The weekly Minnesotian. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1852-1858, 1857-08-29
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HARyES lI>G MACHINES.-ltl Is remarkable
how generally farming labOr-saving imple-
ments are employed in our Territory. No one
would suppose that in a country so new
where it is believed large part Of our set
tiers come here barely able to secure their
homesteads that nearly the whole Of the hay
and small crops are cut by machinery. Our
farmers especially in this and the adjoining
county of Rice, may be still residents OF
their log houses in which they made their
claims, but their minds are not cramped by
any small notions OF doing business /: in every
field the reaping machine is now busily en-
ployed in cutting one of the most abundant
yield of wheat ever produced in Minnesota;
every farmer thoroughly understand the splr-
it OF the age in which he lives, and Keeps
himself we'll posted in the varied improve
ments of the day effecting his noble Calling.
Ii any sacrifice is his to be made to avail
HIMSELF of these western blessings, his per-
sonal comforts are the first offered. Next to
the care and culture Of their chldren's minis,
they seem to take pride in dong honor to the
farming interests of their country. But there
seems to be Ii tie appreci ton Of this spirit
the part of inventors and manufacturers of
agricultural implements. No provision is
made for supplying the large demand that
has so lately risen up here the chance pur-
chase by river merchant of right to sell
certain. article; or the willingness of others
to receive commission to dispose Of forlorn
wares, is too much esteemed as proper sup
ply for our market. Just here, so remote
from the manufactory, these implements be-
come source of bravery taxation in their Ii
ability to break and damage. The complaint
heard is not that their machinery is too dear,
but that it is not the best article in market,
and is inferior of the kind. They require the
establishment in the Territory, at several
20 nts Of manufactures to turn out every
thing on the spot, and where large and
proper supply of machines liable to wear or
damage, may be procured at any time. AS
it now exists there is no opportunity of re-
pairing any damage except at trouble equal
to the expense of purchasing new m'c chimes.
We speak particularly of the two counties
referred to but believe of course, the same
is true of the rest of the Territory. In New
York State at the late trial of reapers and
mowers, there ware entered for competition
not less than one hundred different machines,
the report on which has not yet been pub
lished by the judges, but we think among
them there was none from Minnesota. We
hope it will be different next year, and that
besides the establishment of large manufac-
tories, we shall have those ag icultural imple-
ments so much needed of our own invention.
-Emigrant aid Journal
The same pa,'er speaking of the Vermil ion
and Cannon River Vaies, says
These two valleys are justly called the
garden Of Minnesota Everything is here
raised in the greatest per fection wheat, corn,
rye, barley, &C., vie with each other. Wheat
fields that seem better to be reconed by the
mile than the acre, so extensive were they,
fairly bowed to the ground with their own
weight Corn fields equally extensive could
hide undiscovered an army of cavalry and
cat fields had grain so high and luxuriant
that theeye could scarcely penetrate the mass
one foot, and horse had to reach up its head
to secure the higher stalks So we might GO
on with gram and vegetable des cribing their
lux"riance, each in turn but it would not suf-
flee to enforce the richness Of the scenes like
once beholding them.
TIMELY SAVE Your SEEDs.-Do not wait
till they begin to shell from the pod before
you gather them they are perfected even
before the pod Or husk is dry, and drying
process will go on quite as well under an open
shed as on the stalk. Cabbages, tnrnips,
beets and some other vegetables, are forming
their seeds, should be immediately secured.
Have place for them. and let them be bag
ged and labeled as they are sufficiently dry.
RICE CoUNTY-The Faribault Herald says
in an Editorial in relation to a tour through
that section Of Country
The Crops of Rice county we have before
noticed, we have nothing to add but that
they are still better than we anticipated
The shocks of harvested grain stand so thick
in some fields that there is but room to drive
the hay wagon between, and they are not
patch-feds as heretofore, but real Illinois
stretchers of from fifty to two hundred
acres.
We were astonished, and particularly de-
lighted at the prospect between Waterford
and Lakeville. A more beautiful succession
of rich and pleasant farms with water, grass
and arabic fields all skrting the timber, than
this fifteen miles presents, would be hard to
find, even in this Territory Of beauty AS
we approch Lakev lie, the plot thickens and
the land bears mighty burden of grain.