching. When your town Or
county IS divided into homesteads Of =
hundred and sixty. and three huudred
twenty acres each, more or less, the
question will force itself upon you - to
how your stock is to be provided for,
with reasonable economy. The ques-
ton should be anticipated land agri-
cnlturalists who have in view their own
future prosperity, or that Of the Terri
tory, should now begin to provide fol
1.-THE future exigency Of which I am speak
ling. \.
Your soil, 10 its natural stale, is not
Of a character the best fitted to produce
English grass. The native grasses viii
withstand but very few years Of clost
! grazing, and prairie lands furnish ever
now hut = small amount of food to ths
acre compared with stockfarms Of New
England. The experiments 70 grow
English grass which I have seen in th'
Territory uPon new land, aiter the firs
4 years crops g. r. = ~ r = = U 1|
Ilsres n. 111
yicintyfof old P1assS q SnsIIlhj
I aud others, where u change has hsel
effected in the soil BY cultivation, an
!, such accidental applictions Of manure
: az must have occurred about them, tn
! tame grasses are growing in great luxu
4 rance and their roots unaffected By III
! frosts of the winter.
For these and other reasons, il seem
) Ito me quite certain that when your land
/ shall have been cultivated for : serie
N Il n
4 Of years, and properly manured, 20
) will find most profitable and interest
ing change in their permaaent capacit
!. Ito grow this invaluable production.
j This IS really one Of the most inter
J esting and important subjects that ca
/. occupy the attention. Of your Society
The Territory must exist, il at all, b
: agriculture. Other business will com
: 10 aid Of course, but il agriculture fail,
Oh all else must follow. It cannot succee
! for any length Of time, unless you cor
Y. meet with it the business of cattle e-breet
ing. II never was done, and never. C
!. be. Il lis, indeed, one branch of q
3 business Of agriculture, and each branc
! mast 90 hand 10 hand together or neitl
i er can succeed III country which
fully populated. II has already bee
= remarked that farmers in Minnesol
1 must have manure. This must be ol
E ltained mainly if you would havs i ]
" reasonable cost, from the aconsuu,ptie
!, of what in eastern parlance Is calae
& fodder including straw, hay, cor
Y stalks. and any and every thing else !
IS i similar nature, that u produced uP<
y your farms and ID consumed BY ~,
. sheep, horses md cattle.
8 You will Judge, gentlemen, bent
~ than can but itsSeems to ma that
n Is not too early, even nov, q commend
u taking y Oh steps as may be pra'
3 ticable 70 ascertain what grasses may
,f| most cheaply grown, and Whist kind
Z cultivation is most likely u produce q
d desired result,
lhl Ii haassf seemed VI me from NY iirsst y
nj qaaintAnce with tlis Territory that